Stadium hurricane refuge like a 'concentration camp'

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20 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS (AFP) - Dirty, fearful and exhausted, they pressed their faces against the metal gates, begging and pleading for the chance to board a bus and get away from a refuge that had become a nightmare.

After five days in the stinking, crowded and sweltering confines of the New Orleans Superdome, the thousands of people who emerged formed a slow-moving tide of desperation looking for escape and relief.

The Superdome was meant to be a hurricane refuge, but those who sought shelter there described a lawless "concentration camp" where two children were reportedly raped and other refugees terrorized by rioters.

Around 40 National Guard, armed with assault rifles, guarded the door to a shopping mall through which the packed crowds were being slowly filtered to buses waiting in ankle-deep flood waters outside.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050902/ts_alt_afp/usweathersuperdomescene_050902064431

[wli]

1. Might as well start calling it one, then. n/t

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2. I posted a few days ago about the Super Dome

and I said that I had a very bad feeling about it and that it was giving me the creeps. Seems I was right.

How awful.

How scary! :scared:

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3. Abu, Gitmo, and NO... the best torture Republicans can buy n/t