New Orleans: covert operations underway?

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/091005Chin/091005chin.html


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And there is more. In "Slow response or deliberate extermination?", I wrote:

"Between these disturbing reports, and accounts such as "The People of the Dome", New Orleans is being reduced to another Fallujah."

Rahim's account confirms this—literally. According to Rahim, mercenaries from Blackwater USA are rumbling through the New Orleans streets, armed to the teeth and in full battle gear.

Blackwater USA is a private mercenary firm, one of many "war outsourcing" outfits working for the Pentagon. In the spring 2004 Fallujah assault, Blackwater was involved with combat as well as logistics (food shipments, etc.). Four Blackwater USA mercenaries were killed in Fallujah, raising worldwide attention. In February 2005, the former director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, and the Bush State Department's former coordinator for Counterterrorism, Cofer Black, became Blackwater USA's vice chairman.

In "The Mercenary Variable: Outsourced Combat in Iraq", US Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff describes Blackwater as follows:

"Blackwater USA is a guns-for-hire training-and-recruitment outfit on a 6,000-acre military training compound on the northern coastal plain of Moyock, North Carolina, a stone's throw from the Virginia border . . .

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The infamous Halliburton-KBR (Kellogg Brown & Root), the "classic" private military firm connected to Dick Cheney, is already in the area as well. Where there is oil, war, destruction and "rebuilding," there is KBR.

What are they doing in New Orleans? What is the Bush administration and FEMA up to, which the world is being kept from seeing? How many more Americans in New Orleans will die?
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nuclear? or land grab?

[Jeanette in FL]

1. According to New Orleans blogger

Saturday, September 10th, 2005
7:29 pm Interviews
Ok, so Shane and I took to the streets today to see who exactly was out there and why. Obviously, I was most interested in the guys carrying assault rifles and patrolling around all the major buildings. That's who we started with.

We went by Hibernia Bank where water was being pumped out what looked to be a basement into the street -- a lot of water - steady pumping. The security guys were armed to the nines (whatever that means ;) ) and while very very friendly and apologetic, insisted they could not be interviewed. Understandable, since it is a major bank.

We talked to some guys splicing the submerged fiber cable at the corner of Camp and Poydras on the south side of the intersection. The were trying to get expedia and telcove patched up. The guys said that most of the rest of the city and the surrounding suburbs would have to wait for weeks -- wait for the water to drain and then for Entergy to come in and do their thing first.

Then we walked down Poydras toward the Dome. When we got near Le Pavillion, we noticed an enormous security presence on both sides of the street. I talked to two guys in US Marshall outfits, and they told us that everyone in the area was private security, themselves included. I asked what possible reason could a hotel have for needing 8 armed guards wielding AR-15s a sniper rifle, shotguns, etc. now that most of the civilians were gone.

He said there was a shooting there just 3 days ago, and one man was beaten to death right on the neutral ground (median) of Poydras. He said there are still snipers in the area, and they've had unconfirmed reports of them on the roofs of several buildings. Sounded a little far fetched to me (why wouldn't the 82nd be clearing all suspected buildings...), but he insisted that they were still taking intermittent fire. Some of them (security personnel) actually suspect that there is a terrorist element in the city trying to cause trouble.

snip... http://mgno.com/

[donsu]

2. hhhmmm their reasons don't seem logical to me either

nt

[Jeanette in FL]

3. Not me either

that is why I posted it.

[justiceischeap]

4. There's terrorists in New Orleans, quick, run for your lives.

Oh wait, that's just FEMA. :sarcasm:

[starroute]

5. Entergy? That's another name with Allbaugh associations

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1120-01.htm

Joe Allbaugh, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, sat next to Abraham on the <Cheney energy> task force. Allbaugh's wife, Diane, is an energy-industry lobbyist and represents three firms -- Reliant Energy, Entergy and TXU, each of which paid her $20,000 in the three months of the task force's deliberation. Joe Allbaugh participated in task-force meetings on issues directly affecting those companies, including debates about environmental rules for power plants and -- his wife's specialty -- electricity deregulation.

http://smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=472

Following G.W.'s election to the presidency, Allbaugh was named the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Interestingly, as reported by Judy Sarosohn in the Oct. 19, 2000, Washington Post, M. Diane Allbaugh, Joe Allbaugh's wife, registered with the U.S. Senate in September 2000 as a lobbyist on behalf of Entergy -- the same firm linked to indicted Chinese businessman James Riady and convicted felon John Huang. Entergy is not only also a big Clinton-Democrat supporter, but attempted to enter into a joint venture with the Lippo Group, Huang's and Riady's business enterprise. Huang and Riady are believed to be Communist Chinese agents, as the Lippo Group has known ties to Communist Chinese intelligence, as discovered by the Thompson Committee in 1997.

And while we're on the subject of Riady and the Lippo Group . . .

http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/pryor1.htm

Despite the ties of Lippo operatives like John Huang to the Clinton White House, Pat Robertson -- a solid backer of both Bush presidents and Attorney General Pryor -- is also part of the nexus, beginning with his friendship and business links to Mochtar Riady, the Lippo founder and patriarch. Robertson, along with son Timothy, have boasted of their high-level contacts within the Chinese state apparatus. And the Riadys teamed up with Robertson in a multi-million dollar deal to launch China Entertainment Broadcast Television, Ltd., a media network based in Hong Kong which soothed Chinese sensibilities by providing "no news, no sex, no violence" TV content throughout the region.

[nashville_brook]

6. good connections!

damn -- is there anything that greed doesn't explain?