Pathologist helps identify hurricane's dead-but not allowed to give count

[papau]

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050909/NEWS01/509090338

Published September 9, 2005

Sparrow pathologist helps identify hurricane's dead


By Tracy Burton
Lansing State Journal


GULFPORT, MISS. -<snip>DeJong, medical director of forensic pathology at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital, is working with other professionals to identify some of the thousands of people who died during or after the hurricane."<snip>

The team works out of a building that was damaged by the hurricane. Team members slept in refrigerated trucks or cars until last night, when tents and sleeping bags arrived.<snip>

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DeJong can't comment on the number of victims she has identified, but said it's been "disturbing." But the team works like a family, she said, and everyone leans on one another for support.
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[lindisfarne]

1. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR SUCH SECRECY n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Yes there is

The body count is being suppressed, so when they finally do post the "official" death toll, it will be "miraculously" less than 2700.

The Bush Fraudministration won't allow themselves to lose 9-11-01 as a propaganda tool. And if the New Orleans death toll dwarfs the WTC death toll, then their fear machine is toast.

[Mr Rabble]

8. Totally agree. This is a huge issue, imo. nt

[NVMojo]

12. This is BULLSHIT!!!

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Which would seem to suggest

that the highest estimates are, if anything, under-estimates.

Better arbitrary secrecy and the contempt of the public it will bring down on them, than let the public know the truth.

[July]

3. Where is the lame-ass press?!!!!

Why aren't they asking about this OVER AND OVER AGAIN?

CAN. YOU. IMAGINE. CLINTON. GETTING. AWAY. WITH. THIS?

[Usrename]

5. Media blackout

The coverup moves forward:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06101601.htm

[ima_sinnic]

6. my legislators are really going to be sick of hearing from me SOON

Unfortunately I'm stuck with a kind of wimpish Dem (Bill Nelson) and 2 repukes (Martinez, Cliff Stearns) but what else can I do but blast them repeatedly with faxes, phone calls, letters and e-mails demanding that a free press be restored and the entire Bush administration be IMPEACHED, INDICTED, and IMPRISONED.

This media blackout BULLSHIT had better be called off SOON.

[flpoljunkie]

7. General Honore espoused the same line regarding how the military treats

notifying relatives of a soldier's death while also saying that neither he nor Vice Admiral Thad Allen will be releasing the death toll--that would be up to the state officials.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. and from a technuical ponit they are right

now get on to your federal reps... and tell them, THEY WORK for US and we won't tolerate them hiding bodies

[flpoljunkie]

10. And these people whose bodies are being recovered are not in the military.

[Usrename]

11. Many of them have family serving in Iraq. 10,000 in Iraq from gulf.