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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a medical facility at New Orleans’ international airport. He spoke and shook hands with military and rescue officials but walked right by a dozen refugees lying on stretchers just feet away from him, most of them extremely sick or handicapped.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Mark Egan
Republished from Reuters

A total of 54,000 military personnel are now committed to relief efforts, including around 40,000 National Guard.

New Orleans police killed four looters who had opened fire on them on Sunday as rescue teams scoured homes and toxic waters flooding streets to find survivors and recover thousands of bloated corpses.

A fifth looter was in critical condition but no more details were available about the incident in a city where authorities are slowly regaining control after a wave of looting, murders and rapes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

“Five men who were looting exchanged gunfire with police. The officers engaged the looters when they were fired upon,” said New Orleans superintendent of police, Steven Nichols.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contractors working on a levee breach were fired on by gunmen but no one was hurt, said the Corps’ Mike Rogers. It was not clear if the two incidents were connected.

Six days after Katrina ripped up the Gulf Coast and sent flood waters pouring into New Orleans, no one knows how many people were killed, but government officials say the number is in the thousands.

“When we remove the water from New Orleans, we’re going to uncover people who died hiding in houses, who got caught by the flood, people whose remains will be found in the street,” Homeland Security…

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