the part about fema was reported by cnn, the red cross
part was reported by a reporter named major garrette
who quoted extensively from the red cross site. i did
find it friday, i'll have to go back and see if i can
find it again.

--- Deri James <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Friday 09 Sep 2005 02:15, ken barber wrote:
> >
> > on the other side: it was also reported today (you
> can
> > dig it out on red cross site if you shearch) that
> the
> > american red cross had food, water, and personal
> > hygene kits in place and ready to truck in to the
> > people who were in the civic center and the super
> > dome, but were told that they could not deliver
> them
> > by new orleans and state "officals." the reason
> gave
> > "if you give them food, water, and comfort items,
> more
> > people will comne and will not want to leave", "
> we do
> > not want them to stay and we do not want to create
> a
> > magnet to draw more people in."
> >
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Your going to have to help me out here. I did a
> search on 'www.redcross.org'
> and couldn't find any of this, also googled for the
> quoted bits in your post
> but got no hits.
>
> Go on, put me out of my misery.
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
>


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