New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed

international | anti-capitalism | other press Wednesday September 14, 2005 00:32 by anon

Levee bombed to save the more valuable real estate in the city

The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed

Also Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans. See the DemocracyNow report below

It is reported that the levee on 17th street appears to have been bombed in order to save more valuable real estate in the city.

Source:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlasBabylon/message/21775
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8158

Report from the Houston Astrodome...

10:23: Joel just got removed. Almost arrested. Fox News is down on the floor. I’m in dome, hiding in seats. They’re allowing some media on the floor, not others.

10:31 Just met members of the Polish press, they are being stopped from entering floor. Says this is like the former USSR.

10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee : "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed... people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees... 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center


And elsewhere it has been reported presumably on another levee that:
EXPLOSIVE RESIDUE FOUND ON FAILED LEVEE DEBRIS

The report at says:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AlasBabylon/message/21766

New Orleans, LA -- Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall!

One diver, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them. He secreted a small chunk of the cement inside his diving suit and later arranged for it to be sent to trusted military friends at a The U.S. Army Forensic Laboratory at Fort Gillem, Georgia for testing.

According to well placed sources, a military forensic specialist determined the burn marks on the cement chunks did, in fact, come from high explosives. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity said "We found traces of boron-enhanced fluoronitramino explosives as well as PBXN-111. This would indicate at least two separate types of explosive devices."

The levee ruptures in New Orleans did not take place during Hurricane Katrina, but rather a day after the hurricane struck. Several residents of New Orleans and many Emergency Workers reported hearing what sounded like large, muffled explosions from the area of the levee, but those were initially discounted as gas explosions from homes with leaking gas lines.

If these allegations prove true, the ruptured levee which flooded New Orleans was a deliberate act of mass destruction perpetrated by someone with access to military-grade UNDERWATER high explosives.

And on DemocracyNow a report has been filed titled:
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
See http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/12/1426242