[Peace-discuss] Army Times: How the military views New Orleans

[Alfred Kagan]

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> From: "Steve Labash" <slabash at ubalt.edu>
> Date: September 7, 2005 10:21:01 AM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:17416] Army Times:  How the military views New 
> Orleans
> Reply-To: slabash at ubalt.edu
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> Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
> http://armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php
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> NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take 
> this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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> “This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary 
> Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force 
> told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge 
> prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging 
> area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take 
> this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under 
> control.”
>
> Comments were also made about the need to combat the “insurgency” in 
> NO.
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> Steve LaBash
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
University of Illinois Library
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