Katrina. World News.

[icymist]

NORWAY
Norwegians in New Orleans sought
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"They have reason to believe that 120 Norwegians were in the area. Eighty of these have sent messages about where they are but we have not heard from 40 of them,"
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1106791.ece

Disaster aid to USA
Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) said Friday that they have offered general aid to the USA in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1107667.ece

ALJAZEERA (QATAR)
Bush, aides move to counter criticism
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/64F6D116-23CE-4CC6-9AD2-707138805732.htm


AZER
Bush to visit as New Orleans counts Katrina dead

September 05, 2005, 10:12 gmt
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush, under fire over the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, was due to tour affected areas, as the grim work of recovering the dead began.
http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/int//050905080724.8ozkgrh3.html

BBC
Rescuers seek hurricane survivors
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214504.stm

SINGAPORE
Asian countries rally to help US hurricane victims
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/166620/1/.html

LEBANON
Middle East offers assistance to U.S. in wake of Katrina tragedy
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=18230

PAKISTAN
Hurricane toll in thousands, admits US

WASHINGTON, Sept 4: A top US federal official admitted for the first time on Sunday that thousands of people died in the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the southern United States.
http://www.dawn.com/2005/09/05/top8.htm

Pakistan offers help for hurricane victims
http://www.dawn.com/2005/09/05/top9.htm

UK (Guardian Unlimited)
Empty, ruined and desperate

· Military takes over as ghost city faces new horrors
· Police shoot dead five people carrying guns

Duncan Campbell and Gary Younge in New Orleans, and Julian Borger in Washington
Monday September 5, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1562789,00.html

ISREAL
Israel sending relief aid, volunteers to U.S.

By Haaretz Service

The Bush administration has accepted Israel's offers of assistance to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, with a first shipment of supplies expected to be sent on Tuesday.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/621184.html


INDIA
Katrina survivors throw gay parade in New Orleans
Agence France-Presse

New Orleans, September 5, 2005
Music, Mardi Gras beads, costumes and confetti returned to the French Quarter as a determined handful of hurricane survivors vowed to keep the spirit of New Orleans alive.
Decked out in a red polka-dot tutu and purple parasol, Candice Jamieson, marched through the city's eerie abandoned streets on Sunday, rattling a tambourine.

"We're having a decadence parade," said the 21-year-old student, referring to the annual gay pride march, usually a massive and raucous affair that rivals the city's famed Mardi Gras festivities. "We're trying to bring up everyone's morale," he said.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1482166,00050001.htm

SOUTH AFRICA
Local insurers brace for fallout from Katrina
September 5, 2005

Johannesburg - Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and parts of the Gulf of Mexico this week, could land insurers with claims as high as $45 billion (R280 billion) - more than twice the $21 billion paid out when Hurricane Andrew made landfall in Florida in 1992, Mutual & Federal chief executive officer Bruce Campbell said on Monday.
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=2864210

IRELAND
Drowned city begins gathering up its dead
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgOciQFUJA91ksg7OWirIStPSk.asp

Bush under fire after botched rescue operation

THE Bush administration was yesterday fighting to save face after its botched rescue plans left New Orleans at the mercy of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sg3cIqz3IwAT6sg7OWirIStPSk.asp

JAPAN
Warnings of New Orleans disaster ignored, funding slashed: experts
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=348096

Japan tells U.S. it is ready to send emergency rescue squad
Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 06:42 JST
TOKYO — The Japanese government told the United States on Friday it is ready to dispatch an emergency rescue squad to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina if requested by Washington.

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&id=348073

SWEDEN
US declines Swedish aid - for now
The United States has declined water sanitation aid from Sweden in the wake of the deadly Hurricane Katrina, saying it was currently unable to accept foreign aid packages, the Swedish Rescue Services Agency said on Sunday.

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2018&date=20050904&PHPSESSID=4d0d7840e2aaa24f65d5ee6c5eab2fbb

IRAN
Iran to help US hurricane victims if needed
Tehran, Sept 4, IRNA-Iran will help US victims of Hurricane Katrina if there is a need to do so and regards such help as a humanitarian measure, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said in Tehran on Sunday.


http://www.payvand.com/news/05/sep/1025.html

GERMANY
The Downfall of New Orleans

Last week America's Gulf coast sank into the flood waters produced by Hurricane "Katrina". The catastrophe in New Orleans, made all the worse by incompetent rescue efforts, shines a glaring spotlight on the chasm between rich and poor in the southern United States. In New Orleans, those who couldn't afford to get out ended up struggling for their lives.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,373047,00.html

Baghdad, New Orleans

By Matthias Gebauer in New Orleans

When night falls in New Orleans, the city descends into chaos. The once vibrant metropolis feels like the abandoned stage of a disaster film. Bands of looters are roaming the streets, but most residents have already fled. Police are now using what remains of their strength to restore order in the city.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,373074,00.html

CHINA
Hurricane death toll in thousands: US official

BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- The death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands, US Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt revealed for the first time Sunday.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/05/content_3446228.htm



On edit to remove Finland because the link wouldn't work. The story was about how sharply the gas prices will rise because of Katrina.

[rhino47]

1. The australians are not too happy ..Us Relationship in Question

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/us-relationship-in-question/2005/09/05/1125772458051.html


US relationship in question
Canberra
September 6, 2005
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George Bush can bring his own gun-toting guards when he visits peaceful, law-abiding Canberra.

But it takes a week for US authorities to allow a single Australian diplomat into hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to search for stranded Australians whose lives could be in serious peril.

It's hardly the special relationship between the two countries that Australians are used to hearing about.

For Australian diplomats in the US, the refusal of local officials to allow them into the disaster zone to do their job was frustrating.

[icymist]

6. Thank you for supplying an Aussie link.

All my Aussie links wouldn't work. If anybody else has link to any other countries, please post them here.

From the Article:
Australian officials rang the Americans every four hours, pressuring to be allowed in, but US authorities would not budge, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says.

Finally, today, an Australian consular official and a British diplomat were allowed into the city - but only until dusk.


I also see that Norway is still missing 40 citizens in NO. I suspect there's more foreign nationals missing and these nations will not be pleased to discover how rescue and relief attempts were hampered.

[JohnyCanuck]

11. Never mind Australia that you aren't allowed to look for lost Ozzies

in the new underwater theme park once known as the city of New Orleans.

As a result of your PM's shameless ass-licking of George the Destroyer you still get to share at the highest level possible (for ferriners that is) US intelligence and state secrets. Now what's a few missing swagmen and Crocodile Dundees to a privilege like that? Now go put a few shrimp on the barbie and settle down knowing your PM is keeping you well protected from any brown skinned terrerists that might decide to target the land down under.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16451101-2,00.html

[icymist]

2. This is the first I've heard of suicides by NO police and firemen!

From the Azer paper:
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin revealed that several city police officers and firefighters had been so traumatised by the events of the past week that they had committed suicide.

[icymist]

3. First days were a natural disaster, afterwards, man-made....

Ireland paper:
"The first few days were a natural disaster. The last four days were a man-made disaster," said Phillip Holt, 51, who was rescued from his home on Saturday.


US President George W Bush who, in a rare admission of error, conceded on Friday that the results of his administration’s relief efforts were unacceptable, said on Saturday he would send 7,200 more active-duty troops over three days.

[icymist]

4. From the Japan paper:

Rennie's magazine warned in 2001 that a degradation of the city's levee and pumping systems, new building developments and inadequate evacuation routes had put New Orleans at serious risk of a human catastrophe in which more than 250,000 people could be stranded and thousands killed.
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"Because authorities did not see this kind of disaster as a priority, they put off spending to divert the money elsewhere — especially in the last couple of years when we have had a war to fight and homeland defence to worry about," Rennie added.

[icymist]

5. Germany compares this to Iraq!

Strong men tip toe around the expensive technology. They're also heavily armed and they're wearing khaki pants, black t-shirts, belts with knives and telescope sticks. And despite the late hour, they're also wearing the obligatory sport sunglasses in their hair. As a group of them climb into a GMC with tinted windows, former soldier Valek laughs cynically. "Things have gone so far here," he says bitterly, "that TV broadcasters have to hire private security firms to protect them -- just like it was down there in Iraq."

[icymist]

7. People. This is the last time I'm going to kick this back up!

If you don't want to know what the rest of the world is saying, then fine.

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edit for spelling

[countingbluecars]

8. Interesting reading.

Thanks.

[Greybnk48]

9. great post, thank you

As I read this I wondered what the WH reaction is to these stories. It seems no one now is buying their BS, and other countries are no longer afraid to speak up (afraid of retaliation).

[icymist]

10. I put this here for you. And others interested in what the world is saying

Indeed, I too am waiting the WH response, if any.

[icymist]

12. Because I think what the rest of the world is saying about this.....

is important.
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