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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 4. September 2005 / Timeline September 4, 2005

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3. September 2005, 5. September 2005


09/04/2005
Team Bush spins the crisis
By Kenneth R. Bazinet
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/v-pfriendly/story/343339p-293108c.html
WASHINGTON - The White House worked furiously yesterday to try to convince skeptics it had a grip on unrest in New Orleans and make the case that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina was finally pressing forward with a monumental recovery effort.
Amid the furor over the failure to quickly help those suffering in the aftermath, Bush committed 7,000 more active-duty soldiers and Marines to help hasten evacuations and restore order, starting with New Orleans.
The Pentagon also will send another 10,000 members of the National Guard to Louisiana and Mississippi, and total troop strength will rise to about 40,000.
Another 300 Air Force airmen based in Biloxi, Miss., will return from Iraq and Afghanistan the next two weeks to help their families and join recovery efforts at Keesler Air Force Base, which took a direct hit from Katrina.
The Navy announced yesterday that Vice President Cheney's former company, Halliburton, which has handled much of the repair work as well as support services for the U.S. military in Iraq, was hired to restore power and rebuild three naval facilities in Mississippi that were wrecked by Katrina.

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