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Posted: 9/1/2005 11:27:00 PM
Gov says troops ready to "shoot and kill" Source: AP
NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's governor is declaring war on looters and others who've turned the streets of New Orleans into scenes of chaos and fear.
Governor Kathleen Blanco says 300 National Guard troops have arrived in the city fresh from duty in Iraq. She says they "know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."
The Guard troops are carrying M-16's, which Blanco describes as "locked and loaded."
Within the angry crowds of people trying to flee the city, shooters have targeted police officers, a security person at the Superdome and possibly a military helicopter evacuating hospital patients.
A Louisiana state police commander says many New Orleans officers have quit, saying they weren't going to risk their lives to fight looters.
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