They killed a man here last night," Steve Banka, 28, told Reuters. "A young
lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this
man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag
down a passing truck of them, and he jumped up on the truck's windshield and
they shot him dead."
The only difference between the chaos of New Orleans and a Third World
disaster operation, he said, was that a foreign dictator would have responded
better.