US military bars media from Katrina corpse recovery. 10/09/2005. ABC News Online
US military bars media from Katrina corpse recovery. 10/09/2005. ABC News Online: "The US military says it will ban journalists and photographers from documenting the recovery of bodies left littering New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
The military ban follows a request by the Federal Emergency Management Team (FEMA) not to photograph the dead.
The Pentagon has an existing banned photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq.
Lieutenant General Russel Honore, the commander of the relief operation on the US Gulf Coast, said that while the military had allowed reporters covering the catastrophe free rein, it was now slamming the door shut out of respect for the possibly thousands of victims and their families.
'We've had total access to everything we've done - the good, the bad and the ugly - but that operation (the recovery of corpses) will be conducted with dignity and respect for the families,' Lt Gen Honore said."
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The military ban follows a request by the Federal Emergency Management Team (FEMA) not to photograph the dead.
The Pentagon has an existing banned photographs of flag-draped coffins returning from Iraq.
Lieutenant General Russel Honore, the commander of the relief operation on the US Gulf Coast, said that while the military had allowed reporters covering the catastrophe free rein, it was now slamming the door shut out of respect for the possibly thousands of victims and their families.
'We've had total access to everything we've done - the good, the bad and the ugly - but that operation (the recovery of corpses) will be conducted with dignity and respect for the families,' Lt Gen Honore said."
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