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Reports of post-Katrina violence, anarchy mostly myth

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Bast majority of reported atrocities committed by survivors have turned out to be false or at least unsupported
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By Brian Thevenot and Gordon Russell

NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- After five days managing near-riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to a doctor from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

After days of widely reported violence inside the stadium, the doctor -- Beron doesn't remember his name -- came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.

"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalled the doctor saying.

The real total? Six, Beron said.

Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death, said Beron, who personally oversaw the handoff of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice.

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