Thanks for the article
simon
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How come the latest death toll is just over 1,000, a tenth of his early estimate?
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Because he's a sick attention seeker?
Seriously though, it's good news for the local people that the death toll is much lower than what was previously announced. It does make the ealier statements that this disaster was of the same scale as the tsunami in south-east Asia look somewhat ridiculous now, if not insulting considering that the tsunami caused at least a hundred times more casualties.
The saddest thing is that because of those false reports, some of the poorest countries on the planet felt like they had to donate money to the richest country in the world while they themselves have so much misery on their soil.
In the end i wouldn't be surprised if the area affected by Katrina gets more money than the area affected by the tsunami even though the level of destruction is a hundred times lower.