FEMA refuses hundreds of personnel, dozens of vehicles - Chicago Tribune, 9/2/05 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,1,2011979.story
FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/3/05 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board - Chicago Tribune, 9/4/05 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story
FEMA turns away state-of-the-art mobile hospital from Univ. of North Carolina - CNN, 9/5/05 http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/04/katrina.sick.redtape.ap/
FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations - Financial Times, 9/5/05 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e
FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks - New York Times, 9/6/05 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel - New York Times, 9/6/05 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid - News Sentinel, 9/8/05 http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/12595873.htm
FEMA asks media not to take pictures of dead - Washington Post, 9/8/05 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702126.html
FEMA turns back German government plane loaded with 15 tons of food - Spiegel, 9/12/05 http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,374268,00.html
FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" Unless Dispatched - FEMA's own website http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470
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