Here's an interesting article on the rape allegations:
Lurid reports of rape, murder in Katrina's aftermath exposed as
frauds
By Joseph Kay
30 September 2005
WSWS.org
A series of articles over the past week have confirmed that the
widespread reports of massive looting, murder and violence in
hurricane-devastated New Orleans were either concocted out of whole
cloth or grossly exaggerated. In the first several days after New
Orleans was inundated, these stories were disseminated by government
officials at the federal, state and local level, and trumpeted by
the media in banner headlines and lurid TV accounts.
Now that officials have been forced to admit that they had little or
no evidence of armed thugs roaming the devastated city and mugging,
raping and killing tourists and stranded residents, they and their
media accomplices are seeking to explain away the disinformation
campaign as the inadvertent result of confusion, fear and the
breakdown in communications in New Orleans.
Full article here:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/lies-s30.shtml
WSWS.org