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...palm-size red arrows that show the Sunni population being squeezed top and bottom by Shi'ite militia. Coalition efforts to change the minds of disenfranchised Sunnis, Kuehl says, aren't getting much help from the Shi'ite-led government. In the Sunni enclave of Amariyah, for example, his unit spent $180,000 refurbishing the local bank branch so residents could get paid, but the Finance Ministry hasn't sent any cash back to the branch. "There's an effort to deprive Sunnis here of services," Kuehl says...
...dramatic testimony Tuesday, Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he raced to the intensive care unit of George Washington University Hospital that evening to intercept Gonzales and White House chief of staff Andrew Card and prevent them from convincing Ashcroft to reauthorize the program after Justice Department lawyers had concluded that it was illegal. Comey, who during Ashcroft's stay in the hospital was acting Attorney General, has told Congressional investigators that when he arrived at the room and began explaining to Ashcroft why he was there, he was intentionally "very circumspect" so as not to disclose classified information...
...decades, everybody in New Orleans knew the drill, from police and emergency medical responders to the patients who managed to get there on their own. In a mental health emergency, the destination of choice was the 24-hour crisis intervention unit at Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans, where a team of specialists could quickly evaluate patients who were a potential danger to themselves or others, stabilize those that could be medicated and referred to one of the city's outpatient clinics and admit the hardest cases to the hospital's psychiatric ward, where the 96 beds were fully occupied...
...crisis prompted Mayor Ray Nagin this week to issue an impassioned plea to Louisiana's Governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, for a centrally located crisis intervention unit, either in a reopened third floor at Charity or in a designated section of University Hospital, an L.S.U. medical school affiliate that houses the city's only trauma center and where, on one recent night, 18 of the emergency department's 23 beds were occupied by mental health patients. "These patients are still getting their medical evaluations in a routine emergency department. But then they are left there," says Cathi Fontenot, the hospital...
...There are some promising signs. The state could provide funding for another 20 psych beds this summer, says Jerome Gibbs, executive director of the Metropolitan Human Services District, which oversees state-run mental health programs in the New Orleans area. University Hospital plans to have a mobile crisis unit operating on a site adjacent to the hospital by June, and is in negotiations with a closed mental health center uptown, where the hospital hopes to lease enough space to open 33 psychiatric beds. But staffing is still a huge challenge, Fontenot says. There are fewer resources available to follow patients...