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...police, Iraqi security forces and military helicopters bearing U.S. soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division swarmed over the safe house immediately after the strike. Iraqi police, Caldwell said, were the first on the scene, and they put al-Zarqawi onto a stretcher. A special-ops exploitation team trained to glean intelligence from raids arrived with photos, fingerprint smudges and descriptions of the scars and tattoos on his body, much of which had been supplied by Jordanian intelligence. As the team began examining him, according to Caldwell, al-Zarqawi muttered something and tried to "turn away off the stretcher...
...writer,” said Lehrer, who has also penned several novels, short stories, and plays. He added that working as a daily reporter was a “jump start”—an experience that allowed him to interact with different people, glean material for his story plots, and “always keep moving...
...years. But many European governments have watched Australia's offshore processing experiment "with considerable interest," says Christopher McDowell, director of the London-based Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees. When the Pacific Solution was first unveiled, McDowell says, European officials were "clamoring to meet" then Immigration Minister Ruddock "to glean as much as they could about the proposals...
...part, I believe that the distinction between high school and college “literacy” is well-illustrated by The New York Times. It is one thing to have the capacity to read the Times cover to cover, to glean from the articles that interest rates are rising. It’s quite another to consider these facts as merely a starting place. A truly literate reader should be able to give interest rates a significance beyond their numeric limits, to connect them to her current conception of the world...
...followed his extraordinary admission that he has received help for what he termed "a drinking problem." So when I was cruising a Web news site late last week, I zeroed in on a headline reading I knew I had a problem, and I couldn't admit it, hoping to glean new insights. I mean, one more story isn't going to hurt me, right? So I clicked on the piece, only to find that it was actually about Lindsay Lohan, the comely American teen star of Mean Girls. Lohan has told Vanity Fair that she had used drugs "a little...