Word: manhunt
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...Crawling on their hands and knees, occasionally slipping a minuscule piece of ash into a plastic bag, they obviously belonged there. But unlike thousands of public employees battling the conflagration below, they were not concerned with fighting fires, at least not any burning currently. They were engaged in a manhunt...
...garage of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, tearing a 200-ft.-wide crater in the basement of the world's second tallest building. Six people were killed, and more than 1,000 were injured. The worst terrorist attack on American soil sent federal agents scrambling on a global manhunt. One of the suspects, a 33-year-old redhead, was captured in his native Egypt by government agents, brutally tortured until he confessed to the bombing and then flown back to America to stand trial. His name: Mahmud Abouhalima. Prosecutors say Abouhalima, a former New York City taxi driver...
...initially heroic humanitarian effort in Somalia deteriorated into an inept, farcical manhunt worthy of the Three Stooges and reminiscent of the 1989 Manuel Noriega fiasco. The search for Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aideed reached a comic low when 50 elite U.S. Army Rangers, acting on special "intelligence," stormed a building rumored to house Aideed's rebels--only to find a bunch of U.S. foreign aid workers, whom they promptly arrested...
...long can the Nazi manhunt and the promise of retribution go on? How many more war criminals, their faces surgically disguised and their identities long since falsified, can be brought to justice? Those questions reverberated around the world last week after the Israeli Supreme Court unanimously overturned the 1988 conviction of John Demjanjuk. The 73-year-old retired Cleveland autoworker had been sentenced to death for being "Ivan the Terrible," the notorious guard at the Treblinka death camp who operated the gas chambers...
...could turn into a war zone," warned Gumercindo Rodrigues of the Xapuri Rural Workers' Union. Inundated with protests from environmental groups, the Brazilian government vowed to recapture the gunmen. "They'll never find them," predicted Mendes' widow Ilzamar, who accused local authorities of complicity in the escape. A police manhunt has so far failed to turn up any sign of the fugitives, who could be hiding in neighboring Bolivia...