Word: shrapnel
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...picture. After an initial report on an Islamic website asked Muslims to "pray for the recovery of our Sheik Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi from an injury he suffered for the sake of God," reports flew rapidly, many contradictory: he had been wounded by gunfire in the lungs, or shrapnel hit his stomach and legs; he was hurt in a clash with U.S. forces a month ago and spotted at a hospital in Ramadi, or he was injured a week ago and was out of the country. Some suggested he had already died; a later report insisted he was "in good...
...Hassan was peppered with shrapnel and hurled into the air by an explosion. "I was sure I was fighting the Bhalkhel, so the last thing I expected was for bombs to fall from the sky," he says. When he regained consciousness, his best friend Alif Shah was lying beside him. "A fire was burning inside his chest," Hassan recalls. "He was dead." The tribesmen on the ridge were too dazed and panicked to count the bombs, but Kamil Shah, who watched in horror from nearby Zambar village, says "80 to 100 bombs fell that night." His brother...
...Pashtun insurgency. In one fire fight, Amerine and eight of his soldiers, with the intermittent help of Afghan irregulars, stopped an advance of 1,000 Taliban soldiers. Just as they were descending triumphant on Kandahar, an errant U.S. bomb hit, killing two of his men and leaving Amerine with shrapnel in his leg, a busted eardrum and dark, hard memories of a war that had him putting his best sergeant in a body...
...Baghdad. Because of the lack of medicines and equipment at the ER, both men are still at risk for secondary infections. But they are in the care of their families and are expected to recover. They were the fortunate ones. Waleed, the university student, suffered brain trauma from the shrapnel to his head and remains at the Yarmouk Hospital, another victim whose only mistake was to be on the wrong side of the road in the morning...
Back in the ER, the staff members have all but forgotten the patients they saw only hours earlier. Though there will be no more bombings this day, a steady stream of patients keeps Emad busy. "Sometimes we forget that not everybody who comes here has a bullet wound or shrapnel from a bomb blast," he says. "There are many ways for people to get hurt." But it isn't long before another war wound appears in the ER: a young man shot in the hip. "Here we go," Emad whispers, almost to himself, as he gets back to work. --With...