Word: stretcher
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...attack, at least for a short while. Iraqi 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...
...with 98 passengers and crewmen aboard. As investigators milled about on the tarmac of the airport at Valletta, Malta's capital, police and rescuers sifted through the fuselage for victims, their possessions and any clue that might help explain what had happened aboard the ill-fated craft. Occasionally a stretcher shrouded in plastic would emerge, a macabre reminder that the jetliner had become a tomb for 57 travelers...
...came over the radio: "Translator needed pronto on cellblock Charlie." Adam and I both bolted. As we cleared into Charlie block, we saw medics rushing there as well. Out in the yard I saw a detainee, blood all over his right arm and covering his feet, halfway on a stretcher with the left side of his body dangling...
...Rock Hudson was flown home to Los Angeles from France early last Tuesday and transferred on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter, which took him to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood for further medical treatment. Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, was undergoing tests out of fear that he might have received the virus that causes AIDS from contaminated blood serum prescribed by a controversial cancer clinic in the Bahamas. At a New York City television station, technicians announced that they would not work in the studio during a scheduled live interview with an AIDS patient. The interview was dropped...
...Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom the Kevlar-clad ambulance crew wheels straight to a treatment room; a youth whose injuries - a lacerated hand and a bite on his arm - were sustained in a brawl outside a pub; and a tipsy woman in high-heeled boots who hurt her ankle on a cobblestone walkway...