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  • The 9/11 rescue dogs: Portraits of the last surviving animals

    09/05/2011 4:47:17 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 10 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | Sept. 5, 2011
    The 9/11 rescue dogs: Portraits of the last surviving animals who scoured Ground Zero one decade on During the chaos of the 9/11 attacks, where almost 3,000 people died, nearly 100 loyal search and rescue dogs and their brave owners scoured Ground Zero for survivors. Now, ten years on, just 12 of these heroic canines survive, and they have been commemorated in a touching series of portraits entitled 'Retrieved'. The dogs worked tirelessly to search for anyone trapped alive in the rubble, along with countless emergency service workers and members of the public. Travelling across nine states in the U.S....
  • Slain tribal chief's body retrieved - Baluchistan

    08/31/2006 4:38:27 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 180+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/31/06 | Paul Garwood - ap
    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani soldiers retrieved the body of a renegade tribal chief Thursday whose death in a military raid provoked widespread rioting in a restive province on the volatile border with Afghanistan. The body of Baluch tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti was found pinned underneath a boulder in his collapsed mountain hide-out in southwestern Baluchistan province. Pakistani forces and rebels clashed there Saturday, leaving the 79-year-old dead, along with several supporters and five army officers. Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting and protests in the impoverished province bordering Iran and Afghanistan. At least six people were killed, dozens...