Word: burqas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...times in the past year. "If I see a strange man in my neighborhood more than three times in a week, I know it's time to move," she says. She used to carry her AK-47 to work but was worried that the gun's silhouette under her burqa betrayed her identity. Now her Smith & Wesson pistol--a gift from coalition forces--is her only source of protection. "I want to stay and do my job," she says. "But I have an 8-year-old daughter. If the government can't protect me, I will have to leave...
...wasn't taking chances. During the three-year hunt for him, al-Zarqawi was a maddeningly elusive target--a master of disguise who could pass as a woman in a burqa one day, an Iraqi policeman the next. He traveled in groups of women and children to lower suspicion and frequently moved with ease through checkpoints in Iraq. Although military commanders believe they came close to capturing al-Zarqawi on at least half a dozen occasions in the past two years, few had reason to anticipate an imminent breakthrough. But military and intelligence officials in Washington, Baghdad and Amman tell...
Suddenly Malibu Barbie is looking better to me. Once seen as insidious, she now looks innocent compared with her successors. As it happened, Santa overruled me and brought Daughter No. 2 a Bratz doll (though she came dressed in a karate outfit, which is practically a burqa by Bratz standards). Maybe in the best of all worlds, two sisters with two generations of dolls will play together. Barbie might loosen up a little and learn some new moves, while Roxxi might get some help in AP calculus. A mom can dream...
...self parody. While there is a self-consciousness to the weirdness here, I can’t give the benefit of the doubt to Korine when his most popular directorial work is a TV special for magician David Blaine.Marshall is next seen running on a track with two burqa-clad groups. But despite the apparent differences between the two and Marshall—dressed in a skintight red outfit—they are all the same underneath. Korine then includes a long close-up of one woman’s sleeves billowing wide enough to reveal the same red beneath...
...from showing their faces in public. Yet 565 women candidates have had their photos placed on the ballots, even though they have to go to extraordinary lengths to get their messages across. More than one candidate in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar is campaigning door-to-door in a burqa, the head-to-toe veil that conceals even the face...