Word: minder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lights suddenly come up. A military officer trailed by about eight armed soldiers strides onto the floor. As the soldiers hold their rifles at the ready, the officer rounds up several of the Shi'ite men in the club, checks their documents and arrests them. A Foreign Ministry minder tells foreign journalists that the men defected from the army. But as always when something happens that the government does not want people to see, the minder will not allow a photographer to take pictures...
...facts in Iraq, says Lara, is that even without censorship, most citizens remain fearful of speaking to reporters. "Many Iraqis refused to talk to me because I had no government 'minder' with me," she says. Officials were equally reticent, frequently glancing at omnipresent portraits of Saddam Hussein as if seeking approval of their statements. Still, there were flashes of honesty. At a hospital in Basra, Marlowe asked a mother with a dying infant what had happened in the city. "She can't answer a question like that with all these people around," said the government interpreter. "Look at the pain...