Relaxed life shows Baghdad extremists waning

Thursday, October 30, 2008

BAGHDAD -- Engineering student Haifaa Salman has discarded the Islamic head cover she started wearing two years ago after militants threatened to "punish" her if she kept showing up at college with her hair uncovered.

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