1.   Several teams of disguised soldiers move across rooftops, through sewers, across dusty courtyards.

2.   The missionaries are barely out of the parking lot when the sound of an automatic weapon booms through the dusty courtyard.

3.   Dozens of shattered bodies lay in the dusty courtyard of a mud-walled Afghan fortress prison Wednesday after a three-day uprising by Taliban prisoners.

4.   He hid beneath a desk in a small office, but the mob smashed the window and broke down the door dragging Ahmed into the dusty courtyard.

5.   If anything looks like hell, it is this dusty courtyard between a ruined school and a sandy road where people come to collect their dead.

6.   It is a storage cellar, down a steep flight of stone stairs from a dusty courtyard where a dozen other refugees are sheltering.

7.   They sat in their dusty courtyards on rope beds, sipping tea and waiting for customers.