The men began feeding information to US government officials in Iraq until, in April 2006, the company confiscated their credentials to enter the Baghdad Green Zone, effectively barring them from the safest part of the war-ravaged country, according to their court pleadings.
So every six weeks or so he takes a break from running the war and attends a ritual in Baghdad's Green Zone.
While Iraq's parliamentarians have been quarrelling in the safety of Baghdad's green zone, the country has entered the early stages of a sectarian war.
ECONOMIST: Now everything depends on America keeping its nerve
As Khalilzad and Casey made their announcements, a power failure in Baghdad's Green Zone cut of the broadcast of their remarks a generator failure.
As a band played the Iraqi national anthem, officials lowered the old flag and hoisted a temporary one at a ceremony at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office in Baghdad's Green Zone.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A British security contractor faces charges in an Iraqi court in the killings of two co-workers in Baghdad's Green Zone early Sunday, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
We were helicoptering in from Baghdad airport to the Green Zone...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two or three mortars or rockets were fired late Thursday into Baghdad's "green zone, " in the vicinity of the U.S.-led administration's headquarters, a U.S. military spokesman said.
President Bush is going to see Iraqi Prime Minister Malaki, not in Baghdad, where even the heavily fortified Green Zone is no longer considered safe, but in Amman, Jordan.
Most of the main roads in central Baghdad, including those leading to the Green Zone -- the highly fortified area that includes government buildings -- have been cut off to vehicle traffic.
One Blackwater operative told a reporter on a flight home from the Middle East that he had served as a bodyguard, escorting American personnel along the extremely dangerous road from Baghdad's airport to the fortified Green Zone downtown.
The General occupies a high-ceilinged room furnished with a mahogany desk and conference table, video screens, flags, and wall-mounted maps. (He also maintains a smaller office at the U.S. Embassy in the International Zone, formerly known as the Green Zone, in central Baghdad.) When I visited him in late July, Petraeus seemed reflective, open, and at times even wistful about the approaching end of his third Iraq tour.
It's not short assessments and very highly selective assessment of journalists either from sitting in the Green Zone or in their hotels in Baghdad and doing these reports.
Bremer and the IGC also had hoped to persuade Annan to bring U.N. personnel back into Iraq -- a move that may have lost steam Sunday when a suicide bomber detonated a half-tonne of explosives at a main gate of the heavily fortified Green Zone around the coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
The artist has since returned to Baghdad but can no longer count on selling paintings in the Green Zone.
But the BBC's Natalia Antelava, in Baghdad, says Wednesday's bombs - within the heavily fortified Green Zone - have cast serious doubts on the ability of the country's security forces to defend its citizens.
The war's sixth year begins in Baghdad with rockets falling into the U.S.-protected Green Zone over the weekend, while the overall U.S. military death toll tops 4, 000 after a roadside bombing claims more American lives.
The blasts were meant to target the security plan "of the government of fools inside the Green Zone, in preparation of the meeting of Arab tyrants in Baghdad, " said a statement from the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes al Qaeda in Iraq.
Tom Timberman, who heads one of the reconstruction teams, is based 40 miles south of Baghdad, where the State Department has set up a sort of "mini Green Zone" a large, heavily fortified regional embassy that houses foreign service officers charged with overseeing development in the key regions of Babil, Najaf and Karbala.
The actor's latest film Green Zone, also from troubled Universal, was pitched as a kind of Jason Bourne goes to Baghdad since it reunited Damon with his Bourne director Paul Greengrass.
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