Entering and leaving the Green Zone, the fortified heart of the American presence, had become too risky.
Kitterman was found bound, blindfolded and fatally stabbed in a car in the Green Zone on May 22.
The artist has since returned to Baghdad but can no longer count on selling paintings in the Green Zone.
And in fact, this area, Karrada, is very close to the Green Zone.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: A few days later, Stillwater is waiting inside the Green Zone to begin her embed with U.S. forces.
The Italian news agency ANSA reported that Carroll underwent a medical checkup at the American hospital in the Green Zone.
Many of the American, British and other foreign workers based there never leave the Green Zone during their entire posting in the country.
As we drove away from the Green Zone and back to our office in the city, there was a body lying in the road.
The rest is history, as Hollywood even showed you its rendition of The Plan in the recent movie, The Green Zone, starring Matt Damon.
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It's just a stone's throw away from the Green Zone, actually.
The Green Zone houses the U.S. Embassy and many government ministries.
We were helicoptering in from Baghdad airport to the Green Zone...
GARCIA-NAVARRO: General Petraeus is popular in the Green Zone, but if militants find this shot, Salam could be killed in the Red Zone, where he lives.
She said that the taxi driver who brings her every day to the green zone checkpoint has told her he cannot let her ride unless she wears a headcover.
The action plan may use peak flow measurements and symptoms to categorize your child's asthma into zones, such as the green zone, yellow zone and red zone.
The order does not cover the Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government buildings and the U.S. Embassy, or military installations, government institutions, hotels or some private companies.
That's a positive sign, as opposed to flying them from a helicopter from the airport to the Green Zone and never letting them go to see anything.
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.
Hollywood Boulevard has become, for this moment, the green zone.
It happened near the center of town, near a bridge that leads to the Green Zone, which is the seat of Iraqi government power and also where the U.S. Embassy is located.
Al-Hamadany brought his own canvases and those of about a dozen other artists not allowed access to the Green Zone, artwork which Brownfield shipped in tubes to his mother's house in Michigan.
There were several instances of "indirect fire" in the International Zone, formerly known as the Green Zone, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries.
Then he remembered: Two weeks earlier, as he was showing his badge at the bridge offering entry into the Green Zone, Yaghdan had noticed a man from his neighborhood standing in the same line, watching him.
The last time I was here, we were embedded in the Green Zone security bubble of the African Union peacekeeping operation at the edge of the Somali capital, with its Ugandan and Burundian troops, its heavy mortars and armoured convoys.
Once, inside a building in Baghdad, Petraeus, then in his early fifties, challenged me to race him up the stairs. (He won.) Another time, he dared me to join him on a morning run in the Green Zone, accompanied by an armed guard.
The attack coincided with an Arab League meeting that was under way inside the Green Zone, in the presence of Belgian, German and Swiss experts, to discuss the formation of an Arab parliament, as stipulated by a summit of Arab leaders held in Baghdad last year.
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.
Speaking through a translator at a news conference in the fortified Green Zone, government spokesman Ali Dabbagh condemned the act.
Our day ended with a robust discussion about the future of Kansas City and the Green Impact Zone with local leaders and members of the community.
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