It marked the first time he has been outside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad without being on a military base.

这标志着，第一次他没有在军事基地而是前往一个位于巴格达戒备森严的绿区之外的地方。

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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.

BBC: Donald Rumsfeld

So every six weeks or so he takes a break from running the war and attends a ritual in Baghdad's Green Zone.

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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.

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