- Green Zone Cafe
The Green Zone Cafe was a restaurant in the northeast corner of the
Green Zone (International Zone) inBaghdad ,Iraq . The restaurant was housed in a fabric and metal-frame building established in theparking lot of a formerfilling station . It was a popular and successful business, primarily serving the Western inhabitants of the Green Zone and featuringArab cuisine .On
October 14 ,2004 , the restaurant was destroyed, one patron was killed and five wounded by a backpack bomb. The restaurant reopened briefly a year later, along with aliquor store which was primarily patronized by security contractors in October 2005, but was closed when theIraqi government confiscated the property for its own use.External links
* (
September 20 2004 ). [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5973273/site/newsweek/ Lost In The Green Zone]Newsweek /MSNBC .
* (October 14 2004 ). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1327383,00.html Five dead in Baghdad green zone blasts]Guardian Unlimited .
* (October 14 2004 ). [http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/041014_bomb.html U.S. Condemns Deadly Terrorist Bombings in Baghdad October 14]United States Embassy
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