This means that diplomats are, in effect, stuck in the four-mile-square fortified Green Zone.
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.
Speaking through a translator at a news conference in the fortified Green Zone, government spokesman Ali Dabbagh condemned the act.
Traffic was banned from the area around the heavily fortified Green Zone, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and foreign diplomats.
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.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Stillwater has spent her first week in Iraq in the heavily protected Green Zone, the complicated war outside its gates still beyond her grasp.
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.
He was their bureau chief there for a few years and his book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, will be released tomorrow.
It is a sort of hotel Green Zone: No matter how exotic or overwhelming the city outside, once the doorman ushers you inside, you know what to expect.
Hollywood Boulevard has become, for this moment, the green zone.
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.
Fitzsimons, Mr McGuigan and Mr Hoare had all been working for British security firm ArmorGroup, based in the Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone, at the time of the shooting.
Mr Fitzsimons, Mr McGuigan and Mr Hoare had all been working for British security firm ArmorGroup, based in the Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone, at the time of the shooting.
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.
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.
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