This means that diplomats are, in effect, stuck in the four-mile-square fortified Green Zone.
Rocket fire is again hitting the Green Zone, along with an military base in the city.
Suspected Shiite extremists hit the U.S.-protected Green Zone for the fourth day this week.
His current office is housed in an annex of another Hussein-era palace in the capital's Green Zone.
The execution took place outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, Rubaie said, and no Americans were present.
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.
There were unconfirmed reports that an explosion near the city's secure Green Zone was an IED (improvised explosive device).
GARCIA-NAVARRO: A few days later, Stillwater is waiting inside the Green Zone to begin her embed with U.S. forces.
The area, also called the Green Zone, is the heavily fortified district that houses U.S. and Iraqi governmental offices.
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.
"Things are headed for the worse, " said a grocery store owner at the scene of the attack outside the Green Zone.
Traffic was banned from the area around the heavily fortified Green Zone, the headquarters of the Iraqi government and foreign diplomats.
So every six weeks or so he takes a break from running the war and attends a ritual in Baghdad's Green Zone.
Working in the Green Zone was apparently enough for a death warrant.
In May, 2004, its president, Ezzedine Salim, was killed just outside the Green Zone by a suicide bomber from Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Many of the American, British and other foreign workers based there never leave the Green Zone during their entire posting in the country.
As I was driving back from the Green Zone from the press conference today, just two streets down that there was an explosion.
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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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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There was rocket fire coming from Sadr City to a U.S. military base and the to Green Zone that killed three U.S. soldiers, injured 31.
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.
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...
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