Memo: Green Zone housing facilities vulnerable to attack.
By on Apr 8th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Memo: Green Zone housing facilities vulnerable to attack.
The Green Zone “was once considered an American oasis — a protected bubble of comfort food, large, American-made sport-utility vehicles and enforced speed limits.” Yet a day before Amb. Ryan Crocker and Gen. David Petraeus were set to testify to Congress about progress in Iraq, the U.S. embassy yesterday sent a memo to employees forbidding them “from sleeping in trailers or from spending long periods of time in them this Wednesday and Thursday.” In the past two weeks, four Americans have died from shelling attacks in the Green Zone.
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Just give them six more months, and the Green Zone will be sort of safe…..
April 8th, 2008 at 11:14 amWell, bubbles being what they are…will eventually burst.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:15 amhate to admit to my ignorance about this, but just what WAS the “green zone”
before it was the green zone?
wish i could find some pictures, before and after…
April 8th, 2008 at 11:19 amKaty – I found this info about the Green Zone
Pre-invasion
The area was originally home to the villas of government officials, several government ministries, and a number of palaces of Saddam Hussein and his family. The largest of these was the Republican Palace that was Saddam’s primary seat of power.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_zone#Pre-invasion
April 8th, 2008 at 11:22 amI thought congress approved the money for The Blackwater Contract. They must not have heard they get to pick our pockets for another year.
I see like the administration, they are doing a great job. Heavy Sarcasm….
April 8th, 2008 at 11:25 ami am currently working in kabul, afghanistan… i went to a meeting last thursday over at the kabul version of the baghdad “green zone…” it’s where the u.s. embassy and usaid are located and it’s nothing but this huge, several acre, heavily guarded, triple blast-fence surrounded, 4-layers deep of security checkpoints at the entrance, maximum security prison, with row after row of inter-connected, one-story, white, trailer-like, temp bldgs, filled with u.s.-style offices and u.s. bureaucrats and afghani bureaucrat wannabes being busy, busy, busy… it’s a ghastly place and i can’t imagine living there… i live in a guest room in a rented house that also serves as the office for the project i’m working for… even tho’ this place is not guarded nearly as heavily as the embassy/usaid complex, i actually feel safer here than i do over there…
And, yes, I DO take it personally
April 8th, 2008 at 11:27 amIt must be better than before the surge?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pmThe surge to find a safe place to sleep is working.
April 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pmSince the Bush administration occupies the palace of Saddam Hussein and the offices of the former Baath government, the area should be renamed the Irony Free Zone.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pmthanks for that info, impeach and prof marcus…
April 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pmI wonder if they should rename it the Orange or Red Zone…
April 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pmThe order to keep people from sleeping in trailers would seem to make sense. That way, the only people who will be vulnerable there will be the women locked in trailers by KB&R after they’ve alleged they were raped. Clearly, KB&R and the military authority have no regard for them anyway, so this order would fit within the overall plan.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pm