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NEWS ABOUT: Green Zone

Green Zone stories: 28 news summaries

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Blackwater Guard Kept Blasting 'After Call to Stop'

First details emerge in probe of Iraq shooting

Sep 28, 07 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least one Blackwater security guard continued firing at Iraqis, despite colleagues' call to stop during the incendiary incident earlier this month that killed at least eight civilians, witnesses have told investigators. Another guard for the private security firm is said to have pointed his gun at a fellow employee... More »

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investigation • Baghdad • Green Zone • Blackwater • Iraq violence • private security firm

US Reinstates Blackwater in Iraq

Despite government opposition, State Department returns company to streets

Sep 21, 07 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - American convoys began emerging from the Green Zone again today, protected by Blackwater USA  guards, just four days after an Iraqi ban on the private security firm halted all such travel. Iraqis remain outraged over the deaths of 11 civilians in a Blackwater shooting incident Sunday, but a Maliki aide... More »

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Iraq • Green Zone • Nouri al-Maliki • State Department • Blackwater

US Bars Travel for Officials
After Iraqi Shootings

Iraqi officials blast killings by private security operation

Sep 19, 07 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tensions are so high in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of 11 Iraqis by a private American security operation that the US has barred civilian officials from road travel outside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone for their own safety. The Iraqis were killed when contractors with security outfit Blackwater opened... More »

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Iraq • Baghdad • Green Zone • Nouri al-Maliki • Condoleezza Rice • Blackwater • Ali al Dabbagh • Muqtada al-Sadr

Duped Workers Build Baghdad Embassy

Kuwaiti firm lures poor laborers to Iraq; enslaves them on massive US project

Jun 7, 07 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Kuwaiti company building the $592 million US embassy in Baghdad is under scrutiny for allegedly tricking workers into coming to Iraq. The Justice Department says Kuwaiti First promised poor workers from Bangladesh and Pakistan it would send them to Dubai, but instead brought them to the Green Zone, seized... More »

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Baghdad • Green Zone • workers • embassy • Kuwaiti First • trick

Blair Makes Last Visit to Iraq

PM pays goodbye call amid mortar attack, radio assault from Jimmy Carter

May 19, 07 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Tony Blair dropped in on Iraq's prime minister today, to assure him the Britain would continue to support the struggling Iraqi government even after he leaves office next month. Blair used the surpise visit to reiterate his confidence that there are "real signs of change and progress" in Iraq,... More »

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Iraq • Tony Blair • Green Zone • Nouri al-Maliki • Britain

Contractor Fatalities Soar in Iraq

New numbers show soaring increases in civilian casualties, even as the troop presence rises

May 19, 07 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Private contractors have been killed  in Iraq in record numbers this year, the New York Times reports, as the deployment of U.S. forces in outside the Green Zone amps up the danger for both soldiers and civilians. Through March, there were at least 146 killed, compared to 224 troops... More »

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Iraq • insurgents • troop surge • Green Zone • civilian casualties • Iraq war

Eight Dead
In Bombing
of Iraqi Parliament

Suspected suicide bomber was
bodyguard of Sunni MP

Apr 12, 07 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eight people, including three lawmakers, were killed and at least 30 wounded when a suicide bomber eluded the normally heavy security around the Green Zone and  denonated an explosion in the cafeteria of the Iraqi parliament. Officials believe the culprit was the bodyguard of a Sunni legislator not among the... More »

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Iraq • War on Terror • Middle East • terrorism • Sunni • Shiite • insurgents • Iraqi Parliament • Green Zone • bombing • US Army • al-Qaeda

Explosion Rocks Iraqi Parliament

Blast in Green Zone, killiing two MPs, comes hours after bridge attack

Apr 12, 07 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - An explosion hit a restaurant inside the Iraqi parliament in Baghdad today, killing two members of parliament, wounding dozens and creating chaos in the capitol. The blast occurred when many MPs were having lunch, on a day when parliament was in session. The parliament building is deep within Baghdad's heavily... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • Baghdad • Iraqi Parliament • Green Zone • violence • bombing • Mahmoud Mashhadani

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