Iraqis Want U.S. Out of Green Zone

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 8, 2004, 2:04 AM EDT

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- It's touted as the safest place in Baghdad, but even the thousands of normal Iraqis whose homes wound up in the U.S.-occupied Green Zone want the Americans to move out and the fortress dismantled.

"We want and demand that the Americans evacuate the Green Zone because it contains Iraqi state and private properties," Baghdad Gov. Ali al-Haidari told The Associated Press. "We believe that Iraqi authorities should regain control of this area."

While President Bush insists that sovereignty was returned to Iraq three months ago, 10-square-kilometers in the heart of the Iraqi capital along the banks of the Tigris river -- the site of several Saddam Hussein-era palace complexes and some of the city's finest real estate -- remains U.S. territory.

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"It's a world within a world," said a Western diplomat who has only left the Green Zone twice in three months. "I imagine there are some people here who never meet Iraqis."


http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-iraq-green-zone,0,384529.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines


Iraqis want US out of green zone? It seems that most Iraqis want the US out of the whole country. Gives new meaning to the phrase, Yankees go Home.

[ogradda]

1. gee i cant imagine why they'd be so ungracious

:eyes:

[leftchick]

2. yeah well I can think of one criminal who hasn't met Iraqis...

that would be negroponte the US Ambassador. They must be crazy if they think the US will give up his new home in the Green Zone!