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Fear permeates the lives of the Iraqis who remain inside the walls. Some have long since lost their jobs working for contractors or the Army but won't leave the Green Zone because too many of their neighbors and relatives know they worked for the U.S., and they are afraid of being killed. The Iraqis who live here have a simple word, barra, that they use over and over again to refer to the rest of Baghdad outside the Green Zone. It means "out there." If they were anywhere but Iraq, their stories would sound like paranoid delusions...
Pretty soon, the choice may be made for her. The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq claimed in an April 13 statement to have had "support troops" that infiltrated the Green Zone to launch the attack on the parliament cafeteria. As a result, squatters who continue to live in the Green Zone without official permission are now considered an unacceptable security risk. A family that fled the first battle of Fallujah in 2004 was told last week by U.S. military police that by June 1 they will have to leave the hallway they converted into an apartment or they...
...ratcheting up security measures and evicting all nonofficial personnel, the U.S. and Iraqi authorities may be able to restore some of the Green Zone's former impregnability. But there's no guarantee that will last, and it comes at a cost. With the new security restrictions being erected and a bunker mentality increasingly taking hold, the U.S. civilian presence is likely to retreat inward, behind the walls of its new embassy--and even further away from the reality of Iraq's dysfunction...
...shift he comes back, and if there has been a big bombing in Baghdad that day, he calls home. "Every time the media shows something on TV," he says, "I have to call my wife and say it wasn't near me." He feels safe in the Green Zone. "It is written in my karma where I am going to die," he says, "and it's not here...
Harvard was able to minimize the impact of its 28 turnovers by creating havoc as the Wildcats attempted to clear the ball from their defensive zone. Though the Crimson only cleared four out of seven in the second period, UNH cleared 7-14, unacceptable for a trailing team...