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...aftermath of the invasion, a heavily guarded and internationally controlled Green Zone was cordoned off from the rest of Baghdad to protect foreign diplomats and Iraqi politicians from the frequent suicide bombs and heavy violence plaguing the city...
...Many have said that the Green Zone isolates these officials and that the journalists, who remain within the confines of the guarded area, risk detaching themselves from the rest of Baghdad...
...people have the conception that all the journalists are within the Green Zone, and that’s not necessarily true,” Paley said...
...barriers around Baghdad They're concrete walls like on the western bank. Areas cut from areas. It's not a very nice view to look at. You see all the people behind the barriers. Even in the area of the green zone, there are concrete barriers so high you wouldn't believe it. Probably about 3 or 4 meters. When you see this, you don't feel welcome. They wouldn't give you the impression that things would be good. Segregation of the areas won't give...
...fact, one of the things that happened when they left Iraq, my parents, my mother, she didn't even go to the house that we were living in - the one that I left - because the area, al Dora, is so full of insurgents, it's almost no-man zone. No one can go there. So they left Iraq not even going to the house that they used to live in with everything there. They just left it. It was that dramatic. They just drove in a car and left. Now my five-member family lives in three countries. I haven...