Green Zone Cafe
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The Green Zone Café was a restaurant in the northeast corner of the Green Zone (International Zone) in Baghdad, Iraq. The restaurant was housed in a fabric and metal-frame building established in the parking lot of a former filling station. It was a popular and successful business, primarily serving the Western inhabitants of the Green Zone and featuring Arab cuisine.{{Citation needed|date=April 2025}} It also offered alcohol and hookahs.{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Scott |date=September 20, 2004 |title=Lost in the Green Zone |url=http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5973273/site/newsweek/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040912111236/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5973273/site/newsweek/ |archive-date=September 12, 2004 |work=Newsweek}}
On October 14, 2004, the restaurant was destroyed, one patron was killed, and five wounded by a backpack bomb. The restaurant reopened briefly a year later, along with a liquor store that was primarily patronized by security contractors in October 2005, but was closed when the Iraqi government confiscated the property.
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External links
- (September 20, 2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20040912111236/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5973273/site/newsweek/ Lost In The Green Zone] Newsweek/MSNBC.
- (October 14, 2004). [https://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1327383,00.html Five dead in Baghdad green zone blasts] Guardian Unlimited.
- (October 14, 2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20060502195612/http://iraq.usembassy.gov/iraq/041014_bomb.html U.S. Condemns Deadly Terrorist Bombings in Baghdad October 14] United States Embassy
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Category:Coffeehouses and cafés in Baghdad
Category:Former buildings and structures in Iraq
Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 2004
Category:2005 disestablishments in Iraq