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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