US paranoid and isolated as Green Zone policy fails
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=533058
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
19 June 2004
An Iraqi friend, who feared for his life because he was close to the
Americans, used to live inside the Green Zone, the heavily protected
area in central Baghdad where the US-led Coalition Provisional
Authority (CPA) has its headquarters. One day he fell into
conversation with an American soldier guarding one of the gates. The
soldier said he was of Iraqi origin and could speak Arabic. He added
that security was not quite as tight as it looked since prostitutes
were regular visitors to the zone.
My friend, a little alarmed, decided to investigate. He went to a
house which was being used as a brothel. He says: "In the toilet I
found that the women were writing pro-Baath party, anti-American and
patriotic slogans with their lipstick on the mirrors." Their clients
could not tell what they had written because it was in Arabic.
Patrick Cockburn
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