| Green Zone Café | |
| Image Alt: | Handful of U.S. soldiers looking at the remains of a concrete rubble and twisted metal |
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| Destruction Date: | 2004-10-14 |
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. It also offered alcohol and hookahs.[1]
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.
