02 June 2010

Handing Over the Green Zone

The US has handed off security of the Green Zone in a rather quiet ceremony.

Perhaps it is inevitable, the way momentous beginnings have small endings.

The destruction of the Salam Palace was big, wrecked by the Americans as they invaded in 2003 and established the Green Zone. With the yet-to-be-rebuilt palace as its backdrop, the ceremony Tuesday to mark the formal American withdrawal from the last checkpoints it helped staff in the zone was a subdued affair.


By: Brant

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