IRAQ: A little color in Baghdad’s Green Zone

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Sometimes, walking through the Green Zone in Baghdad is a strange experience. You will see Hash runners — the British expatriate running and drinking club present in far-flung places around the world — jogging by the speeding convoys, sucking in the dust and passing a landscape of bombed-out villas and residences now inhabited by security contractors and politicians.

The Peruvian security guards manning checkpoints to enter the road to the parliament talk about Frank Sinatra and will sing a verse of ‘New York, New York.’

Everyone loves Ol’ Blue Eyes.

— Ned Parker in Baghdad