Green Zone Cafe

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Green Zone Café
U.S. soldiers examining the debris of the Green Zone Café after its destruction
General information
Destroyed	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.^{[citation needed]} 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.

• (September 20, 2004). Lost In The Green Zone Newsweek/MSNBC.
• (October 14, 2004). Five dead in Baghdad green zone blasts Guardian Unlimited.
• (October 14, 2004). U.S. Condemns Deadly Terrorist Bombings in Baghdad October 14 United States Embassy