Talk:Green Zone

message: AHA! To whoever at CentCom who has been arguing against the existence of this article: NBC Nightly News just explicitally stated that the President was in the Green Zone today. Right there. If NBC is able to state this on national TV without being hounded, then so can we. Linuxbeak (AAAA!) 22:34, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  THERE: RIGHT THERE 

message: Anyone know what life behind the walls of the Green Zone is like? I've heard of sex slaves, prostitutes, olympic size swimming pools etc. Some features of the green zone should be added to this article.
:Unknown, yes, yes. But you didn't hear it from me... NetSerfer 02:26, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone know the truth? 

message: Green Zone article is severely outdated.
I've been to the Green Zone MANY times.  There are rumors of everything, but I have never seen an Olympic sized pool there, although the Embassy does have a smaller pool with a diving board.  
The Green Zone has been officially re-named the International Zone.Matt Sanchez 04:35, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Olympic pool had a cracked foundation and was sitting next to what is now the PX and directly where the BlackWater compound is located; it was not in use upon our arrival. I watched it get torn down during the end of 2004.  It was officially re-named the International Zone way back in the beginning of 2005. Lightertack (talk) 18:36, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: The notion that  the IZ is also called 'Emerald City' is nothing more than some one trying to push the importance of a book. I lived ther for 3 solid years; the same time Rajiv was there. I read about half of that book before I had to put it down in disgust. It is not a peer reviewed book. It is a 1st person original opinion piece with huge swaths of fiction in there. Several instances he describes completely wrong that myself and coworkers were present for...events that he could not have been present for unless he was a contractor with valid security ID's.
My notation on this is, or course, 1st person knowledge. However, his entire book is also 1st person, not peer reviewed. 
He is tightly aligned with the Washingtonpost.com site. That site has, over the years, printed completely false stories about the IZ and contractors. One such huge gaffe was the article about a certain company loosing the LOGCAP III contract based on a press release by an Army Spokesperson. None of the info looked right so I contacted the spokesperson and he confirmed that none of his information had anything to do with LC III or LC IV and that he was grossly misconstrued. That story had been picked up worldwide and disseminated as truth - even though it was not. Washingtonpost.com never publicly recalled the fictitious story, (although it has been removed from their archives).
With this simple background, it can easily be said that washingtonpost.com and Mr Chandrasekaran cannot be considered valid sources of factual information...much less giving that partial work of fiction the title of bibliography.  Perhaps it would be more suited as a reference in wikimedia. Lightertack (talk) 20:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography and Rajiv Chandrasekaran - not a source

message: I don't think that Tom Clancy's endwar has anything to do with the green zone 203.87.45.25 (talk) 07:00, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endwar