US Builds 'Legal Green Zone' In Iraq To Protect Judges

The Rule of Law Complex

In Baghdad, Justice Behind the Barricades

NY Times Michael Gordon July 29, 2007 09:42 PM
BAGHDAD, July 26 -- In a city plagued by suicide bombers and renegade militias, the Americans and the Iraqi government have turned to an unusual measure to help implant the rule of law: they have erected a legal Green Zone, a heavily fortified compound to shelter judges and their families and secure the trials of some of the most dangerous suspects.
The Rule of Law Complex, as it is known by the Iraqi government, is in the Baghdad neighborhood of Rusafa...
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