Rug Road Bazaar

 

 

 

Rug Road looking from the east end

 

 

 

 

A rug shop

 

 

 

 

Another, using the street

 

 

 

 

Also selling the latest DVDs and CDs

 

 

 

 

Paintings shop

 

 

 

 

Saddam posters and money

 

 

 

 

Another art shop

 

 

 

 

Inlaid wooden boxes and brassware

 

 

 

 

The far (west) end of Rug Road

 

 

 

 

Haggling over an ugly Persion carpet

 

 

On October 14, 2004 several Iraqis successfully entered the Green Zone with backpacks full of explosives. They placed these bombs in the Rug Road bazaar and in the nearby Green Zone Cafe, a popular outdoor snack bar. Both bombs were detonated simultaneously, killing ten and injuring over 20 other persons. These were the first bombs used in the Green Zone. The Rug Road and the Green Zone Cafe were permanently closed from that date on, cited as being security risk areas.

 

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