shias army and the developed arabs. .. i ve spoken to a few people who work in the green zone and the way they describe it sound like an american compound. they have their american bars and they have their own parties and don t fill out in the city. the kind of security, the u.s. embassy, so i guess my question is what exactly comprises the green zone and what is going on there? if there is no occupation what is can you clarify? the green zone has changed over the years. initially, when the americans came and they took over at neighborhood which used to be where the iraqi government was based. didn t have any walls around it but as the security situation deteriorated they built higher and higher wealth and increase security until it became very difficult for anybody to come and that wasn t in the iraqi government or somehow working with the americans or the foreigners. but the americans have ceded authority to the iraqi is over a year ago and they really reduce their nu