Rug Road Bazaar
Rug Road looking West
One of several rug shops
Paintings shop
Saddam posters and money
Another art shop
Inlaid wooden boxes and brassware
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.