Sovereign, Sort Of

摘要

Two new flags flying over the Green Zone, the fortified swathe of central Baghdad on the west bank of the Tigris river, symbolise a power shift-on paper, a fundamental one-from the United States to Iraq that took place on New Year's Day. The Iraqi colours once again flutter outside Saddam Hussein's old presidential palace, for nearly six years the American-led coalition's seat of power. Down the road, still in the zone, the Stars and Stripes now flies over the world's largest American embassy, which opened officially on January 5th.