The U.S. has left Iraq — and with it, the memory of the Baghdad
Country Club, the one bar in the heart of the highly fortified
Green Zone. During the worst years of the insurgency,
contractors, aid workers and diplomats …  Beers in Baghdad:
Remembering the World’s Most Dangerous Bar  So, so many Western
visitors to Iraq in the past decade have thrown their heads back
after a near-miss with a roadside bomb and thought, I need a
drink right now. That was where the Baghdad Country Club came
in.  For barely a year, a British former paratrooper known only
as James and his Iraqi fixer, Ajax, ran a bar and grill that
served as a rare Mesopotamian outlet for the Western urge to
answer stress with alcohol. The facade concealed a greenery
nestled inside Baghdad’s secured Green Zone — essentially, a
walled garden within a walled garden. Even stranger, its next-
door neighbor was the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution
in Iraq, a powerful Shiite political party with its own death
squad. They weren’t exactly custome