The Joint Visitors Bureau, the ‘Rick’s Café’ in Baghdad, Set to Close
WWE) superstars performing for the Coalition troops at Camp Victory, Baghdad (photo: Lias M. Zunzanyika, USAF/Creative Commons)
The hip and happenin’ spot to go in Baghdad, Iraq has been a place known as the Joint Visitors Bureau. It’s part of the sprawling US military base known as Camp Victory. And it’s where American visitors have called home when they’ve spent a few days in the Iraqi capital.
Now the Joint Visitors Bureau is set to shut down at the end of next month. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the New York Times Pentagon correspondent Thom Shanker about his article on the JVB in Friday’s paper.
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