Friday February 8, 2008
Angelina Jolie visits the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq Feb. 7.
REUTERS/James Deady/U. S. Department of Defense/HO /Landov
A pregnant Angelina Jolie joined U.S. Military in central Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone on Thursday.
Jolie, 32 — who is on a refugee fact-finding mission — also met with officials from the United Nations and the U.S. embassy.
"She's here in her official capacity to talk to government officials, the military and the United Nations about Iraq's refugees and displaced persons," Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. envoy to Baghdad, told Reuters.
In an interview with CNN this morning, Jolie — who is not traveling with beau Brad Pitt or her children — said she felt compelled to come to the war-torn region to bring attention to the plight of refugees.
“I felt I had to come here because it is very difficult to get answers about the internally displaced people,” she said.
Jolie is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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