The Associated Press has an article talking about the Greeen Zone, an important area in Baghdad, Iraq, used for public officials, diginitaries, foreign contractors and other persons of importance.  The Green Zone is designed to be kept safer than the rest of the city, in order to ensure the safety of the important people who are there, though, as the article points out, the area can still be mighty dangerous.

On Thursday, the State Department instructed all embassy personnel not to leave reinforced structures. A memo sent to the staff says employees are required to wear helmets and other protective gear if they must venture outside and strongly advises them to sleep in blast-resistant locations instead of trailers.

For the fourth day this week, suspected Shiite militiamen sent rockets and mortar rounds into the Green Zone in central Baghdad. Thursday's volleys began in the morning and came in about once an hour well into nightfall.

What do diplomats and other do to stay safe?  They sleep on Military Cots!

Many diplomats and others prefer to bunk on cots in the stone and marble grandeur of Saddam Hussein's former palace that now holds U.S. Embassy offices.

Yes, these diplomats have discovered an easy way to stay safe in an unsafe world.  Sleeping cots provide somewhere to hang their heads after a hard day, with the diplomats snugly resting in their camping cots and dreaming of being anywhere but Iraq.  Their comfortable, portable cots provide a small bit of solace when they need it most.

If you found yourself in war-torn Iraq, would you get out a folding cot and snore peacefully all night?  Or would the general mayhem outside prevent you from enjoying your travel cot?  All I know is, General Mayhem would be a great name for a band, or a wrestler.