News Tribune reporter Sean Cockerham and The Olympian photographer Tony Overman covered local troops in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, for several weeks in Sept.-Oct. 2006. For news stories and photographs, visit our Military section
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FOB Marez, Mosul __ Fort Lewis soldiers doing counter-IED work in the streets of Mosul say there is a strange rumor among the locals.
Apparently people are saying that the Americans are planting the IED’s themselves to justify staying in Iraq longer. When pressed by Fort Lewis troops, Iraqis tend to admit they know this isn’t true. But somebody keeps spreading the rumor around anyway.
Fort Lewis soldiers I’ve talked to find it amusing that people think they are doing things to stay in Iraq. They’d like nothing more than to finish this and go home to the U.S.
-- Sean Cockerham
