False Tips Slow Searches For Missing Soldiers

The New York Times DAMIEN CAVE May 18, 2007 02:53 PM
The stories have come in by the dozens.
One man swore that he had personally buried two Americans. As soldiers quickly began digging, another man came up and asked why they were unearthing his cousin.
Other Iraqis have said they saw the Americans walking, encircled by their captors, and still more have fingered people who they thought might have something to do with the ambush on Saturday that killed four American soldiers and one Iraqi.

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