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Learning a new way to wage war in Colorado

COUNTER-INSURGENCY US troops are being prepared for their testing mission in Iraq on the dusty plains of southeastern Colorado, amid mock Iraqi villages and villagers

AP , PINON CANYON MANEUVER SITE, COLORADO

In the investigation there were allegations that soldiers planted a weapon next to the boy. Other soldiers complained that trainers had stashed guns in a mock mosque.

It was only a drill, but in the real world, a mistake like that could be a disaster.

"Something that small can have a devastating effect," McWilliams said. "The troops here understand it."

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