FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — In a story June 5 about an Iraqi-born man who worked as an interpreter for American forces in Iraq and later became an officer in the U.S. military, The Associated Press misidentified the location of the Abdulla Mizead’s first interaction with U.S. soliders as Najaf. The correct location is Baghdad.

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