Youssef Salim had been hearing rumors for weeks that an American movie was about to start filming in his trash-strewn neighborhood on the outskirts of this bustling Moroccan city.

But it wasn't until he was walking to work one morning this spring, when he saw a wrecked tank burning in the middle of the road surrounded by men in U.S. military uniforms, that Mr. Salim realized his neighborhood was supposed to be war-torn Baghdad. The Americans were making yet another movie about Iraq -- and Morocco had again been cast as Iraq.

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