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The student newspaper at Southern Illinois University was taken in by an elaborate hoax in which a child, tricked into thinking she was playing a movie role, posed as the daughter of a man serving in Iraq, the publication said Friday.
The tale, which stretched over two years, began to unravel last week when the paper, The Daily Egyptian, heard that the “soldier” had been killed in Iraq and subsequent investigations by the student newspaper and the Chicago Tribune exposed that he didn’t exist.
