. >> reporter: shaun fox is one of the last left. he was 14 when this war started. he shipped almost everything home. >> i have -- pretty much just got my bag, just a lot of clothes, and i guess the most important thing is my laptop over here, something to keep me sane waiting to go home. >> reporter: before that one more mission. he preps his men to help provide security for today's ceremony. they drive into the city, the only problem the iraqi police are supposed to patrol with never show up. fox can't drive around without them. >> for them it's like why are the americans driving this route, we don't need them, we can do it ourselves. >> reporter: whether that remains true is the major question here. the other question, will tension return, in one area thousands rallied against the united states and iraqi government. the american soldiers fates are clear, they will all be home by christmas. the fate of the country they left isn't so obvious. abc news baghdad. >> just down the parkway from us an army private will have his first military court hearing tomorrow. brad

shaun yancy. >> and i'm brian bolter a. series of rapes in montgomery county through dna. they don't know who the dna belongs to. that could all be about to change. fox 5's paul wagner has the story you'll see first on fox 5. >> d.c. police have known since 2004 the same man who carried out a string of sexual assaults is the same man who killed christine in georgetown in 1998. a string of matches that actually ended in 1998. there have been no matches since and for 14 years, d.c. police and other investigators have tried to find out who this man is and to this date they still don't know. tomorrow morning, the fbi, the montgomery county police, d.c. police, and the u.s. attorney's office will announce a new investigative effort in hopes of finding a man now dubbed the potomac river rapist. everyone living in the washington area in 1998 will likely remember the murder of christine. a biologist from california. she was attacked as she walked along canal road near georgetown university. dragged into the woods, sexually assaulted. investigators wouldn't know the killer was responsible for terrorizing neighborhoods in potomac and bethesda. dna recovered fr