How to name fictional towns in Iraq

Those of you who write JAG or NCIS fanfiction will sooner or later have to name fictional towns in Iraq. There's Baghdad, that's the capital, and even despite our bombing the bejesus out of it, it still lacks that truly rural flavor some of you may want for your fanfics. The problem with picking a real town out of a map is that a soldier or Marine who's actually been there could nitpick your fanfic to death.

So what you do is invent a town in Iraq with the necessary parameters. It has one well, a few camels, whatever you need for your story. What do you call your fictional town? They've had that problem on JAG, and here's their solution: put the letters A, F, I, K, T into a hat. (You can put I in twice if you want). Shake the hat a little, then draw out the letters. In whatever order the letters come out, that's your town. What if you get the three consonants in a row? Just shift one of them out of the way. That's how JAG's writers came up with Tikifa for the episode in which the SecNav is tried in an international court, and Tifka for the episode in which Pfc. Smithfield gets killed and Harm fails at making Bush's "stay the course" doctrine sound any less stupid.