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War veterans take on ice climbing

...instantly."Brandon served three tours in Iraq with the U.S. Army. He fought in the violent Sadr City, a district of Baghdad formerly known as Saddam City, where he said one day a group of locals would be your allies and the next day they'd become...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/outdoors/2013-03-07/war-veterans-take-on-ice-climbin
Outdoors

...Muslim world is no less enraged at the United States than when President George W. Bush had to duck shoes hurled at him in Baghdad.But more than three years after President Barack Obama declared in Cairo that he would seek "a new beginning" in U.S...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/ben-feller/2012-09-20
Veterans share experience, insight with students

...displays an American flag, but not just any flag. It was carried by Sgt. 1st Class Ken Felchle during his combat patrols in Baghdad. "That is not any old flag," said Steve Wright, a retired paratrooper, who organizes the annual Veterans Day Assembly...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/community/schools/2011-11-07/veterans-share-experien
Schools
A different perspective: Iraqi woman shares her story with Kenai students

...work as an interpreter for U.S. troops on the streets of Baghdad. On Wednesday, she was working as an interpreter in a very...infantry of the Alaska National Guard, who were stationed in Baghdad from January of 2005 to January of 2006. It was there that...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/092310/new_711242303.shtml
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Soldier honored, remembered with flag, service

...pray for you,'" Judy said. "He asked us to pray for his team members." In 2007, Ben was killed during a mission in Baghdad. The Soldotna Baptist Church, where Tim preaches, hosted a ceremony in remembrance of the soldier on Sunday. Honor and...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-07-18/soldier-honored-remembered-with-flag
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Author, activist Shane Claiborne visits Peninsula

...come to exemplify and caricature the struggles and ironies close to many of our hearts." In March 2003, as bombs dropped on Baghdad, Iraq as part of former-president George Bush's Shock and Awe campaign, local Iraqis received help from Claiborne and...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-07-13/author-activist-shane-claiborne-visi
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Opinion: In the pages of a newspaper, a world lost

...reported eight civilians were killed and three were wounded in a bombing by British and American planes 100 miles southeast of Baghdad; British officials said they believed six Iraqi soldiers were killed. And there is the story of an attack on Ahmed Shah Massoud...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2011-09-10/opinion-in-the-pages-of-a-newspaper-
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Capt. Benjamin David Tiffner

...Tiffner, 31, of West Virginia, died Nov. 7, 2007, in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when he was struck by an improvised...was struck by an IED while conducting a combat operation in Baghdad, Iraq. He was 31. Capt. Tiffner was buried with full military...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/010608/obits_4024.shtml
Obituaries
Results not always predictable

...speech aboard an aircraft carrier, to a Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad, to Tuesday night's speech to troops in North Carolina...many. That Thanksgiving, Bush made an unannounced trip to Baghdad to dine with U.S. troops. An image of a beaming Bush...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/070105/oped_0701ope002.shtml
Opinion
Soldier with Soldotna ties killed in Iraq

...Tiffner A soldier with ties to Soldotna was killed Wednesday in Iraq. Capt. Benjamin Tiffner, 31, of West Virginia, died in Baghdad of wounds suffered when his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device during the course of conducting a ground convoy...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/110907/news_3352.shtml
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