Alaska to Iraq

Daily News reporter Rich Mauer is on special assignment for six weeks to the McClatchy Newspapers Baghdad bureau. For Mauer, who has reported on politics, the oil industry, military and other topics in his 23 years at the Daily News, it is a return to a region he covered as a much younger free-lancer in 1981-2, including the civil war in Lebanon. In this blog, he'll provide snapshots from his reporting.


About me

Joshua Ferguson

I joined the Army in 1996 and my position is as a forward observer. My dad was in the Air Force and I'm the oldest of four with one brother and two sisters. My wife is Danielle, and we have three young children, J.J., 5 in June, Corinne, 3 in July, and little Madeline, 1 this month. My goal is to complete a full 20 years in the military, and then retire to become a teacher at the elementary or high school levels.

FEATURE STORY

New life & limbs

Read reporter George Bryson's account of how Ferguson ended up on his way back to Walter Reed.

Archive

The Pumpkin in the Pothole - 4/6/2007 4:31 pm

Catch - 4/6/2007 1:35 pm

Car Bomb - 2/24/2007 9:42 am

Our Bloggers - 2/21/2007 12:48 am

Southern Cooking - 2/20/2007 1:30 pm

Battlefield Circulation - 2/20/2007 10:36 am

Soldier of the Month - 2/19/2007 6:34 am

Night vision - 2/16/2007 12:29 pm

Base Tour - 2/16/2007 9:53 am

You always lose the good ones - 2/13/2007 8:36 am

Artillery - 2/7/2007 12:38 am

Kalsu: No picnic - 2/7/2007 12:20 am

FOB Kalsu - 2/6/2007 6:30 am

The Dedication - 2/4/2007 7:16 am

Focused Engagement Strategy - 2/3/2007 6:42 am

The Green Zone - 1/29/2007 6:51 am

US helicopter down - 1/28/2007 1:57 am

Days will reveal what you conceal - 1/27/2007 4:59 am

Early Cabin Fever - 1/25/2007 1:01 am

Arriving in Baghdad - 1/23/2007 10:13 am

One day to go - 1/22/2007 4:10 am

The Cuban doctor - 1/21/2007 1:15 pm

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Al-Alusi and his sons

Posted by mauer

Posted: January 29, 2007 - 5:51 am

Al-Alusi and his sons

Mithal al-Alusi shows a picture of his murdered sons to McClatchy Iraq bureau chief Leila Fadel.


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