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Photo: Stryker memorial

...Fallon, Nev., in the Northern Lights Chapel on Fort Wainwright. The two pilots of the 6th Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, Task Force 49 died when their helicopter came in contact with wires and experienced a hard landing in Mosul, Iraq.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112608/sta_360107353.shtml
Sunni protesters dig in as tensions flare in Iraq

...cities with large Sunni communities, including Samarra, Tikrit and Mosul.Abdul-Hameed Younis Hamouda, a 60-year-old tribal leader and one of the organizers in Mosul, acknowledges that the government has addressed some of the protesters...

http://juneauempire.com/adam-schreck/2013-02-20/sunni-protesters-dig-tensions-fl
How can I close the house of God?

...returning in 2006 to serve as pastor of a parish in the city of Mosul. He willingly returned despite the danger to himself. He returned...million people in 2003 to fewer than 250,000. Once back in Mosul, Muslim extremists threatened to kill Fr. Ragheed unless he...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-03-18/how-can-i-close-house-god
Opinion
Many Iraqis who helped US still awaiting visas

...Iraqis who helped Americans here in Iraq. I have worked with the U.S. Army as a linguist (translator) for 17 months in Mosul, which is one of the most dangerous places in Iraq. I have been threatened by terrorists many times because of my job and...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-09-20/many-iraqis-who-helped-us-still-await
Opinion
Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad

...troops died in a noncombat incident. On April 10, 2009, six U.S. troops died - five in combat in the northern city of Mosul and one north of Baghdad in a noncombat related incident. According to an Associated Press tally, 4,459 American service...

http://juneauempire.com/rebecca-santana/2011-06-06/five-us-soldiers-killed-baghd
Alaska National Guard crew honored in Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq - Aviators, Army soldiers and civilians...Forward Operating Base Q-West, south of Mosul, is the Iraq home of the battalion. The...They were stationed at different bases in Mosul. Chief Warrant Officer Scott Frickson remembered...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011306/sta_20060113013.shtml
News
Murkowski visits troops in Iraq

...Wednesday, the governor had lunch with troops stationed in Mosul. Tuesday he met with soldiers near the Iraq-Kuwait border...was a big day," Haller said. Murkowski visited units from Mosul, including about 60 soldiers from the 207th Aviation Battalion...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062206/sta_20060622010.shtml
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Army makes clearer how soldier died

...raid of a terror cell in Iraq - not caught in an ambush as Alaska military officials initially reported, an Army commander in Mosul said Tuesday. Pvt. Christopher Alcozer, 21, was fatally shot by an insurgent after 150 U.S. forces and 35 Iraqi soldiers...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112305/sta_20051123007.shtml
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Northwest Digest

...Wednesday in Iraq, a military spokesman said. The soldier was killed by small-arms fire while conducting a mounted patrol in Mosul, said U.S. Army Alaska Public Affairs spokesman Maj. Kirk Gohlke. The identity of the soldier, who was assigned to the...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071306/sta_20060713009.shtml
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Fort Wainwright Stryker Brigade to remain in Iraq

...Shields said speaking by teleconference from Mosul. "We will stay as long as the mission...and Iraqi police in the northern town of Mosul. Since being sent to Iraq in August 2005...did not know if his soldiers would leave Mosul for Baghdad. "We don't know exactly...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072806/sta_20060728016.shtml
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