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Pets In Iraq – Excerpt from Mama & Boris. He was drawn to their innocence, and their pure emotions. So when Peter calls and excitedly tells us stories about a small pack of five dogs that has started coming around the base—a mother and her four pups—I laugh and think, of course he has pets in Iraq.

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government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S.