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Peter Brierley

The coffin of Lance Corporal Shaun Brierley, of Britain's 212 Signal Squadron, who was killed on duty in the Gulf on March 30, is carried from a Boeing C-17 aircraft at RAF Brize Norton in Oxforshire, Britain, April 8, 2003.

For parents of a fallen British soldier, long-simmering rage after a report condemning the Iraq War

Conflict

Christine and Peter Brierley cannot forget the Iraq War, or forgive Tony Blair. The former prime minister lead a war charge that ended up killing their son, Shaun, a lance corporal who died serving in the war in 2003.

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