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WESTERN ASSET/CLAYMORE INFLATION-LINKED
OPPORTUNITIES & INCOME FUND

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Annual Meeting Proxy Card				C0123456789		12345

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A		Proposals

The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote FOR each nominee.		+

1. Election of Class I Trustees

For

Withhold

For

Withhold

01 - NICHOLAS DALMASO

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o

02 - MICHAEL LARSON

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o

The Board of Trustees unanimously recommends a vote AGAINST Proposal 2.

2. Shareholder Proposal		For		Against		Abstain
The shareholders ask the Trustees to take the steps necessary to merge the Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (WIW) into the Western Asset Inflation Indexed Plus Bond Portfolio (WAIIX), an open-end fund, or otherwise enable shareholders to exchange WIW shares, valued at net asset value (NAV), for shares in WAIIX.		o		o		o

With discretionary power upon such other matters as may properly come
before the meeting or any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof.

THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED AS SPECIFIED. IF NO SPECIFICATION IS MADE, THIS PROXY WILL BE VOTED FOR THE ELECTION
AS CLASS I TRUSTEES OF THE NOMINEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND AGAINST THE SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL.

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Change of Address — Please print new address below.		Comments — Please print your comments below.

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WESTERN ASSET/CLAYMORE INFLATION-LINKED OPPORTUNITIES & INCOME FUND

Dear Shareholder,

Please take note of the important information enclosed with this Proxy Ballot. Your vote counts, and you are strongly encouraged to exercise your right to vote your shares.

Please mark the boxes on this proxy card to indicate how your shares will be voted. Then sign the card and return your proxy vote in the enclosed postage paid envelope. Your vote must be received prior to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, originally scheduled to be held on May 27, 2008, now scheduled to be held on June 30, 2008.

Thank you in advance for your prompt consideration of this matter.

Sincerely,

Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund

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COMMON SHARES
ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS - June 30, 2008

THIS PROXY IS SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
WESTERN ASSET/CLAYMORE INFLATION-LINKED OPPORTUNITIES & INCOME FUND

The undersigned, revoking all prior proxies, hereby appoints R. Jay Gerken, Melissa J. Nguyen and Nicholas Dalmaso, and each of them, attorneys and proxies of the undersigned, each with full power of substitution, to attend the Annual Meeting of the Shareholders of Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund, a Massachusetts business trust (the “Fund”), originally scheduled to be held on May 27, 2008, now scheduled to be held at 2455 Corporate West Drive, Lisle, Illinois, on June 30, 2008, at 3:00 p.m., Central time, and at any adjournment(s) or postponement(s) thereof, and thereat to vote as indicated all common shares of beneficial interest of the Fund which the undersigned would be entitled to vote if personally present with respect to the matters listed on the reverse, which are more fully described in the Notice of Meeting and Proxy Statement of the Fund, receipt of which is acknowledged by the undersigned.