I received some sad news today from the head Nurse here at JBB. I went to Baghdad with her and a small group of 6 people back in March. I had recently posted some of the pictures from our trip. Unfortunatly, the deputy commander of the Iraqi Air Force that we met on that trip was assassinated yesterday.
Here is the article:
BAGHDAD, April 28, 2011 (AFP) - Gunmen using silenced pistols shot dead
a senior Iraqi general in Baghdad on Thursday, an official said, the
latest in a spate of assassinations of top military and civilian
officials.
The killing of Brigadier General Mohammed Alaa Jassim was the fourth of
a senior Iraqi official in the past week, with at least three others
having narrowly escaped death in that time.
Jassim, the deputy commander of the Iraqi air force's Al-Muthanna base
in central Baghdad, was in his car on a busy thoroughfare in the
Ghazaliyah neighbourhood in the capital's west when he was killed, an
interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The group of us who went to Baghdad had the honor of meeting, having lunch and spending an afternoon with General Mohammed and his Iraqi Air Force troops who were being trained by our medical technicians at Victory Base in Baghdad. General Mohammed was very charismatic, shared a lot of life stories with us in his office while we were there then invited us to come back for lunch with him. He told me I had a beautiful smile and to never stop smiling. He also gave me a china tea cup from him office before we left to remember my trip by. He was trying to instill the US Forces way of life onto his Iraqi Air Force troops and was very passionate about making Iraq a great country. I am thankful to have gotten to meet him, and see the work the U.S. forces and Iraqi Air Force are doing jointly to make Iraq a better place.
I will never forget General Mohammed and thank him so much for everything he did trying to make his country a better place!
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