This was my best friend from when I was at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management in 1983-1984. He was a librarian at the University of Mosul and went back there in 1984. We corresponded for a few years but mutually broke our friendship off after he became radicalized by the propaganda machine of Saddam Hussein.
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If he survived the various evils that have held onto Mosul, I do wish he makes it out of the latest struggle. I doubt if we can renew any kind of friendship though after what he must have seen and probably did.