The Battle of Mosul.
 

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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. Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia

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.

"broke our friendship off after he became radicalized"

Maybe you can sponsor him for US citizenship

I doubt if he is alive and if he is then he probably joined ISIS.

"I doubt if he is alive and if he is then he probably joined ISIS."

Hope he's DEAD.

His letters did become uglier and uglier. I recall that he would keep his wife and kids in another room whenever I went over their for dinner. Then I was expected to eat everything they served. He would go in the other room and bring in the food.

He had a number of Muslim/Arab University of Denver friends and all of them would have their wives and kids in the same room as us.

This is going to be an incredibly tough battle for Mosul in the upcoming weeks or even months.

One thing that really bothered me about my Iraqi friend back then was all the crude Kurd jokes he would tell.

I just cannot see how he could have survived the last two years in Mosul without joining ISIS. It is possible but seems unlikely.