[justshutupandtakeit]

I hope this was revealed with the permission of the Mayor. For there is great danger he will be "the late mayor." With that crusader imagery he likely is Christian doubly dangerous.

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This is a picture of Mayor Najim Abdullah Abid Al-Jibouri and commander of coalition forces, Gen. George Casey, high-fiving children in the streets of Tal' Afar.

He doesn’t seem to be hiding his appreciation of our troops.

I don't know if the mayor wrote that letter in English or if that is the translators version. The word "lionhearted" has entered our vocabulary, meaning "extraordinarily courageous." I don't know if either the mayor or the translator was conciously aware of the word's etymology in English.