![]() Hassan was a quiet man but as one of the junior officers in the joint US-Afghan surveillance unit he was the most productive. Hassan in April 2010 at FOB Airborne while he briefed me and my police partner, Tim Gilbert from Chicago PD regarding a suspected Taliban IED bomb making facility located near Alasang in Southern Wardak. We worked together on a sensitive mission to root out Taliban operatives, bomb makers, and leadership in Afghanistan. Mohammed Hassan Rahimi, who I served alongside while operating under-cover in Afghanistan in 20. “Khoda Hafiz, Sahib” is Pashto for “Goodbye, Sir” and those words were the last farewell from an Afghan man and police officer, Lt. Images from a faraway land and distant people filled my mind’s eye as I laid there helpless to do anything more. The faint click, click, click metallic sound with each turn of the off-balance fan blades heard in the silence of the room causing me to sink further away into the darkness of my thoughts. I just laid there in bed staring at the ceiling fan turning above me like the rotor blades of a helicopter with its blades endless turning round and round churning and kneading my memories from a decade past. It had travelled 8000 miles to get to me. “Khoda Hafiz, Sahib” was the last transmission sent to me via the IM text message this past weekend. CH-47 Chinook helicopter Kabul, Afghanistan ![]()
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