Lt. Gen. Hussein Salem died from a disease April 26, 2014 after a long illness at 11:15 in the city of Istanbul in Turkey, known as one of the finest leaders of the armed forces.
Born in Mosul in 1935 , one of the 33 graduates of the military academy, where he was the first of the session of the Iraqi Military Academy, sent to the British Royal Academy ( Sandhurst ) and graduated in 1956 as a Lieutenant in the infantry. Commander of the eighth ( elite Muthanna forces ) in the Iraqi army in 1980 , then commander of the Second Corps of the Iraqi army in 1983.
He then served as the post of Deputy Chief of Army Staff of the Department, and later served as a military adviser to the commander of the armed forces. To the fact that the late officers in the Iraqi army, the elite Bassel has worked as a professor ( platoon commander ) at the Iraqi Military Academy. Then came as one of the elite officers of the founding of the University of pristine for Higher Military Studies (after rounds in the Supreme Soviet Military Academy ( Vrunza ) , and the Indian Military Academy ( and Ylang Tun ). Took part in the Israeli-Arab wars ( 1967 / 1968 / 1969 ) , and Yom Kippur War in October 1973 AD , the war in the north and Iran-Iraq war.