Al Qaseera died suddenly , at age 42 . An Iraq native , he was a longtime member of CNN 's Baghdad bureau . Within hours of the news of his passing , my Facebook feed and email in-box were inundated by photographs and recollections , anecdotes and tributes . ' He fled the country in 2006 after receiving death threats . He was just weeks away from American authorities .
Al Qaseera died suddenly , at age 42 . An Iraq native , he was a longtime member of CNN 's Baghdad bureau . He fled the country in 2006 after receiving death threats . He was just weeks away from American authorities .