It is with a heavy heart and deep sadness I need to inform you that our dear colleague and friend Shu lost his battle with NSCLC and passed away yesterday morning.

我怀着无比沉痛的心情通知大家，我们的好同事，好朋友，张树忠博士，因患肺癌，医治无效，于昨日清晨去世。

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But that doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague.

但那并没使我们跟这么一位亲爱的朋友、信任的同事告别来得容易一些。

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The journalist in question, Tareq Ayoub, is somebody who also worked for CNN at one point, a very dear colleague.

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Thank you to Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington and my dear colleague, and his wife Marisol for flying in from Washington to be here.

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