A young boy wets the ground near the motheff's, traditional long houses, so the sand doesn't blow on the guests during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003...The Al-kasid family fled Iraq after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, spent 3 years in Rafa, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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