Malik Al-kasid's truck leads a caravan of relatives as many villagers turned out to welcome him home on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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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