(1)Kuwaiti border town bustles with Iraqis

(1)Kuwaiti border town bustles with Iraqis

ABDALI, Kuwait - Iraqi people form lines in the northernmost Kuwaiti border town of Abudali, 50 kilometers north of the capital Kuwait, for their chances to go back across the border into Iraq on Dec. 31.

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