KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait — A line of heavily armored American military vehicles, their headlights twinkling in the pre-dawn desert, lumbered past the barbed wire and metal gates marking the border between Iraq and Kuwait early Thursday and rolled into history.
Goodbye Iraq: Last U.S. combat brigade heads home
Thursday, August 19, 2010 | 4:55 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:14 p.m. CDT, Thursday, August 19, 2010
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