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Iraqis celebrate departure of US soldiers, wary about future

Violence continues after last troops cross into Kuwait

By Sameer N. Yacoub
Associated Press / December 19, 2011
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Even as Iraqis celebrated the departure of the last American troops yesterday, the dangers left behind after nearly nine years of war were on full display. Politicians feuded along the country’s potentially explosive sectarian lines and the drumbeat of deadly violence went on. The last US convoy rumbled out of Iraq across the border into Kuwait around sunrise under a shroud of secrecy to prevent attacks on the departing troops.

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