Mohammed Abbas is a Baghdad-based correspondent for Reuters. He was born in Basra, Iraq, but emigrated with his parents to Britain when he was one year old in 1980. In the following story, slugged WITNESS/BASRA-RETURN and headlined 'WITNESS-Basra family meeting shocks and awes Iraqi-Briton', he describes his experience returning to Basra and meeting family for the first time.

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