Washington Post article on Ruweished

Anthony Shahid interviews a Palestinian at Ruweished camp, Samir Abdel-Rahim, for the Washington Post. Robert Breen, the representative of the UNHCR in Jordan says of Ruwesihed: "I can't recall ever having seen this kind of situation in such a bleak environment. They can't go backward, and they aren't moving forward. They're literally stuck in the desert -- no way back, and nowhere to go."Abdel-Rahim's wife recalled the fate of her brother, Marwan Lutfi. Members of a Shiite militia, wearing police uniforms, entered his tailor shop on Baghdad's storied Rashid Street in April 2006, she said. His co-workers told her that the militiamen asked him to come with them for 15 minutes. "He walked with them," she said. For a moment, she was silent, tears welling in her eyes. "He never returned." Four days later, her brother's body was found in the street, covered in acid burns, she said. He had been shot 21 times.