When we first arrived in Jordan, we met with former neighbors of CPT's apartment in Baghdad.  Hakim had been accosted and beaten in an attempted kidnapping and soon after his wife and daughter were kidnapped, robbed.  and then released.  They also complained about the lack of electricity, intermittent water, and, of course, the ongoing violence.

The family kept repeating the system was better under Saddam.  Hakim yearns to return to family, friends, and his livelihood although his wife vows never to return.  "I don't know who is who.  Who is my friend?  Is he a criminal?  A kidnapper?"  When I asked her if Jordan was now her home, she looked at me with a mixture of anger and sadness and said, "I have no home."