Talk:Al-Zaatari Camp

Intro to Zaatari Camp
Jordan has taken in relatively few Syrians, at least per capita, compared to, say, Lebanon, or say, other parts of Syria, often in succession. But the ones who do settle in Jordan tend to be in one big community that's the biggest one anywhere. I just read about it today in a recent issue of Time. I'd like to start a page with that, and starting the section. The article apparently isn't on their site. It's based on black and white photos from inside the camp-cum-city. I did find this:
 * Za’atari: the Rapid Growth of the Largest Camp for Syrian Refugees - Satellite image of the whole place. Might be of interest. Might be carefully screened and incomplete by now, for all we know.

One woman there says her husband was shot by "uniformed men." There was another interviewee I wanted to quote, still mortified by seeing a 90-year-old man hit with a meat cleaver. He blames the regime and its supporters. He's a candy vendor with young kids, and says he wants to return to the revolution soon. Then, he promises, if they succeed, we'll start seeing the real massacres. Lovely. Wish I could just show it.

Anyway, point of interest to me about this places include the attitude of those who live here, how that attitude is maintained/how neighbors relate, what variety of flags are displayed around, etc. and what they plan and do about Syria's future while there. I hear some of them are being shaped up into fighters before going back in, kind of like the camps in Turkey. --Caustic Logic (talk) 13:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

Military Training Base?

 * Sarina tweets:
 * 1500 gunmen,of al-Zaatari camp residents- #Jordan, were trained for fighting & using weapons to join nearly 50,000 others existing in #Syria

Recruiting: known: Syrian Rebels Illegally Recruiting From Jordan Refugee Camp Time, Nov. 11, 2013