Before Mohammad Dallah fled his home in Ghouta in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb, he sealed a band of brothers pact with two elder siblings.
After an arduous trek through his war-torn country, the 22-year old reached the vast Jordanian refugee camp Zaatari on Sunday but his mood was one of bitter disappointment.
He proclaimed himself trapped as he squinted against the harsh glare of the sunlight on the grey gravel flint of the camp. News that President Barack Obama had put military intervention on hold pending Congressional approval was a hammer blow.
Showing an awareness of international policy that belied the destitution of a newly arrived refugee, he called for the Nobel Prize committee to relieve the US president of his 2009 peace prize.>br />
"America has a responsibility to launch strikes to prevent the killing by Assad. Obama has a Nobel Prize but he does not deserve it because he has not responded to so many deaths," he said. » | Damien McElroy, Zaatari, Jordan | Monday, September 02, 2013
