Iraqis return home to fight Americans

IRAQI construction worker Fayez Kazem gathered his meagre savings and headed for a bus stop in central Amman looking for a ride home. He said that he could not sit in Jordan while Baghdad was under coalition attack.

Kazem was among a dozen Iraqi men who chose late Saturday to leave the security of Jordan and head home to “fight the Americans, because I cannot bear staying here and watching Baghdad burn on television,” he told AFP.

While UN and relief organisations are dug in on the Jordan-Iraq border awaiting a possible influx of Iraqi refugees, none are coming. Instead, a number of Iraqi expatriates are heading back.