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| Jordan Says No Organized Crime in Syrian Refugee Camp |
| 2013-08-14 |
| [An Nahar] Jordan denied on Tuesday a U.N. report that organized crime networks operate in the country's Zaatari camp, which hosts 130,000 Syrian refugees. "There is no such thing as organised crime in Zaatari; there are petty crimes and petty theft," Brigadier Waddah Hmud, head of the Syrian refugee department, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Organised crime needs planning in advance and this we did not see in Zaatari." The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on August 6 that "both organized crime networks and Syrian opposition groups operate in the camp and use it to pursue their financial and political objectives." |
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