Mohammed Siddeh

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In this Friday, Oct. 25, 2013 photo, Mohammed Siddeh, 52, at his workshop in Russeifa, outside Amman, Jordan, holds a picture of his son, Abdullah Siddeh, with the boy's name inscribed on the print in Arabic. On his last day as an ordinary teenager, Abdullah kept to his daily routine: He filled in for his father at the small family grocery in the afternoon, asked his mother at home about dinner and then played soccer with friends at the nearby high school. After the game, the 17-year-old slipped out of his hometown in central Jordan. Six months later, Mohammed got a phone call from Syria. His son had blown himself up in a rebel attack on a police station in Syrian capital of Damascus, the unknown man on the line told him. Mohammed said he asked the man how he could bring his son’s remains home for burial. The reply: "There is no body." (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)