Lebanon expected to press charges against Australian mother

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Ali al-Amin (centre with his children) Noah (left) ,  and Lahela right),
Ali al-Amin (centre with his children) Noah (left) , and Lahela right),
By PHILIP ISSA, AP
A state prosecutor in Lebanon is expected to file kidnapping charges against an Australian woman, an Australian TV crew, and others Monday for attempting to take the woman’s two children away from her Lebanese ex-husband and bring them back to Australia.

Sally Faulkner, along with four Australians, two Britons, and two Lebanese, was brought into police custody last Thursday after a botched attempt was made to snatch Faulkner’s five-year-old daughter and three-year-old son from their paternal grandmother as she took them to school in Beirut.

Faulkner said her ex-husband, Ali Al-Amin, moved the children to Lebanon without her permission.

The detainees include prominent Australian TV presenter Tara Brown and her crew from Channel Nine TV. A reporter from the station said in an interview broadcast Thursday that the crew was there to cover the story for 60 Minutes.

Michael Brown said it was a “risky operation, a risky story — this desperate Australian mum trying to get her two children home,” but said the crew was prepared for the difficulties.

A judicial official, speaking on the condition of anonymity Monday because he was not authorized to speak publicly, quoted state prosecutor Claude Karam as saying: “Their files will be studied in preparation of charging them in the case regarding the kidnapping of two underage children, in contravention to Lebanese law.”

Sally Faulkner with her children Lahela and Noah. Photo: Facebook
Sally Faulkner with her children Lahela and Noah. Photo: Facebook
The children’s grandmother, Ibtisam Berri, said she and a domestic worker were taking the children to school last Wednesday when two men jumped out of a parked car and took the children away. She said a cameraman was filming the scene from the car.

At least one of the Britons is being held on suspicion that he planned to smuggle the children out of Lebanon on his boat, docked in a private Beirut hotel, police officials said.

The authorities returned the children to Al-Amin, who told a local TV station that he would not sue his former wife. “She is the mother of my children … if I were her I would have done the same,” he told LBC last Thursday.

He told Al Jadeed TV that Faulkner and Australian security agencies knew he was leaving Australia with the children and denied kidnapping them from their mother.

ABC

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278 responses to “Lebanon expected to press charges against Australian mother”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “if I were her I would have done the same” …. Well, he already had. How long was the ‘Lebanon Holiday’ supposed to last, after all? What had he told Australian security agencies? There’s a lot we don’t know about all of this. And non-Lebanese were in school in Beirut? Hell, can’t get one kid born in Tripoli into a school. $

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Tripoli..Tripoli..I think i know look at the ugly vulgar picture, a woman on edge children on edge, look at the sereine cute children with their father..period.
      Non Lebanese? The father is Lebanese..she can come for holiday with her new husband and babie

      1. Do you know all the facts? Was this picture taken during happier times back in Australian? Was it taking last week?

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          I have nothing to tell you. OK?

          1. “The fact is she was with another man before he left”
            What is your point? That has nothing to do with the welfare of the children unless you can prove she was an unfit mother? Having relationships after a break-up are not uncommon and certainly not a crime, well maybe in Lebanon.
            “Keep away from me.”
            Then stop talking to me. You obviously side with the original kidnapper.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You stop i didn’t talk to you. my post was to Drawer .You know, i dislike you i think your not respectful and in the Wrong place, you have different culture and insist on communicating with me when it’s impossible.. you arrogant Raskhara.

          3. He is a kidnapper. He took the children out of the country, with permission, for a holiday- and never brought them back. That is, quite literally, kidnapping.

          4. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Amen!

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Said Chiquita to her Legs

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “The kidnappers took away the children after hitting their grandma on the head, it said, adding that the abductors were filming the operation. Très chic. elderly are very respected in family

    2. Reasonableman Avatar
      Reasonableman

      You only take one side of the story, besides it was a violation of sovereignty, i know lebanese laws are pro male but wheres the sympathy fot the grandmother and the kids??

      Had it been a muslim in a european country things would be much worse.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Kids (assuming they have not been brutilized) love both parents. And the different rolls of each.
        If there was a divorce, then there was a ruling about the kids … courts recognize their rights and try to make it as easy on them as possible. A ruling is legal. So what was the ruling about the sharing?

        1. Reasonableman Avatar
          Reasonableman

          Who knows, thats why i refrain from taking sides and only comment on what i see.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            So putting the incomplete story in here is wrong.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Good night:-) … as Reasonableman says he comments at what he sees, i went further, paying mercenaries to physically attack an elderly woman her children’s grandmother, will not play in her favour.. not in Lebanon.

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Perhaps the usual ‘lip-service’ for an older female would be a ‘play’ for the crowd … notes for a lawyer to use … even Reasonable notes the ‘rules’ for females are horrible, and I have seen it well with the ones I know. Don’t give me the ‘Grandmother’ song. Did anyone worry about a Grandmother’s feelings for the boy permanently brain-damaged by falling lead in a playground? Really? I don’t even think I saw a statement from the Mother – the Father was ‘interviewed’. Is treatment for life supplied for free??
            (one supposes they passed that off as an ‘act of god’ … did we even hear a ‘Sorry’?)
            They bumped Grandma aside as they grabbed the kids … she was swinging her purse at the car as it drove away – didn’t seem damaged except psychologically. And from what I’ve seen, that’s way down on the list of items of ‘care’ for a female in Lebanon.
            The ‘news item’ about the bomb that was targeting an army bus in Tripoli talks about wounded soldiers … and a pic shows firetrucks at the scene putting out a fire. It does not mention the 4 women and their orphan boy who were almost killed when the house wall blew in, or that a whole family history went up in flames, or that they stood on the street for almost 2 days after, until ‘rescued’ by another female who had some sympathy.
            There is no ‘favour’ for a female, even a Grandmother.

          4. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            What really concerns me as a mother is what is he going to tell his 2 children once they grow up and start asking questions. Some people want the mother behind bars with maximum sentence. If she gets that means she will spend 20 years maybe in prison for trying to recover what was taken from her. The children will hate him, the grandparents and the country. The children now will be raised with hatred towards the mother cause she is not there with them and because she tried to “hurt” them by trying to get them back under her love and protection. No grandmother is good enough to raise children unless the mother of course is proven to be incapable of raising her own children. The bullshit we have been served that she has put the children in risk to get retrieve them from that specific area applies also to the father and grandmother they mentioned that the area is patroled by armmed men and it they could of been killed if they start shooting left and right but at the same time 41 years of civil war in Lebanon has killed so many innocent children walking their way to go to school. Now i really like to know how he and his family will explain to those children when they grow up why he took them from their mum and country so he can raise them between bombs and civil wars and cars loaded with explosives.

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Stop pestering with your assumptions: The bullshit we have been served were the father’s words; that she has put the children in risk.(..) in a crowded street someone or the mother or the children could have been killed. Are you going to write an essay?

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            No man or family could have obligated me.. they are very traditional culture.

          7. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            It was the nanny “swinging” a purse..

          8. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, I didn’t see labels in the video .. I change it for you.

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            It was a bad quality video.

          10. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            Not wrong, if it’s facts. It’s how we interprit it.

            Dad says, mother had no problem until payments stopped.
            She says she was duped.

            Besides there is no evidence the journos were even conducting a report, no video no documents.

            Luckily the child recovery agencies were able to provide thr police documented payments by the journos for yhe abduction, otherwise they would have gotten off scotch free. It could’ve been just a payout job, do this give us a story and take this it’s too early to tell.

            And seriously south beirut a hezballah stronghold, wtf there lucky to be alive. The dad is even refusing to press charges.

          11. The is no greater pro zionist tv station in Australia than channel nine.
            Always glorifying Israel.. and calling many innocent muslims in australia terrorists.
            Australian family laws have seen countless many muslim fathers lose their children to injustices.
            I hope the government shows some courage on this one.
            Maximum penalties should apply ,untill the ausiie family laws change.

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Channel 9 Founder, John Godson.
            Six Jewish Companies Control 96% of the World’s Media.. shhh…that’s “anti-Semitic”.

          13. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            If muslims dont like to live in a country with laws protecting them they should go back home why did they move to Australia in first place?

          14. Australia was built mainly on the skills and culture of migrants.
            Muslims made one of the greatest contributions to the country by building the railroad across the continent. A feat that hurt the pride of the anglo saxons and resulted in the murder of the great afghany camel men.
            This is the gratitude you get for your contributions .. but the biggest shame of Australian history is the way the Aborigines were cruelly and systematically slaughtered.
            Thesec same people write the laws which govern Australia . So why shouldnt we challenge the status quo.

          15. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I would say the status quo has changed … That island known in history as a prison for various nefarious types is not quite the same any more. And ’empires’ tended to utilize certain ‘peoples’ when they could get them – Too sad that the indigenous peoples were not seen as possible employees – but there’s a lot of respect for them after Crocodile Dundee.
            In Canada it was Chinese that broke their backs on railway-building. But that opened the country to more immigrants too. No wonder the natives were restless.
            These days, we give them the credit for that, as we know some ‘wrongs’ were done, even to females, by the writing in the history. ‘Change’ never happens fast enough, it seems. and certainly not for ANY when making wars.
            We DO like to think that the concepts of ‘equality’ have advanced us all, in many ways.
            Going backward is not what we should seek as an achievement.
            Now … if we can keep kids from just doing ‘Tweets’ for real information …. hmmm …

          16. Agree that theres improvement , but still a long way to go. Australia still has in its blood very racist and anti islamic elements in it. This is exasperated by the zionist media, and swallowed by a drunken and gullible population .

          17. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            🙂 We all note the lack of real news coverage … but I will state an ounce of a fine Scotch doesn’t stop me from hearing it, if it comes up. If people here rely on a TV for ‘news’ they are mostly bombarded by advertising. It’s almost enough to make one drink.
            But maybe that’s the ‘plot’ ?? ;-/
            Beer is a ‘thirst-quecher’ for yelling at footballers …. ;-)))

          18. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            No improvement bruv, casual racists are just underground.
            Do you recall Dawn Fraser “strayan” female olympian telling tennis star australian born greek nick kyrigos that he should go back to his country??
            Back to greece, where western civilization started LOL!

          19. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            They keep telling us to be ‘aware’ of the local laws when doing the tourist thing.
            One would assume, therefore, that Lebanon has to go by a legal settlement made in Australia. The ‘kidnap idea is simply a stupid move … but probably by the time Leb Courts handle anything, the kids will be 18 and travelling as they wish, if they can find a job to cover the expenses.
            AND western ‘law’ had always favoured the female as the ‘protector’ of the child … it took a lot of work by loving Fathers to have those thoughts changed in Law here. Turns out it was not only males who were the ‘Bad Guys’. We work toward ‘equality’, after all. 😉

          20. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Being the mother doesnt mean automatically you have the right of custody for children. Some fathers are better parents than the mother is. But in this case this is not the case we are not investigating if the mother was a suitable mother to raise those kids.

          21. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            Ahh Australian culture is something to be proud of, it involves kidnapping children from other countries.

            Team straya mayte

          22. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Yes if someone kidnaps my kids even if he is the father i will go all over the world to find him and get my children back. And i wont settle till i see him suffer for all the pain he has caused to me and my children. But of course this doesnt apply for you cause he is Lebanese and in your religion and upbringing a father has more rights than the mother. You all hate women. End of discussion.

          23. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            Do you even make sense you hero??

          24. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            To you?
            Dont need to

          25. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            What about to george? And pierre and charlie and charbel

          26. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            She doesn’t make sense..too much comedy.

          27. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            The Wailling Wall waiting…

          28. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I hope, dizgus with Razgal

          29. Lebanon is not exactly a prime location to bring up young children when there is a much safer, and native home in Australia. Imagine that, no wars on their doorstep or car bombs or the dreaded Hezbullah militia bullying the whole country and crippling what is left of the government. Without the drama I would say the whole kidnapping routine was an act of desperation to remove her children from an unsafe country where the future is bleak. In all reality the grandmother would have ended up looking after the children the majority of the time anyways. There should be an international court decide what is best for the children, not some unfair and inefficient legal system in Lebanon.

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          it’s done by lawyers

      2. Chiccolinia Avatar
        Chiccolinia

        “Had it been a muslim in a european country things would be much worse”
        Had it been in a european country though she wouldnt had to get a recovery agency to get her children back as the court recognise both parents rights.

        1. Reasonableman Avatar
          Reasonableman

          Thankyou for missing the point.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I don’t think she missed it. Europe would be happy to send back a Muslim Father and the kids to the land where a court had made a decision on the matter, and then the divorced mother would be happy to be able to visit the kids once again. Wouldn’t need to run the whole mess through some ‘other’ court at all. 😉

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            She supplied “taking sides” while we try to understand, we’re not lawyers this isn’t a Courthouse.
            Did you really think Kidnapping isn’t a crime in Lebanon?
            You’re a real anti-Lebanon.

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Did I say it wasn’t a crime? They practise it regularly, however. Ask a Turkish pilot, or some cyclists from some too-innocent cycling club. One can have a ‘law’ on the books, but ignore it .. just like road-speeds. I have noticed that some of the tribes treat the kidnapped victims very nicely until the ransom is paid. Usually they don’t cut off the heads.
            Is that being ‘Anti-Lebanon’ now?? Making notes of all the news stories and drawing a conclusion?? Wow …

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            The children were not object of ransom, the crew is well treated, it has nothing to with “tribes”, all the pain was not justified to hire mercenaries.:-)

            I read; “As her money and resources dwindled, (where is her husband?) Ms Faulkner asked for the Australian government to step in and also she petitioned for Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop to help bring her children home. But when the government ‘did nothing’ to help her, Ms Faulkner is believed to have contacted 60 Minutes who offered to pay for the recovery operation in return for filming it as a story.” (as a story)
            She sells her children to recover them”?

            “Messages show 60 Minutes may have rejected fallback escape plan after kidnapping”
            http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/78807282/messages-show-60-minutes-may-have-rejected-fallback-escape-plan-after-kidnapping

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, that’s a more complete story of a badly executed ‘plan’, which dups the mother.
            She loses on all fronts, it seems.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I see ..very interesting. (for you)

          7. Finally some sanity!

          8. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            Clearly missed it, lebanese have been hold up to rot in jail without a hearing some up to 30 years.
            A few aussies a few brits and europeans basically think they are abovr the law, get locked up in a nice calm jail that has clean beds and working facilities and access to lawyers get a hearing in only a few days, get stuffed.

            If an arab done such in the west the story will be treated differently, “terrorist kidnapped kids to radicalise them, female radicasl terrorist above the law” we wouldn’t be getting updates on their well bring either.

          9. Oh please, that’s a load of crap. You counry man abducted his kids and put the in a unsafe position. Those guys ate a recovery team, and came to recover the kids!

          10. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            When a court in any country under the Hague convention gives custody to a parent (Can be arabic, can be asian, european or any other nationality) the other parent has to respect the court order. If someone from my country decides to desrepect that court order and they remove the kids from the person who has custody and run to our country to hide there wont be any place to hide. The police will catch them and return them back to the parent who has custody without excuses like the christian mother will make them christians or the muslim mother will make them muslims so this is a reason not to return the children to the parent who has custody. Plain and simple. Cannot be more simple i beleive. But in Lebanon is not that simple. I wonder why they do mix weddings though if religion is above everything else. In my world we consider childrens best interest and nobody in the right mind will tell me that excluding the mother from raising her children is to the best interest of the children.

          11. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            We went through that ‘Mixed-Leb’ wedding bit last year, with one couple who managed to do it in Lebanon. Most go over to Cyprus for it … no wonder why.

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Chiquita is Jewish. “The soul of the Jew is different from the non-Jew. They have different characteristics, potentials and needs. Every Jew has essentially the same type of soul as any other Jew”

            What Are the Special Characteristics of the Soul?
            “Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of the Chabad Movement, defines it as follows:
            A Jew does not desire to, nor can he separate himself from G‑d.

            We find that Judaism does recognize the possibility of a non-Jew converting to Judaism. The proper conversion process, known as Giyur, is very simple.

            It consists of three steps: 1) Circumcision (in the case of a male); 2) Immersion in the Mikve (ritual bath); 3) Acceptance of the 613 precepts in their totality. These three steps must take place in the presence of a valid Rabbinic tribunal. (A valid Rabbinic tribunal consists of three Rabbis that accept the Torah as the word of G‑d and their fulfilling the 613 precepts in their personal day-to-day life.)”…you can convert all five drawers.

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          No need to say he’s Moslem – Ali Zeid al-Amin (Alamin).
          It was a brutal kidnapping children were in chock they don’t understand, the girl said to her mother on Skype “I want to go back”, little did she know the mother was responsable for her being scared.

          1. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            The girl told her mother on skype i want to go back when her father took her from her home in Australia pretending they were visiting his family in Lebanon and returning back. I dont think while they were on the run the mother and daughter were communicating on skype i hope you dont expect us to be that stupid to beleive this. You are a professional to twist things around arent you? You calling me an anti lebanese? I m Cypriot ask all the Lebanese that escaped your place to come live in Cyprus cause you are killing each other in Lebanon how nice we treat them. And you need to understand the difference between kidnapping a child or an adult for ransom and recovering a child to return it to their mother and dont tell me that Ali Zeid al-Amin is not a muslim cause this is a joke if the father is a christian she wouldnt had to prove to a religious court that she has rights on her children in the first place. Really if i was the mother i would do anything to get them out of there and return them back home to live in a safe place. You are saying we are not lawyers and cannot take sides when obviously you have done everything you can to put the womans reputation down and take sides of the father because he is Lebanese.

          2. Don’t worry about her, she is a Iranian troll. She will support Hezb/Iran no matter how wrong they are and then turn around and blame the jewz. You would almost think, as a female, she would support woman’s rights, but no.

          3. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Yes Rascal i excted a woman to understand another woman but sadly she has no compassion for a mother then maybe she is not a mother and therefor cannot understand that feeling. Anything that is not muslim is bad for this woman i understood that. Thank you for the reply.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I would not trade my children for money for a crap Story on television, to hire mercenaries..
            AND i already told you i was not Moslem I’m.. Choccolatina

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Chocco-Latte … mmmmm … at least. ;-))
            But not a mother .. and those feelings run deep in most of us.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I am a mother.

          7. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Oh … sorry.
            ‘Dad’s’ pop in at night and on weekends .. more exciting for the kids … for a short time.
            But never the same as ‘mother’.

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            What? Are you crazy? I’m divorced, go to hell this is outrageous

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Never mind … I suppose I’m ‘old world’.

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I mind i never forgive

          11. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            toz

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            toz aleik

          13. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I know I didn’t forget – that part of your story never came up before, that I recall….

          14. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Why should it we are on public blog:)

          15. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            exactly … 😉

          16. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Like Malamuky misrepresenting me saying “i was circumcised at age seven”?
            While i was chosen to give a speech on my first communion at age 7 in front of an overcrowded Church in the Mountain, women were congratulating my father and i understood nothing.

          17. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Don’t you see any similarity of ‘experience’ in what you were not happy about?
            Dad drags you off to a couple of different countries … eventually you make a ‘stand’ for yourself. But the whole experience flavours the rest of your life.
            I’d like to think Dad made the right choice at the time … with his life-experience being his guide … and children suffer sometimes in that.

          18. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I don’t know what you’re talking about. I was talking about my Zionist stalker Malmequer impersonating me using my name..what has this to do with my father..he first sent me to Montreal as a student at 15 because i had two crazy aunts here, i made so much hell to leave the aunts sent me back at 16. Theni came back at 18 to leave my father, i had no right to even answer the phone (cause it could be a man)..besides, Brazilians were machos, which i find stupid

          19. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I run on intuition … and do yourself a favour … Forget the Mal Mucky. Ok?

          20. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Tomorrow i will answer the FLQ question, good night

          21. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            and where are the kids? with their father in mazzeh?

          22. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            One little girl goes to her father every weekend.. i don’t want to marry again..men are degenerated, or it has to be a genius

          23. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            honey I doubt anyone wants to marry you

          24. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You are stupid.. leave me alone..so ridiculous

          25. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Some ended in mental hospital because refused ..hah ha.
            As Chocolatrina you live in a virtual world..and i don’ know Mazzeh, i know Mekhzzeh

          26. Would you be upset if he took them away on vacation and never returned?

          27. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Voyou

          28. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I see I need to translate a thought … with much un-needed verbiage … again. 🙁
            (damn language barriers …)
            In my experience, over 3 generations, ‘Mom’ was around all the time … made the house rules, did most of the disciplining, decided meal-times, and ‘homework’ times. She was the one who said when kids could go out to play, and when they had to be back home. This was her ‘job’, and she was the ‘boss’. Kids relied on this for stability … although they didn’t think of it in that way … but ‘home’ was the ‘safe’ place to run to. Mom patched the wounds … with lots of love … but kids expected that level of input, because ‘Mom’ had always been there – from the beginning.
            ‘Dad’ went to work … usually before kids woke up … and only appeared a bit before dinner-time. Kids ran to Greet him – like a lost friend. Kids only had ‘Dad’ to interact with from that moment, and to tell him how their day had been, and what they had discovered or suffered from. If he didn’t have to go out again, to a meeting or something after dinner, then he had time to read the story-book with them at bedtime. Those moments were more necessarily ‘intense’ for the kids – because they could only get the ‘male love’ for a short time.
            Weekends were ‘better’ … Dad’s had time to ‘play’ too. Or take the ‘family’ to a special place. Exciting moments happened with Dad.
            Sometimes …. Dad had to remind kids to give ‘Mom’ a special hug for what she did, and had done as ‘Mother’, because they tend to expect all that, but ‘Dad’ is a little mystery.
            (When Dad yelled, they listened … hehehe … a special power. ;-))

          29. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            It was very nice..i envied those who had a mother, mine died, my father put me in boarding school were i would spend Christmas alone.

          30. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I KNOW it was very nice … understood it more as I got older.
            I have an old friend from France … remarkably similar … in his case the Mother stuffed him into Franciscan ‘Punishment’ school. French Military Duties ‘honed’ his edges …
            Zen Philosophy saved his brain … but although he understands himself well, and why he is like he is, it never replaced a ‘normal’ childhood.
            (Why we are freinds … are like brothers in a way … is a much longer story I won’t relate.)

          31. This is why you harbor so much anger. I feel sorry for for your unfortunate situation, but do try to make peace with yourself. If you are only going to lash out in anger at me for commenting, then don’t waste yours and my time.
            Always look forward and don’t go back.

          32. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I’m very happy thank you and keep away from my conversations..
            Onlooker: a person who watches an activity or event without being involved in it—

          33. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Stop wasting your time

          34. Sounds like you are speaking from experience. Are you having a walk down memory lane?

          35. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I am … and memories hold our pasts. All in all, it wasn’t bad. Maybe I’m a ‘Rarie’.
            But spaceships sometimes crash.

          36. In some cases parent split up kids. This has been satisfactory in many cases as more attention can be given to the individual child. But back to the case in Lebanon, it is clear that the ex husband had plans for his mother to be the primary care giver and she was ok with that. Just going by human nature. The children are simply too young in this case to have a say in the decision process even though the husband had already made plans to steal the kids first. I stand by the opinion that it was irresponsible of the husband to risk the lives of his children and their education and futures by forcing them to grow up in a war zone where he will be indoctrinated into good little Hezbullah.

          37. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            poor kids

          38. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ;0) ;0)

          39. Have you seen that creepy one from “Omen”? 🙂

          40. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            lololololol

          41. Here is one for you. Move your mouse around on this page.

            http://www.cubo.cc/creepygirl/

          42. Is this the daughter? 🙂

          43. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Is this your father?

          44. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            is this your oncle

            6

          45. I did take a look. It’s gonna give me nightmares. Creepy Japanese girls rule! (Have you seen “The Ring”?) 🙂

          46. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            A Christian with a muslim name? Dont think so
            Unless you became Christian to marry to get away from your country cause they were bomb flying over your head.

          47. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Lebanon Christian … Maronite variety … go back in history here to know the story … otherwise you are guessing with opinions like everyone else.

          48. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            I know the Maronites they come from Lebanon they have immigrated in Cyprus hundreds of years ago and they have their own community and they are Cypriots now like the rest of us, with representatives in the parliament i used to go to school with them and have many friends who are maronites. Yes i m an Orthodox Christian but that doesnt mean i dont respect all other religions i went to a Catholic private school cause of the higher level of education they were offering so i learned to associate with people with different religion or color or nationality. This thing with religion has to stop is behind all hatred and wars. Cyprus is under EU laws, we respect everyone but expect to be respected as well. I dont have a problem with Hind if she is muslim or hindu christian or Buddish or whatever but in all her comments she shows hate to just everyone else except the Lebanese, yet she lives in a free country away from home, she says she is divorced her child lives with her yet she is against a woman who wants to have the same right as her which is to be the mother of her children. Beats me really.

          49. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            And for me, she a curious Canadian … but then, she was raised in Quebec. :-)))
            (I will get a whack for that too .. hehehe)
            Mostly, she is ‘Pro-Palestinian’ … and Lebanon has had it’s own problems with that crowd.
            But then, these are opinions … and we all have them due to our backgrounds or life experiences. We all discriminate, and rightfully so. For instance, I don’t feel you can put enough cheese on Asparagus to kill it … although some claim to like it. 😉

          50. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            I m sorry but i love vegetables (all of them) so many ways to cook them 🙂
            You are discriminating vegetables now and i have to defend them 😛

          51. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I will not try to stop you eating them. I do eat ‘some’. 😉
            Calamari didn’t impress me either … something about texture. ;-))

          52. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Fresh calamari not frozen marinated in lemon then battered its an art to get it perfectly cooked needs only an experienced person to serve you the best fried calamari usually in restaurants its shit they use frozen one even if they serve it as fresh. To achieve the best calamari you need to know where to buy fresh one from (the smallest the better). Although we are trolling the conversation now i felt it should be mentioned!

          53. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I’ll believe you … won’t find that here, for sure. Lobster was best at the docks too, although they ship them ‘live’….
            I’d be trolling for fresh Pickerel or Bass. 😉 Better than politicial conversations all the time. 🙂

          54. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Ow…the blabla …

          55. “Mostly, she is ‘Pro-Palestinian’…. ”
            Mostly, she is a moron. When she’s not an idiot, a retard, a degenerate, a dick (can somebody who seems to be female be a dick? Quite a conundrum), and a direct descendant of Antun Saadeh, blessed be his fascist memory.

          56. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Some women are more dick than men are

          57. Hopefully, my comment is not perceived as sexist. I have nothing but respect for women. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “I’m not sure this is a woman.”

          58. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Jerry Seinfeld..Ha ha.. why not Sarah Silverman YaK vulgarty ?
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuj3I8cF9GM

          59. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You like yourself?

          60. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ( like moths to a flame …)

          61. In all fairness, “like flies to shit” would have been a better analogy. 🙂

            In the immortal words of the one and only Ozzy Osbourne:

            Like moths to a flame
            Is man never gonna change
            Time’s seen untold aggression
            And infliction of pain
            If that’s the only thing that’s stopping war

            Then thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb

            Nuke ya, nuke ya

            War is just another game
            Tailor made for the insane
            But make a threat of their annihilation
            And nobody wants to play
            If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace

            Then thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb

            Nuke ya, nuke ya

            Today was tomorrow yesterday
            It’s funny how the time can slip away
            The face of the doomsday clock
            Has launched a thousand wars
            As we near the final hour
            Time is the only foe we have

            When war is obsolete
            I’ll thank God for the war’s defeat
            But any talk about hell freezing over
            Is all said with tongue in cheek
            Until the day the war drums beat no more

            I thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb
            Thank God for the bomb

            Nuke ya, nuke ya

            Read more: Ozzy Osbourne – Thank God For The Bomb Lyrics | MetroLyrics

          62. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ozzy is rather unique .. for sure … has one line right anyway … ‘Time is the only foe we have’ … everyone attempts to fight it, but can never win. Humans are weird when it comes to facing that reality. They even prefer to think something comes after death.
            Perhaps, however, and no matter which crowd, the reality of ‘The Bomb’ was recognized well enough – we DO have the tool there to eliminate all life as we know it – and that put a little ‘pause’ in some minds. Not that all bombs were eliminated, of course. But aggressive people like to be around to see the results after, don’t they? 😉
            The civilizations which came before recorded history may well have done themselves in with their own ‘techno’ powers … we will never know that either. We are still trying to figure out what a Myan Calendar really means – aside from logging one age of Aquarius to another … which they didn’t get to see. 😉

          63. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You like “Thank God for the Bomb. Nuke ya nuke ya”? Who has the BOMB?

          64. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Im sure that was an Ozzy version of an Anti-War, Anti-Nuke song. I didn’t say I liked it.

          65. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Looks real today it’s frightening

          66. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            But who has the Bomb?

          67. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            A few have the really ‘Big Boys’ … But many more have the ones that leave ugly results, yet don’t wipe out life on the planet, so they can see the results but not hurt themselves.
            Basically, in his own way of writing, what Ozzie says is: ‘Well you brag about it and create the ‘Fear Factor’, SO … Go for it you idiots … wipe us all out … I won’t have to listen to the stupid talk any more.’ (Not that there wasn’t any in his Family … it even made TV, like Trump did …. ;-))))

          68. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I see. Tell me how many cities an countries have been flattened in this region..Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen..and the human toll, is this fine because the West needs the Saudis.. no sanctions against Israel, only other Jews, IDF soldiers are breaking the silence, but they are at risk. Video-http://linkis.com/www.democracynow.org/P5gZl

          69. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Years later, in Raw-anda, a General still tries to rid himself of the images ‘created’ by one Tribe against another … and no-one flattened cities, while chopping up 800,000 humans.
            https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=rwanda&fr=%26fr%3Daaplw&imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fd%2Fdc%2FRwandan_Genocide.jpg#id=19&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jackpicone.com%2Fdata%2Fphotos%2F673_1jp_rwanda_scaler_15.jpg&action=click

          70. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            One does not excuse the other, we go back to the Bible..
            going out:)

          71. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            .”Mostly, you’re a moron. When you’re not an idiot, a retard, a degenerate, a dick (..etc.. Zionist super vulgarity can somebody who seems to be female be a dick? Quite a conundrum),” http://ln.is/www.democracynow.org/P5gZl … via @democracynow

          72. “Zionist super vulgarity can somebody who seems to be female be a dick”
            I’m sure your buddy 5th Drawer can explain the deep meaning of this one.

          73. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ohhh … I thought you had already experienced exactly what she meant, and were spitting out your verbiage because she not only went deeply up your ass, but down your throat as well.

          74. Thanks for the explanation, although it makes (almost) as little sense as your Muse’s verbal droppings. Sadly, too much time with her has evidently affected your ability to express yourself in a more or less understandable way… After all, we are what we take inspiration from.

          75. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Go to hell, go home… “After all, we are what we take inspiration from”.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M60FUPVtq9k

          76. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            2016 …. astounding …

          77. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Y K Hind Abyad • 18 hours ago

            “Zionist super vulgarity can somebody who seems to be female be a dick”
            I’m sure your buddy 5th Drawer can explain the deep meaning of this one”.

            My “buddy”? Our buddies left because of spamming visitors from behind the Wall.
            Now a stand up Y K Seinfeld educated on women dicks fool language from the gutter, extremely unpleasant and ​offensive..You proved you’re not here for discussion but to harasse. Obsessed with me Insufferable man?

          78. “you’re not here for discussion, but to harasse (sic)”
            I’m here to tell a piece of crap that it’s a piece of crap, as opposed to a rose. No more, no less. Discussion(s) with the likes of you? If you were not so abysmally (and offensively) stupid, you would have probably seen the hilarious absurdity of this idea yourself.

          79. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I don’t appreciate you talk about me to a stranger.

          80. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Just trying to defray all the conjecture … and didn’t say much at all ….

          81. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I didn’t like the firs poste to me, my reaction was as for barabie, i said don’t ever address me again, dear Geo tried to make us friends, i did it for him.

          82. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            You are obssessed with me.
            Good i like it.
            You are a woman? Really? That didnt stop you from insulting the mother.
            Maybe your parents didnt teach you to treat others the way you like to be treated.
            Awww and be careful not to bite your tongue there is no antivenum to save you.

          83. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You are obsessed with me. Proof

            “Chiccolinia – Hind Abyad • 3 days ago
            Actually yes i enlisted just to reply to your comments. Something wrong with that? And i m not from Australia my lovely and here is now afternoon. Awww and one more thing i dont care if you are interested or not in Wikipedia any comments about the facts i stated? And yes i did my little research before i replied to you i wathed the footage i listened to all the conversations between the mother and the father on skype. You done yours?

            Have a lovely day my dear.”

          84. Luke 6:31 and Matthew 7:12

          85. GFYS idiot. Your inferior complex is hitting your empty head again.

          86. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Golly Golyat … such a mouthful there. I suppose you love Asparagus …

          87. 5araDrawer, nothing personal but you just hate the Levant for some reason…I wonder what it could be…LOL

          88. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Cyprus really has better beaches … but most of the Levant is warm enough.
            It’s some of the people on it that are hateful. What they do to some I love is criminal. And where there is never any help or any justice for them, it can lead to a kind of sad hate of the ones who are incapable of ever learning how to change that general situation.
            Mind you, it’s not that there are not some idiots leading the blind in Canada … and I whack at them too when possible … but the help is available on a much more regular basis.

          89. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ( Like moths to a flame )? Thank you cretin.

            Y K – 5thDrawer • a day ago

            “Mostly, she is ‘Pro-Palestinian’…. ”
            Mostly, she is a moron. When she’s not an idiot, a retard, a degenerate, a dick (can somebody who seems to be female be a dick? Quite a conundrum), and a direct descendant of Antun Saadeh, blessed be his fascist memory.”

          90. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I don’t run the site .. what do you expect me to do about the crass and over-bloated comments? And yes, I think some are most foul. Some shoot at me too. It’s a blog …
            I’m not turning a cheek, but I’m not wasting time shooting back either … most of the time.

          91. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            ( Like moths to a flame ) responding to this?

            Y K – Chiccolinia • a day ago
            Hopefully, my comment is not perceived as sexist. I have nothing but respect for women. To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, “I’m not sure this is a woman.

          92. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You did enough to be called a cretin and a traitor encouraging this crape…”like moths to fire”.
            I never accepted insults toward you, so i was the cretin.

          93. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            When did I encourage ?? I may have encouraged some humour … I can admit that. But not ‘crap language’.
            That I agree with some on other subjects doesn’t make me ‘friends’ with them either.
            Obviously didn’t make me friends with you.
            ‘Like Moths to a flame’ is an old quote about ‘attraction’ … and we attract attention in what we say. I’d expect it at times. I get it from some. Voila. Can’t touch me.
            And if I give a ‘personal’ experience, they can’t touch me for that either.

          94. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            As moth to a flame, he replied “In all fairness, “like flies to shit” would have been a better analogy. 🙂
            Talking about me Tabarnak!

          95. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Re read you were drunk or what.
            “Obviously didn’t make fiends with you”, after What, just today after 3 years 😮
            bring back Barabie shit language ..

          96. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            you switched the words..

          97. “but then, she was raised in Quebec.”
            “Tabernak and a half, times two!”. A guy from Quebec has told me this many times.

          98. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ‘and a half, times two’ is new to me … ;-))

          99. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Me too..but not interested. Good night

          100. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I was already raise when i came at 18

          101. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            But I postulate, that although we think we ARE ‘adults’ and know everything by age 16, we don’t … and must continue searching for ourselves all through life. To know what shaped it, and then understand where and why we made some mistakes, is essential to some inner peace, at least. My head is often locked into memories of certain events … and some are remembered very fondly … but how those evolved might have been improved on if I knew then what I know now. ;-)))

          102. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Louis Aragon: “Le temps d’apprendre a vivre il est déja trop tard”

          103. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            And this is why, it is best to be as prepared as possible for what life will throw at us – in the hope that we react properly to whatever it is, and at least save our own asses. 😉

          104. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            That is the problem.

          105. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            That’s why you joined dicus yesterday to spit on Moslem ..or what was your problem?
            Go to the wailing wall, Ma’lesh.

          106. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            You are sick
            Go see a psychiatrist

          107. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Virtual stupidity

          108. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            i m beggining to feel sorry for you

          109. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Begin to begin.
            End of discussion.

          110. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Awww you are the autocorrector now
            HAHAHAHAHA
            You amuse me
            Hear i ll giv yu samthink to kip yu bizy
            In the meantime watch your tongue dont bite it cause i will miss your comments.
            Laboratories are working hard to find the antidote, you are more venomous than a cobra

          111. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “Chiccolinia Hind Abyad • 3 hours ago

            Awww you are the autocorrector now
            HAHAHAHAHA
            You amuse me
            Hear i ll giv yu samthink to kip yu bizy
            In the meantime watch your tongue dont bite it cause i will miss your comments.
            Laboratories are working hard to find the antidote, you are more venomous than a cobra
            • Reply•Share › ”

            Don’t get hysterical no Greek orthodox Christian language there…
            ‘Begin to begin’ is just humour..

          112. Christians Maronites of Lebanon are like all Eastern Christians, belong to where they are now since billion years…so they are pure Lebanese Arabs.

          113. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            (Ye must be born again …)

          114. You must be an idiot who thinks herself not Arabs.

          115. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            He’s not Arab, not her, it’s him.

          116. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Well, the history of Jerusalem goes back to the Old Stone age..the earliest signs of human activity are of the Pléistocène period.
            1400 B.C., before Joshua’s invasion of the country the city was a vassal to Egypt, in the Tel Amarna tablets there are about seven which are from Urusalim, as the city was called.
            When the city fell to David in 1000 B.C., it was already considered holy Melchizedek was the priest of “the most high God” in Jerusalem, referred to as Salem in Genesis long before the conquest.

          117. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Maronite were Syrians they left Damascus in 400 AD up to the heights of a Mountain in Syria called Mount Loubnan, they fled from other new Christians, Nestorius and
            Jacobites.
            Cyprus Christian know better, faker.

          118. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            You really enjoy to piss off people.
            Dont put in your filthy mouth cypriot Chrystians they gave your people home when they were bombarding you from 1000 places. Have a little bit of respect. If you know what that means. Yalla

          119. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Don’t change the subject I’m not insulting Cypriot Christians..uh.. (Chrystians (?).
            I’m defending them against liars and fakers like you.
            Cypriot Christians know from where Maronite came from: Damascus 400 AD..
            “Yalla” you speak Arabic now?

          120. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Abyad is Christian name, it means White in English, Alba in Spanish.
            Hind is a borrowed name, we know it you don’t, i have cousins who’s names are Charles, Roger, Guy, Tony and Kamal.. you racist.

          121. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            The only racist person i ve seen in this chat is you. Besides being racist you are arrogant rude and cannot have a polite conversation without calling the other person names. You dont accept other peoples opinion, you demand everyone to agree with you. No chiccolinia is not my name is my dogs names. I dont care if you have cousins with Christian names i dont care if you are a christian i despise you anyway for the person you are and not the religion or nationality you are, you think you are above everyone else in this conversation but all you show is that you are a fanatic person with lots of hate for all people.

          122. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            If i have a different opinion the persons who don’t agree, harass, resort to insults “She (it) creature, (dik)..think they’re above me in this conversation but all they (and you) show is fanatic persons with lots of hate for aall people..er..except Israel. Hoho

          123. Spot on!

          124. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Spot on you!

          125. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Virtual illusion.

          126. Idiot, you mixing religion and language. There’s nothing called “Christian name” except in your empty brainwashed head. A name does not have to be westerner to be a “Christian name”.

          127. “I am a mother …”
            OMG, that’s scary. On the other hand, I hear the casting for a new instalment of the “Omen” series has begun recently…..

          128. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            She’s the mother of Nasrallah
            Cant you see they have the same moustache?
            yek yek yek

          129. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yak YaK YaK

          130. Don’t bother with this creature. She (it?) only cares about the Jooz and their evil machinations. The rest is totally inconsequential for her.

          131. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            To the YaKo. He (dik) creature and Zionists friends Sradje und Choccolatura
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL9mP7d7eDc&feature=youtu.be

          132. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Don’t bother

          133. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Poor Raskahra, you’re the troll..The Zionist Troll.
            I have nothing to do with Iran, my oncles, aunts, cousins in Beyrouth are Maronites..enjoy trolling.

          134. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Don’t worry

          135. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Don’t Worry

          136. Woman’s rights is not about defending woman’s crimes. But you are an “israeli” troll who will support anything against Lebanon and the Levant.

          137. This is not about defending Lebanon. I defend the mother rights not the desperate crime she did. But she does have rights (in western countries anyways). What the husband did was not ok, how was the mother to see her kids again, ask nicely? He took the children with no intention of returning to Australia, and the mother did the only thing she could do, attempt to steal them back if she ever wanted to see them again. The best place for the children is with the mother in their native land where there are opportunities and a safe future, not some war zone where there is little chance of any normal future.

            I am not a jew or a zionist (both of which have nothing to do with this case anyways) but just because, marg bar Hezbollah the destroyer of Lebanon and the ass-licker of Iran and Assad. Hezbullah are not part of Lebanon, they are a mini state of Syria and Iran’s Shia crescent.

          138. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Don’t worry

          139. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            OK

          140. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I loved those beaches in Cyprus. 😉

          141. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            huh?..What an womanizer, take another GlenFinish. I lived with Cyprus

          142. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, you can’t blame me for trying … seems I fail at it anyway. :-)))
            But I really did love the beaches …

          143. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You want me to send my little girl’s picture?l

          144. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Not in here, for sure. Now you go a little over the top again. Tsk.

          145. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Nobody knows her, Geo disappeared, i could have sent it “to him to you” Hhhh..Tsk

          146. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I grew up in front of the beach and had Cyprus at the horizon all day.

          147. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            I’m sure my friends cast longing eyes at it now …. 🙁

        3. No your “courts” don’t recognize both parents rights equally. They are one sided and biased.

          1. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Your non biased courts are located where? Dont tell me are the same courts who give a child to the father according to its age and exclude the mother from having the right to upbring her children.

          2. Yup, unlike your courts which always give the children, the house, all properties and income to the mother once she finds another man!

          3. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Its about your man ego right?
            How dare she (the woman) divorce you and find another man.
            Lets punish her lets take the children from her and even better lets stone her to death. She doesnt deserve to live in this world divorcing her husband. In the mean time you are allowed to have 3 and 4 women at the same time and produce more children as long you can afford to buy the woman like you buy camels. Do me a favor and dont tell me more of your wonderful ideas you have for women.

          4. Do me a favour and don’t tell me you are a feminist. Men and women should be treated equally when it comes to “laws”. So if my wife finds another “love”, then she has the right to kick me out and take my house? What kind of “laws” governing you people???

          5. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            I m not a feminist. I dont beleive men and women are the same. We come from different planets. At the same time i dont accept that a man has the right to marry 3 and 4 women and the woman has to stay loyal to him and put up with all the cheating. If she has any selfrespect she divorces him take his house continue to be mother of her children and finds another man who will respect her and not been unfaithful or abusive to her. The same applies to a man who is abusive to his woman. In my country i keep my property if i had it before marriage or was given to me by my parents. If we both work we share. If he is beating me up i will beat the shit out of him and kick him out. If my son in law abuses my daughter i will beat the shit out of him, if my son abuses my daughter in law i will do the same. Has nothing to do with feminish.

          6. Sorry to hear that your society men can become very abusive. This is bad.

            Now are women and men different? Yes they are, physically, mentally and in capabilities. And no, they don’t have to be of different planets to be different. This is God’s will and creation.

            Regarding marriage from multiple women it’s only a religious thing which allows it, and it happens very rare in some societies.

            But tell me, does your state “laws” allow or forbid multiple girlfriends and “cheating”? 😉

          7. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            If I was you, I’d back up on the ‘capabilities’ bit. ;-))

          8. It’s your opinion you cannot impose it on others. Every man has their own believes. 😉

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            As long as you’re not using the ‘belief’ for a perverted desire to cut off heads, then fine.
            I’m not telling you not to ‘believe’ … just consider using some logic to make a choice on what to punt out there yourself. 😉

          10. Remember cutting heads is the cult of the terrorists you support and label them as “rebels”. My advice to you, try convert to Christianity and find Jesus, the peaceful God. You will then find peace inside you and with others.

          11. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Wow. You didn’t read my morning sermon … :-))))

          12. You Muslims are all the same…out of logic and common sense. Once you are mentally challenged you escape. Go pray in your mosque, Taqyah man.
            End of discussion!

          13. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Drawer is Canadian Christian, scared like me by all this sectarianism that has expanded in the region

          14. I think he’s a daydreamer person who’s confused about reality. His posts only show needless hatred and phobia.

          15. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            “I HAD A DREAM !”

          16. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Gave you a bit of ‘reality’ … you seem to need it.

          17. Reasonableman Avatar
            Reasonableman

            You got me wondering why you still frequent this site, every “new” user sounds the same as the “old” users who stopped posting. Spinner yalibnan disqus stinks.

          18. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            A few of us ‘rail’ on Reasonable … I contemplate your question.
            I might be bored if I didn’t have a word to write any more, maybe. :-))
            Problem is maybe, no-one reads ‘back issues’ just as they ignore history. 😉

          19. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            “Sorry to hear that your society men can become very abusive. This is bad.”
            Dont think so all over the world you find abusive men and rarely women. Multible marriages is only allowed in muslim countries and no it doesnt happen very rare it happens all the time.
            Law in my country contemns cheating in a marriage and its a reason of divorce when the woman is caught cheating she can lose custody of her children when the man is caught cheating he walks away like it didnt happen. If a man or woman is not married and has multiple affairs then its up to the other person if they will accept it or not. We dont stone them to death, we by pass them.

          20. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            ( I feel I should mention Mormons and Dukhobors here … but I’m not sure they had the same ‘daily beating’ rules … hmmm)

          21. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            “Parting is such sweet sorrow” … always better to do it amicably BEFORE running off to find another possible mate. And if 2 made a baby, they are equally responsible for it.
            Best idea these days is, before a marriage, the ‘Living together agreement’. Makes dividing the accumulated wealth much easier, and simple …. defrays lawyer fees should the whole experiment fail. ;-))

          22. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            (mostly propaganda from ‘wronged’ males … discovering ‘justice’ in situations of ‘passions’ never quite succeeds …)

    3. Again your brainfart Tripoli boy.

  2. The justice system in the middle-east works backwards. He is the guilty party that originally left the family home, taking the kids and most likely giving a false store about his motives to keep them. A complete investigation should bring all side stories into play. Desperate people do desperate things and she obviously was willing to take great risk to get her children back. There is presidency in this case and is unfortunately not an isolate incident .

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      What the hell are you talking about the justice in the middle East? Your IDF kidnap 10 years old boys from their beds in the middle of the night. Pedophiles
      https://electronicintifada.net/content/amir-ten-years-old-abducted-israeli-soldiers-his-bed/8713

      1. Chiccolinia Avatar
        Chiccolinia

        Are you a member of the family Hind Abyad? You certainly sound like one.
        Ok here is the story
        The couple lived in Australia and Lebanon when they were married. They lived in an area that is controlled by Hezbollah, the family is related to Amal leader whos number one in the list of risk to be assassinated in Lebanon (according to wikipedia). The woman when she was living with the children in Lebanon she had to live in between bombings, she got scared and she went home with her children to be safe with husbands permission. After that they separated and he had rights to visit his children whenever he wanted. On his last visit to the children he asked to take the children home to visit his family he then calls the next day and tell her here is like it will be the children are not coming back you will never see them again. He knows the muslim law in your country gives her no right to get her children back as Lebanon has not signed the Hague convention so no matter how this woman tries to get her children back as their mother, in your country the muslim law is above all law. You are blaming her for having a new partner while she was married, well 2 years they were separated and not 1 and she has every right to move on with her life if she wants to. Are you a mother? Are you married to a christian canadian? Imagine you go home to visit your family and he divorces you takes custody of your children and you cannot raise them anymore and then think again suggesting she goes on holidays to visit her own children. As for the grandmother being hurt well in her interview on tv she was looking fine she lied that she was hit on head with a gun the CCTV footage as we all seen on news, there were no guns involved ok she was pushed a little bit on the side, but on the other hand she as a mother should of never encouraged her son to steal the children from their mother in first place, a mother should always know how much it hurts when they are stealing your children from you. And saying that i wonder do you have children Hind? Would you allow your foreign husband to take them away from you cause you dont share the same nationality and the same religion? I beleive all countries should close the borders to people like you when you have to live between bombings you escape out and move in our countries and then you call us pedophiles? Well i ve got news for you in your country and in middle east and asia pedophiles marry their own victims from the age of 7 years old but its legal cause Mohamed allows it. I have many muslim friends and i m blessed they dont share the same views as you do.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Help from Australia
          This is your second comment, did you enlisted in discus this morning just for me?
          Talk to others ..oh ..and i’m not interested in Wikipedia the new Babel Tower..

          1. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            Actually yes i enlisted just to reply to your comments. Something wrong with that? And i m not from Australia my lovely and here is now afternoon. Awww and one more thing i dont care if you are interested or not in Wikipedia any comments about the facts i stated? And yes i did my little research before i replied to you i wathed the footage i listened to all the conversations between the mother and the father on skype. You done yours?

            Have a lovely day my dear.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “I whated” ..is that Australian English? ..and I’m not your “dear”

          3. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            whated = watched apparently it was a typo unlikely you we are not that perfect. You still not replying though to the facts. DEAR!!!

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You write DEAR!!! With such hate

          5. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            And last thing, you keep telling everyone not to talk to you well if you have the right to express an opinion and you do then the rest of us have a right to a reply.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yes Raskal..reply as much as you want..”if you have the right to express an opinion and you do then the rest of us have a right to a reply.”
            Sorry..
            1-no if i’m not addressing you specifically.
            2-no if it does not interest me.

          7. Chiccolinia Avatar
            Chiccolinia

            But you are replying under my reply to you. If you dont want replies keep your opinion to yourself. Ps. I m not Raskal

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Of course i’m replying under your reply to me..and vice versa
            You’re not Raskal, but he says same thing..

        2. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Oh, and i’m not Moslem..these are the Zionist talking points and sectarian propaganda.

        3. Reasonableman Avatar
          Reasonableman

          Muslim law LMAO

      2. Wow, your anti-semitism really helps your arguments.

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Here come the trolls.. sorry but I’m Semitic.

          1. that’s not what that word means, but that’s a good try at hyperbole.

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            The feminist came to help Chicca..:-)))

          3. Uh…. sure. whatever. look, you can assume all Jews are whatever, and you are just like the people who think all Muslims want nothing more in life than to blow up buildings and children. so congrats on that.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            100 shekels bill in occupied Palestine aka Israel with stamped sentence “Death to Arabs” ….

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            No self-respecting Printer would allow that. Someone must have a ‘rubber-stamp’ kit.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            They are no self-respecting Zionists -Fascists

          7. I can see you’re typing a long response so I’ll do the google for you to help: “The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time.” It has nothing to do with Semitic peoples in the linguistic sense (which is what ‘Semite’ means). It was a term explicitly created to replace the German term “jew hate” which they felt was a bit too on the nose.

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I know thank you.. pffhhhaha…

          9. “I’ll do the google for you to help”
            Why would you want to help HER? Seriously?! I sure as hell wouldn’t.

          10. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Huh.. shut Up egomaniac hater. I don’ google, i know European history YAKROUT
            Zionist legs was proud to teach me..

          11. The degenerate subliterate moron obsessed with Jooz hiding under her (its) bed is whining about “egomaniac (?!) haters”. Good she (it) is too dumb to understand the meaning of “projection” (invented by the Jooz, by the way).

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Ego maniac

  3. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    He HAS done the same, he took her kids from Australia and hid them in dahyeh

  4. Marcus Aurelius Avatar
    Marcus Aurelius

    USA: Kidnapping convictions can result in lengthy prison sentences, including life sentences in some situations and states. Sentences of 20 years or more are common for first degree or aggravated kidnapping,
    while minimum sentences of five years or more are common for second degree kidnapping.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I believe most of your laws on that came out of the ‘Lindberg’ kidnapping … how dare someone do that to a ‘famous’ American person, after all? 😉 Maybe it’s time they were updated a trifle. ??

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        I know and i’m updated on Lindberg

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          Update on some FLQ kidnappers who killed the victim, escaped to France for several years, (which I guess was like ‘doing time’ ;-)) … and then were allowed to return to Quebec … probably speaking a better French by that time too. (Almost Foreigners)
          How do we explain THAT?

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Why you drop Lindbergh for FLQ?:))

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Kidnappings … happen anywhere … it’s how they are handled that differs.

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Very different cases.

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            (phone-call interrupts … old guy forgets where he was going with anything sometimes)
            Honesty … :-)))))
            And what was the end of that baby?

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Is that a joke?

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            There was La Revolution Tranquille, by intellectuals, but young extremists created FLQ, there were two separate cells, the first was Paul Rose and 5 or 6 others, they went to Gaspé and opened une Boite a Chansons, the people didn’t like FLQ, complained to the Mayor who sent them back to Montreal.

            Paul Rose was responsable for the death of Laporte he got the longest sentence in prison, no death penalty in Canada.
            Jaques Lanctôt was the second cell, they kidnapped Cross and he was liberated.
            Lanctôt cell was sent to Cuba as political prisoners arrangement; hard labour in tobacco fields. One run away to Paris he was killed. After years of sentence in Cuba they came back to Montreal

          7. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            We could conclude that at any time in history, in any place, within any band of religions, there are some minds which think they can’t get any ‘recognition’ (for their particular desires) without becoming totally anti-social in methodology. And a few become more than willing to take a ‘next-step’ from their ‘anarchy’ by creating deaths with various methods – which then makes them simply anti-human.
            (Guy Fox Day comes to mind too. 😉
            As many on this blog and in the world now question, ‘WHY’ are so freaking many of them concentrated in a muddled ‘East’ while carrying a supposedly ‘Religious’ label?
            We can also note many wish to get away from it … and don’t know how to.

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            FLQ wasn’t for religion. La Nouvelle France 1524-1763 was abandoned with no defence against the English by Louis XIV in 18 cent. Counselled by Voltaire..That’s why till the last generation..the French Canadians were calling a Frenchmen “Maudits Français”

          9. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            History is both weird and wonderful. 😉

          10. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Ah well … ‘We Hated English’ allowed them to keep a couple of islands a short day-trip from Newfoundland … and you can go there to buy some very nice French wines at French Prices … along with a few other things like some special violins. Unique. AND we eventually rebuilt ‘The Fortress of Louisbourg’ for the tourists. ;-))
            The Americans purchased Louisiana for a song too … but I have a feeling those folks won’t be allowed to even talk about ‘separation’. We’re much more ‘Liberal’ … Non? ;-))))

          11. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            1-What you mean ‘We Hated English’ allowed them to keep a couple of islands a day-trip from Newfoundland”?
            So nice of them. French discovers Canada the English follow. French go to Egypt the English follow. Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone, the English take it.. (I took a picture of the stone in London Museum.) The English stole France (Brittany’s) name and called their Island Great Britain

            2-Why you compare Quebec to Louisiana.. It’s a horrible story, ‘La grande Expulsion’, the deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Acadien (also religious reasons 🙁
            You don’t seem to know the history.
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians

          12. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Well, I do. In the ‘age of empires’ there were ‘winners & losers’. What can I say about the evolutions? Time can’t go back. Some who expect it can, need some humour injected.
            I throw in ‘Smileys’ … 😉
            Fortunately ‘The Tops’ didn’t always have their way … and these days people actually DO talk to each other, no matter what their background.
            We are about to attempt running clocks backward for ‘Metis’. Wait until you hear the cost of that little ‘adjustment’. It will be like Europe rescuing all the people from the poor countries they left behind, after the ’empires’ decided the concept was not economically viable … even if they still had some little inputs here and there.
            AND here again the history is interesting. France did well for a while, to be sure ….
            http://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Joseph-de-Montcalm-Grozon-marquis-de-Montcalm
            But personally I’m happy the British were in control several years later – 1812.
            https://brocku.ca/about/maj-gen-sir-isaac-brock/
            Consider it has not been an all-out war by which ‘Americans’ take over ‘thought’ now ….

            This thread is too much to scroll through again. We need to find one no-one is interested in for ‘off-topic’ chats. Maybe do it in ‘Sci And Tech? No-one cares the planet is over-heating, for instance. ;-)))

  5. Chiccolinia Avatar
    Chiccolinia

    Notes on Lebanon and Child Abduction

    NOTES ON LEBANON AND CHILD ABDUCTION

    By Jeremy D. Morley

    Return of children abducted to or in Lebanon

    There are extreme difficulties in returning a child to the United States from Lebanon when retained by a Lebanese parent.

    Lebanon is not a party to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

    There are no extradition treaties between Lebanon and the United States.

    Under Lebanese law, Lebanese nationals may prevent their wives and children (even if they are American citizens) from leaving Lebanon.

    Lebanon does not recognize international parental kidnapping as a crime.

    Issues of child custody and divorce in Lebanon are generally decided in religious courts under religious law. Thus, if the father is a Sunni Muslim and the mother is a Christian the custody of their children will normally be decided by a Sunni Muslim court.

    One might petition a civil court to handle a custody case instead of a religious court. The issue would be whether the religious court has jurisdiction. It could take up to two years to have the civil court assume jurisdiction and a minimum of four to five years to have the case decided.

    Among Sunni Muslims, the father has physical custody of a daughter over the age of nine and of a boy over the age of seven. For Shia Muslims the father generally has physical custody at for boys at age 2 and for girls at age 7.

    If a father establishes that the mother is unfit or lacking good moral character, she will lose any right to the child. Muslim law requires a child to be raised in the Muslim faith, and if it were proven that a mother tried to raise the child as a Christian, she could be found unfit.

    Lebanon does not recognize dual nationality. American/Lebanese dual nationals who carry Lebanese papers will be treated as Lebanese nationals by security authorities.

    A child who is a dual American and Lebanese citizen would be bound by Lebanese law in the eyes of the Lebanese civil courts.

    The U.S. State Department cannot offer any real assistance even if there were a United States court order directing the return of the child from Lebanon.

    http://www.international-divorce.com/ca-lebanon.htm

  6. Submersive Element Avatar
    Submersive Element

    Dear fellow Lebanese
    Lets bow in respect and humility in front of this most courageous mother, who never gave up her children.
    You go flat broke to this wonderful land searching for a better life. They harbor you, help and support you and educate you (well 99% of the efforts for education are for the birds, because we have no brains, just fingers to pull a trigger…) and you still think you are better just because you are Lebanese????
    We are the most ungrateful and dumb folk on God’s earth.
    Their money is OK, women in discos too, but they remain unbelievers and enemies of our most pieceful (not peaceful) religion
    You shout “racisme” every time a drug dealer is busted, but it is ok for you that a Lebanese SHIA-(muslim) court gave the father the custody because ISLAM does not accept a non muslim parent having custody for a muslim child (unbelievers, right!).
    From the first beginning, the mother has ZERO chances in Lebanon, because she is an “unbeliever”
    Forgive us Australia

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Oh please you’re ridiculous the mother used her children for a story on Channel 9, in the most irresponsable unwise manner, we all indure the consequences of our acts, she put her faith in the big Star of Chanel 9..

      “You shout “racisme” every time a drug dealer is busted, but it is ok for you that a Lebanese SHIA-(muslim) court gave the father the custody because ISLAM does not accept a non muslim parent having custody for a muslim child (unbelievers, right!).
      From the first beginning, the mother has ZERO chances in Lebanon, because she is an “unbeliever”
      Forgive us Australia” Very political statement” To manipulate and make us feel guilty?

      Same copy-paste letter in “Australia Network News”. Commenting in German papers..curiously also
      “Discussion on Lebanese Forces Official Website” since years. What’s your profession Zionist agent?

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