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2008-07-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

NYPost: Obama slipped rescue note to PA leader

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Posted by mhw 2008-07-29 08:26|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Does he think that muslims are going to take a father's chattel children from him when they are being given what must be a pious upbringing?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-29 09:07|| 2008-07-29 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless this alleged action was fully coordinated with diplomatic and US State Dept entities, he's once again out of his lane. Buyer BEWARE! In Islamic countries the children BELONG to the father. My sympathy for this barking moonbat...ZERO!

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-29 10:00|| 2008-07-29 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 IMO, with all international assistance PA receives, Fayyad can afford toilet paper.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-29 10:01|| 2008-07-29 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO, with all international assistance PA receives, Fayyad can afford toilet paper.

That is the best zinger I have heard all week!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-29 10:09|| 2008-07-29 10:09|| Front Page Top

#5 The Force was with me.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-07-29 10:16|| 2008-07-29 10:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Bargouthi's daughter's range in age from five to 11 years old and traveled with their 15-year-old brother, mother and father to his native Palestine in June of 2007 to visit their grandmother. The visit was supposed to be just a six weeks long. The woman says it was around Christmas 2007, after she repeatedly requested to come back to the United States, that her 38-year-old husband Yasser - who she had been married to for 15 years - abruptly announced he was keeping the girls with him in Ramallah and then threw her out of his family's home.

"My husband put two guns to my head and told me I could pick which gun I wanted to be killed with, which one would be better aim and would kill me more quickly and he made it clear that he could kill me and no one would know the difference," said Bargouthi.

Bet ya he promised you the world, right, Colleen? Welcome to the price of being stupid.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-29 10:17|| 2008-07-29 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Colleen could never have imagined the turn of events her life has taken. She was Colleen Davis when she met Yasser, a grocery-store manager, in 1993 through a friend while she worked as a waitress at Midway Airport.

He was a Muslim and she a Baptist, but he told her it was not an issue. She made her religious beliefs clear to his clan and got their blessing before the two married in a Christian ceremony 15 years ago.

Six months later, they traveled to Ramallah and she was welcomed into the family. "I always told him that I was a Christian and would remain one, and that any children we had would be raised Christian," she says. The couple settled in a Chicago suburb with her son, Ricky, from a previous marriage and had four daughters, Emily, 11, Hannah, 8, Amanda, 6 and Sarah, 5.

Colleen was a stay-at-home mom and her husband became manager of a cellphone store. The couple bought a house in 1999 but sold it when they couldn't make the payments.

Her husband rarely spoke about his religion and never went to mosque services, she said. Their children attended Cedar Lake Community Christian school.

The couple returned to Ramallah for a family visit and were there on Sept. 11, 2001. They were unable to return home for months and Colleen gave birth there to her fourth child, Amanda. "Things were so politicized at that time. It was frightening," said Bargouthi. "I had to walk through a checkpoint when I went into labor."

She told her husband she never wanted to return to the Palestinian territories. But in a nightmare ordeal, he packed up his wife and the five kids for a third trip to Ramallah in June 2007. "He really wanted to go, and I trusted him, and assumed we'd all come back from this trip, as we had the others," she said.

Almost immediately, tensions arose between the formerly happily married pair. "He said right away that he didn't want to go home again," Colleen said. He enrolled all five children in a private American school and signed them up for Islamic religion classes. "I protested, but it didn't matter . . . When I refused to put headdresses on my daughters, the school said they would fail. Eventually, I pulled them out," Colleen said. "He felt it was better for the girls to be raised in an Islamic society and not in America." He demanded that she convert to Islam and grew angry over her refusal, and began to get abusive.

Colleen turned to the US Consulate in Jerusalem for help, and discovered that he had gotten Palestinian passports for the girls.

After months of arguments and altercations, the couple agreed that he'd return the girls to her in America once she found a job. She and her son Ricky arrived back in Chicago in May. Within 24 hours, she had opened a child-custody case with the US State Department.

She took night shifts driving a cab and tried to plan the return of her daughters. Her husband now refuses. Colleen speaks to them once a day by speaker phone as he listens and cuts off the conversation if she brings up topics he considers taboo. She has hired two lawyers, human-rights professor Anthony D'Amato and Bob Pavich of PSA International, a global consulting firm. "There's no legal precedent in this situation, because we're dealing in an area where we don't have established diplomatic relations," Pavich said. "We needed Senator Obama's help to try and break through the legal and diplomatic walls."

Having Obama as her advocate was Colleen's wildest fantasy come true. "I'm just extraordinarily pleased with what he's done for me," she said. "It makes me feel wonderful - one step closer to my daughters."

Not long after she got word from Obama's camp about his efforts, the phone rang again. It was her estranged husband. He reportedly told her, "Fuck Washington, fuck Obama and fuck you!"

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-29 10:24|| 2008-07-29 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Not long after she got word from Obama's camp about his efforts, the phone rang again. It was her estranged husband. He reportedly told her, "Fuck Washington, fuck Obama and fuck you!"

He's in trouble now! He'll have to answer to Reggie Love for that one.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-29 10:27|| 2008-07-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Put the Reverend Jessie Jackson on the case.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-07-29 10:34|| 2008-07-29 10:34|| Front Page Top

#10 So how do we know about this "private note?"

Barack "all politics, all the time" Obama wants to be SEEN doing good, not doing good. This, cameras and wounded vets, wailing wall prayers etc. And that's just been THIS month. BO is a serial scumbag.

Posted by Bin thinking again 2008-07-29 19:50|| 2008-07-29 19:50|| Front Page Top

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