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Friday, April 26, 2013

AMERICAN MOM’S DARING RESCUE OF ABDUCTED SON IN EGYPT READS LIKE A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE SCRIPT

Through the slit of the burqa she wore to blend in on the streets of Alexandria, Egypt, Kalli Atteya waited and watched until the boy climbed off the school bus. When she saw him, she moved quickly, grabbing his arm and steering him toward the waiting motorized cart.

"Get in," she said to the 12-year-old, who recognized his mother's piercing blue eyes and obeyed wordlessly.

Soon, they were speeding toward a safehouse where they would wait for three weeks before returning to the U.S., and ending a 20-month ordeal that began with another abduction — one the boy, Khalil Mohamed “Niko” Atteya, did not accept willingly. His father, Mohamed Atteya, who is wanted by the U.S. authorities, is accused of luring the mother and son to his homeland, then snatching the boy and leaving Kalli Atteya and her sister on the side of a desolate road between Cairo and Port Said on Aug. 1, 2011.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 27, 2013 at 4:22 AM

    Were this to happen to me or to anyone I know, the outcome would be very different. A mother's love can only take her so far as her wallet will allow. I wouldn't have been able to take the first trip, much less persist. That doesn't mean the son is not loved.

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  2. AnonymousApril 27, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    Sadly this happen more than people know. Egyptians are famous for finding someone to marry them and 5 years later after they get citizenship they are gone.

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