Same old, same old from the spinmasters: how to make Tara Brown and others the victims.

The Court says otherwise. If the television executives are smart they would let up on the 'poor Tara' spin. Because there may still be a time of reckoning where evidence not spin, rules.

My heart bleeds for the mother and her children, none of whom have an outcome they wanted.

One should not forget an Australian family court had previously awarded custody of the children to the mother.

A generous and completely naive mother allowed herself to be flim flamed by a patently untruthful deadbeat dad, who would it seems just regards the kids as property?

I mean who amongst us knowing what we know about the middle east would want any of our kids to be raised there?

Perhaps to be future grist for the mill as radicalized teens and turned into human bombs?

I mean these KIND AND GENTLE LEBANESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AT WAR WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS FOR YEARS, with the paris of the Middle East turned into a monument of rubble as a first consequence!

Politicians routinely blown up and women not safe on the streets at night?

Yes the attempt was clumsy at best by a bunch of bumbling MONEY FACED AMATEURS, who thought they could just snatch the kids in broad daylight, whereas, a properly planned professional operation, would have seen the (devastated) mother using all her feminine whiles, in order to be allowed to take the kids on a (goodbye forever darling) shopping trip and used the allowed time to slip a (it's just sugar mum) mickey finn into the grandmother's coffee, during a stage managed nonviolent coffee break, while someone kept grandma innocently distracted by repeatedly asking for directions?

Then get her (passed out) into an ambulance, (we'll follow in a taxi and see you at the hospital mum) and the kids on a fast boat (a traffic beating shortcut, kids) and into a (minutes away) Israeli port, where preplanned waiting connections and cooperating officials, would be able to get them legitimate identifying documentation, luggage full of newly laundered clothes etc, and on an australia bound plane.

And nothing a divided Lebanon could do about it?

By the time anyone was wiser, the kids would be up, up and away; in any halfway decently planned operation!

SUCCESS LOVES AND REWARDS GOOD PLANNING!
Rhrosty

@Suseonline

What an absolutely vile and grossly presumptuous thing to say about fathers who claim custody of their children:

“Yes, a true prince among men....and a more than worthy poster boy for all fathers who are angry and bitter that 'their' woman dared to leave them. Like all cowards that choose to use their own children as revenge pieces in the dirty game of relationship breakdowns.”

Is seems to me Suseonline that in your desperation to take the focus away from the sins committed by the mother and the other disreputable mobs involved, you take every opportunity to traduce a competent loving father who simply wants to exercise his right to raise his own children in his own home and not see his children finish up in some other man’s home. Of course you are one of those people who thinks the custody of children should always default to the mother irrespective of which parent is quitting the marriage.

As far as I can see the father is a good father and has the support of his mother who appears to have been criminally assaulted by mercenaries engaged by the mother and ch9.

Suseonline, like on a lot of things, you are dead flat wrong when you say the father “has denied such young children any time with their mother.” That is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say given that in the media it was said the mother returned Australia with the children then ripped up their passports.

According to my reading the father has told the mother she can see the children anytime she likes. Before the mother returned to Australia the parents and children had a peaceful meal together at a Maccas in Beirut. He also said something along the lines that he would arrange for the children to be seen by their mother from time to time in a third country. Taking into account the mother’s actions I suggest the father is being rather kind to her.

According to my reading, the father had been denying the mother any contact with her children via Skype etc, for months, claiming it "upset them". So he justified this to his children by claiming it was the time difference that was the problem. Amazing how he has now changed his tune!

According to my reading, the mother only got out of jail, once she had agreed to give up Australian custodial rights to the children, who did not know that she was in jail.

According to my reading, the kids were thrilled when informed that they were going back to Australia, when interviewed by the 60 minutes team.

Instead of growing up in Australia and having a mother, which every young child of that age needs, they will grow up in a warzone.

As these kids grow older, they will learn to spell their names and they will learn how to use Google. They will find out the truth and what really happened. They will have good reasons to hate their father for what he did. They are the ultimate losers in all this, which is the sad part of the story

@Yabby,

I don’t think it would be wise for the father to allow the mother to emotionally manipulate the children on Skype whilst she is still seeking to gain physical custody having been given legal custody in her (not his) homeland. I would be surprised if by now the children did not have Lebanese citizenship.

The father is smart in not subjecting himself to Australia’s fundamentally flawed family law legal system. He has shown the world the contempt that it deserves. In his situation better to stick with the legal system that favours himself than one than that favours mothers.

Yabby, I won’t bother with the rest of your twaddle.

Many of you are trading in BS and don't know what you're talking about.
You should really try to get the facts straight before you slander others.
This interview shows how easily people jump to conclusions before getting the full story.

http://soundcloud.com/kiis1065/21416-father-of-60-mins-kidnap-saga-ali-elamine