Mercenaries Snatch Calgary Mom's Children

Six months ago Calgary mother Melissa Hawach said goodbye to her 2 young daughters as they left for a holiday in Australia with her estranged husband, Lebanese national Joseph Hawach. When they failed to return home to Calgary 3 weeks later, the mother was told the children had been taken to war-torn Lebanon, where the man has citizenship, to avoid returning them to their mother.

After months and months of exhausting every legal avenue open to her (Lebanon does not have an extradition treaty with Canada), the Calgary woman now finds herself on the run in Lebanon with the 2 girls. She apparently hired 5 ex-British commandos to snatch her daughters back, which they successfully did this past Wednesday. 2 of the mercenaries were arrested later Wednesday at Beirut's international airport Wednesday amid accusations they had kidnapped the children.

International warrants were issued long ago for the father, but Lebanon does not recognize these orders. Should Melissa make it back to Canada with the girls, she could not be sent back to Lebanon to face charges.

It seems to me the Canadian government should go out of their way to ensure this woman and her children are safely returned to Canada. This in light of the millions of dollars spent on evacuating Lebanese holding Canadian passports this summer when the war with Israel was occurring (after-which a majority of these same people, who screamed to be evacuated, simply returned to Lebanon).

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