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Title: Saudi princesses 'seek Obama's help for freedom'
Post by: Gazoo on March 27, 2014, 06:04:26 pm

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London (AFP) - A former wife of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah appealed to US President Barack Obama on Thursday for help in the case of four daughters she says are being held in a royal palace.

Alanoud AlFayez, 57, a Jordanian national who has lived in London since her divorce from the Saudi monarch in 2003, said her children needed to be "saved".

Her comments come ahead of Obama's visit to the kingdom on Friday, during which US lawmakers have urged him to address rights violations in Saudi Arabia.

"Since 13 years, my daughters Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher are being held captive," AlFayez told AFP. "They need to be saved and released immediately."

She added: "Mr Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters."

AlFayez, who married the Saudi king when she was only 15, said her daughters had recently had their twice-monthly trips to buy food, water and medicine for themselves and their pets stopped.

Her eldest daughter Sahar, 42, has complained about her situation on the social media website Twitter.

"We have no passports or ID, we are under house arrest, with little food left for ourselves and pets," she told AFP in an email, without saying how she had access to the Internet.

http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-princesses-seek-obamas-help-freedom-163145222.html;_ylt=AwrTWfxOVTRTsRkAoKjQtDMD (http://news.yahoo.com/saudi-princesses-seek-obamas-help-freedom-163145222.html;_ylt=AwrTWfxOVTRTsRkAoKjQtDMD)

Laura Bush helped more of these women but you will never hear about it.

Title: Re: Saudi princesses 'seek Obama's help for freedom'
Post by: Oceander on March 27, 2014, 10:24:22 pm

She's asking B.O. for help?  I'm guessing she hasn't been paying any attention to Ukraine.

Title: Re: Saudi princesses 'seek Obama's help for freedom'
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on March 27, 2014, 10:31:12 pm

Quote from: Oceander on March 27, 2014, 10:24:22 pm

She's asking B.O. for help?  I'm guessing she hasn't been paying any attention to Ukraine.

I'm guessing she hasn't been paying any attention to BO... period. 

Title: Re: Saudi princesses 'seek Obama's help for freedom'
Post by: Gazoo on March 28, 2014, 01:50:18 pm

Saudi king's ex-wife begs Obama to help free her four starving daughters | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591253/Cast-wife-Saudi-king-begs-Obama-help-free-four-starving-daughters-whove-locked-away-palace-13-years.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591253/Cast-wife-Saudi-king-begs-Obama-help-free-four-starving-daughters-whove-locked-away-palace-13-years.html)

Obama arrives in Saudi soon. Will he defy the King and save the women? Doubtful, he will get another necklace and make some more helo deals.

Title: Re: Saudi princesses 'seek Obama's help for freedom'
Post by: Howie66 on March 28, 2014, 03:02:22 pm

 :silly: :silly: :silly: :silly:

Obama??

Silly woman!