[ambrose]

Belgium will give up the girls for "good relations" with Iran.

As Clinton/Reno did with Elian...

[af_vet_1981]

As Clinton/Reno did with Elian...

Exactly !

[psychoknk]

The Elian case was significantly different than this one. In this case, the mother has legal custody of the children, in which case the Belgian government should fight more for the children. With Elian, the mother died while making the trip. As such, the father is the kid's closest relative. I don't care how much better the U.S. is than Cuba, or how little the father wanted to actually be with the kid - when deciding between grandparents and a father who isn't abusive, the father should clearly win out.