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West Bank Family Upset by MySpace No-Show
Bellsouth.net ^ | 6/14/06 | David N. Goodman

Posted on 06/14/2006 2:48:12 PM PDT by pitinkie

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) - The mother of a West Bank man who invited a 16-year-old American to the Mideast to get married says she is distraught that the teenager has returned home and hopes to bring the couple together.

Sana Jinzawi says she was waiting at the airport in Tel Aviv to pick up Katherine Lester, who met her 20-year-old son Abdullah on the popular MySpace.com Web site.

Lester had boarded a flight to Israel last week after slipping out of her mother's house in Gilford, Mich. But Sana Jinzawi said by telephone from her West Bank home in Jericho Wednesday that her son was heartbroken and insisted the two are in love.

"She was going to sign a marriage contract as soon as she got here," the mother said, adding she told Lester to "bring a pink dress for the engagement party and a white dress for the wedding."

"She wanted to convert to Islam and wear the head covering and live with us and adopt our culture," Sana Jinzawi said.

Abdullah Jinzawi, who works in his father's business delivering goods to minimarkets, is no longer giving interviews. But in a phone interview with WNEM-TV in Saginaw, Mich., on Saturday, he said he met Lester on the Web seven months ago, that he was a wealthy businessman and that he wanted to marry her. He said he sent her the money for the flight.

Sana Jinzawi said five other Jericho residents had brought American girls to Jericho in recent years and that all the couples now live in the U.S.

Sana Jinzawi says her son and Lester have been in touch since the teenager returned to Michigan. "Neither of them are giving up on each other," she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: byemomimoff2canada; dumbteen; myspace
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To: pitinkie
Sana Jinzawi says her son and Lester have been in touch since the teenager returned to Michigan.

Appears that this 16-year-old's mother hasn't changed a thing if the kid is still in touch with the pedophile.

21 posted on 06/14/2006 3:04:01 PM PDT by LibSnubber (Liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
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To: Centurion2000

No such critter under Islam.


22 posted on 06/14/2006 3:04:14 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: pitinkie

that girl is soooo freaking lucky she didn't show up, she has no idea what she almost got into. They would have taken her passport away and beat and raped her till she did what she was told, and there is NOTHING anyone could or would do to help her.



23 posted on 06/14/2006 3:06:03 PM PDT by conservative physics
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To: pitinkie

Myspace link to a Katherine Lester in Gilford MI

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=56212385


24 posted on 06/14/2006 3:07:03 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Centurion2000
So bascially she is admitting that he is a pedophile. (Age of consent laws)

She is at the age of consent in Michigan (16).

25 posted on 06/14/2006 3:07:06 PM PDT by BeHoldAPaleHorse ( ~()):~)>)
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To: conservative physics


Unless..."Hi, we're a SEAL team, and we're here to get you out."

Best thing anyone stuck in that kind of situation could hear.


26 posted on 06/14/2006 3:09:22 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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To: LibSnubber
Appears that this 16-year-old's mother hasn't changed a thing if the kid is still in touch with the pedophile.

I'm not too keen on the whole situation, but a 20-year-old guy and a 16-year-old girl is hardly pedophilia. Let's not dilute the meaning of the word.
27 posted on 06/14/2006 3:09:39 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: dawn53

Good Lord.


28 posted on 06/14/2006 3:12:24 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: dawn53
Geez! Saw her picture on her My Space page. If I saw that girl in the flesh, I would never imagine that body belonged to a girl less than 22. She can pay for college $1 bill at a time once she is old enough. No doubt about it.

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29 posted on 06/14/2006 3:13:49 PM PDT by speed_addiction (And the Lord said, "Who shall I send? Who will stand for us?" Said I, "Here I am...Send me.")
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To: Xenalyte

"For that matter, what mother of a 16-year-old girl doesn't know what her daughter's doing on MySpace?"

To give you a hint, the news article I read a few days ago had mom saying something like "With all the stuff the government can do now under the Patriot Act, but a 16-year old can get on an airplane for another country?"


30 posted on 06/14/2006 3:14:35 PM PDT by geopyg ("I would rather have a clean gov't than one where -quote- 1st Amend. rights are respected." J.McCain)
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To: Centurion2000
So bascially she is admitting that he is a pedophile.

Perhaps he is a legally defined pedophile in this country but attraction to physically mature members of the opposite sex is NOT pedophilia. By the same token most of the Catholic priest "pedophilia" was straight out homosexual abuse, not pedophilia. Reacting to attraction by a 16 year old may be regarded generally as inappropriate but it is not pedophilia. An actual pedophile is someone attracted to pre pubescent children.

31 posted on 06/14/2006 3:15:25 PM PDT by arthurus (It was better to fight them OVER THERE than here.)
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To: Xenalyte
What mother of a 16-year-old girl would let her go alone to Canada?

Well, it is probably only an hour from home. The border tends not to be a big deal to people who live near it.

32 posted on 06/14/2006 3:16:38 PM PDT by ordinaryguy
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To: dawn53

OMG she is still logging on!! Parents are idiots!


33 posted on 06/14/2006 3:17:18 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)
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To: dawn53
This from her MySpace post:

About me: I'm kind a shy at first but I like to do fun things. I love men all types of men and I don't care about your age, you can be like 18 or 35, it's what's inside that counts.

Who I'd like to meet: A nice funny guy. Looks to me are not as important as someone who can make me laugh. Age is only a number.

It reads like a sting operation trolling for old men looking for young girls. If this isn't a hoax, I'd say she has some very serious upbringing/parental supervision issues.

34 posted on 06/14/2006 3:20:49 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Centurion2000

I don't think the same age of consent laws apply over there. I'm sure the girls parents are horrified though.


35 posted on 06/14/2006 3:23:03 PM PDT by Sender ("Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons-of-b*tches we're going up against. By God, I do".)
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To: TSchmereL

Where did you find that info on the woman who was blown up? I haven't seen any info on her. Thanks!


36 posted on 06/14/2006 3:23:37 PM PDT by InsensitiveConservative
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To: dawn53

After reading her profile- assuming ? this is her- I am speechless. She is advertising for a man, any man- up the 35 YEARS OLD!! This girl is asking for trouble, as my mother would have said.

I can not imagine a girl having a site like this- pretty come hither I think.


37 posted on 06/14/2006 3:24:42 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Build a Real Border Fence, and secure the border!!!)
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To: pitinkie

They held an assembly at my daughter's school this year about the dangers of myspace and similiar sites. I have repeatedly warned my daughter of internet danger- and keep track of what she does online. She said very few of the kids really paid attention to the info they were given and the horrible stories they were told about people molested and stalked over things on the net. The kids don't think it really is a problem- YIKES!


38 posted on 06/14/2006 3:28:02 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Build a Real Border Fence, and secure the border!!!)
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To: Tammy8

No way of telling it's her, but some of her friend's comments tend to lead to that conclusion. Since the story's only been out a couple days, it would be hard to accumulate a friend's list and so many responses in just a couple days (if it was a fake somebody put up after the fact.)

In the last paragraph of the article, when asked if she was still in contact with the guy, the lawyer basically said, "Yes."


39 posted on 06/14/2006 3:28:44 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: Tammy8

Oh, I can imagine girls having all sorts of sites like that.

What I can't get my head around is what sort of parent would allow that to happen.


40 posted on 06/14/2006 3:28:46 PM PDT by Xenalyte (The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.)
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