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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Try imagining hundreds of thousands of teens with worse myspace pages.
Thank goodness these US officials were paying attention, they have saved a girl from bringing a ton of grief and worse to herself.
Its sick
Um, you don't even need a Passport to go to Canada if you're a U.S. Citizen. That other is really stupid on that count right there. I've been to Canada three times the past decade and you don't need a Passport, just valid U.S. Drivers liscense. I don't know who was stupider, this girl or her parents. The girl I can forgive, most 16 year olds are stupid out of being so naive. But he parents have, no excuse.
BINGO! You sir, hit the mark.
According to the report I read, the said she was going to Canada with a friend's family. When mom drove her to the train station, the family wasn't there. Mom took her home. Kid skipped out in the middle of the night.
Missie wouldn't have liked wearing the burka!
Having no father in her life would explain a lot.
They're four years apart and she's 16. The relationship can be a bad idea without distorting and weakening the word pedophile to include willing teenagers.
You and I agree on that.
A 20 yo who is attraced to 16 yo s is hardly a e. ia is being attracted to a ually immature person. with teens is inappropriate and morally wrong in our society, but not ia.
This kinda re-enforces something I've thought recently. Animals are smarter than most people give them credit for, and kids are stupider than many people assume they could possibly be.
Hello, could you de-code this post for us? :>)
Is it just me or is that scary. Find a niave, lonely American girl on-line, talk her into marrying you and then use your wife's status as an American citizen to get into the country. Sounds like a plan to me. I wonder if the Palestinian came up with this by themselves or did OBL have a hand it in?
She wouldn't have liked being raped into submission and beaten to within an inch of her life either. And clearly she knows NOTHING about islam. Just a stupid spoiled rotten little girl with a terrible mother and no father who thinks nothing can happen to her that she doesn't want. If she goes there and becomes this arab camel's sexual property and whipping girl, I feel no pity for her. Stupidity does not deserve pity.
Some teenagers will do anything to get out of the house.
A girl that looks like that would not need to link up with a guy halfway around the world.
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