[AlexW]

Can she not leave, or is it that she can not take the kids with her?
I really do feel somewhat sorry for her, but to a limit.

"A_perfect_lady" says that she was forced to marry the creep.
Do we know that to be fact?
Are the kids a product of rape?

If I go off to another country, I do so with the knowledge that I have to live by THEIR laws and customs, not that of the US.
If she was kidnaped or forced, then that's another matter.

"She followed her heart even if it was to us a foolish decision."

This happens probably thousands of times, and every day, in the US.

I am still trying to understand why this is not a common custody dispute.

[JustPiper]

I am still trying to understand why this is not a common custody dispute.

Because in Saudi a woman has no custody rights and the US is backing them up and not interfering with 'their' laws!

[FITZ]

I am still trying to understand why this is not a common custody dispute.

Should the US government get tangled up in child custody disputes? It has a time or two --- when the US senator flew to Jonestown, it was about a child custody dispute and the kool-aid drinkers were living in a foreign country, the government got involved in Waco because of child custody disputes and that ended in disaster and then Janet Reno got involved in the Elian child custody dispute. How many Arab families should we kill on Arab land because they and we don't agree on who should raise the children?

[SendShaqtoIraq]

Except that this one in the embassy right now did not choose to be in SA. She was taken there at age 6 by her Saudi father and then never allowed to leave. Married off to another Saudi, again by the work of her father.