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<p>"Every day I wake up and find more things about America that I love," says a woman rescued from Saudi kidnappers.</p> <p>Don't try to sell Sarah Saga on a "McJobs America." Only a year ago this 24-year-old California-born woman was trapped in Saudi Arabia, where she had been taken at age six by her Saudi father in violation of a U.S. custody order. By contrast, the dawn of 2004 finds Miss Saga reunited with her mother, attending Fresno City College and supporting herself by working at the local McDonald's.</p>

The State Department's Saudi ProblemBy Wall Street Journal EditorialWall Street Journal | July 2, 2003 If July 4th is a little sweeter in Fresno this summer, it's for good reason. Only days ago this California city was the site of an early Independence Day, when 24-year-old Sarah Saga stepped off a plane onto the first American soil she'd touched since being taken to Saudi Arabia at age six. Her freedom affords two timely lessons. The first is that Washington is fully capable of arranging the liberation of our women and children held in Saudi Arabia against their will, with the right...

Wed June 25, 2003 11:30 PM ET HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba Wednesday took custody of two U.S. children allegedly kidnapped by their father, and promised to reunite them with their distraught mother, contrasting the incident with the headline-grabbing Elian Gonzalez saga. Henry and Victoria Wissa, aged 10 and 8 respectively, were being cared for at an undisclosed location until their mother, Cornelia Streeter, could arrive to pick them up, according to a government communique. The father, Anwar Wissa, was under arrest. Streeter reportedly sent a letter to President Fidel Castro through a friend, informing the Cuban leader Tuesday that her...

<p>An American woman is free at last. But her kids are still Saudi prisoners.</p> <p>FRESNO, Calif.--In this lifetime there can be few thrills greater than witnessing a fellow American take her first steps in freedom. And so it was with Sarah Saga, a plucky American mother of two whose cause this newspaper championed when she and her children sought refuge last week in the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah. In what must be seen as a bittersweet victory, the 24-year-old Ms. Saga stepped off an airplane here this Tuesday night into the loving arms of a mother who's had to wait 18 years for that embrace.</p>

TROUBLED KINGDOM American woman escapes Saudi Arabia Grandmother of kids 'really upset' about how Sarah left Mideast -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 25, 2003 2:45 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Sarah Saga, the American woman who was kidnapped as a child, brought to Saudi Arabia and forced to remain in the kingdom, is now in the United States, reports Fox News Channel and the New York Post. As WorldNetDaily reported, Saga, 23, was kidnapped by her father as a child in 1985 and taken to the kingdom. As has happened with other Americans, Saga was married off to a Saudi and bore...

IIRC correctly, the (current) Saga saga started last Wed, June 18?? Here are the mentions of Sarah Saga in the DOS briefings since then 6/20/2003 QUESTION: Yes. Did Sara Saga leave your Consulate in Jeddah, as she had planned to do? MR. REEKER: No, the U.S. citizen Sara Saga remains at the United States Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with her two children. Ms. Saga is free to depart Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Foreign Ministry approved this request during a meeting with the chargé d'affaires of the United States Embassy on June 18th and they processed the necessary paperwork for...

<p>A desperate American mother of two who escaped from her tyrannical Saudi husband and sought asylum at a U.S. consulate six days ago has decided to stay put until her children can come home with her. Sarah Saga, who turned 24 yesterday, fled with her two children, Ibrahim, 5, and Hanin, 3, from a prison-like home life with her husband and his family in a desperate bid for freedom.</p>