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Fair and balanced - and forgotten

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If you watched the Greta show Thursday night, you might have seen Christine Jeanbart and Zanni Meguerian plead for help to find their sons. 

(Greta was on vacation. Some other fair and balanced lady was sitting in.)

As I've reported a few times this week, Meguerian and Jeanbart's ex-husbands, who are brothers, took their children and might be headed for their native Syria.

Well, the Greta show called me Thursday and asked me to go on the air with the women. I'd "set up" the story for the mothers' interview. I said "sure."

A car -- don't know if it was a limo --  was supposed to pick me up at 6:30 p.m. I waited outside my South Bay home. I waited. And waited. And I called the show. I text-messaged. I got no response. I waited a little more. I started to get kinda sweaty in my suit. I ran back inside to go to the restroom. I went back outside and waited.

The show started.

I called my friends. Was there breaking news? Had I been bumped?

Nah. It was Caylee, Caylee, Caylee, Caylee. 

I finally gave up. I sent a message to the producer: "Thanks for wasting my time."

Turns out the producer got a phone call while he rode the train home in New York. Someone wondered where I was.

He called me. He seemed a bit panicked. I explained I hadn't been picked up. He was sorry. He called it inexcusable. He was angry with the limo company.

Oh well. So much for my closeup.

I do hope the national TV exposure helps bring the kids home to their moms and I will continue to monitor the case myself.

And, I'll get my spot on TV a little later on this year. Stay tuned.

Ok, time to watch Keith.


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Brother blasts Westchester men who abducted sons

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George Silah1.jpgJohn Silah-1.jpgThis email came to me this morning from Robert Sulahian, the brother of the Westchester men who abducted their sons and might be headed to Syria:

"I undersigned Dr.Robert Sulahian (Silah), brother of John & George Silah, after reviewing the websites which has been designed on this occasion, project the heartrending story of the action that John & George have taken against their families (X wives & children). I declare that this action is categorically rejected and I publicly condemn this inhuman and harsh action of my brothers that has been taken against their X wives and children, consequently, against the human kind at large.

He also said he does not believe his brothers will harm the children.

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Judianne Cochran, a  consultant in interstate/international parental abduction (criminalthe children1.jpg interference with custody), custodial interference and parental alienation sent along these comments in regard to the abduction of three boys by their Westchester fathers..

She often becomes a liaison between a parent and agencies involved in custody investigations and recovery.
 
1.   The LAPD is required by Federal law to take the reports no matter WHO has custody and they are required to immediately enter the reports into the NCIC.  The Missing Children's Assistance Act is VERY clear on this.
 
2.  The delays being created by the stupidity of the PD could prove fatal for these children and mothers ever being reunited.  These kids have not been flagged by the State Department, Interpol or brought to the attention of ICE.
 
3.  California law regarding Criminal Interference with Custody does not differentiate between the parents when an abduction occurs.  The concealing parent will be charged with a felony no matter what the custody arrangement is, indeed even if there isn't one in place. 
 
4.  Someone needs to apprise Lt Mossler of the law ASAP before these boys are permanently missing. 
 
By the way, Canada is extremely cooperative in locating and recovering American children brought there illegally.  However, these men already have a month's head start and it appears that no one is doing their job in LA County......as usual.
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These are photos of the Silah brothers of Westchester who are suspected of taking their sons and disappearing. The boys' mothers are frantically trying to find them before the boys are taken to Syria. A full story is coming later tonight.

If you know where George, bottom right, and John Silah, bottom left, are, along with Greg, top right, and his cousins, Zaven and Alex, call the police.
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