Kidnapped sisters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7756675/Kidnapped-German-sisters-speak-Arabic-to-each-other.html

Interesting how they speak Arabic to each other and want to cook over an open fire.
Perhaps children kidnapped in Portugal are treated better by their abductors, than in Yemen as these children obviously won't be integrating the same day and sitting down to eat dinner at the already set place at the table. (How can the McCanns come out with so much Bull*?)

fred wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/7756675/Kidnapped-German-sisters-speak-Arabic-to-each-other.html

Interesting how they speak Arabic to each other and want to cook over an open fire.
Perhaps children kidnapped in Portugal are treated better by their abductors, than in Yemen as these children obviously won't be integrating the same day and sitting down to eat dinner at the already set place at the table. (How can the McCanns come out with so much Bull*?)

And that was after only one year, yet the McCanns appeal last Christmas was for someone to help them fill that 'spare place,' at their dinner table. After just over two and a half years, did they really expect that if Madeleine had been found, she'd just fit right in with their life in Rothley?

Kidnapped German sisters speak Arabic to each other
The freed children of German aid workers kidnapped in Yemen a year ago speak only Arabic to each other, have given each other new names, and have asked their relatives if they can cook over an open fire.

By Allan Hall in Berlin
Published: 6:56PM BST 23 May 2010


The two kidnapped girls Anna (L) and Lydia from Saxony, who were freed by Saudi Arabian special forces Photo: SAECHSISCHE ZETUNG/PRIVAT! Lydia Hentschel, five, calls herself Sarah and sister Anna, four, is known as Fatima.

Experts believe their abductors may have named them as they moved them around to secret hideouts during their ordeal. They had their hair dyed with henna, play with clay pots.


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The children were reunited with their uncle and other family members late on Wednesday after being flown back to Germany aboard a Bundeswehr aircraft.

The tiny village of Meschwitz in Saxony where, in the words of mayor Norbert Wolf "practically everyone knows everyone else," has promised to collectively pull together to provide the sisters with the care they need after their ordeal.

Anna and Lydia were abducted along with their parents and brother Simon, two, in June 2009. A British engineer, Anthony Saunders, two German care workers and a South Korean teacher were also taken.

Both care workers and the teacher were found dead a few days later in the Saada province while the fate of the others remains unknown. Kidnapping in the area is said to be co-ordinated between Shiite rebels and terrorist network al-Qaeda.

The girls were freed on Monday in an operation conducted by Saudi Arabian special forces in a village near to the Saudi border with Yemen. There was no sign of their parents Johannes and Sabine. He worked as an engineer at a hospital where his wife was employed as a nurse.