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WOW!!!!!!!! I wish they can change the law about the kidnapping issue. FBI cannot do nothing because they were oversea. But at least I am so glad that mother and son reunited! 
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After 11 Years, Mother Reunites With Kidnapped Son - News Story - WBAL Baltimore
After 11 Years, Mother Reunites With Kidnapped Son
POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT June 28, 2007
UPDATED: 10:10 am EDT June 29, 2007
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BALTIMORE -- A decade-long nightmare has finally come to an end for a Dundalk mother and her family.
Eleven years ago, Brenda Wahaidy's then-5-year-old son, Adam, was kidnapped by his father and taken to Egypt.
On Wednesday, Adam, who is now 16, returned to the United States and reunited with his family. WBAL TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., for the reunion.
Melser said Adam doesn't have any memory of his mother and speaks very little English.
Brenda Wahaidy said she has been waiting to reunite with her son for more than a decade.
"Everything has been very hard for me, and I'm sure for him, as well," she said.
Melser said she could hardly contain herself at the airport as she waited for Adam.
"I'm hoping I'm still standing when he comes out. I'm very nervous -- very nervous," she said.
Adam had a very interesting life to that point.
His parents married in 1990. His mother said she and his father, Wahaidy Wahaidy, an Egyptian Muslim, started having problems when they disagreed on how to raise Adam.
The couple divorced when Adam was five, and on June 14, 1996, on a weekend visitation, Adam's father kidnapped him and took him to Egypt, where he spent the next 11 years of his life.
"Nobody could do anything about it," said Jennifer Harrison, Adam's first cousin who lived with his mother during her roughest times.
"Initially, there was no contact at all. And then when there finally was some contact, Brenda Wahaidy would cry and beg and plead to let him come home to his mother. And (his father would tell her) he's not coming home," Harrison said.
Brenda Wahaidy said that over the years, she was able to keep in touch with her son and knew where he was in Egypt, but the FBI told her there was nothing she could do because of U.S.- Egyptian relations.
"No one can really help you. When they're taken to the Middle East, you just have to hope they come back to you," she said.
In this case, Adam did. He told his father he wanted to return to the U.S.
After a tearful and emotional reunion, Adam got to meet most of his old -- yet new -- family.
"It's like meeting a stranger for the first time," said A.J. Martin, Adam's half brother.
While Adam couldn't answer Melzer's questions because of the language barrier, Brenda Wahaidy summed it up perfectly.
"He's a very handsome boy. Very grown up. I'm glad to have him," she said.
Adam's family said they have been busy buying him all sorts of things, such as a new computer and clothes.
Melser said they are planning a huge family get-together this weekend as an official homecoming.
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After 11 Years, Mother Reunites With Kidnapped Son - News Story - WBAL Baltimore
After 11 Years, Mother Reunites With Kidnapped Son
POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT June 28, 2007
UPDATED: 10:10 am EDT June 29, 2007
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BALTIMORE -- A decade-long nightmare has finally come to an end for a Dundalk mother and her family.
Eleven years ago, Brenda Wahaidy's then-5-year-old son, Adam, was kidnapped by his father and taken to Egypt.
On Wednesday, Adam, who is now 16, returned to the United States and reunited with his family. WBAL TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser was at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., for the reunion.
Melser said Adam doesn't have any memory of his mother and speaks very little English.
Brenda Wahaidy said she has been waiting to reunite with her son for more than a decade.
"Everything has been very hard for me, and I'm sure for him, as well," she said.
Melser said she could hardly contain herself at the airport as she waited for Adam.
"I'm hoping I'm still standing when he comes out. I'm very nervous -- very nervous," she said.
Adam had a very interesting life to that point.
His parents married in 1990. His mother said she and his father, Wahaidy Wahaidy, an Egyptian Muslim, started having problems when they disagreed on how to raise Adam.
The couple divorced when Adam was five, and on June 14, 1996, on a weekend visitation, Adam's father kidnapped him and took him to Egypt, where he spent the next 11 years of his life.
"Nobody could do anything about it," said Jennifer Harrison, Adam's first cousin who lived with his mother during her roughest times.
"Initially, there was no contact at all. And then when there finally was some contact, Brenda Wahaidy would cry and beg and plead to let him come home to his mother. And (his father would tell her) he's not coming home," Harrison said.
Brenda Wahaidy said that over the years, she was able to keep in touch with her son and knew where he was in Egypt, but the FBI told her there was nothing she could do because of U.S.- Egyptian relations.
"No one can really help you. When they're taken to the Middle East, you just have to hope they come back to you," she said.
In this case, Adam did. He told his father he wanted to return to the U.S.
After a tearful and emotional reunion, Adam got to meet most of his old -- yet new -- family.
"It's like meeting a stranger for the first time," said A.J. Martin, Adam's half brother.
While Adam couldn't answer Melzer's questions because of the language barrier, Brenda Wahaidy summed it up perfectly.
"He's a very handsome boy. Very grown up. I'm glad to have him," she said.
Adam's family said they have been busy buying him all sorts of things, such as a new computer and clothes.
Melser said they are planning a huge family get-together this weekend as an official homecoming.
