Australian TV Crew Caught Trying To Recover Two Children In Beirut

Story out of Beirut, Lebanon:

An Australian mother and TV crew were charged Tuesday over their involvement in the attempted abduction of two children in Lebanon's capital.

The mother and a four-member crew for Australia's 60 Minutes program have been detained in Beirut since last Wednesday, judicial sources said, after authorities thwarted an attempt to take the woman's two children back to Australia.

CCTV footage broadcast on Lebanese television appeared to show several people grabbing the children, who the father said were aged five and three, from their grandmother Ibtissam Berri and bundling them into a car.

Lebanese authorities said they have evidence that the crew's employer, Channel Nine, paid about $88,000 for a "recovery" team to snatch the children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The mother, Sally Faulkner, was subsequently arrested and the children were returned to their father. The files on the case have been transferred to a judge for further investigation. Cont.

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