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Divorce adam has been allowed on a visit with no one from the shannon family present. he will join his infant brother jason on the trip to visit a cousin. their older half brother mike shannon recalls just how nervous his father was. nobody wanted to say it, but the thought was always in the back of your mind, you know, what are they getting at here? why all of a sudden change? but at the end of the day you kind of want to understand from a grandmother s standpoint she wants some time with her grandson. the shannon family s trust in her was misplaced. thomas fleckenstein the state s stone in anne arundel said the facts reveal adam s grand mother was the co-conspirator of an international kidnapping weeks in the works. she came from her home country of egypt. she came here. she participated in the planning of the removal of the children from maryland. she participated in the story
were you notified? no. no. the office was not notified that she d been paroled, nor that there would be any action taken by immigration officials. at the time. reporter: if you re wondering how that could have happened, you re not alone. the state department told cnn it doesn t interfere in deportation cases, that is up to the u.s. immigration service. and no one from immigration has returned multiple phone calls and e-mails, asking for comment. michael shannon hired the lawyer who arguably knows more about international child abduction than anyone in the country, who believes the u.s. government not only has done nothing to help, it may have expedited afaf khalifa s deportation. these are american boys, american citizens. they re not entitled to be egyptian citizens. and they ve been held in a foreign country for 12 years, and the government unfortunately has done nothing about it.
Photograph of adam and jason with their father. i m tired of the saga. i ve been suffering at his hand since the day i met him. until now, he s still trying to make my life miserable. he won t leave me alone. the man just won t leave me alone. what does he want? reporter: well, he wants his sons back, he says. well, if he wants to see his sons so much, why hasn t he come here? nermeen, baby jason and adam reporter: back in maryland, michael shannon told us he has tried to talk to his boys every year since of the disappearance. the khalifa family refused to put them on the phone. he has sent e-mails for his sons. they are unanswered. would you know your son after 12 years? reporter: even asked for the u.s. embassy for a picture of his two sons. the family refused to allow the state department to take a photo. what he showed us are vitriolic e-mails sent by a much different
as an american citizen whose tax dollars go over there, is there no way we can say to egypt you want $3 billion a year for your military? give us back these 22 kids that are american citizens. well, i would argue that we have a very complex relationship that goes beyond military aid. we are trying to work with egypt s government as they transition to democracy to encourage all kinds of new practices. and one of them would be adherence to the hague convention or to recognize u.s. court orders. and we ll continue to urge them to do that. but i don t think we re going to just say, you know, we re through with you if you don t do this one thing because we have many things that we want them to do. this is one of them. reporter: michael shannon has heard that same explanation for more than a decade. and all that time he has been fighting the court case back in maryland michael s sons have