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reporter: it is an international nightmare that began with a most american of love stories. in 1995 michael shannon was a computer specialist in chicago when his best friend invited him to a company softball game. the company was the engineering giant bechtel, and on that softball field he met a bechtel employee, nermeen khalifa, and fell in love. she was in your eyes american. americanized. yeah. i didn t find out until three months after we were dating that her father was born in cairo. reporter: her egyptian father was an extremely wealthy and powerful businessman who made sure his daughters, including nermeen, were born u.s. citizens. it wasn t long before michael shannon and nermeen khalifa were married. and michael found out just how wealthy the khalifa family was. for a while was it a good marriage? fun?
he turned to the u.s. state department for help and found out he is not alone. we are aware of 22 cases, but remember this is self-reporting and there might be many more cases. reporter: ambassador susan jacobs is the u.s. state department special adviser on children s issues. egypt, she says, is a difficult country to deal with, because it s not signed on to the hague convention regarding children s issue, which allows, in some cases, for the return of abducted kids. as an american citizen whose tax dollars go over there, is there no way we can t 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 with egypt 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
this is all his side of the story. these are all his lies. and i don t know how it s on record, on court records at all. because i was just i never had any rulings against me for any of these things that you mentioned. i have the court records with me. i could show you them. i m stunned that you haven t seen them. you were part of them. i have not seen any court records at all. reporter: there is no record at all that nermeen herself was abused. again, she says, that is a conspiracy. i had a broken tooth. and a swollen nose. the reason i ask is because i have got huge files on this case through the years and i haven t seen any of that. i m telling you, even the police were biased against me. and that s why you fled to egypt? why do you have to word it that way? i didn t flee. i was protecting myself and my children.
proudly doond it. without hostility. michael shannon believes his ex-wife has turned his sons against him, but against all the odds, he s optimistic to this day. it s what they say in egypt, it s god s will. they have to come back to the united states. they re u.s. citizens. reporter: michael shannon can only hope now for the future, the days his sons each turn 18 and can leave egypt on their own. that is the day he believes they will finally know the truth about their father, that he never stopped fighting for them, that he never stopped loving them, that he never stopped trying to be their dad. patty cake, patty cake, baker s man. bake me a cake as fast as you can. when a father can absolutely be certain that the images being shown are in fact pictures of
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