سوالف للجميع - الأميرة البحرينية تعود لوطنها

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01-10-2001, 11:56 PM

هذه الصعوه تتمرد على اهلها وتخالف الواقع

وأعتقد مصيرها مثل نسيب صدام حسين الموت بعد العوده

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Report: Bahraini Princess Who Wed Marine Goes Home

Updated: Sat, Sep 29 4:18 PM EDT
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The Bahraini princess who sneaked out of her country to elope with a U.S. Marine in 1999 is returning home because of a marriage gone sour and family fears about her safety, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.

Meriam Al-Khalifa Johnson, who swept out of Bahrain hiding under a baseball cap and flashing fake Marine identification, flew to Washington on Thursday to catch a flight back home to the Middle East, the newspaper said.

The couple inspired a television movie, "Romeo and Juliet set against Desert Storm," and a foreign-relations tempest when the Bahraini government asked the United States to send the princess back.

The two finally married in Las Vegas, but are now considering divorce, Al-Khalifa Johnson told friends this week, the Times said.

The newspaper reported that Al-Khalifa Johnson, 19, told her husband, Jason Johnson, 26, to get a job, while the ex-Marine, reduced in rank for forging the fake identification that let her evade Bahraini security and who left the Marine Corps early, wanted to attend college.

In addition, her family feared for her safety in the United States in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon near Washington and provoked hate crimes against people of Middle Eastern descent.

FBI Director Robert Mueller said on Thursday that about 90 so-called hate-crime investigations had been launched across the country.

"I love my wife deeply," the Times quoted Jason Johnson as saying from his mother's home about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles.

"This was a surprise to us all," he said. "We had some general aches and pains in our marriage, but nothing bad, nothing like some of our friends. She never complained. She never said anything."

The romance began in the Bahrain emirate, a key U.S. ally in the Gulf where Al-Khalifa Johnson's father is related to the ruling emir and Jason Johnson was stationed with U.S. forces.

By the time the couple arrived in the United States, Bahrain had asked the State Department to return Al-Khalifa Johnson, sparking a diplomatic tangle that ended in the couple's favor after Al-Khalifa Johnson said she faced physical harm for socializing with non-Muslims if she returned to Bahrain.

Though Bahrain protested that accusation, the U.S. government allowed her to stay and issued a green card last May, entitling her to permanent residence, which she could lose if the marriage breaks up.