03:09 ص
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Books – Mahmoud Abdel Rahman:
The two families of the Taliban, Moamen Haitham and Fadi Saeed, arrived at Terminal 3 at Cairo Airport, to receive their sons, whose release the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, 29 days after they were kidnapped by gunmen, in Vereeniging, South Africa.
The plane, which took off from Johannesburg Airport in South Africa, at 12:30 am, will arrive at Cairo Airport at half past five on Tuesday morning.
The state of terror and anxiety experienced by the families of the two students for nearly a month, ended last Friday evening, June 10, after a call received by Haitham Kamel, the father of the kidnapped student, Moamen, from the Egyptian Consul, Karim Al-Khashab, in Pretoria, South Africa, informing him of the arrival of the authorities to a place His son and his liberation from the kidnappers, assuring him that Moamen and his colleague Fadi, are currently undergoing a medical examination to ensure their health, and he can talk to him shortly.
Which is what happened next. The father describes those moments as the happiest in his life: “Tell me, Papa, I am fine and we are free.” At that moment, the man could not contain himself and prostrated himself, thank God.
The following day, on Saturday evening, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the release of the two kidnapped students, with joint efforts between the Egyptian embassy there and the authorities in South Africa.
Moamen’s family began preparing to receive him, after reassuring him, as his father tells: “He told us two days and we will return to you,” after the end of some security measures, and Moamen’s contacts with his family were not interrupted during the past two days, “every time he talks to us or we talk to him.”
His father says: “We have prepared everything we need and are waiting for it, and his mother made him food that he liked. She made him a suit stuffed with grape leaves.”
Moamen’s father thanked all the authorities in the country for the effort made for the return of his son, stressing that he did not pay any money to the kidnappers, and that their release by the gunmen was due to the pressure exerted by the South African authorities on the kidnappers.
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