04-19-2011, 04:35 PM
thanks Nina...
Ray Charles could have seen this coming!
AJC
Abed Suleiman said Tuesday that he and his wife are back together again and “happier than ever” and he wants to dispel all the false stories about why she disappeared for almost a week.
SEE: BALLOON BOY.
The 30-year-old mother of five was found last Thursday, but neither her family nor the Bartow County sheriff, whose office was leading the search for her, would say where Wazineh Suleiman had been since leaving her children at home, alone, watching television while she supposedly went to Walmart to rent a video.
Abed Suleiman began contacting media outlets Tuesday morning, inviting them to face-to-face interviews later in the day. $$$$$$$$$$ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is scheduled to meet with the Suleiman's Tuesday afternoon.
“Wazineh and I need to get a message out there!” Abed Suleiman said in the emailed invitation.$$$$$$$$$$$$
The husband reported his wife missing when he returned home from an aborted hunting trip about 10 minutes after she left the evening of April 8. Their five children -- between the ages of 6 and 12 – were at home.
In the following days there was speculation that Abed Suleiman had harmed her or that Wazineh Suleiman had been kidnapped.
The mystery deepened when her parked car was found abandoned at a vacant business near I-75 in Cherokee County a few days after she was reported missing.
That was fueled by reports that they had financial troubles. According to documents filed in U.S. bankruptcy court, the Suleimans owed more than $1.2 million when they filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August. The couple, with more than $150,000 in credit card debt, was forced to surrender most of their assets, including rental property in Florida. The couple kept their Law Road home and a 2009 Toyota Tacoma.
Wazineh Suleiman answered a phone call placed Tuesday morning in response to the email but the husband got on the phone to explain what they wanted to say to reporters.
“We want people out there to understand how things work,” Abed Suleiman told the AJC.
He said they wanted to talk about “life, family and marriage” and to address the questions raised by the “pessimists. Don’t believe all that. Just have faith in God and look at all the positives. Everything is in God’s plan and everything happens for a reason.”
Abed Suleiman said he and his wife will discuss “everything. Nothing will be held back.” They will talk about their lives growing up, “our religion and our culture," Abed Suleiman said.
“Things will be pulled out of context if I don’t tell you how we were raised,” he said. “I’m not doing anything over the phone ... This [his wife’s disappearance] could have went many different ways. There are so many outcomes. People started assuming the worst: I murdered her, I abused her, she ran off with another man.”
But “first and foremost,” Abed Suleiman said, “she’s here. She’s back because she wants to be. We’re happier than ever. We’re looking at this as a lesson, an eye-opener.”
Ray Charles could have seen this coming!
AJC
Abed Suleiman said Tuesday that he and his wife are back together again and “happier than ever” and he wants to dispel all the false stories about why she disappeared for almost a week.
SEE: BALLOON BOY.
The 30-year-old mother of five was found last Thursday, but neither her family nor the Bartow County sheriff, whose office was leading the search for her, would say where Wazineh Suleiman had been since leaving her children at home, alone, watching television while she supposedly went to Walmart to rent a video.
Abed Suleiman began contacting media outlets Tuesday morning, inviting them to face-to-face interviews later in the day. $$$$$$$$$$ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is scheduled to meet with the Suleiman's Tuesday afternoon.
“Wazineh and I need to get a message out there!” Abed Suleiman said in the emailed invitation.$$$$$$$$$$$$
The husband reported his wife missing when he returned home from an aborted hunting trip about 10 minutes after she left the evening of April 8. Their five children -- between the ages of 6 and 12 – were at home.
In the following days there was speculation that Abed Suleiman had harmed her or that Wazineh Suleiman had been kidnapped.
The mystery deepened when her parked car was found abandoned at a vacant business near I-75 in Cherokee County a few days after she was reported missing.
That was fueled by reports that they had financial troubles. According to documents filed in U.S. bankruptcy court, the Suleimans owed more than $1.2 million when they filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in August. The couple, with more than $150,000 in credit card debt, was forced to surrender most of their assets, including rental property in Florida. The couple kept their Law Road home and a 2009 Toyota Tacoma.
Wazineh Suleiman answered a phone call placed Tuesday morning in response to the email but the husband got on the phone to explain what they wanted to say to reporters.
“We want people out there to understand how things work,” Abed Suleiman told the AJC.
He said they wanted to talk about “life, family and marriage” and to address the questions raised by the “pessimists. Don’t believe all that. Just have faith in God and look at all the positives. Everything is in God’s plan and everything happens for a reason.”
Abed Suleiman said he and his wife will discuss “everything. Nothing will be held back.” They will talk about their lives growing up, “our religion and our culture," Abed Suleiman said.
“Things will be pulled out of context if I don’t tell you how we were raised,” he said. “I’m not doing anything over the phone ... This [his wife’s disappearance] could have went many different ways. There are so many outcomes. People started assuming the worst: I murdered her, I abused her, she ran off with another man.”
But “first and foremost,” Abed Suleiman said, “she’s here. She’s back because she wants to be. We’re happier than ever. We’re looking at this as a lesson, an eye-opener.”