Boston Herald:
Royal pain: Feds say a Saudi princess enslaved servants in this house
By J.M. Lawrence and Franci Richardson
Thursday, March 31, 2005 - Updated: 02:08 PM ESTA Saudi Arabian princess living in Winchester was arrested yesterday on federal charges of enslaving two Indonesian women to care for her wheelchair-bound prince and unruly sons who allegedly spit on the servants.
Handcuffed and shackled at the ankles, Hana F. Al Jader, 39, a mother of six, was ordered held without bail pending a hearing tomorrow in Boston, where Saudi Arabian Embassy officials said they will appear on her behalf.
``It's just a shame they're taking her away from her children and her sick husband right now,'' her attorney Saher J. Macarius said. ``She's a very simple, pleasant person.'' [link]
Al Jader is married to H.H. Prince Mohamed Bin Turki Al Saud, whom Macarius described as a cousin of the king of Saudi Arabia. The couple came to Boston to get medical care for the prince, who was paralyzed in an accident, the lawyer said.
Federal prosecutors claim Jader threatened her maids, identified in court papers as ``Tri'' and ``Ro,'' with ``serious harm or physical restraint'' if they did not obey, and she paid each woman $75 per week while telling immigration officials they earned $375 per week. [link]
Dozens of federal agents raided the home in September, seizing notes, personal items and dusting for fingerprints, according to another source.
A neighborhood source said Al Jader was often seen wearing designer clothes and leaving her home in a limousine. She bought her 62 Cambridge St. home in 2001 for $635,000, and also owns a nearby Arlington home assessed at $1.2 million. The government is seeking to take both properties through forfeiture for being used in a crime. [link]
posted by: jrtelegraph
Apparently we have learned nothing from 9-11 and still let these savages into the country. Not all the blame should fall on the current administration, however. Ted Kennedy's 1965 Immigration "Reform" Act is the main reason our visa and immigration laws are a joke and a suicide pact (a living will, if care to call it that). These laws are very hard to amend or scrap.
Mark Krikorian from National Review has come up with an idea called the "Vasco da Gama Project", which would render "the Middle East economically irrelevant for centuries" much like the real Vasco da Gama did 5 centuries ago. Mark's talking about the oil-producing areas, of course. Maybe with no oil money they'll stop having so many kids (one hopes).
http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/05_02_06_corner-archive.asp#055967
Posted by: Leonidas | April 01, 2005 at 01:40 PM