During his second visit with his two daughters in January 1986 , Gheshayan kidnapped the two girls , then aged 7 and 3 , and flew them to Saudi Arabia . Roush petitioned the United States Department of State for nine years in an attempt to bring her daughters back to America , but was ultimately unsuccessful . Wildes offered to represent Roush '' pro bono '' after he met her in 1995 . Wildes negotiated a deal with Saudi diplomats that allowed Roush to visit Saudi Arabia on a visa , and allowed her to visit her children in Riyadh . U.S. marines accompanied Roush throughout her trip . She was allowed to see her children for two hours during her trip in 1995 , and has not seem them since . Wildes said of the case , " Our government has given up on her plight . The American government cares more about its oil and its military agenda than its daughters . A phone call from President Clinton to King Faud would have those girls on a plane in one day . He wo n't do it . He and Bush and Reagan turned it over to their staffs , who do nothing but give it the runaround , writing letters , putting up a façade instead of going to the Saudi government and working out an arrangement so the girls could spend equal time here and there . " In 1997 , Wildes represented Hani Abdel Rahim al-Sayegh , a Saudi Arabian citizen who had been wrongfully accused of involvement in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing . In June 1996 , a housing complex in Khobar , Saudi Arabia that was being used to host American military personnel was destroyed by a truck bomb , killing 19 people and injuring 498 . Al-Sayegh was suspected of acting as the driver and lookout for the perpetrators of the attack . Wildes arranged for Al-Sayegh to be transferred to the United States after he was found in Canada , in 1997
Khobar Towers bombing
Khobar Towers bombing
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