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A Bedtime Story for Sofia Who Remains Abducted in Syria

The following is a short "bedtime story" for my daughter while she remains abducted in Syria
By Fuat Kircaali
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April 9, 2011 11:15 AM EDT
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Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview.

Fox News: ▸ video ▸ story

On Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia that was picked up by a dozen or so media outlets around the world during the week.

▸ Fox News Story on Sofia's Abduction to Syria

When Sofia returns safely home, she will pay her first visit to Diane at the Fox News headquarters in New York City.

▸ US Leaves Its Youngest Citizen Behind Syria

The following is a short weekend "bedtime story" for my daughter while she still remains abducted in Syria.

Twitter updates on Sofia @FuatKircaali


One day, during his travels, Daddy found a "little green Swiss frog" on his bed as he arrived in his hotel room.


Daddy took the little green Swiss frog home to Sofia's day care in America to play with Sofia's little friends.

Sofia's little friends asked the little green Swiss frog where Sofia was :)


Of course the little green Swiss frog flew all the way to Syria to find Sofia :)


One day, when she woke up, Sofia saw the little green Swiss frog by her pillow :)


Sofia told the little green Swiss frog that she misses her friends at home too, very much :)


And she soon found out that when she squeezed the little green Swiss frog's little yellow crown, the little green Swiss frog talked to her too! :)


The little green Swiss frog told Sofia that she came all the way to Syria to bring her home!

Sofia said "yeaaayyy" :)

Now Daddy needs to find Mrs. Clinton despite her busy schedule to make this happen.

Unfortunately Mrs. Clinton thinks Uncle Bashar is a good uncle.

She works very hard, she is very tired, she doesn't know yet that Uncle Bashar is a very naughty big boy.

So, Daddy will have to work even harder to explain to the big boys and big girls in Washington, DC, that both Sofia and her little green Swiss frog want to come home, very soon!

Love,

--Daddy

P.S. - This week AP reported that "State Dept. issued travel warning on Syria" and on Monday Reuters filed a follow-up report that "US offers free flights out for employees in Syria."

As of this Saturday, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kircaali, a US citizen, remains in Syria and in harm's way.

On Friday, I watched videos on the Internet showing violence inside a mosque one block away from where Sofia currently lives with her mother and grandmother.

Twitter updates on Sofia @FuatKircaali

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Mr. Barack Obama, The President of the United States
Mrs. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State
Mrs. Sharon Anderholm Wiener, Outgoing Consul General to Istanbul, Turkey
Mr. Charles F. (Chuck) Hunter, Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy in Damascus

Published April 9, 2011 – Reads 12,066
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Fuat Kircaali is the founder and chairman of SYS-CON Media, Cloud Expo, Inc. and Ulitzer, Inc.

Kircaali came to the United States from Zurich University, Switzerland in 1984 while studying for his PhD, to design computer systems for SH-2G submarine hunter helicopters for the U.S. Navy. He later worked at IBM's IS&CG Headquarters as a market research analyst under Mike Armstrong's leadership, an IBM executive who later ran IBM Europe and AT&T; and Fuat was the Director of Information Systems for UWCC, reporting to CEO Steve Silk (later Hebrew National CEO), one of the top marketing geniuses of the past two decades.

Kircaali founded SYS-CON Media in 1994, a privately held tech media company with sales exceeding $100 million. SYS-CON Media was listed twice by Inc 500 and Deloitte and Touche as one of the fastest-growing companies in North America. Kircaali launched Ulitzer, Inc., a revolutionary "new media" start-up in mid 2009.

Fuat completed Bogazici University Business Administration program in 1982 with a Bachelor's Degree. He was one of 50 students accepted to the program out of over 1 million high school graduates that year.

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