Australian Mother Told to Accept Lebanon Custody Deal

A lawyer representing Australian mother Sally Faulkner — whose botched attempt to retrieve her children have got her, an Australian 60 Minutes television crew and several others locked up in Beirut — says his client has been offered an agonizing choice.

Australia's News Corp. cited the lawyer as saying that the judge in the case is pressuring Faulkner to strike a deal with her Lebanese ex-husband that would give her visitation rights but leave the kids in his custody in Beirut.