Mercenary Brian Corrigan Talks About His Client Melissa Hawach, Gives Legs To Crooked in Canada's Theory About Re-Abduction Of Her Children

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Mercenary Brian Corrigan Talks About His Client Melissa Hawach, Gives Legs To Crooked in Canada’s Theory About Re-Abduction Of Her Children

August 28th, 20082 Comments

Melissa Hawach contention all along is that the mercenaries that helped her to rescue her two daughters approached her, that they did so out of the goodness of their heart when they heard about Melissa’s plight via a third party.

The story Melissa is telling, as usual, is a lie.

As I have always expected, it was Melissa and her father who approached the mercenaries with their tale of woe, and after hearing that Melissa’s husband Joseph had taken the children to a war zone, the mercenaries agreed to do “the mission”.

That was in November 2006, when Melissa and her father came to Australia under the guise of having to attend a court appearance, when in fact it was to meet with mercenaries. I have always said that Melissa and her father came to Oz for two reasons back then, to hire mercenaries and to make a book deal.

They used the Australia court system to cover up their true intentions. Melissa, her father and others who came to Australia with them, couldn’t very well tell immigration authorities upon their arrival that they were meeting with mercenaries, and dragging Joseph parent’s into court to force them to reveal something Melissa already known since the previous July, the whereabouts of her children, was a good way for Melissa and her entourage to cover up the real reasons they were in Australia.

Taking Joseph’s family to court was the perfect cover.

Now Melissa has been caught in a lie thanks to one of the mercenaries she met with while she was in Australia in November 2006.

Brian Corrigan has said that when Melissa and her father were in Australia for their November 2006 court case, he was approached by Melissa, who told him that her husband Joseph had taken her two children to Lebanon.

What Corrigan doesn’t say is whether that meet happened before Melissa’ first court appearance, during or after the court case had concluded.

There’s a reason why he doesn’t mention that, and that reason has more to do with the fact that if he gave an exact date of when he met with Melissa, it would expose the lie she has been telling publicly for the past two years now, that at the time she was in Australia for the aforementioned court case she did not know the whereabouts of her children.

Melissa did tell Corrigan the whereabouts of her daughters though, and that information did not come out in court until after she met with with Corrigan. In other words the information that she provided the mercenaries with came from the information her brother-in-law Pierre provide her with in July of that same year.

And she expects us to believe that she was in Australia to force her  in-laws to reveal the whereabouts of her children.

Also, Corrigan has said that he wanted to wait for a legal outcome in Lebanon (remember Melissa had started court action in Lebanon too to get her daughter’s back), but that plan went south and that Melissa and the mercenaries decided to go with a riskier plan.

I suspect that what he means by saying “the plan went south” he is saying that Melissa didn’t want any part of waiting for a legal outcome, that she was paying them to do a job and that they were going to do it her way.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when Melissa told the mercenaries how things were going to play out in Lebanon.

What Corrigan is saying on his book promotion tour in Australia is backing up what I have said all along, that Melissa Hawach (nee Engdahl) is nothing but a vindictive woman willing to lie to get even, and to make money.

Corrigan’s book “In Harm’s Way” was released a couple of days ago.

Corrigan has shared some interesting information since he first began speaking of his ordeal, and what he is saying isn’t very flattering towards Melissa.

Corrigan has made it perfectly clear that Melissa Hawach has not attempted to contact him since the ordeal; he mentions that quite frequently actually. He seems to being going out of his way to tell us that.

The mercenary has also revealed that his wife once called Melissa to see how her daughters were doing since their ordeal, and that during that conversation not once did Melissa ask how the man who helped her ot save her children and risked his life for her, was holding up.

Talk about a cold woman. Maybe Melissa was worried that her phone was being bugged or that the woman on the other end of the phone was recording their conservation. I have no doubt in my mind that Melissa would have been walking on eggshell after the re-abduction of her children. She would have been afraid of slipping up or being caught in a lie that others could use against her to destroy her credibility. That’s the thing with liars, they get a little edgy when the lie they are telling gets too big.

Melissa certainly would have went out of her way to avoid any mention of Brian Corrigan over the phone to protect the lie she had already told Canadians and the Canadian media.

Corrigan is also saying that Melissa displayed little emotion when she was reunited with her children in Beirut, that not a whole lot was said, and that when the children were handed over to her she immediately put them in a vehicle, they drove off, quickly changed vehicles, and that she talked to the girls in the back before the mercenaries dropped them off in Beirut at or near the Canadian Embassy.

They wouldn’t have dropped them off anywhere else but at or near the embassy, think about it. There is no way that Canadian government was not involved or aware of what Melissa was up to in Beirut. Melissa would have had contact with the embassy the moment she arrived in Beirut with her father. I also think that  Melissa lied  to embassy officials about her true intentions of being in Lebanon, and that they were taken by surprise when she showed up at the embassy with her daughters in tow. There’s more to that story too.

Anyway, Corrigan is telling quite a story, and that story is as far as I’m concerned is backing up what I have been saying all along, that Melissa Hawach (Engdahl) has lied about the story that would have never have happened had she not cheated on her husband and lied to all parties she involved in the re-abduction of her children.  It’s a good thing she had Australian journalist Sandra Lee to help her out with the lies she was telling in her story. Nothing like having a journalist who is sympathetic to your cause, and who just happens to be a good friend, the kind of friend you invite over to the house for dinner, or to spend the weekend. Of course Sandra Lee has been made out to be a liar here already, but it has nothing to do with Melissa’s story.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and often, Melissa Hawach is not the person she is portraying herself to be in this saga, and whether it takes days, weeks, months or years, people (including her supporters) will see for themselves what I am talking about.

Melissa lacks the intelligence and patience to keep her lie going for the rest of her life, and eventually she is going to slip up and she will be revealed as the liar I have always claimed she is and was.

No regrets over kidnapping: ex-soldier





Tags: The Melissa Hawach Story

2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Canadian in Canada // Aug 30, 2008 at 1:44 AM

    I am always amazed how you twist the facts to suit your misguided concept of this whole story. I can’t understand why your driven to continue to generate such a negative spin toward a woman who only wanted to get her children back, my understanding of the story is very different from yours. I wonder where you get your information from? I think you simply just make it up. Bored much?

  • 2 Canadian Gypsy // Aug 30, 2008 at 10:36 AM

    Lol, you’re pretty funny jdan, thanks for putting a smile on my face after the night I had protecting my children. Didn’t need mercenaries to do that either, just the law of the land, a little bit of common sense, and some physical and mental toughness. Read today’s blog entry to see what I’m talking about.

    So your facts, where are you getting them from, the media? Maybe you have an inside track to Melissa Hawach and the story she is telling. Care to share what you think you know about the case, or are just in here for the sake of defending a woman who is so full of shit her eyes are brown?

    By the way, how’s her book selling in Canada? I saw it here in Oz selling for $4.98. Doesn’t that tell you something about what people think of her story down here-eh?

    As for what is saying, how about you do a Google search and see for yourself what it is he is saying.

    Looking forward to hearing from you again, though I’m pretty sure that after you’re tired of responding to this particular post it will be months before I hear from you again. Nice thing is though, if I need feedback from the next piece I write about Melissa Hawach, it’s easy to get in touch with you.

    Enjoy your weekend.








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