Olathe man hopes Brownback’s help gets family out of Gaza (Rick Montgomery, The Kansas City Star)

In Gaza, a 1-year-old boy sees pictures of his daddy and says, "Baba." In Kansas City, Baba toils away in his car-repair shop. He longs to embrace the son he has never met, whose wartime birth made the news, and to reunite with his wife. Texts and cell phone photos from the Middle East help Yaser Wishah only so much. "He started calling me 'Baba,' but I'm told he says that now to all of the male adults. They're all 'Baba' to him," Wishah says with a pained chuckle.

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