I'd LOVE the opportunity to spit in this bastards face! Yes. Everyone knows that at the time the MB students left on the plane, ALE was not even aware that Natalee had disappeared, and ALE would not have got their a$$ in gear to question them had the students waited around for a couple of weeks.
It was Natalee's family who got the investigation going, not the dumboo ALE, who in the person of Dennis Jacobs just had their hand out for money.
Cohen is giving out just as much disinformation as any of the other Aruban mouthpieces.
www.scaredmonkeys.com/2006/01/23/amigoe
Amigoe: "Oduber wants the Discrepancies in the Holloway case be Investigated"
Amigoe; January 23, 2006:
Oduber wants the discrepancies in the Holloway-case be investigated
ARUBA
— After the Holloway-case is closed, Prime Minister Nelson Oduber (MEP) wants a thorough investigation be conducted on the course of everything that had to do with the investigation on the disappeared American teenager, especially the begin phase. He thinks that mistakes were made especially in this phase. “I have already spoken with the Court president, Louis de Lannooy and with former judge Bob Wit.”
Oduber says that the investigation must reveal whether mistakes were made, so we can learn from them. Oduber’s statement is due to the Amigoe-comment of yesterday “Enough, this is it” of yesterday. “We have to figure out which mistakes were made and how to prevent these in the future. We have to come to standing agreements between the Public Prosecutor (OM) and the police on how to conduct an investigation and how to deal with the local as well as the international media in these cases.
There is too much talk about the case and what is said, differs too much. The OM says one thing and the police say another. That confuses the Americans.”
Oduber disputes the fact that he himself had recently approached a group to come look for the girl in Aruba.
“I am sick and tired of the case. I do not talk about this case with people; not with the Attorney General, not with the OM. In the beginning I have discussed the matter with the American FBI, but I do not do that anymore. The OM and the Aruban police are doing the investigation and they have to try to conclude it right. I think that Aruba can do the investigation right herself, but if the OM and the police are of the opinion that they need assistance from abroad, they can get that. I am not the one to decide on that.”
If those in Aruba ever wondered why Americans are as upset as they are and make the conscious choice as individuals to not visit Aruba, just take a look at what your Prime Minister says.
“I am sick and tired of the case”
Please tell me the PM thinks this case is just going to go away. He is sick of the case? Do you really think that’s what potential Americans on the fence of deciding to go to Aruba or go else where want to hear?
This case that you are sick of happened on your island, deal with it.
Then there comes the following contradiction of statements. The Aruban PM thinks Aruba can investigate the crime, yet wants to have a thorough investigation after the Natalee Holloway case is over so they “can learn from their mistakes”. All the Holloway & Twitty families want is a thorough investigation now.
“I think that Aruba can do the investigation right herself …”
After the Holloway-case is closed, Prime Minister Nelson Oduber (MEP) wants a thorough investigation be conducted on the course of everything that had to do with the investigation on the disappeared American teenager, especially the begin phase. He thinks that mistakes were made especially in this phase.
Oduber says that the investigation must reveal whether mistakes were made, so we can learn from them.
Meanwhile, back in the motherland:
Marijuana show aims for new high in Amsterdam (Excerpted)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Marijuana growers gathered in Europe's pot-smoking capital on Sunday for a trade show that is taking on the trappings of a major industry fair, complete with scantily clad models, glossy brochures and, of course, samples.
But instead of posing next to muscle cars, the models explained the intricacies of hydroponics culture such as the "iGrow-box Intensive Irrigation System" and exhibitors showed off their bongs, grinders, rolling paper, reflective film, hemp-fabric apparel and how-to marijuana growing videos.
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"This is part of the normalisation process," Beckers said... "People see this as a normal fair."
As I recall, the ALE would not look at it as a "missing person" case until 24 or 48 hours had passed. We probably have a similar approach in the U.S. And, yes, would they ever have given it a second thought if Natalee's mother had not taken immediate action.
The very mention that the other students left before they could be questioned only serves to reinforce what we already believe. Nothing more than smear tactics. The lies never end.
Cohen was hired to follow the Aruban party line on this case. He obviously stepped out of line when he said the OM believes the three boys caused Natalee's disappearance. He got smacked down for that. But why would he broadcast something the OM never said, and not once but twice?
Ummmm.