According to this website nothing happens wihout Mansur's imprimatur. What a corrupt little island!
http://www.tni.org/archives/tblick/aruba.htm
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:19 am Post subject:
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Reuben Trapenberg, an Aruban government spokesman, just said (once again, on MSNBC) that one of the brothers pointed the finger at Croes. This is unconfirmed, but what he has been told.
Also, he said that the police have the information but are not sharing it as that is how their government works.
He said that they don't care about tourism at this point, as indicated by how many events they have cancelled. All they want is to solve this case.
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:32 am Post subject:
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Not too much news . . . fox just reported that the suspects are being transferred from their respective police stations where they are being held to a prison on the island . . . maybe they will start talking!
Fox is running a special on the search for NH at 3pm EST.
that martha blonde was sitting in for Greta, and she asked Jossy Mansour questions as she would a journalist here, expecting him to react like a journalist here would, and his answers were along the lines of, "oh, they would not tell us that..", "oh we have no way of knowing that..." and she was just sort of nonplussed, didn't follow up etc. just let him go, and he had said absolutely NOTHING in that interview. Can you imagine a US journalist just placidly stating that the US gov't had not told them, and so they could not possibly know...??? there is NO adversarial relationship between the Aruban Press and the Aruban gov't, they are clearly one and the same.