Wednesday, July 20, 2005 1:08 p.m. EDT
Saudi Prince Bandar Resigns as Ambassador to U.S.
Saudi Arabia's bon vivant ambassador to the United States announced Wednesday he was stepping down.
Dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington, the 56-year-old Prince Bandar bin Sultan showed time and time again that he was more than an ordinary ambassador.
Bandar himself became a focus when his wife, Princess Haifa al-Faisal, was criticized for providing money indirectly to a Saudi man wanted for questioning by U.S. officials about links to two Sept. 11 hijackers, according to a congressional report.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/7/20/130852.shtml
Note: An unconfirmed source reported Prince Bandar was in Aruba when Natalee Holloway disappeared.
From the following link, which has info about drugs and kidnapped young American girls and boys taken out of the country by private plane, unchecked by customs:
" It is well known in Washington Bandar requests blond blue eyed girls for sex.”
http://www.sauduction.com/32issue.htm
This just adds and entirely new dimension to this saga. IIRC there were quite a few co-ed's missing during the last few years in D.C. Most of this info. came out during the Chandrs Levy investigation. Missing or murdered co-eds at a Starbucks in D.C., and a few other sordid stories.
Does that unceremoniously mean we'll never hear another word about Bandar or his part in Natalee's disappearance? The possibilities for her disappearance in this manner are gigantic but politically and diplomatically small in retrospect.
May not be as far fetched as one thinks, the sale of Natalie was possible, early in the search.
I did some digging into it and in Google Groups, found several posts that felt she had been sold to one of the boats that are off shore.
Hey grizzfan did you post this on the Natalee thread?
Note: An unconfirmed source reported Prince Bandar was in Aruba when Natalee Holloway disappeared.