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banter - with the people who want it in B&W from another source, because they don't believe the poster. Nothing is in B&W. Much of the info we are getting is hearsay, period. Please also need to read my words correctly "may have", "I understand it as", etc...

Discussion about the Natalee case is what this thread is suppose to be about. Not Tom Cruise, Michael Jackson, 2 other missing now found dead boys (sigh), etc... I am talking about the posts and replies that go on and on about these other stories on this thread.

There are other threads already going about these other stories that people can use to comment on about.

I also do not want this to turn into a Natalee, Natalee Family, Chaperone bashing thread like the past threads that I did "not" start turned into. People around (family/friends) Natalee are not suspects in the case, there is no reason to bash them.

If anyone got the inclination and had the extra time, they could make some type of brief summary of what has been researched so far. It wouldn't have to be anything fancy or detailed, but just a summary of "what we know thus far" would be helpful. Then every time someone came on the thread to ask what's happened, you could just point them to the summary and be done with it.

I tried this last summer with the Nick Berg thing and it helped me keep everything straight in my head (a tough feat at times). It took a little work, but that was because once I started it, I sort of went overboard with it. Anyway, I was glad I'd done it by the time I finished. With the Natalee disappearance, all that is needed is for someone to break things out into categories, such as names, places, dates, or significant events, etc.

It's just a suggestion. I wish I had time to do it here, but quite honestly, I'm so lost now it's ridiculous. In fact, there's so much information on this, it may take more than 1 person to gather the information and put the pieces together.

Here's a link to the Nick Berg summary, in case anyone is interested. (I used FrontPage for the formatting, btw.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1143602/posts?page=1859#1859