[monkeywrench]

"A last item for now, I have been told that Aruba is surrounded by radar, manned in three shifts with nine members comprising each shift - and despite persistent rumors of all island intrigue as regards Natalee Holloway are unfounded, as this radar would have documented such an effort."

What does this mean?

[Andy'smom]

What does this mean?


The whole island is surrounded by radar means that they know when a boat is coming/going.

[maggief]

Good info here:

http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol6/v6n35milbase_body.html

EXCERPT

The Pentagon is also investing in its own new infrastructure in Latin America, with four new military bases in Manta, Ecuador; Aruba; Curaçao; and Comalapa, El Salvador, all known as forward operating locations, or FOLs. Washington signed ten-year agreements with Ecuador, the Netherlands (for Aruba and Curaçao), and El Salvador, and Congress appropriated $116 million in FY2001 for renovation of the air facilities in Ecuador, Aruba, and Curaçao. SouthCom also operates some 17 radar sites, mostly in Peru and Colombia, each typically staffed by about 35 personnel.

The FOLs and radar facilities monitor the skies and waters of the region and are key to increased surveillance operations in Washington’s Andean drug war.