Madeleine McCann: The A-Team, Ruining Lives And Spinning The Single Thread
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY STAR: “SECRET A-TEAM IN HUNT FOR MADDIE”
In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground.
Desperate Kate and Gerry McCann have forked out £500,000 on an “A-Team” of former top spooks to find missing daughter Madeleine.
Can the plan come together?
The couple now have “a global operation” of dozens of retired FBI, CIA and even MI5 agents dedicated to solving the mystery of her disappearance. The top secret team has been given six months to solve the riddle.
Pah! The A Team can do it in 40 minutes WITH ad breaks…
Says the McCanns’ spokesman – and still the McCanns’ spokesman – Clarence Mitchell:
“They have been on board for a few months and are on a six-month contract. For security reasons we can’t go into detail of the experts involved but it would not be wrong to say some are former military and police personnel with a degree of expertise.”
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The A-Team.
THE GUARDIAN: “Diary: Esther Addley”
Our sympathies today are split, however, for we must also spare a small pang of pity for the security guard in Brussels who on Tuesday told the Sun about his sighting of a young girl who absolutely, definitely, without question was Madeleine McCann. “I saw her face and recognised that it was her,” said the man. “I would bet everything I own that it was her.”
It was our Maddie?
And sure enough, Belgian police later confirmed - dear reader, you are ahead of me - that it wasn’t. We can find nothing, as yet, on eBay, but Kate and Gerry McCann will be heartened that the man is without doubt now living under a cardboard box with only his own gnawed fists and his shame for sustenance.
The McCann case ruins lives..?
SPIKED: “‘Our Maddie’ makes a media comeback - The silly-season resurrection of the McCann tragedy shows that this was always a cynical, elite-scripted drama.”
Not that the absence of anything beyond hypothesis has inhibited the frontpage speculation. Indeed, the absence of hard evidence at the heart of the Maddie phenomenon has been its lifeblood. With nothing known beyond the barest of facts, anything, no matter how macabre, can be guessed at. And what better than a mail-order paedophile ring based, of course, in Belgium? In lieu of evidence, good old-fashioned prejudice will do. Indeed, over the past year, two pictures showing obviously Muslim women carrying or walking with a blonde-haired girl have been splashed under the headline: ‘IS THIS MADDIE?’ Well, Arab women with a European-looking child – it’s got to be dodgy.
Madeleine McCann: spinning news from a single thread
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August 14th, 2008 at 11:09 am
MrsT Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Silence is golden.
Sometimes.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Julie
My MrT would have flogged ‘em on ebay by now
August 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Chenier
There will be some hard falls from the very same perch methinks…..
August 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Matt
I’m saying nowt ……
August 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Jo
I think ‘Madeleine: The Movie’ died a long time ago; its funeral rites have been unusually protracted, but even the tried and tested method of nailing the parrot to the perch is not going to work for this one…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Err MrsT … could you please nick one of MrT’s gold necklaces … the fund could do with a boost
August 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
The couple now have “a global operation” of dozens of retired FBI, CIA, Cheryl,
and even MI5 agents dedicated to solving the mystery of her disappearance. The
top secret team has been given six months to solve the riddle.
Has Clarence been headhunting on Anorak ??
Very spooky…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
…. NOOOOOO wonder Katey was sooooo mad at him
August 14th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Abraham Zapruder
Biiiig boobs,man! No wonder gerry invited her! nice change from his wifes inexistant oeufs au plat
August 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
M and A
I wondered what he’d been doing in his spare time.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Chenier
California sounds “cool” though,even better than Florida or Guatemala….they”ll find Madeleine in a private school in Los Angeles being good friend to Madonnas daughter….ya will see
(the info about Madonnas daughter is real)
August 14th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Abraham Zapruder Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Fortunately that report seems to have been uncorroborated very recently.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:49 am
The A team :
Hannibal
Faceman
Mad Murdock
and ………. Mr T
M and A
You have a duty now to keep us informed of a minute by minute update of what is going on
August 14th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Jo , agree and am awaiting impatiently for the truth to come
August 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Good reporting here:
“That night, Ms Chekaya had organised a bar quiz at the Ocean Club resort where the McCanns were staying. Her evidence is understood to corroborate the McCanns’ movements in the hour before the disappearance was discovered.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-475704/I-just-want-home-says-fitness-teacher-key-witness.html
Nice picture, though.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Carmen Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Just take a moment and reflect on what comical Clarrie said back in February…….
“ A Spanish detective agency was hired was because of Portugal’s ‘language and cultural connection’ with Spain. ‘If we’d had big-booted Brits or, God forbid, Americans, we’d have had doors slammed in our face, and it’s quite likely we could have been charged with hindering the investigation, as technically it’s illegal in Portugal to undertake a secondary investigation,’ (Clarence) Mitchell explains. ‘But because it’s Metodo 3, [Alipio] Ribeiro [national director of Portugal’s Policia Judiciara] is turning a blind eye’. Portuguese police are reported to dismiss M-3 as ’small fry”.
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Carmen, do you think the “God Forbid” Americans will sue Clarence for slander? And fancy the McCanns contracting a detective agency which is considered by a police force to be ’small fry’. And isn’t it illegal for the national director of a police force to ‘turn a blind eye’ to illegal activity in his country….?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Jo
Still plenty of countries left, though I assume that they will wish to steer clear of the more dangerous locations; shoot first, ask questions later, may well be the order of the day in Gautemala, for example.
My money is still on the little grey aliens from the planet Splog…
August 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
doris Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
anything in the twins blood would have gone by the three months , they are not stupid as doctors they knew this
*****
Dont forget please, perfect crimes dont exist even if doctors commit them
August 14th, 2008 at 10:41 am
The enfants-kidnapps should get Robert Murat to write the translations and sell them to us and give the proceeds to missing children charites.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:41 am
BF
The Mirror may be trying to hedge its bets; lobbing Lori ‘thick as two short planks’ Campbell into the fray would be useful on the ‘we never knew’ front.
And I am sure that Team McCann will have loads of sightings lined up, though recently there have been worrying signs of hacks displaying the occasional hint of a brain functioning as being there for a purpose. Other than filling that awkward space between the ears, that is.
Peter McKay reads Anorak…
August 14th, 2008 at 10:40 am
JT’s little porkies revealed in all their glory…..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AQgUVHvbk
August 14th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Not after the directions to their house was published in the estate agents
August 14th, 2008 at 10:39 am
brandon
disney?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:38 am
jo Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Not even a comma left out.
Excellent.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Do you think the mccCraps are more protected now than before?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:37 am
How did I miss this ‘exclusive’ from Lori Campbell? Gutted, that’s what I am …..
There’s nowt in the Mirror today, however there is nearly a whole page dedicated to:
‘Binmen won’t go extra 18ins to get my rubbish’ …… scandulous
August 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
anything in the twins blood would have gone by the three months , they are not stupid as doctors they knew this
August 14th, 2008 at 10:36 am
America
August 14th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Brandon/Chenier
Where do you think the next new sighting is going to be?
They cant possibly spin in spain now…err…I mean…you knô they wont be allowed to make their circus here anymore,I know for sure but then where else?
Mars? Moon? Venus? I mean,on earth most continents have been searched and “sighted”…so where?
August 14th, 2008 at 10:31 am
“Enfants kidnappés” will publish all details from DVD files
The French site “Enfants kidnappés” (Kidnapped Children) announced today they will publish “all details from the (investigation) files (…)” Today, they published a ‘fac-simile’ from Madeleine McCann passport and next they will publish police reports, witness statements, the facts, time lines, “everything that is on the (investigation) files. Without adding or taking out a comma”
ah…the froggies
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2008/08/enfants-kidnapps-will-publish-all.html