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
Posted: 14th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (527) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Chenier,
What she claims is that most of what is in the 11 ooo pages, was more or less known. She was speaking of all the leads, which the Mcs seem to treat as new. She says that they knew of the Belgian lead before, the sketches had even been published on the MC’s site, according to her. There is nothing really new in the files, she says. What is in the unpublished files is probably more telling.
I can see her point. About the essential, the files haven’t been yielding anything really interesting, according to me. Unless an accurate and unbiased translation brings us something really new. I am not expecting anything of the kind.
August 14th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Carmen Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Jo
don’t get too upset, we are trying to help you get the truth out, believe me.
*****
Thanks Carmen
I am extremely tired and havent been posting too much lately because I am too touchy.
We wish your government would help,not ONLY our favorite anorakian bloggers
Bye for now
Gone for a long rest this afternoon after my last night excess xxxxx
August 14th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hello all.
I noticed MrsT said:
The A team :
Hannibal
Faceman
Mad Murdock
and ………. Mr T
_________
I’ve never been rude to you, have I?
Well there’s allways a first time.
If you’re referring to MY mrT I’d say
Keep your hands off my guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8twqlk8zcCc
PS Julie : mine’s got no golden necklaces either!
PS 2 : I could have posted a link to Sister Act also, may be Maria would have appreciated that?
PS 3 : “America the Beautifull” seems appropriate to the thread too?
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August 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Jo
Your friend claims, inter alia, that:
‘Everything which is in those 11.000 pages was already released and is being published since a year.’
Which is garbage.
Trying to pretend otherwise is ill advised, since it simply enables people to dismiss both your friend and yourself as fantasists…
August 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Carmen
I must go but I wont let you down and forward this to you in french .I know you read and speak french
“Qu’est-ce à dire ? Que tout le monde ment ? Bien sûr que non. Il existe des journalistes, des journaux et des médias qui font leur travail consciencieusement. Il faut se rendre compte que le MP portugais à livrer 11.000 pages du dossier à la presse sur les 30.000 existantes. Ce qui signifie qu’il reste encore 19.000 pages qui sont toujours couvertes par le secret de justice! En clair, cela signifie que la presse n’a pas plus d’informations maintenant qu’avant. Tout ce qui est dans ces 11.000 pages a déjà été divulgué et publié depuis plus d’un an maintenant. Dans ces pages, il n’y a rien de neuf! Rien dont on n’ait pas déjà parlé. L’important du dossier se trouve dans les 19.000 pages restantes!”
******
One question Carmen
Have you learnt anything new since the release of the files?(some stuff,definitively but…over all?)
http://www.kidnapping.be/maddie/maddie.html
August 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Marie Nicholas
The bit I translated is from “Hasta que se sepa la verdad” and also found in french, yes ,in enfants kidnappes.
Mercedes is an excellent journalist and is working extremely hard at establishing the truth in may areas,feared and respected by many of us.She wont say/publish anything unless she knows what she is talking about,I know this for sure
I am sad again to see that ONLY and EXCLUSIVELY and EVEN on Anorak NO credit whatsoever is made to anything which is NOT british and if there is no sacro saint link it makes things even worse
I am sick of it
August 14th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
soothsayer wasnt anti was he ?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Jo
Her nationality is irrelevant; she makes sweeping claims with no evidence of any kind to support them.
If she has evidence, why doesn’t she present it?
Claiming that everything published since the opening of the files was already known is lunatic…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Found the post
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soothsayer Says:
October 28th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
taybie the only person spirited away on 3rd may in this total media fiasco,was Madeleine,shit about high rollers and power brokers is exactly that shit,there was no 10 th person at the table,unless you count the wench with the big knockers gm invited to the table,speculate all you like but try and keep it in this universe.i hope Amaral is as good as his record say’s he is.
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I thought at that time (Oct 07) Soothsayer was knowledgable of the case and “anti”, but now we know the “wench” wasn’t there, am I the only one who finds this strange?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Elvera
August 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
chenier Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Jo
Your friend appears to be stretching the truth beyond breaking point; unless or until she comes up with any evidence to support her claims I shall continue to be my boring self…
*****
She is extremely well informed thats for sure…. but hey! she is spanish so naturally her credibility is at stake or something???
August 14th, 2008 at 11:53 am
# coolandcalm Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
More blog nonsense……
Bolgs are not news outlets, they are someone’s personal views.
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And the UK media is whos views ??????
They are clarries blogs !!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:52 am
omg brandon I thought you were joking lmao
August 14th, 2008 at 11:50 am
julie - lol ohh yes when i go on a fishing holiday i always wash me nets, dont want the dogs picking up the smell of cadavar fish
August 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
books for sale on ebay by kate cann
Kate Cann Leader of the Pack NEW BOOK CHILDRENS FICTION
Text Game - Cann, Kate NEW BOOK
Moving In, by Kate Cann
Kate Cann Escape NEW BOOK CHILDRENS FICTION
Moving On - Cann, Kate NEW BOOK
HARD CASH by KATE CANN
Mediterranean Holiday: Or, How I Move - Cann, Kate NEW
PMSL
August 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Matt. Says:
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
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MI 75+
August 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Jo
Thank you for the link to “Enfants Kidnappés”.
I found what you just translated on their site. They also say that they don’t want to judge the tabloids or their readers ; they know the tabloids make money, and their readers relish the stories. But they are mostly surprised at the MCs and at their PR, who for instance, know the Belgian leads have already been explored and gave nothing. How can they pretend to ignore it when it is written in the PJ’s files which they have been given? The sentence goes like “Comment peuvent-ils participer à cette mascarade?”, which can be translated by “How can they take part into that masquerade?”
August 14th, 2008 at 11:48 am
helloooooooooooooooo birdyperson xx
August 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
nothing wrong with dyslexia, especially if you have tourettes as well, now fcuk ffo
August 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
just_me Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo just_me
x
August 14th, 2008 at 11:47 am
just_me Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
hi Julie, nope cleaning windows and washing and ironing nets all morning
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You going fishing too? Never heard of a fisherman who washes and irons their nets …. you are posh aren’t you
August 14th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Julie…. Dyslexia rules!
August 14th, 2008 at 11:45 am
coolandcalm Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
More blog nonsense…… Bolgs are not news outlets,
________________
Wassa Bolg? Never heard this word before …. explain please
August 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
hi Julie, nope cleaning windows and washing and ironing nets all morning - such fun
August 14th, 2008 at 11:44 am
coolandcalm Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 11:37 am
LP… will text the girls to see if any friends are missing tickets still…. someone was allegedly flogging tickets for £80 but to me that sounds like forgeries?
I promise you these are from where I work - Universal.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
More blog nonsense……
Bolgs are not news outlets, they are someone’s personal views.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
LP… all girls have their tickets now. Hope you find them a good home. I’m hoping the Reading tickets don’t cause a problem also.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
‘Allo just_me … been paddling again?
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 am
soed??
August 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Jo
Your friend appears to be stretching the truth beyond breaking point; unless or until she comes up with any evidence to support her claims I shall continue to be my boring self…
August 14th, 2008 at 11:42 am
flippin ell just for the sake of it I typed in Kate McCann in ebay search and it came up with no matching items, but, it soed have a link to portugese article in the mirror… ffs they get everywhere :grrr:
morning btw