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 5:36 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
But I wonder whether, in the case of a genuine accident which resulted in the death of a child, any parents would be able to behave as if nothing unusual had happened afterwards? Premeditated cases such as Shipman and West are surely different because they were able to plan and control their behaviour.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Here is a synopsis for windylickers and fukwits…………..there is no evidence against the former three arguidos, my good friend and fellow philanthropist Garth will assassinate by use of his extensive vocabulary, aforesaid numpties and fanny merchants…….
August 14th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Catalina….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
August 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Catalina…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
August 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Garth Says:
However, I personally am yet to be convinced that the scents picked by the dogs are reliable.
Purely because it doesn’t suit your agenda.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Catalina Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Premeditated ?….very much so.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
M & A….could you please edit my post of the above indicated time…to delete
the “too” at the end. It could be misconstrued.
Thank you.
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M&A
Artemis
Done.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Scarlett Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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Catalina Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Or, if the scent in the flowerbed was slight, the child was picked up immediately and taken aside.
But you know, despite all these theories and possibilities about what may have happened, I still find it hard to believe that any parents could go out to dinner and behave normally if something dreadful had just happened to one of their childen. I have great faith in the findings of the sniffer dogs, but that is a stumbling block for me.
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Scarlett well done, it would appear that you have some common sense.
You might well add to that, why would the McCanns continue the search for their daughter through whatever means if they were guilty?
Would the McCanns bother to ask for the case to be reopened by the PJ if they had something to hide?
Have a look from another angle, Amaral faces charges of Perjury. If convicted what do you think that says about the man? Or to put it another way, it might explain some strange scents by the dogs if there is absolutely no doubt to the cadavar. However, I personally am yet to be convinced that the scents picked by the dogs are reliable.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Harold Shipman was considered to be behaving “normally” socially throughout
his long term killing spree.
The West’s were considered to be behaving “normally” socially throughout
their long term killing spree. Even after they had killed their one of their own
children.
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Frightening. I don’t have a great deal of knowledge of either Harold Shipman or the West cases; were their killings all premeditated, do you know?
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M&A
Artemis
edited
August 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Garth Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Lone Pigeon Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
brandon - that last post makes me shudder
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Why does it make you shudder pigeon?
for reasons that i’ve already posted
August 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Scarlett Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That was an odd comment, IMO, them not being with Madeleine when ‘it’ happened; it sounds as if ‘it’, whatever it was, was going to happen anyway, whether they were there or not. If we’re talking about an abduction, it wouldn’t have happened if they had been there.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Catalina Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Harold Shipman was considered to be behaving “normally” socially throughout
his long term killing spree.
The West’s were considered to be behaving “normally” socially throughout
their long term killing spree. Even after they had killed their one of their own
children.
M&A
Artemis
Edited
August 14th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I sense an underlying hostility here, it is tangible, an ethos of something dark.
MODS and ADMIN
Grace
Have you thought of calling a Priest or Ghost-Busters?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Lone Pigeon Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
brandon - that last post makes me shudder
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Why does it make you shudder pigeon?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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Catalina Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Or, if the scent in the flowerbed was slight, the child was picked up immediately and taken aside.
But you know, despite all these theories and possibilities about what may have happened, I still find it hard to believe that any parents could go out to dinner and behave normally if something dreadful had just happened to one of their childen. I have great faith in the findings of the sniffer dogs, but that is a stumbling block for me.
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This might suggest a hidden element, someone else in the flat, and might also explain the “regret we weren’t there at the moment it happened” comments.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Goodnight, brandon.
Take care.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
night everyone
night brandon - have an enjoyable evening
August 14th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
night everyone
August 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Garth Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
It’s only for consideration presently.
We will let you know when it is time for you to worry.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
hahahahahahah talk of the devils
August 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Mods
I was trying to fathom how the smell of death could be there and the parents were innocent.
Why would an abductor kill her and clean up ?
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M&A
Artemis
To remove his/her traces from the room.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
yeah you know that matt - they really useless and so transparent!
August 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Matt. Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Catalina Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“Interesting; the cadaver-sniffing dog is said to have signalled slight traces in a flower bed outside the apartment. Just imagine a small child climbing onto the back of a sofa - as they all do - and falling through a window….although that wouldn’t explain the scent on the floor behind the sofa and beneath the window in the apartment…. this is all so confusing!”
Consider this perhaps…..
Child climbs up onto sofa, falls through open window….is killed by her fall…lies
in the flowerbed area for more than two hours or so….when found…is picked up
…carried inside….and then hidden behind the sofa…until an alternative hiding
place can be thought of.
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Nice to see some theories being put together however daft they may seem to some, including me.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Lone Pigeon Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
TheBigYin ??…
Wot happened to that post ?
Another Grannydaft personna ?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Why my post should be seen as challenging is lost on me, a simply put question is how I see it. I have neither the ability nor the inclination to judge anyone without evidence, I shall leave that gift of certainty for others to perform.
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M&A
Artemis
Hi.
How’s the leg?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Catalina
But maybe there was a flower bed below the front or side window too?
There’s a map somewhere that shows exactly where the dogs traced the odours.
Brandon??
August 14th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
lone
which bit ? the look out bit ?
All the dog bit. I’ve looked after gun dogs all my life. I worked with them and I know when they get a scent they get a scent. There is NO MISTAKE.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Do occults want sacrifices ?
Mine Does!!! It want’s to sacrifice all curly wurlys
August 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
lone
which bit ? the look out bit ?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
TheBigYin Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Is this the other anti site, where no deviation from !they are guilty! is tolerated.
no not all - what are your views?