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 10:09 pm
Ah, The Gandolf’s, and which one am I addressing. Is it the one with no boll***s, or is it the one with the box of tissues and the National Geographic magazine.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
I didn’t say that somebody committed a crime.
I said that maybe somebody lost his/her/their temper.
What I meant was an accident other than a fall.
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M&A
Artemis
If someone dies as a result of another person losing their temper then it is unlikely that no crime took place.
And the Attorney General has said that there is no evidence of a crime being committed.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
SAUL
Yes, unfortunate comparison, must think of better insults……………….
if you see COCO, please tell her i miss her……..will checin 6am tomorrow, hope she is ok.
i must be off to bed so i will say goodnight.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Allo Dave, you got the clowns email yet, you are good at fishin fer emails, what a double clown and down!
August 14th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Larry, Curly and Mo, that could be construed as an insult. They were professionals.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
SAUL
Well i suppose if you are hard up, you will do just about anything, no morals the stooges……….
August 14th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
SAUL
Please throw away may carry those viruses Coco was sending his way……
August 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Does anyone on here still give any credibility to the peanut boll***s of the Gandolf’s. They have repeatedly shown they are here to disrupt. Still , it’s a job just like a sh*thouse cleaner. Someone has to do it.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
SAUL
Brought our 10 month old female cat back from Dr Snippy this afternoon, and ran into a cash heist going on……………………
August 14th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Mr Snippy has some nice thimble holders, he gave me the snipped Gandolf’s bo*****s, to keep as souveniers.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Allo Dave remember your bollox small as they were, got kicked into touch yonks ago, keep on hallucinating you know it makes nonsense, just as you always have spouted, you cheeky little mongrel you ……….fetch!………
August 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
SAUL
Just waiting to see whats on the tabloid front pages on Sky tonight.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
SAUL
and to think i raced home this afternoon hoping for a new sighting !
maybe they are being held back till the Georgia war is off the front pages ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
That’s it, they have all gone to polish their shiny Bonneville exhausts. (as fast as they want too)
August 14th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
SAUL
No sightings today ? pinky is slipping up. why is he still needed ? please tell me,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
August 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Mr Snippy!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
well maybe they can feel the mad monk, whats happened to him ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jL6R9VPok
August 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
SAUL
Afraid so, why if they believe the AG was corrrect do they still hang around here.
i am here because i believe the AG either made a mistake or that the case will soon be re-opened.
waiting for DNA records. i have not believed a word that the clan has told.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
They think that if they attack, and shout loud it makes them feel like a man. Hang about, maybe they do want to feel a man.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
They have all been to see Mr Snippy, that’s why they are squealing in a high voice.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Allo Dave still lickin your arse and lying in pish……….
August 14th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Bounty, I wish. So the usual Pish from the usual. Whatever happened to after market exhausts.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
SAUL
night shift on, you away on holiday ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
M&A
Artemis
Perhaps you would point out the passage in which the Portuguese Attorney General states that there is evidence of a crime committed by anyone other than the three former arguidos?
In your own time, of course
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Make up your mind you said there was no evidence of any crime, according to the AG…….yes indeed we can mark you down as a firm anti. On second thoughts perhaps you will be so kind to point out where the AG infers any crime could have only been committed by any one or all of the famous three………….in your own time of course.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Are the Attack Poodles still around?
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M&A
Artemis
Judging from the yaps, yes.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Gandy
So sorry! Did realise just after posting it was brother in law…..allegedly. Bit of a plod too ain’t he?
Ian???
Re “no evidence”. Yes you are perfectly correct. For now….
August 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
15 out of 19 markers sounds good to me.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hello Ian………..brother-in-law, can’t you get anything right, how about starting with “”no evidence”"
August 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
AF
Because Gandy has his brother Seb as the man on the spot in the Algarve.
He knows everything you know. Just ask him, he knows…