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 10:00 am
Mr Payne said, that when he went to “check” on Dr K, he stayed for 30 mins.
Dr K said, that when Mr Payne came calling, he stayed for about 30 seconds.
Is this a case of a male tendency to exaggerate ??
August 14th, 2008 at 9:59 am
14.8.08
The aerobic instructor short statement
Najoua Chekaya arrived in Portugal on March 2007, recruited in England to work for Mark Warner, according to her statement to PJ, on May 2007. Just a curiosity, the translator was Robert Murat. She described her daily working routine, as an aerobics instructor and said that when she arrived at Ocean Club, she was asked also to perform a “Quiz Game”, at night (09:00 pm), on Tapas Bar, twice a week – every Sunday and Tuesday.
On May 1, 2007, after the “Quiz” was finished, Najoua was invited by Gerry McCann to sit at their table, to have a drink. She was there for 15/20 minutes, between 9.30 and 9:50 pm. There was just casual talk and she don’t know if Madeleine’s mother was at the table or not.
During that period of time, nobody left the table, but there was an empty chair. Who has been sitting at that chair, Najoua didn’t know.
Duarte Levy and Paulo Reis
Posted by Paulo Reis at 08:36:00
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matt
this is on may the 1st
August 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am
matt
overacting for effect methinks
August 14th, 2008 at 9:56 am
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:55 am
A very strange action, or act, for whatever reason.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Matt
Seems he got the wrong end of the pjs stick , and thought hed been rumbled
August 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Would that be one hump or two, sir?
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M&A
Artemis
Keep it clean, Chenier.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Saul Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Hmmmm, Camel cigarettes
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…or Camel shit?
I am sure the BB are going to see Madeleine hidding in one of the Middle East deserts,playing the princess on camels back…yeah….with a burka on for sure and a can of petrol in one hand while the other is holding a bomb
They are FUCKING NUTS
August 14th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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.”
Yes, but WHAT degree ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Hmmmm, Camel cigarettes!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Julie Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
HELLO JO!
Trust you had a lovely evening out?
Yes, it appears the Mc’s have brought in the BIG GUNS now ….. surely this time we should see some results for all the money spent ….
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I had a very early coming back home today
Havent slept yet and must get my head around stuff with the BBs on their way to spain….oh dear! whatewver next…? aint the mccanns ever going to stop? shall I call my friend Bin Laden to make them shut up?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:49 am
brandon flours Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Had he dropped a 1p and could not find it on the floor ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Well, well, well….
Seems that Dr G P’s invite to the Instructress to the table was on May 1st 2007.
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/2008/08/aerobic-instructor-short-statement.html
August 14th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Chenier
Can you provide a link for the “vitally important clues”?
I am very concerned M3 and the “BB” (Big Boys) start a war over Madeleine!!!
Gosh….the Dolls production wont ever end!?
Must get on and make new Dollies with miniature guns and cowboys hats and all….not a minute of peace,man
August 14th, 2008 at 9:45 am
What do you all make of Gerry hitting the decks like a muslim ?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Let us hope that the SPOOK intelligence source is in a better mood today
August 14th, 2008 at 9:42 am
and Kate’s earrings…
August 14th, 2008 at 9:41 am
on Gerry’s stamp collection…
August 14th, 2008 at 9:39 am
HELLO JO!
Trust you had a lovely evening out?
Yes, it appears the Mc’s have brought in the BIG GUNS now ….. surely this time we should see some results for all the money spent ….
August 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am
JULIE!!!!!!
KONGRATS on your todays record
Matt,a big hug
Wtf,an other big hug
Carmen-cita,2 big hugs
Garthy,a smack around the neck….only if you”ve cracked the Murdering Shutters Mystery
So how are the crackers today? our new big boys straight from the US? does not the queen like scotland yard anymore?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w-8JKaTohe4/SJ7ZQPVUiCI/AAAAAAAAKjA/LHObwdRCbTM/s1600-h/one_is_amused.jpg
August 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Morning, oh happy campers!
Carmen!
Can it be that I detect a soupcon of scepticism about Clarrie’s announcement?
Surely not!
After all, the Crack Squad has already gathered vitally important column inches, sorry vitally important clues, and is but a few steps away from Victory over those Doubting Thomases/Thomasinas who questioned the rationality of paying megabucks to highlyskilled investigators to sort through Gerry’s stamp collection…
August 14th, 2008 at 9:33 am
wtf … well then we can safely assume that the Garth that is posting at the moment is a traitor, and not the original ……. what a useless attempt! YOU ARE FIRED!!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:29 am
julie
think garthy is furiously looking through old posts
August 14th, 2008 at 9:28 am
garth
Do you remember anything about mr wtf and why we had a little spat (me and you not me and mr wtf)
August 14th, 2008 at 9:26 am
garth
I agree, they may not wind you up, but they sure as hell pull your strings, you puppet!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am
If you’re the real Garth … what was the last insult you threw at me … and what was it about?
August 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
wtf Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
garth
what is your excuse? I think you need to take a tad more testosterone this morning, you sound a bit feminine
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But the McCanns dont wind me up. Its you that has got that problem (amongst a few others i would guess)
August 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
Garth Says:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Bitch!
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I’ll break your nails ……
August 14th, 2008 at 9:22 am
garth
Go on, prove your the original garth
August 14th, 2008 at 9:21 am
julie
Snap!!!!!!
August 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Bitch!
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M&A
Artemis
I trust that was not directed at anyone at Anorak Towers?