CBS News says : -

An Associated Press reporter reached the girl and her family Wednesday in Zinat in northern Morocco, the mountain village where the photo was taken and where the family works a modest olive farm.

The girl is 3-year-old Bouchra Ahmed Ben Aissa, and in the photo she was being carried by her mother, Hafida, while her aunt and father were also pictured, family members said.
reports from Morocco.

First Post says :-

The blond child in the snap which emerged yesterday is five-year-old Bushra Binhisa from a Moroccan farming familyreports from Morocco. The blond child in the snap which emerged yesterday is five-year-old Bushra Binhisa from a Moroccan farming family

Well thanks for sharing that with us - not something most of us would readily admit to knowing so let yourself down a bit there, obviously YOU are not one of the “High TEA” brigade !!

Thanks for informing us about the interview with the PJ spokesman. I hope he’s being truthful about how confident the PJ are in their case and it’s not just a bluff. Your point about the PJ taking the full time they have allotted to them to investigate and make further discoveries before pressing charges makes a lot of sense.

You could be right, I have a “family member ” who continually refers to the sitting room as the “Drawing Room”, not even “the lounge” you note, and then there’s the classic thing where intelligent people supposedly suffer from “Alzheimers” but the lesser mortals suffer from “dementia” - like one sounds more sophisticated than the other !!

Why not just refer to the kids tea as just that ? why give it a perceived elevated status by calling it “high” tea ? My aforesaid “family member” also used to put her children in the nursery all afternoon for their afternoon “nap” before giving them their “high tea” because that’s what “posh” people do !!

Sorry if we lesser mortals find it hard to get to where K & G are coming from but it is just another measure of how out of touch with reality they are, or perhaps they are in denial…….

‘Ludicrous’ is the ‘post being made arguido’ Buzzword - it replaces it’s cousins ‘Hurtful’ and ‘Unhelpful’ which were bandied about freely before 7 September.

The fact that the whole Team continually overuse the same words at any given point leaves me torn between sending them a Thesaurus and incapacitating laughter at the …. well…. sheer ludicrousness of it all

Now the Royal Signals (my old corps), you don’t get them blowing their own trumpet and jumping into burning buildings on TV. Although if someone where to make a film of them in action, I think Sean Connery could do a passible me!

On the subject of terms, one word thrown in a lot after PJ accused Kate McCann is “ludicrous” e.g.

“Suspicion of McCann’s ‘ludicrous’: Spokesman …. September 18, 2007 “To suggest that they somehow harmed Madeleine accidentally or otherwise is as ludicrous as it is nonsensical,” Clarence Mitchell l told reporters with the McCanns standing beside him outside their home.”

Gerry McCann attacks ‘ludicrous accusations’ ( “sleeping pill line ‘ludicrous’”) Sept 14

Madeleine’s grandmother: Suspicion ‘ludicrous’ Sept 12

“I have never heard anything so utterly ludicrous in my entire life.” Philomena McCann Sept 8

“hurtful and all rather ludicrous” reports in the Portuguese press.” Rachel Oldfield, in joint statement by the friends, Sept 7

“Ludicrous” appears to be Gerry’s word, picked up by family and friends and now by the p-r guy. Does it tell us anything compared to, say, reliance simply on terms like “untrue” or “false”? He could have said accusations against his wife are “utterly wrong” or “grotesque” or even “viciously cruel” (to accuse a bereft mother). Instead, ludicrous and utterly ludicrous (also, relatedly, “ridiculous” and now from the p-r guy “nonsensical.”) These are belittling, scornful, incredulous terms (”how could anyone believe anything as SILLY as that!”).

The arrogant-sounding “ludicrous” clashes with all the misty, sympathetic words evoking Madeleine. Not a good word for diplomatically fending off true accusations. However, it’s a word an innocent man might use if he genuinely feels utterly frustrated and insulted and also afraid of what he feels is inexplicable idiocy.

Ludicrous. Absurd. Elements here of Camus’s Etranger? The absurd as trap. The guy whose failure to cry at his mother’s funeral is held against him when he’s tried for murder. Elements of this in reactions to both McCanns especially Kaste. Held against them both that they don’t *look the part* of grieving parents AND that they look as though they’re overplaying their parts.

RSPB? Ade retirement fund?

The hacks like to have SAS on the front page ‘cos they can use big letters at the news stand.

MOSSAD is a bugger ‘cos if you want big letters and do the MOSS above the AD people won’t buy the paper ‘cos they think it’s about that ugly, skinny bint YET again.

So my money’s on letter size as the answer to it all…

42 is brilliant ‘cos that fills the whole page!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=481243&in_page_id=1770

Did I deram it or wasn’t that firm also involved with Pinochet or Iran/Contra affair - on the baddies side, of course. If so it’s interesting that they employ the Pinochet extradition lawyer (on the baddy Pinochet’s side) as well. A source close to the family will announce Joseph Goebbels has joined the PR team from his SAS base in Paraguay.

Funny that, Goebbels got his missus to kill his 6 children in early May 1945, before they both topped themselves. Not a lot of people know that…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels

Does anyone believe the “official” (read media) line that they are searching for Madeleine and checking out possible sightings? Of which I believe there have been none, at least none published, for ages.

Just had an idea - like in that film called something or other. Someone knows what horse will win the next day’s race… No not the jockeys!

Anyway as we are a day ahead, when we know who dunnit we can go down the bookies and place our bets. Return the next day with a tidy profit pip pip. I’d probably give mine to the NSPCC ;-(

Hardly surprising - I think this company would rather that everyone did not know they existed. Having their name plastered all over the Media is probably not in either their best interests or those of their other clients LOL