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Oct. 12, 2005 Strangely missing from on-land Aruba these days is the physical presence of any Holloway, Holloway-Twitty, Mammana or Twitty. Vanished (well, Joe never did make it, ever)! While the siren call of Philadelphia’s night life may be irresistible for some stay-at-homes, Dave and Jug, both busily trolling the Internet in their search for donated funds to enable on-island search efforts to resume, surely can have no excuse for their continued absence from Aruba, where Natalee Holloway, the beautiful missing-from-Aruba Alabama honours student, disappeared in the last days of May. Missing, too, since the government announced on October 3, that Aruba had reverted to the regular $43,730-per-year fee for satellite linkage and had cancelled the $8.088 deeply discounted tragedy rate http://www.aruba.com/msgbrd/read.php?f=13&i=16927&t=16927, are the many on-Aruba media mavens who had followed this so closely for the last three-and-one-half-month period. Joining the above in this Aruban version of the Bermuda Triangle is the curious omission of Natalee Holloway's name from the four seminal go-to lists of American missing persons. The FBI maintains a database of world-wide missing Americans at http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/kidnap/kidmiss.htm. A search of that site reveals that there is no Natalee Holloway listed, which is mystifying, as up to seven FBI agents have been advising the Aruban authorities since the investigation began http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8456586/ . The North American Missing Person Network (NAMPN) http://www.nampn.doenetwork.us/search.html ; the Doe Network http://www.doenetwork.org/ ; and the National Center For Missing Adults (NCMA) http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/gallery/ncmalistview.php?wstr=Adult&alpha=A are also conspicuous in their failure to include Natalee Holloway among their extensive lists of missing Americans. Another young American girl, Amy Bradley, was last seen by family members in the early morning hours of March 24, 1998, sitting on the balcony outside their cabin aboard the Rhapsody of the Seas cruise ship, which was en route to Curacao, Antilles, at the time of her disappearance. Amy Bradley is included on the FBI, the NAMPN, the Doe network and the NCMA missing persons list. Beth Holloway, the mother of Natalee Holloway, has left no known stone unturned in her quests for vengeance and retribution, so why has the daughter’s name been permitted to languish unlisted for the last five months? Might it be because the FBI is following the guidance of the Mountain Brook travel organizer, Cobiella Bearman; Natalee’s mother, Beth Holloway; and the Aruban police force, who all made the determination, early on, that Natalee may have been involved in her own disappearance? Cobiella Bearman, the Aruba trip co-ordinator, traveled back to Aruba on the private jet with the Holloway-Twittys and the Alabama posse which confronted Joran Van Der Sloot and then selected him to be the one-and-only guilty party. Mrs. Bearman, in an August 26, CBS interview http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/26/earlyshow/main796502_page2.shtml informed reporters that, “"We discussed it on the flight that, when we get there and get our hands on her, we're gonna be scolding her and telling her she shouldn't have wandered off.” Prior to leaving Alabama, Beth Holloway had had posters made up, complete with a picture of her daughter, Natalee, and the caption, “Natalee, call Hootie’, which she arranged to have distributed all over Aruba after she arrived. Lt. Rudy Soemers, of the Aruban police force, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren on August 3, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164649,00.html stated, “ SOEMERS: You know why? Because — this is my opinion — I don't think she's in Aruba. VAN SUSTEREN: You think she's alive? SOEMERS: Yes, and not in Aruba." Harry Tho, of www.hyscience.com, recently wrote, “I believe Joran's rendition of the events on the night that Natalee Holloway disappeared should be taken seriously. Two experienced, Aruban detectives: LT Rudy and Det. Nichalaas have both hinted at a Natalee-originated disappearance.” Perhaps the reason why Natalee Holloway’s name is missing from the missing persons lists is because those seven FBI advisors have decided that Natalee is a runaway, and not a missing person? The answer to that is still missing, not yet released to the general public. However, also missing in a comparison between the Amy Bradley and Natalee Holloway cases are reports of Amy’s mother tripping the light fantastic on the dance floors of Philadelphia, sightings of a $35,000 Toyota Tundra in the Bradley driveway, or speculation that moneys, goods and services donated to the Bradley fund topped the $20-million mark. ------------ About the author: Dayo Gould is a frequent visitor to Aruba, and is a volunteer ESL teacher in a Christian school. Email: ed_asp@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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