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Aruba PM Urges Access for FBI

The Government of Aruba would like to confirm by legal means necessary to guarantee the involvement of the FBI in regards to the investigation about the disappearance of Ms. Natalee Holloway. This involvement is to be all levels, which means that the FBI must have complete access to the dossier, including transcripts, audio tapes or video registration of interrogations, plus all materials that are connected to this case, in as much as our judicial system allows.
In case the current phase of investigation limits mentioned involvement, than the instruction is to use all legal means necessary to allow and even guarantee complete access to the FBI. If external expertise in reference to above is required, you are hereby authorized and instructed to do so.
Lastly, it is imperative that there should not be any doubt at all that Aruban authorities guarantee full cooperation in this case with the American authorities, as has been the case since the beginning, within the boundaries of our judicial system.

Aruban PM: Give Natalee Records to FBI

Aruba Leader Urges Document Access for FBI

First Defense, Blame The Victim !

From all of the reports I have read it seem the first time the police asked Joran what happened to Natalee it was approximately 5:00 AM May 31, 2005 in the company of Paulus, Deepak, Charles Croes, Jug Twitty, and several others.

Interview with Charles Croes and Greta Van Sustren
Joran's version @ 5:00 AM - Per Charles Crowes (whom I found credible)

Joran "said that he had been gambling and that he met Natalee. And Natalee told him that she had lost some money and was trying to recuperate it before she went home. And he apparently was a good poker player, or blackjack player, whatever it is, and that he helped her recoup some of her monies, and gave it back to her. And she then considered him her lucky charm."

"He next told me that he was at Carlos and Charlie's, and that they were dancing. And then that she asked for a ride home."
"He told me that she was coming on to him, and dancing provocatively, and then she said she wanted to have him take her home. He then agreed to that. And they went out, I guess, and they got in the car. She got in the car, and they drove off."

"They made a decision to take her to the lighthouse to show her the lighthouse. They went up to the lighthouse, were there for a little while.
And then she was acting so crazy that he just wanted to take her home, back to the hotel. And that he took her to the hotel, pulled into the front, and opened the door, and that she got out. And when she got out, she tripped and fell. And then got up, continued to walk into the Holiday Inn hotel"
"That's exactly what he said."

(Mother Kalpoe) Nadira Ramirez speaks out

"They don't know nothing about her. Only they know that she was with Joran, and he ask him a lift to bring her down by the hotel, that she have to drop her off, and seeing that Joran is with them, and he said, OK, it's fine. What he said when she went in the car, did her friends call her or something. And he said, I stopped my car, that if she want to go, it's fine. It's not that, yes, we forced her, or not we, she was with Joran. My son said that she didn't even introduce herself to them, like, hi, I'm Natalee or whatever. She didn't talk a word with my two sons."
"And she was more like friend with Joran. My two sons were in front. Deepak was driving, the next one other side, and Joran was at the back with her. And he didn't say anything. I mean, he's a boy. I mean, if he have her like a girlfriend, he didn't interrupt. He just drive up, and then..."

"He said that they were kissing. And he was getting a little bit upset because he said that he didn't like it in his car, that if you want to make love, go and pay a hotel and go in a hotel room, not in my car."
And then he said my brothers told me, Satish, he's a little more soft and understanding. (INAUDIBLE) yes, they're coming out just — I don't want to say nothing. And then when they reach up somewhere, he said that — I think "Natalee asked that she can see the lighthouse, that she have to leave tomorrow morning, and if they can drive her up there. But he said he don't know if he can go because his car is very low. But he went up. He tried. He said he didn't stop at all because she was drunk. And she was like, Hey, here I am. I want to go back to the hotel."
"They turned around back, what they told me, and they dropped her off by the Holiday Inn. I said, You're sure? He said, Yes, we dropped her. And then they put Joran home, and then they come home. Now that I heard that the story changed. I asked Satish (INAUDIBLE) that Satish, why you guys lie to Mama? Said, Yes, he's our friend, and we tried to lie — that — just, you know, to cover him or something. I said, Are you sure? He said, Yes. Joran asked us to leave him by the Marriott beach with Natalee."
"And that's all. They come home, and they said they don't know further."

What does that sentence mean and why would they plan it into the story before they were arrested? And if it is his car, it must be Deepak that was telling her about using or not using force on Natalee.
This text is telling. It looks like Satish (who is more soft-spoken and understanding) told his mother that Deepak told him to say that she was with Joran and asked Deepak if he would take her to see the lighthouse so they did then went to the Holiday Inn and dropped her off. So they let Joran go. Then they arrested us because it was a lie, we really dropped them off at the beach by the Marriott because Joran asked us to lie and he is our friend.
You have to wonder if Steve Croes was at the Internet Cafe on Sunday evening as it was his usual day off. I keep getting the idea that Satish was not involved in this crime and really does not know very much. It was brought to my attention that PVDS borrowed a car after his vehicles were siezed. That car was a small gray honda with tinted windows similar to the car Natalee was seen getting into. We have assumed that it was Deepaks car. But if there was no forensic evidence in his car this should be looked at again as a possibility. Someone mentioned they thought it was missing the front passenger seat also.

Let's try to find pictures of that car.

The original gravesite?

Joran is reported to have told police that he buried Natalee near the fisherman's huts on the beach. But Equusearch found something interesting somewhere else. ISA is building a new school approximately halfway between Carlos n' Charlies and Joran's house.Here are a few photos that were taken in March of 2005.These were taken in July of 2005. The park that is quite near the new school is Arikok National Park . The phone call to Paulus Van Der Sloot would start a flurry of activity, including the moving of Natalee's body. In Paulus' own words "NO CORPSE, NO CASE". (see videos; Investigation Disrupted)

First Defense Blame the victim Redux

The following story appeared in the Dutch (regional) press about Aruba.

The Netherlands Daily, Nederlands Dagblad, placed it in their front page.

American Teenagers party on Aruba(From our correspondent Nina Jurna)

The missing teenager Natalee Holloway is portrayed in the media as a very correct, innocent, conservative eighteen year old girl that went on a school trip. Not a girl who goes to Aruba to party hard. But is that realistic? Because Aruba is the ‘Loret de Mar’ (The european Aruba) for American youngsters.
‘’You only hear on the Island that she stumbled out of the nightclub completely pissed'’. Oranjestad - Arubans know: thousands of American youngsters come to the Island every month for sex, drugs and alcohol. On Aruba you may, in contrary to the US, drink when your 16 and for a joint you won’t end up in jail. ‘’Here they do everything that cannot and may not do at home'’, tells Gijs van ‘t Hullennaar. He is a manager of come bars and nightclubs, like Moomba Beach, a populair beach hangout adjacent to the Holliday Inn, where Natalee Holloway stayed. According to Van ‘t Hullenaar are the ‘excesses’ committed by Dutch Teenagers in the spanish costal cities like Loret de European European Mar and the isle popular Holiday are not popularing compared what the Americans do on Aruba.

Van ‘t Hullenaar Spanish coastal has met during his career in the bar business many different tourists from many different places. But the Americans are according to him the worst. ‘’The know no boundaries. They drink abnormally much, blow and use more drugs. Even the girls, the are possibly worse than the boys. They flirt with the barkeepers and ask for free drinks. ‘If we don’t have to pay, we rock this place’ they say. I have experienced sometimes that they dance on the bar and stripping'’.
In America youngster may only use alcohol after their 21th birthday, until then they do not enter a bar. On Aruba there are the much easier dutch rules . ‘’The young Americans do not enter a bar to have a few drinks, no they want to get completely wasted. Sometimes they just put a pile of dollar bills on the counter and ask ‘I want to get drunk as fast as possible’.

In the case of the missing teenager Natalee Holloway the police also talked to Van ‘t Hullenaar Spanish coastal European. ‘’This bar is right next to the Holiday Inn, so there was a great chance that she has been here. But I didn’t saw her that night. In the weekend she disappeared the south beach festival was held here and that drew a big crowd. Van ‘t Hullenaar Spanish coastal told career according experienced Fox dollar bills Holiday disappeared south beach Fox news the same story he told the police. ‘’A lot of American parents do not know what their children are doing here on Aruba. They give their son or daughter 300 dollars and I know that is mostly spend on alcohol. He thinks is it’s hypocritical to say that it’s all okay, even if it’s terrible that the girl is missing. ‘’But you only hear on the Island that she stumbled out of the nightclub completely pissed, not in the American press. Of course every parent tells: my daughter doesn’t do that. But that’s just what my parents told others about me’.

Don't hate the player, hate the game!

Who is forcing you to play?

We can hate both when people turn the judicial system into a game. Simply put, it is not a game! Television and legal pundits sit on both sides and commentate as if it were a spectator sport. Attornies hire professional cheerleaders to sway public opinion in their favor. The tiny island of Aruba is no exception. The players start a bit younger and seek a little different thrill. These are the self called "Pimps" of the island. Identified from left to right back row are Giliam Van Der Straaten, Joran Van Der Sloot, Darwin Duberto?, ???, Deepak Kalpoe, Jaime Carrasquilla, ??? Valentjin Van Der Sloot.
The Pimps are the sons of the current power side of Aruba's political spectrum. These boys has been lucky in the past. Partly due to the leniency of having fathers in positions to help them out and partly because they were seen by the general public as above suspician.
Several of the mothers taught at the International School of Aruba (ISA) where the boys attend. ISA is a small private pre-k through high school with approximately 120 students total or 7-8 per grade level. If we really explore the situation, we might find that it is some home schooled children that are recieving grants and international aid to build a new school and for travel to foreign countries etc... (read ripoff other countries including the US). If we listen to Joran's mother who is also a teacher at ISA, Joran was an honor student with advanced placement classes. Yet he was NOT accepted at any major University in the states much less offered any academic scholarships. Do you wonder how badly he must have done on the SAT? Or was it the interview?

The Pimps games

Have as much fun as you can, get as drunk as fast as you can, have all the girls you can, do anything because you can. The gang mentality runs rampant in the "Pimps", you might be fooled by the clothing and face paint. These boys and their familes have one theme in common. They truly hate Americans. They may pretend to like the intrusive Americans because it puts the food on the table but that is exactly why they hate them. American women were good for one thing and only one thing. And the boys enjoyed the frequent visitors to the island. Weekends were particularly fun. a couple boys would get together and hang out at the one of the hotels choosing a target. Once chosen, they make small talk allowing her to believe he is also a tourist. He or his accomplice will learn or overhear where she plans to go later that evening or the next. for an "accidental" meeting. Close to closing time the predator pimp strikes, adding a small amout of extasy. He and his accomplices left with the victim. She was then repeatedly raped. Her memory would be foggy when she awakened on a beach in a foreign country and the police would laugh when she tried to tell what she remembers. But "something BAD happened". It had worked so many times before.


"What the hell do you mean her mother is on her way here?" Paul screamed into the phone. to be continued....