Madeleine McCann, nog steeds geen nieuws.

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Op woensdag 14 oktober 2009 17:04 schreef Marrije het volgende:
Ja, die bedoel ik!

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Stockholm police were called out to a local beach on Monday after a tip off that the kidnapped British girl Madeleine McCann had been spotted there.

The tip off was by a father who believed that he had seen the missing Madeleine McCann at Flatenbadet in the southern Stockholm suburb of Bagarmossen, according to the Expressen newspaper.

The mystery of Madeleine McCann - the girl who disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007 while her parents were having dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant - was not however solved at a Swedish bathing spot.

"It was an Alva or Ylva who was out with her grandmother. So the police patrol left the scene without getting involved," Joakim Caryll at Stockholm police said to the newspaper.

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Op woensdag 14 oktober 2009 19:52 schreef Marrije het volgende:

tegen beter weten in hoop je ergens toch dat het haar is

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The U.K.’s Sunday Express reports it has intervened in the search for missing Madeleine McCann, prompting officials to request satellite images from “US spy chiefs.”

According to the Sunday edition report, the Leicestershire Police have never requested satellite views of Praia da Luz, Portugal, where the little girl disappeared over two years ago.

A source with the Portuguese police told the Express that “We know U.S. spy satellites regularly sweep over Portugal looking at military installations and government facilities.”

The source continued, “So we thought they might actually have image of Praia da Luz on the day of the kidnapping and the preceding days.”

“We hoped spy images may have captured the kidnapper watching the apartment prior to the event or even on the day itself. Obviously, having a picture would have speeded up the apprehension of the offender,” said the source.

According to the Express, the Portuguese source said Leicestershire Police and British officials have been told about the situation and the Portuguese police are “…confident of getting progress because of Gordon Brown’s interest in the case and this apparent special relationship between Britain and the United States.”

The report indicates that Brown may speak directly to President Barack Obama about the issue to achieve cooperation in obtaining the satellite images.

The Express reports it filed a Freedom of Information request upon the U.S. Government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Nonetheless, through a spokesperson, the agency told the Express “NGA does not provide imagery to private citizens or private companies. For reasons of national security we do not discuss specifics about what images we have or our capabilities.”

Madeleine, who would now be six-years-old, disappeared in May 2007, during a family vacation in Portugal.

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Op zondag 18 oktober 2009 17:24 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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10 cm is nog altijd een factor 100 verwijderd van 1 cm (en nee dat is geen rekenfout)
25 cm een 625 maal zo lage resolutie

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SATELLITE CLUE TO MADDIE KIDNAP

HOME Secretary Alan Johnson is prepared to ask US spy chiefs for satellite images which may show the face of Madeleine McCann’s kidnapper, following intervention by the Sunday Express.

Well done to the Express for coming up with a new angle on the Our Maddie story, and making itself a part of the story.
Anorak readers may recall this news from 28th, September 2007:

DAILY EXPRESS front page: “MADELEINE. SPY-IN-SKY PLAN TO FIND HER KIDNAPPER.”

“Satellite and aerial footage as well as internet traffic should be used to help the hunt,” say “intelligence experts”, including Professor Anthony Glees, Director of Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies. Security is his thing.

That was taken from a letter to the Times.

So what changed in making this news once more - other than the Express’s need for a story? Alan Johnson is now a front-line politician – he may yet lead the Labour Party – and as such he needs to wear his heart on his sleeve. Can he find Our Maddie?

Hope of new progress came after it emerged Leicestershire Police never made a formal request to the Home Office for views of Praia da Luz on Portugal’s Algarve at the time the little girl vanished in May 2007.

Hope of progress because something was not done? And then this loaded opinion by James Murray of the Maddie News Beat.

The quality of pictures taken by satellites in space is now so good they can reputedly identify the colour of someone’s eyes.

Reputedly, eh. Got any evidence of that? And what if the target declines to look up?

Last night a senior source with the Portuguese police said: “We know US spy satellites regularly sweep over Portugal looking at military installations and government facilities. So we thought they might actually have images of Praia da Luz on the day of the kidnapping and the preceding days.

Well, they might. It is possible. Any amateur space watchers who track satellites know?

“We hoped spy images may have captured the kidnapper watching the apartment prior to the event or even on the day itself. Obviously, having a picture would have speeded up the apprehension of the offender.”

And from all the pictures of the tops of heads and faces, the Portuguese police will track down everyone in the images, eliminating each as they go? Anyone they can’t tracks down will be a person of interest? So long as the alleged kidnapper has a natural luminous green head of hair it’s a mighty plan. It can’t fail. And what of those bungling Portuguese police, mocked by the fine British press which then went on to libel the McCanns?

Yet more than two years after Madeleine was snatched no help has been forthcoming, despite early requests from senior Portuguese detectives.

And now?

Last night a spokesman for Mr Johnson said extensive checks within the security intelligence community had failed to discover any formal request ever having come to them through Leicestershire Police from Portugal. However, he said that if a request were now made Mr Johnson would see whether he could offer any assistance in trying to persuade the Americans to become co-operative.

Would. Whether. If… Want more facts? At least we now know that the Americans are to blame, then. This might test the resolve of that special relationship.

The issue appears so sensitive that Prime Minister Mr Brown may have to speak directly to US President Barack Obama in order to achieve co-operation.

If Obama will speak to Brown.

The Sunday Express sought explanations for the extraordinary situation from the US government’s ultra- secretive National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The agency’s lawyers are now considering a Freedom of Information request from the Sunday Express. A spokesman for the agency said: “NGA does not provide imagery to private citizens or private companies. For reasons of national security we do not discuss specifics about what images we have or our capabilities.”

Is this the biggest non-story of the year? No images of Madeleine McCann on satellite. Maybe.

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Op dinsdag 20 oktober 2009 08:57 schreef telavivnick het volgende:
zal wat zijn om moeder en vader met een vuilniszak naar buiten te zien lopen .op de sateliet beelden .

raar dat er nog geen reakties van hun zijn gekomen ..?? of heb ik iets over het hoofd gezien ?

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Op woensdag 21 oktober 2009 15:14 schreef Suko het volgende:
Nieuwsvn Nigel.Satellites were deviated on the night of the crime Correio da Manhã er ststaat nog meer op die site.Nah, dat was het maar weer, tot een volgende keer.

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Door: MSN-redactie, 2-9-2010
'Maddie werd ontvoerd op bestelling'

© AP

Seriepedofiel Raymond Hewlett heeft op zijn sterfbed gezegd dat hij weet wat er met Madeleine McCann is gebeurd. Hewlitt is verdachte in de verdwijningszaak van het Britse meisje. In een brief aan zijn zoon Wayne, met wie Hewlett al jaren geen contact had, zegt hij dat hij niets met de kidnapping te maken heeft. Wel weet hij dat Maddie mogelijk op bestelling is ontvoerd.

Het meisje zou volgens Hewlett in opdracht van een rijk echtpaar in mei 2007 door een bende zigeuners zijn ontvoerd en meegenomen naar Portugal. Maddie was daar met haar ouders op vakantie. De groep zou een boodschappenlijstje hebben met potentiële slachtoffers. Die bestond vooral uit meisjes met blond haar zoals Maddie.

Hoewel Hewlett zelf is gezien bij de plek waar Madeleine verdween, zijn privédetectives die werken voor de McCAnns erg geïnteresseerd in de informatie van de stervende pedofiel. De claim van Hewlett komt namelijk overeen met eerdere theorieën die uitgingen van ontvoering op bestelling. Daarbij was Hewlett bevriend met Portugese zigeuners. En een paar dagen na de verdwijning zou Maddie door een Britse toerist zijn gezien in een wit bestelbusje met een aantal zigeuners.

Wayne is aangedaan door de brief van zijn vader. Toch gaat hij binnenkort met de ouders van Maddie en hun detectives om tafel zitten om hen de brief te laten lezen en te vertellen wat hij weet.

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Op donderdag 2 september 2010 19:28 schreef NorthernStar het volgende:

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