So… a detective is saying the following according to Sky News;

A Spanish private detective hired by Gerry and Kate McCann has vowed to find missing Madeleine within five months.

McCanns visited Morocco in search

Francisco Marco said he believes the child is alive in Morocco and is already following up reported sightings of a blonde-haired girl with her distinctive right eye.

The detective’s Spanish-based agency, Metodo 3, was given the job of finding Madeleine in September.

He said: “We have a six-month agreement with the McCanns. We have already spent a month and a half working. I will find her before that period is up.”

The 35-year-old said he is certain Mr and Mrs McCann had nothing to do with Madeleine’s disappearance from Praia da Luz, southern Portugal, on May 3.

Are we ever going to find out what happened? The family have now hired a private detective? Would you do this if you were guilty? No.. .. so, perhaps she really is alive. I just don’t know anymore.

Portugese police questioned the parents for 10 hours…….
They may have fooled the nation for nearly 6 months – 10 hours is nothing! come on!

And again –another sighting in morocco?

Facebook, bebo, myspace, hi5 — are they really safe?

If we use them in the right way? I don’t know….. honestly..

Ok, at first, I suspected, ‘abduction’……but I’m sorry…. I just am finding it really hard to believe now……

I’m sick of hearing different stories too… I’ve heard the following…

• never checked on? parent only listened through the door
• apparently children were medicated
• madeline is an IVF baby – apparently he may not infact be the father
• there was a ransom note? – explaining the ‘they’ve got her’
• the couple that they ate with are involved?
• the blood on the walls is hers?
• robert murat met with the couple a few days before in exeter?
• madeline was last seen in public with her parents at 2.30pm?
• a sighting in belgium?
• Mr. McCann has his hair cut the next day after his daughter disappeared?

you know… the list goes on and on and on and on…………..

Where is she? What do you suspect happened?

Does someone out there know something?

And yes, like many, I do believe the parents should be treated as suspects because when it comes down to it, statistics have proven that the majority of domestic violence cases involved with children, the abuser/attacker is a parent.

Who is to say they are involed? But, who says they are not?

I do believe that the parents should have been split up as soon as it happened and kept apart, because, I hope it isn’t, but if they are involved , the Portuguese police will have a lot to answer for.. 100 days to collaborate a story?

As for the ‘no emotion’ from the parents as I read on one message board… yes, I agree they are not puppets…. but to not even shed ONE tear???

I recall when the little girls went missing Sarah and Jessica – does anyone else recall the family? They were uncontrollably sobbing and I suspect any mother or father would be the same………

The McCanns have not SHED one tear on camera, honestly, I find them too calm.

One person said on the AOL message boards; but if they show emotion they will be considered; over-reacting, playing for camera’s??

Which seems more appropriate??? Uncontrollable crying and screaming because your child has disappeared? or cool, calm and collected, ‘we believe she is still alive’, repeated over and over and over………with no facial expression, whatsoever..

What does everyone think?

Does anyone else just find the whole thing REALLY strange??????

Sincerely, my thoughts and prayers are with the whole family.. I hope they find their little girl, alive and well and I really hope I’m wrong about my assumptions. But, surely, someone, somewhere knows something??

Now it says: Facebook is temporarily unavailable, we are working on it —–

Have they been hacked ?????? :O

I’m starting to think someone has managed to hack facebook!! It’s been down for like an hour?! Wtf? I want my facebook back!!

Egypt’s Muslims are growing weary of the number of specific religious edicts (“fatwas”) issued by the country’s clerics, including two recent, highly controversial ones, according to a June New York Times dispatch from Cairo. Ezzat Atiya, a lecturer at the prestigious al-Azhar Islamic University, had declared that men can be permitted to see unrelated women without their head scarves (which is ordinarily prohibited) by the symbolic act of the woman’s breastfeeding the man five times, which in theory places the woman on similar footing to the man’s mother. A second challenging fatwa declared that drinking the urine of the Prophet Muhammad would be holy. (Atiya has been suspended.) [Reuters, 5-21-07; New York Times, 6-12-07]

I have no comment. Except – I’m shocked. . . Is this true? Or america bored and trying to cause some type of controversy amongst us ?

China takes aim at US over claims Chinese missiles are in Iraq

KUWAIT CITY: The Criminal Court, presided by Judge Salah Al-Houti, Wednesday refrained from passing a sentence against a US citizen, identified only as Richard, who has been charged with bringing alcohol, hashish and porno movies into the country. During a previous session, the court watched the CDs seized from the man, who reportedly said he knew nothing either what the CDs contained or what was in the bag. Richard told the court his friend put the bag in his baggage in the United States and told him he will be surprised when he arrives in Kuwait. He added he did not know the bag contained alcohol and hashish and also denied knowledge of porno CDs.

Case papers indicate on Nov 7, 2006, Richard arrived at the Kuwait International airport. A customs officer, while checking his baggage noticed the one bag contained suspicious bottles. When he asked the man to open the bag, he found five bottles of alcohol. In the other bag the officer found a plastic bag containing some hashish and four CDs containing porno material. The officer referred Richard to the Public Prosecution and the man was charged with attempting to smuggle alcohol, hashish and forbidden CDs into the country. During interrogation Richard admitted to possessing the contraband. However, he denied knowing about the contents of his baggage and said his friend betrayed him

How can someone admit to possessing the ‘contraband’ but deny knowing about the contents of his baggage?

Porn movies? Hashish? and alcohol?

I think poor Richard needs to find a wife.. or a hobby? Something other than porno and alcohol.

God, what an idiot?

Darkness all around

It is impossible to see anything

But yet, I can see my reflection in the murky water.

How I’ve got so old, so pale, yet, I still feel like a child.

The stillness of the night dawns on me, the bats fly overhead, the dog howls

But yet, I feel at ease.

It’s so peaceful here, so tranquil.

The mountains don’t scream abuse at me.

But yet, it’s hard to believe

On the other side of this green mound, fighter jets are taking to the skies.

People are fearing for their lives.

Why, I begin to wonder?

C.M 2007

As I look out across the miles of endless sand, I wonder…

What is it that I love about this place so much?

Is it the people? Is it the aroma of sweet, rich arabian coffee?

Sometimes I question, how it it that I can see nothing but blue skies and arabian desert but yet the whole world sees something else?

I wouldn’t change my location for the world. It is one of the few places I’ve been that I truly feel at ease, safe and welcome.

It is not what others may view it as.

Perhaps a few people need to stop being so narrow-minded and get on a plane to the Middle East and actually find out what a perfect place it is….Temperatures of over 40 degrees, tax-free salaries and you can fill a 3litre car for £6.00

Perhaps, someday, people will finally realise – but – by then it could be too late.