RSSTwo Suspects Being investigated for murder and kidnapping
From the AP: Aruba Lawyer: Clients Held in Murder Probe
ORANJESTAD, Aruba – The attorney for two former security guards arrested in the disappearance last month of an Alabama honors student said Tuesday his clients were being investigated for murder and kidnapping.
The men have not been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway and authorities have not said she was a victim of foul play. Earlier in the day, police said they had not ruled out accidental death in the case.
A judge was to determine Wednesday whether authorities have enough evidence to continue to hold the two men, who deny any connection to the high school graduate, said defense lawyer Chris Lejuez.
“They both say that during the time” of the disappearance, “they were not at the (girl’s) hotel and they don’t know this girl,” Lejuez told The Associated Press.
Lejuez said judicial authorities told him of the murder and kidnapping allegations as he met with his clients.
Meanwhile, police and the FBI kept up a search for Holloway, but a lack of any solid leads was hindering progress after nine days, according to several officers. Local officials asked the FBI to bring in dogs trained to search for people.
The parents said they had not received any request for ransom or any other evidence that she had been kidnapped in this Dutch Caribbean territory.
If they are actually going to bring murder charges that have to know something. There must be some form of evidence or a possible confession from one of the suspects. The police had also questioned the three “person’s of interest” as well and who knows what came from those interrogations?
So What Else Was Senator Kerry Hiding?
Gee, Mr. Senator anything else you want to tell us about after the fact? This gets filed in the truth is better than fiction category. After all the media’s falling over John Kerry and his superior intellect; we find out that he scored less than George W. Bush. That he received 4 D’s and one in political science. Now I understand. John Kerry, the intellectual man. In Kerry’s famous words, “Do you know who I am?” Yep, a solid “C” student.
During last year’s presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.
In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.
Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D’s in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.
The grade transcript, which Kerry has always declined to release, was included in his Navy record. During the campaign the Globe sought Kerry’s naval records, but he refused to waive privacy restrictions for the full file. Late last month, Kerry gave the Navy permission to send the documents to the Globe.
The media and late night talk shows had a field day with jokes that Bush was stupid and the reference to being to dumb to be President. I guess they would have thought twice after seeing Kerry’s records.
The transcript shows that Kerry’s freshman-year average was 71. He scored a 61 in geology, a 63 and 68 in two history classes, and a 69 in political science. His top score was a 79, in another political science course. Another of his strongest efforts, a 77, came in French class.
Under Yale’s grading system in effect at the time, grades between 90 and 100 equaled an A, 80-89 a B, 70-79 a C, 60 to 69 a D, and anything below that was a failing grade. In addition to Kerry’s four D’s in his freshman year, he received one D in his sophomore year. He did not fail any courses.
So the media has gone from Kerry the superior intellect to “he didn’t fail any courses.” My how the standard has been lowered. So after all the puff pieces on Kerry and his brilliance by the media we find out that he was just as non-serious about college as was President Bush. What was said, “Who was the moron?” And they say there is no bias in the media.
Sen. John F. Kerry’s grade average at Yale University was virtually identical to President Bush’s record there, despite repeated portrayals of Kerry as the more intellectual candidate during the 2004 presidential campaign.
The bets quote of the day comes from The Moderate Voice.
We’ll simply say this:
We never thought John Kerry was that smart.
The reason: Bob Shrum.
In a further brilliant move was Kerry’s unwillingness to sign the Form 180 during the campaign. Now that he has released the information, what was he so afraid of?
Senator John F. Kerry, ending at least two years of refusal, has waived privacy restrictions and authorized the release of his full military and medical records.
The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry’s Vietnam service.
The lack of any substantive new material about Kerry’s military career in the documents raises the question of why Kerry refused for so long to waive privacy restrictions. An earlier release of the full record might have helped his campaign because it contains a number of reports lauding his service. Indeed, one of the first actions of the group that came to be known as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was to call on Kerry to sign a privacy waiver and release all of his military and medical records.
But Kerry refused, even though it turned out that the records included commendations from some of the same veterans who were criticizing him.
Kos seems to be beside himself as to how Kerry did not release these documents during the campaign. Maybe Kos, your boy just wasn’t too smart after all and maybe there is more to the story still?
Jesus, they had additional substantive evidence that the Swift Boat Liars were full of shit and refused to release it. The incompetent way that matter was handled knows no bounds. Kerry’s excuse?
Well, releasing those records would’ve exposed many of those lies and defused the story. By not releasing them, they gave the impression that they were trying to hide something, further fueling the Swift Boat fantasies.
However, its hard to imagine someone could be that foolish. I tend to agree more with the theory over at Blogs For Bush. Especially Update III with a comment from Swift Boat Veteran For Truth John O’Neill.
We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department.
Quote of the Day – Thursday, June 7th, 2005
We’ll simply say this:
We never thought John Kerry was that smart.
The reason: Bob Shrum.
- Joe Gandleman at The Moderate Voice
Two Aruban Men Held On Reasonable Suspicion
Attorney says he expects clients to be accused of homicide
As per CNN, Prosecutors have decided to detain two suspects.
ORANJESTAD, Aruba (CNN) — Prosecutors in Aruba decided to further detain two hotel security guards in the disappearance of an Alabama student based on what authorities called “a reasonable suspicion” they were involved in “criminal acts” related to the case.
Asked Tuesday if the men were to be charged with homicide and kidnapping, prosecution spokeswoman Vivian van der Biezen said, “I cannot confirm it. I think I will be able to confirm it tomorrow.”
Prosecutors decided to detain the suspects for another eight days. They are to appear in court Wednesday. Acting on a tip, police arrested the pair Sunday morning in the oil-refining town of San Nicolas.
Van der Biezen would not elaborate about evidence gathered in the investigation, but she did say that authorities would not have prolonged the detention if they only had circumstantial evidence.
Defense lawyer Chris Lejuez said he expects his clients to be formally accused of homicide, being accomplices to homicide, and of kidnapping leading to homicide.
Carter wants Gitmo shut down
The ex President, lover of dictators the world over, has called for the closing of Gitmo. The most noble James Earl Carter, who negotiated North Korea the time to build nuclear weapons, is good friends with Castro, and seems to think the only illegal elections in the world happen in the United States, wants to shut down our prison in Gitmo over 7 incidents with a Koran.
The same Jimmy Carter who rendered the United States impotant in world affairs during his administration, the man who watched our citizens being held prisoner overseas, now wants the military prisons shut down.
These prisons that are holding detainees that the Geneva Convention says can be shot on the battlefield at will as enemy combatants not in uniform that are complaining about their Koran.
The same prisons kept on an island with prisons run by Castro that make these look like Club Med.
So lets listen to Old Jimmy.
So lets shut them down. Shut down the prisons.
But open them the next day renamed as the Jimmy Carter facility.
That would be a great testimonial to this man.
