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Good Morning Viet Nam!

I feel like the Adrian Cronauer character as this story goes along. We all know what we are involved in is a mess, but peoples lives and livelihoods are at stake, not to mention the poor Holloway and Twitty families and the people of Mountain Brook.

We seem to be have breaking news on a daily basis, that at the end of the day is not so breaking and not so news. However, FOX CNN MSNBC stops the world on it and since we are knee deep into this story, we are going to keep at it.

From everything we know at this moment, there was a massive search yesterday outside of the Marriott. There were a pair of panties found, but from my perspective, they were not a size that is fashionable for that age group.

This morning there will be some court action as Van Der Sloots father petitions the court to see his son in jail. For some reason the court has refused him visitation and he is trying to rectify that.

Top 95, the Aruban station that has been covering the story the best has coverage this morning that the JD in the case (judge) has told Van der Sloot’s Attorney Anthony Carlos, that he is not allowed to be Van der Sloots attorney anymore. Supposedly, he talked to people who had statements against Van der Sloot, and in the Dutch legal system, that is against procedure. So the Attorney is off to court to fight that motion too. This information comes from our correspondent and good friend Aruba Girl.

Texas Rick one of our regular posters put up a very good synopsis of what has recently happened in our comments. Click here to read it.

Reader David sent in this article on the FBI’s role from the Caribbean Net News. Looks like the Aruban’s are not using every reasource as Aruba Girl mentioned that there are 38 agents down in Aruba at the present. Bet they are a happy bunch.

I am sure more will happen with the case today, but for now this is  Adrian Cronauer signing off.

Update: Texas Rick is on a roll this morning. He also found this nugget of an article from The Caribbean Net News about a radio station blacklisting the Caribbean due to the Natalee Holloway story.