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Bolded by me. lonetraveler, time will tell but my gut is telling me that the AL "forces that be", who have supposedly been working on this extortion case had the goods they needed before 5-31-10 but didn't want to make a spectacle of themselves.
The murder of Stephany in Peru gave them a window of acceptance to publicize their efforts in a way which would be accepted by their constituents in ALA, imo.
I don't understand your point. :waitasec:
The
facts that we know are:
1. Sometime on or prior to 5/10/10 a call was made to 'extort' money -
- info in re. Natalee's death and/or location of body would be exchanged for the amount of $250,000.
2. On 5/10/10, a $15,000 "down-payment" was wired from a Birmingham, AL bank to a bank in the Netherlands.
3. We know that Joran was in Aruba on 5/10/10.
4. We know that Joran arrived in South America on 5/14/10.
THOSE are the FACTS that we know to date.
What exactly is it that you believe the AL "forces-that-be" could have done so that they didn't make a "spectacle of themselves"? Were they supposed to invade Aruba? Peru? Chile? to arrest Joran van der Sloot on a $15,000 wire-fraud chage?
I live in AL, so I am one of those constituents. I certainly don't agree with everything that happens in this state by any stretch of the imagination, but I honestly do not understand what point you are making.
It is my opinion...hypothesis, if you will....that they sent the $15,000 "down-payment" knowing that Joran would contact them for the rest of the requested $250,000. And when he did, I believe their plan was to entice him to fly to the U.S. to collect it (lots of poker tournaments in Vegas, Biloxi, & Atantic City, ya know
), therefore making it easy to arrest him on U.S. soil.
I could be waaaay wrong ... totally off about that, however I still don't understand what you are implying in your post. Please explain how you think it could have been handled better.