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Skriven 2010-06-20 10:10:41 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
     Kommentar till en text av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Duress
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Hello Robert,

On Saturday June 19 2010 07:21, you wrote to me:

 MV>> the money was handed over. [..] Aruban law is not US law. So they
 MV>> could not arrest him. Also they could not have the Arubans arrest him
 MV>> because they acted illegally themselves and an extradition request
 MV>> would most likely be rejected.

 MV>> So they had to let him go with the money. Money that he used to
 MV>> buy a ticket to Peru and now Stephanie Flores is dead.

 MV>> FUBAR I say.

 RB> His own damned stupidity and lack of self-control, I would say.

I was not talking about JS, I was talking about how the FBI handled this. Look
at it this way:

They paid $25000. That money is lost. They got no usable information in return.
By making it a covert operation on Aruban territory, they lost all chance of
getting cooperation from the Aruban authorities. Add to that that JS used the
money to go to Peru, where as it looks nop, he killed Stephanie Floris.

Compare that to te FBI having done nothing. They would still have the money and
saved all the additional expenses. JS wouls still be in Aruba, where he was
going to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. Stephanie Floris would have
been alive.

The covert FBI operation definetely worsened the situation. So: -> FUBAR.

 RB> Now he's getting the fruits of his own actions taken out of his hide.
 RB> I find it hard to have any sympathy.

I have no symphaty for him either. Does not alter he fact that the FBI was part
of a chain of events that led to the death of Stephanie Flores.

 RB> By the way, when you looked at the film of him being arrested in Chile
 RB> and brought to the Peruvian border, did you see how absolutely
 RB> _enormous_ the guy is?

I don't recall. When I saw him in the intervieuw with Pauw and Witteman (the
one where he threw a glass of wine at Peter R de Vries), I did not get the
impression of a very tall man.

On the footage from the hotel in Peru where he walks ahead of that girl, he was
about one head taller than here. Not unusual.

 RB> Just imagine him in a rage going after _you_ in a hotel room.

I would not have been there to begin with. Let's face it Bob, a girl that tags
along with Joran van der Sloot at three in the morning into a hotel where they
rent rooms by the hour is not a "nice" girl.


Cheers, Michiel

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