Interview With Natalee's Friend

ScareMonkeys has an interview with a friend of Natalee's who was along on the trip.

Comments

[Mary]

The interview that Bill O'Rielly did with two people was a really good one the other night. She was right out front with Natalee when the club closed.
Go to FOX news and check it out.

[ATL Procrastinator]

Just a follow-up to my earlier post. I found this quote from an article on al.com (http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-14/111922528690080.xml&storylist=missinggirl&thispage=1)

"Still, the possibility of a tarnished image looms. Local newspapers have interviewed business owners to see if they fear a slowdown, and Prime Minister Nelson Oduber has said that if something bad happened to Natalee it could damage the island.

"We've been working 50 years, day and night, to build up tourism," Oduber said last week.

Tourism accounts for 70 percent of gross domestic product of the former Dutch colony of 97,000, which welcomes 728,000 tourists each year and an additional 550,000 cruise ship passengers. More than 70 percent are from the United States."

I had no ideat that 70% of their tourism $ were from Americans... Given that fact, you would think they would be bending over backward to accomodate the press, but it seems exactly the opposite.

[ATL Procrastinator]

Sorry... I think i misread that stat. (It's late). It's 70% of the cruise ships that are from America, not the $s.