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Christian Brueckner is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005 A new arrest warrant has been issued by authorities in Germany in separate cases for a man who is also suspected in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. The suspect, identified by media as Christian Brueckner, is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a rape he also committed in Portugal in 2005. The term in prison is scheduled to end in September 2025. Prosecutors in Braunschweig announced last month that they had charged the 45-year-old in five...

A 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago. Police believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen. Madeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: "All we have ever wanted is to find her." Police are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man. The day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name. Madeleine...

On Sunday evening, side-by-side images of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and his brother Tony next to police sketches of potential suspects in a 2007 kidnapping of a three-year-old girl took over the internet. The resemblance is striking, and Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter rapidly took up the case. -snip- In 2013, five years after Portuguese police had closed the case, they reopened it and revealed two new police sketches. It was believed that they were supposed to be of the same man, but from two different witnesses. Reddit and others on social media are now asking, what if it...

Dr. Madel[e]ine Cosman [discusses] illegal immigration, infectious diseases.

Princess Madeleine and her husband Christopher O'Neil have decided that their child will be born in the US, the Swedish Royal Court has announced. Madeleine reveals royal baby's gender: report (30 Oct 13) Pregnant Princess to attend Nobel alone (19 Oct 13) Royal baby on the way for Swedish princess (03 Sep 13) "After careful consideration and in consultation with the King and Queen, Princess Madeleine and Mr. Christopher O'Neill have decided that their child will be born in New York," Svante Lindqvist at the Royal Court wrote in a statement. The baby, set to become fifth in line to...

In 1997, one of Bill Clinton's Cabinet members suggested that Shelton order a US plane to fly low over Baghdad so Saddam would shoot it down and, ta da, give America instant justification for war. "I was so mad I was about to explode," recounts Shelton, thinking about the sacrificial pilot. “Why, of course we can,” he responded. "Just as soon as we get your ass qualified to fly it, I will have it flown just as low and slow as you want to go.” The memoir doesn't name the Cabinet member, but Elliott notes that the way the passage...

Rice says only an idiot would trust North Korea Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:18pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview released on Friday only an "idiot" would trust North Korea, which is why the United States is insisting on a way to check its nuclear claims. A 2005 multilateral deal under which Pyongyang would abandon its nuclear programs has become snagged on Pyongyang's refusal to spell out a protocol on how to verify its disclosures about its nuclear programs. The sticking point appears to be North Korea's reluctance to allow inspectors to take...

The Portugese priest who gave solace to the McCann family after the ‘disappearance’ of their daughter Madeleine has stripped his church of all traces of the girl, with friends saying the experience has left him “ruined”. The Express reports seven months after the tragedy, Fr Jose Manuel Pacheco ordered the removal of scores of green and yellow ribbons which were put up as a symbol of hope in the days after Madeleine vanished. Posters and photographs of Madeleine which plastered the village of Praia da Luz have also been removed. Friends of Fr Pacheco – who came under police scrutiny...

......The existence of this so-called "magic circle" of the Portuguese establishment, allegedly involved in an international paedophile ring using boys and girls from Casa Pia, was last week likened to an earthquake waiting to shake Portugal to its foundations. New allegations about the scale of the network will be put before the country's highest court within the next few weeks. Amid rumours of links to other paedophile gangs across Europe and the U.S., international experts on child sex crimes and murders are expected to be in court when the case re-opens, four years after a group of victims broke a...

Puffing on a cigarette and knocking back beers, the man leading the world's biggest missing child inquiry enjoys yet another long, boozy lunch. Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral worked as little as four-and-a--half hours a day this week - despite a mountain of uninvestigated sightings of Madeleine McCann on his desk. The Sunday Mirror has discovered that 252 possible tip-offs about the four-year-old have been reported to Amaral, any one of which might just lead to her being traced. But the vast majority have not even been checked. Amaral, in charge of a squad of 30 detectives, has convinced himself...

A blonde girl photographed in Morocco is not missing Madeleine McCann, according to journalists who met her. British and Spanish reporters claim to have traced the girl, pictured being carried on a Moroccan woman's back. London newspaper the Evening Standard says the girl is a five-year-old from the village of Zinat. The McCanns' spokesman said the news, if true, was disappointing. Madeleine disappeared on 3 May from a holiday apartment in Portugal. Easily traced Experts were said to be examining the image, taken three weeks ago by a Spanish tourist, in the hope that the girl was the missing four-year-old...

NOW A 'PHOTO' OF MADELEINE IN MOROCCO A PHOTO has emerged that could prove Madeleine McCann is alive and being held in Morocco. Interpol is investigating the picture of a very frightened blonde girl being carried by a gang of Moroccans. It was taken from a car window by a Spanish couple in Zinzat, in the north of the African country on August 31. The group was walking along a road in the direction of Tangiers and the blonde head of the little girl can be seen behind a woman's shoulder. Another previously unreported sighting in Morocco came to light...

MADELEINE: 'BODY THROWN INTO THE SEA'Police fear that the body of Madeleine McCann will never be found and only a confession by her parents can convict them of killing her. The startling revelations came as officers told of their worries that her body was dumped far out to sea in a bag weighted down with stones. Detectives are convinced she is dead and believe her remains are now gone for ever, a vital piece of missing evidence which seriously weakens their case against Kate and Gerry McCann. For the first time, police chiefs in Portugal are admitting that the allegedly...

She moved England and the world with a four-month massive media campaign to retrieve her missing daughter. Today, Kate McCann, the mother of Madeleine McCann, who was 3 when she disappeared, was formally declared a suspect by the Portuguese police and given the status of "arguido."

VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal — The mother of a British girl who disappeared four months ago in southern Portugal is to be named a formal suspect in the case Friday, a family spokesman said, a shocking twist to a case that has gripped much of Europe. Kate McCann was questioned for almost 11 hours on Thursday, and is due back at a police station in Portimao, a town in Portugal's Algarve region, later Friday morning, family spokesman David Hughes told The Associated Press.

Madeleine 'died in her bedroom' TANYA THOMPSON SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (tthompson@scotsman.com) * Portugese detectives now claim Madeleine McCann was not kidnapped * Specks of her blood on wall suggest she died in apartment * Friends of McCanns in UK placed under police surveillance

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI, meeting the parents of a 4-year-old British girl apparently kidnapped while the family was on vacation in Portugal, blessed a photograph of the little girl and offered his prayers. Kate and Gerry McCann, the Catholic parents of Madeleine, who has been missing since May 3, met the pope at the end of his weekly general audience May 30 in St. Peter's Square. When they handed him the photograph, the pope caressed it. "His thoughts and touch and words were more tender than we could have imagined," Gerry McCann told reporters afterward. "Today, meeting...

Some of England's wealthiest celebs are shelling out a fortune to help fund the search for a 4-year-old British girl who has gone missing in Portugal. This gives new meaning to the term "giving back." Harry Potter authoress J.K. Rowling, Virgin titan Sir Richard Branson and "Idol" judge Simon Cowell have all ponied up to help find Madeleine McCann, who has been missing since May 2. According to the News of the World, Rowling donated in excess of $495,000, while Branson and Cowell chipped in $198,000 and $99,000, respectively. Rowling's fortune has been estimated at $1 billion, Branson's at a...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan.. 17, 2007 before the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the situation in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (L) shakes hands with North Korea's Foreign Minister Paek Nam-Sun during their bilateral meeting in Bangkok in this July 28, 2000 file photo. North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun has died, the North's official media reported on January 3, 2007. Paek, 77, who had served as foreign minister since September 1989, had been ill. REUTERS/Jason Reed

MIDI - SONG SUNG BLUE Taepodong wasn't quite succeeding...Taepodong, Viagra it's needing Madeleine had done her best to help them advance While her perverted boss just passed his time by dropping down his pants...dropping down his pants Taepodong prematurely falling...Taepodong had Kim Jong-il balling Twice they tried to fake us out when they had fired off two Scuds Then as the whole world was watching what next they'd do...they fired off a dud (short musical interlude) Madeleine had done her best by helping them to advance While her pervert lowlife boss had passed his time by dropping down his...