Posted on 11/08/2005 9:57:00 AM PST by 11th_VA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Gov. Bob Riley called for a travel boycott of Aruba on Tuesday until authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island cooperate more fully with the family of a Mountain Brook teenager who has been missing since a graduation trip in May.
Riley asked the governors of the other 49 states to join him in urging a boycott of Aruba on behalf of the family of Natalee Holloway, an 18-year-old Mountain Brook High graduate last seen on the island May 30.
Her mother, Beth Holloway-Twitty, joined Riley at the Alabama Capitol for the boycott announcement. She contends Aruban authorities have failed to adequately investigate the possible murder of her daughter, who was with a teenager, Dutch national Joran van der Sloot, and Surinamese brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe on the night she disappeared.
They were held for a time and released.
There wasn't time to dispose of a body so it would never be found. The island has been scoured....dogs,air and coast guard. If she was left on the beach alone....it's logical she met up with someone else. Nothing else makes any sense.
There wasn't time that night. But there was later.
Bob Riley may be the only one who can see straight enough to do the right thing...
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