[Libloather]

If they're that good, how about sending them to Syria to search for WMDs?

[buccaneer81]

Vipers as search planes? They've got to be kidding. What a desperate bunch of numb-nuts running the show.

[fso301]

Aruba - Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway,

?????

[RFEngineer]

"The three planes, equipped with infrared and sonar-scanning capacity"

I wonder if the Dutch ever figured out how to get that supersonic sonar working?

[dc-zoo]

I just don't see how three F16's can find a body from flight level. They must think we're all idiots and don't know any better. Modern day keystone cops.

[Chode]

infrared works on heat, how much body heat do they think is left in a dead body laying around for a month??? please...

[CzarNicky]

This is a joke, right?

[SERKIT]

How about a few F-16's of our own to patrol our southern border?

[blueberry12]

Do you know who is paying for this entire search mission? I have a feeling that this missing teen is costing us big bucks. Who will pay the bill if she is found? And who will pay the bill if she is not found? I wish to know...

[alloysteel]

"Searching" for a missing person with supersonic-capable aircraft hardly seems to be an appropriate response, as the craft would be passing over almost too swiftly to make anything like an effective estimate of something "down there" being the missing girl.

The remains COULD possibly wash up on the beach somewhere in northeastern Brazil....

The pull of the tides is both swift and far reaching, and that much organic matter would attract a number of scavenger creatures in the sea.

[SIDENET]

Holland will send three F-16 warplanes rigged with search equipment to find Natalee Holloway

I couldn't read past this sentence because I was laughing too hard.

[operation clinton cleanup]

This may work if they put the 3 suspects in front of the 3 F-16's air intakes and throttle up during interrogation,

[prophetic]

Methinks that these dutch has really lost it.

Maybe its a direct consequence of all that "LEGAL DRUGS" that they have available for all and sundry to buy off the streets.

And of course the MSM is really gonna lap it up saying just how great & technologically advanced these dutch really are!!

[solitas]

"It's fine to have the FBI here, but if you send in more agents are you saying the ones here are not any good?"

Ohfercrissake - send in 17 or 18 more people and they'll have enough there to be able to hold hands, span the width of the island, and do a WALKOVER.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Day late, dollar short.

[japaneseghost]

I think they should be looking at what boats and planes left the island the night she disappeared.

An 18 year old blonde is worth money in the Middle East, especially in Saudi Arabia. Put her on a ship or a plane and she'll never be found.

They should look at the bank accounts of the locals - anyone suddenly deposit or get a wire transfer of 50 or 100 grand?

[RightWhale]

Search with radar? Amazing.

[Hank Rearden]

Yeah, that'll work.

Those jets must have special, super-secret, fish-food sniffing sensors.

That'd be the kind of super-secret weapons-platform development the Dutch would focus on.

[MarMema]

Well hey don't waste any time, ok?

[jaykay]

If they're that good, how about sending them to Syria to search for WMDs?

Saddam's WMDs that were smuggled to Syria? I don't think they're there anymore.

[sandydipper]

An F-16 flying as slow as it can will be over Aruba in less than 1 minute - that's called a quick glance.