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There was a lot of activity behind the Light House last night, with police cars and what seemed to others to be cadaver dogs.. I was called from the U.S. at 12:30 a.m. to ask what was going on. I didn't know, but called my reporters who were in the field at that time. They confirmed it was true that a lot of police cars and anti-drug dogs were there, but it was part of an exercise, a training, for the benefit of the Minister of Justice of Suriname, who was attending an invitation and session with the mediocre Minister of Justice of Aruba. Aruba has no cadaver dogs, but well-trained anti-drug dogs.

On the case itself there is little news. Only that Paul v/d Sloot gave an interview to the Amigoe, that he was taken down in front of his colleagues, that he is writing a book, that his son is also writing a book, but not much else. The silence from the Dutch team is becoming permanent. We hear no sounds from that corner. I wonder why they took all those documents and tapes. There must be a reason behind that prolonged silence, but I refuse to speculate on what that silence means, because I don't want to disillusion myself.

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