6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN NATION
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NEWS
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006
Detainee prompts new speculation
BY MARGARET WEVER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ORANJESTAD, Aruba — A 19-year-old man detained in the disappearance of a young Alabama woman had never figured in the case before, lawyers said Monday, prompting speculation that authorities were taking a new approach to the case.
The announcement that someone was being held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway nearly a year ago was the first major development in months in the case, which has featured several false leads. Before Saturday's arrest, seven people had been detained previously in the case and later released.
Lawyers for a Dutch youth and two Surinameans brothers jailed as suspects but later released due to insufficient evidence said the 19-year-old had not previously been mentioned in connection with the case.
"This may be a watershed moment," said Joseph Tacopina, who represents Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch teen who was with Holloway in the hours before she disappeared on May 30. "I don't think they are casually questioning him in this case."
John Q. Kelly, a lawyer for the Holloway family, said he was told by Arban prosecutors that the detainee had friends in common with Joran van der Sloot and the Surinamese brothers.
"The information this individual picked up is information related to the other three suspects," Kelly said Monday on NBC's "Today" show. "I was told it's not a case breaker. It's one step in the process."
The detainee's name has been reported by some media outlets, but Aruban authorities have only released his age and initials
"G.V.C." He was scheduled
to make his first court appearance Tuesday, the prosecutor's office said.
Tacopina, who said his investigators had been in contact with Aruban authorities, said "G.V.C" was detained because police recovered a shirt belonging to him with "relevant forensic information" from the south side of the Dutch Caribbean island of about 72,000 people.
The prosecutor's office has declined to specify the detainee's alleged connection to Holloway
— who was last seen leaving a bar with van der Sloot and the two Surinamese brothers, Deepak and Satish Kalpoe.
Van der Sloot's father told The Associated Press that his son had never met the 19-year-old detainee.
"Joran did not know him at all," said Paulus van der Sloot, a former island justice official who also was detained and later released on suspicion of involvement in Holloway's disappearance.
Ronny Wix, a lawyer who represents the Kalpoe brothers, said he was not yet sure whether his clients knew the detainee but thought that they would eventually be cleared of any involvement.
"There is no evidence that my clients have anything to do with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway," Wix said.
Tacopina said the detention of "G.V.C." was good news for his client because it suggested that the investigation was heading in a new direction.
"This kid has been under an umbrella of suspicion for 11 months based on no evidence," he said. Van der Sloot has said he left Holloway, then 18, at a beach near her hotel after they kissed on the final night of her high school graduation trip.
Transforming a canvas
Pat Egger, Shawnee junior, works on a painting in his Painting 4 class Monday afternoon in the Art and Design building. "I put this painting away over a year ago but pulled it out again about a month ago. I hope to finish it in a week or so." Egger said.
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Moussaoui dreams Bush will set him free
WAR ON TERROR
BY MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A defense psychologist testified Monday that Zacarias Moussaoul was a paranoid schizophrenic with delusions. The defense lawyers presented additional evidence that the confessed Sept. 11 conspirator believed he would be freed from prison by President Bush.
and disorganized thoughts and speech.
Psychologist Xavier Amador testified that Moussaoun displayed symptoms of the brain disorder, including delusions
Amador has never examined Moussaoui, who refused to see him. He said his diagnosis was based, in part, on conclusions of other mental-health professionals and an analysis of Moussaoui's actions and writings, including numerous rambling and abusive legal motions Moussaoui filed during the 18 months he represented himself.
Last week, in his second appearance as a witness, the 37-year-old Frenchman reiterated his stunning earlier testimony
that he was to hijack a fifth jetliner on Sept. 11 and fly into the White House — a plan he had said for years was intended for a later date. He said he dreamed Bush would release him before leaving office in 2009 as part of a prisoner exchange for U.S. troops captured abroad. He is convinced that Bush will do this.
One of Moussaoui's guards at the Alexandria jail, called by the defense Monday, offered more details of Moussaoui's vision. Sheriff's Deputy Vikas Ohri said Moussaoui had told him that after Bush freed him, he would
"fly to London, write a book, make some money and go back to the mountains of Afghanistan and be al-Qaida."
Strugging to save Moussaoui from execution, court-appointed defense lawyers called a clinical social worker, Moussaoui's high school friends and his older sisters to try to offset his second damaging appearance on the witness stand last week. Clinical social worker Jan Vogelsang testified that it was not her purpose to make excuses for Moussaoui's actions but to understand how he had reached that point.
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