I don't disagree with any of that. However, what baffles me is that Kate is reported as saying "They've taken Madeleine" or words to that effect when she rushed back to the Tapas bar yet left the twins in their bed room. If I thought that my child had been abducted then there is no way I wouldn't have woken up the others and brought them with me.
Lots of information here,
http://www.mccannfiles.com/
Lots of speculation too - but the released files, the PJ files and the rogatory interviews with the Leicestershire police provide an interesting read. As does Amaral's book.
I came across this quote by General McArthur, it seem quite appropriate.
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency."