Crider suspected that the US, which sent interrogators to interview Mobley shortly after he was detained, is complicit in his apparent disappearance.
It's hard not to conclude US officials are mixed up in this detention, just as they were involved in Mr Mobley's first disappearance".
There may be questions, too, about his alleged role in the IRA, particularly in the 1970s, and the "disappearance" of a west Belfast mother whose remains were found only a few years ago in the constituency in which he is now standing – claims he has always denied.
An Ulster Unionist motion before the Stormont parliament on Tuesday notes with "extreme concern" allegations of Gerry Adams's involvement in ordering the disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972.
Dzamara's disappearance echoes the darkest days of Zimbabwe's political instability and has raised concerns of a fresh crackdown on political opponents, civil society activists and journalists.
They did not constitute a mass disappearance, he said, because each case was different and they were not associated with a single event.
He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
It wasn't until 2.30pm Wednesday that Beatty finally sat down with Kent and relayed the uproar that followed in the wake of his disappearance.
Richard did not commit most of the foul deeds here attributed to him – though there may always be a question mark over his involvement in the disappearance of the princes in the Tower.
The EU urged the government to "take all necessary measures to ascertain Mr Dzamara's whereabouts", calling for a probe into the disappearance.
There has been a farcical arrival and brisk disappearance of two Indian trialists, added to a similarly flawed plan to fly in Honduran players, while a pre-contract offer has been made to St Johnstone's Francisco Sandaza – a decent SPL forward and nothing more.
