The Libyan government is not here on an official visit. It’s on the run from Tripoli.
Just how bloody stupid and gullible do Keith ‘My Cousin Is A Fugitive Meat-Seller’ Schembri and his boss think we are? The Libyan government is not here on an official visit to discuss bilateral issues with Muscat and his cabinet
Only four days ago, the BBC reported what the Maltese press has ignored completely: that Libya now has two rival governments, and one (the one that arrived in Malta today, which was elected last June) has been holed up since July in a concrete 1970s hotel in Tobruk on the border with Egypt, to which its members had been forced to flee, a thousand kilometres away from Tripoli.
They literally escaped from Tripoli after suffering violence and real threats to their life; some of them had to be smuggled out. Read the full report in the link below.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29603393
I am expecting the Maltese prime minister, the Minister for Energy, the Minister for Health, the Minister for Transport and the Minister for the Electoral Program to turn up in Beijing any moment now for “bilateral talks.”
What excellent timing. The Libyan government can move into the Renzo Piano building in Valletta.
Don’t even dare think or joke about it, please.
I may not think positive like Muscat wants me to do but the situation is not nice at all.
It’s just a thought, but as the Libyan government has upped tents and moved here, why not try a government swap for six months?
Send Muscat and his cronies over there to attempt to bring the tribes under control with more ‘Taghna Lkoll’ empty promises to buy their support and give “al-Baddie” a crack at solving our power supply crisis.
He couldn’t do any worse now, could he, and certainly couldn’t be any more corrupt either.
Vote for change now …. while you still can.
So they did get rid of their PM after all.
He lasted as long as a BIC lighter on the job.
Don’t say I did not warn you.
This was already a government in exile because they’ve been based in Tobruk not Tripoli, the capital. Now they’re hiding out in Malta and in response to an earlier post: yes, they are putting Malta at grave risk.
Il-gvern qed ihalli lil Libjani juzaw pajjizna qisu latrina taghhom.
Malta Latina, Malta Latrina.
Why did the Maltese prime minister feel the need to welcome these fugitives personally at the airport?
Because he is dreaming that someday it will pay off big time.
Think Dom Mintoff and the Colonel in the golden years 1970s.
Labour is a political party of unimaginative liars, hence the deals with China and the love affair with Libya, then and now.
Where are the links to Gaddafi money?
Which faction have they been attacking in the media?
is this normal ?
http://www.flightradar24.com/AS1428/49e1f2e
[Daphne – Yes, apparently it is.]
Apologies, I had meant to send you this link (zoom in)
http://www.flightradar24.com/2014-10-20/19:08/12x/AS1428/49e1f2e
Screenshot
http://i.imgur.com/2eCwqV8.png
Anyway this is probably normal too.
This is the government of Tobruk, of WW II fame.
The population of Tobruk is roughly that of the Sawt of Malta.
They must be here to meet Silvio Parnis to discuss a deal for cheap energy (at preferential rates) from the Delimara Mediterranean Hub.
Tajba, anthony. You’ve solved China’s problem.
Like Daphne, I couldn’t resist this I-told-you-so moment.
Here are some of my posts from 2011, when most of you lot didn’t have a clue of what future lay ahead for Libya post-Gaddafi:
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/03/la-stampa-wipes-yellow-malta-off-the-map/#comment-77480
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/08/how-mintoff-started-with-gaddafi-as-he-meant-to-go-on-in-1971/#comment-92218
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/09/know-thyself-%e2%80%93-and-only-then-move-on/#comment-92664
One wonders how long Keith Schembri will manage to keep his little secrets from us and the planet.
And is it coming down.
http://www.libyaherald.com/2014/10/20/thinni-and-top-ministers-in-malta-this-evening/#axzz3GkbyFKjO