Agreed.

Direct message to Joe Grime – You are disgusting.

Regarding details of those operations I would recommend that you join up at ACIG or ARRSE where there is more info.

Joseph Cachia

Your comment right to the highest point.
Countries who are against Gaddafi are short sighted.
Libyans are too naive to understand politics and have no idea what those
who are brainwashing them to demostrate, have in mind.

The two Mirage F1 in Malta were not in fact modernised in 2009. They were just overhauled so they could fly again. France had sold 32 Mirage F1 planes to Libya in the 1970s. Of these 32, most had disappeared or where impossible to fly. In 2009, France signed a contract for the overhaul of 12 planes. Of these 12, only 4 were ever serviced. Two of them are in Malta. So that leaves two Mirage F1 planes fit for flying, in Tripoli.

Libya also has some Soviet-made Su-25 and Mig-21 planes.

This is just to put things into perspective. Anyone fearing a Libyan attack on Malta should put their mind at rest. Their armed forces are in shambles. Gaddafi kept them that way on purpose, for fear of a coup. And he knows something about that, having gained power through a military coup himself. The only well-equipped and well-trained troops are the Chadian and Central African militias backed by Libya (the so-called “mercenaries” being mentioned in the media). Even so, they got their arses handed to them time and again in Chad and the Central African Republic.

Now a word on France, Malta’s favourite bogeyman. Yes, France sold planes to Libya. But France was the only NATO or European country ever to have its troops fight the Libyans, or Libyan-backed troops. The most recent flare-up happened a mere four years ago, in 2007, when Libyan-backed rebels attacked Birao in the Central African Republic. Very few details of the French counter-attack emerged. But we can judge the intensity of the fighting by this wee tot of a nurse being awarded the Croix de la Valeur Militaire after the offensive. And she wasn’t even a medic in the infantry, but a nurse from the Service de Santé des Armées, with no combat role. Apparently she spent two days in a slit trench fighting off the rebels.

This little digression is a lesson in foreign policy to our space cadet politicians. Half-arsed gestures will get you nowhere. You can sign contracts and cut business deals while condemning the dictator and fighting him militarily. Because when push comes to shove, you will have kept your options open.

Joe Grima
So when push comes to shove this Gioernment has no qualms of conscience benefiting from the ill fate if other countries and is not doing anything to stop the flow of money coming into this country as a result fo the disaster that others are expriencing in Libya. Shows how hypocritical GDr onzi was when he denounced Joseph Muscat for voicing an opinion the results of which are identical to thise being reaped by this Government from the Libyan chaos at the moment. Of course, the excuse is solidarity,. The real benift though is in hard cash and so it should be.

Joe Grima
To all PN apologists and spinners. The bottom line for you is that when Joseph Muscat pulls for Malta’s national interest he is condemnable under one guise or another. When Gonzi surreptiously does the same under different circumstances, you are out there applauding like Ghaddafi’s goons. Give us a break.. We have known you since the fifties and sixties. We know how to interpet your devious ways. So let’s let Gonzi continue to coordinate the rescue efforts as he is duty bound to do but dont come and tell us that he is doing it for love or in solidarity. At the end of the day he will be boasting figures and counting cash from,the entire operation. @ EG Forte. They have understood my comment only too well. Remember you are dealing with apologetic, PN spin specialists desperately looking for a future. . @Alex Coppola: I programmed at Net TV because Net invited me to. I distanced from Sant because he was rightist. .I am in consonance with Joseph’s LP . At One TV, I produce INKONTRI, one more successful series. I support Joseph because he is the only hope for the future. Now, entertain us with your own achievements.