Reminds me of black pots and kettles …

Oh, look. The nuts, wackos and freaks have wheeled out their classiest representative.

The nun: the orphanage where she works as a volunteer is across the street from Gaddafi’s bunker/palace.

She said that they stayed locked inside the convent and I would not be surprised that she did not hear or see anything, for the simple reason that if she did :

1) the closely guarded Gaddafi’s palace would be under attack;

2) the road from the palace to the airport is kept ‘clear’ by the regime for Gaddafi;

3) trouble started on the outskirts of Tripoli;

4) her mother superior stayed on; either because she feels relatively safe or she’s being kept hostage.

I believe her. This is not Malta we’re talking about. This is Tripoli. Some sectors of Tripoli were under ‘control’.

To give an example, when there was all that trouble at Tal-Barrani here in 1986, what would a nun in a convent in Mdina have been able to say she saw?

Worker? There were one or two who said that they were there on holiday.

And do you really think that it would make any difference to their spin? They really try to get political mileage of everything don’t they? I just read the article,and I can’t believe that what I said was twisted so much out of context.

Should Ms Caruana Galizia wish to know more, I can give times, places and names regarding all that happened to me, including what I consider to be second information, such as regarding people shot in streets, the massacre this afternoon just off Green Square, friends beaten up, etc.

I know also for example that due to the immense rise in vehicle thefts from oil rigs, all vehicle starter motors in the Sirte area (haven’t heard anything regarding other areas) have been removed and buried in the desert, before complete crew evacuation.

No movement is allowed out of the desert at the moment, and people are being turned back with no hope of extraction. I know this because I am in constant contact with the people still out there, Waha oil field had vehicles stolen, the hangar burnt, together with the aircraft inside, and some accommodation burnt down, so that workers could escape. I honestly saw no bodies on the streets, but this absolutely does not mean that it has not happened.

I was actually specifically asked about the situation at the airport, to which I answered as fully as possible, and the rest regarding the hijack, and the run for the airport was added in by myself.

I live just up the road from Ms Caruana Galizia, so am available should she wish to ask me anything about what I know, so an email can have me down there in two minutes.

Mr Galea, you should sue L-Orizzont!

That was me who commented. I said that to specify what I saw.

Although the principle of “what goes up must come down” must apply, in that anybody might have been injured by a stray round, I was only trying to say that the trigger-happy morons were at least not firing directly at people – at least, not at the airport.

Seems that whatever newspaper you’re referring to missed the rest of what I said, especially about the chaos, the beatings, the bribes necessary etc. Pity that they only mentioned the bits which they considered non-offensive to the Libyan government, and detrimental to the Maltese one.

Actually, I am most definitely not in denial, and can honestly state that I think Libya is in a state of civil war.

I was hijacked by the military, had my two vehicles stolen, then was almost shot by the same soldiers, who said that we were illegally gathered. I had to bribe people to get to Misurata, where they are charging 100 dinars a head for taxi rides, then had to shelter in a house overnight to avoid all the pro Ghaddafi, trigger-happy demonstrations, and then after being beaten up three times at the airport, bribe my way through, and spend 12 hours waiting for the flight to arrive, which we had no idea about, because contrary to what was promised, the charge d’affaires never came back so we were left in the dark as to what was going on.

Still saying I’m in denial? Listen to what I said on CNN, and you can see that they showed almost all of what I said, which is a hell of a lot more than what this newspaper chose to report.

In addition, I can only speak of what I saw personally, and can vouch for just that. If I said something which might be taken to mean that I am denying what is happening in Libya, then please put it down to the fact that I had had no more than two hours’ sleep in the previous 72 hours, and my only thought was to get my sorry arse home, have a shower, and get some sleep.