Comments on: I hope you didn't miss this: it is quite literally incredible

By: fanny

fanny — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:24:33 +0000

Well a few big Swiss companies have also invested there. Two of ABB’s workers were taken as hostages after the Geneva hotel episode. I think Nestlé also has interests there. And don’t forget Tony Blair sucking up to Gadaffi. I remember a photo of Blair’s silly grin with the dictator. So it’s not only Malta – no excuse I know but..

http://www.google.com.mt/imgres?imgurl=http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00636/news-graphics-2007-_636539a.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1552871/Blair-meets-Gaddafi-on-African-farewell-tour.html&h=300&w=380&sz=34&tbnid=cOqst4ZwRgAdLM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=123&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dblair%2Band%2Bgaddafi%2Bphoto&zoom=1&q=blair+and+gaddafi+photo&hl=mt&usg=__aghlGcwnt_x3ktcdD-J7_ihirXQ=&sa=X&ei=Hy1iTdjcCcHXsga93OC1CA&ved=0CBoQ9QEwAg

By: fanny

fanny — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:57:05 +0000

I mixed that with this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/6909125/Police-called-to-Colonel-Gaddafis-sons-hotel-room-after-woman-heard-screaming.html

[Daphne – Nut jobs. And to think they have investments in Malta, and how much they were courted here by Maltese businessmen: Saif this and Saif that. Looking back, it just makes you sick.]

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:56:04 +0000

In reply to P Shaw.

Mintoff still has his human rights prize from Gaddafi.

Will Gaddafi lose his ‘Ordni tar-Repubblika’ awarded to him by Mintoff?

By: Anthony Farrugia

Anthony Farrugia — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:49:20 +0000

In reply to fanny. If he is savvy enough, he would have buried his stash in the Cayman Islands where the attitude is that of the three monkeys: say nothing, hear nothing and see nothing.

By: fanny

fanny — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:37:54 +0000

@El Topo. Ghaddafi withdrew all his money from Switzerland a couple of years ago after the Geneva police arrested his son Hannibal for beating up his wife in a Swiss hotel.

[Daphne – Fran, it was actually one of the Gaddafi sons AND his wife who were arrested for illegal treatment of two servants: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya. If he really withdrew his money from that country (and yes, I suppose he would have), then please God don’t let it be in Malta.]

By: El Topo

El Topo — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:08:12 +0000

Gaddafi is no General Custer. His one and only interest is to safeguard his skin and the billions he has siphoned away in Swiss banks.

By: P Shaw

P Shaw — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:08:10 +0000

So, will Mintoff and John Dalli lose their business interests and contacts in Libya?

By: Village

Village — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:24:52 +0000

Things are really changing in North Africa. As you had observed in a previous article, something has snapped there and it looks like Libya is next.

Let’s hope matters do not precipitate much although news have it that various parts of Libya are under revolt.

[Daphne – That’s an understatement. You had better switch on your television and go straight to the international news channels. Benghazi has fallen and there are riots in Tripoli.]

Gaddafi is not a soft or democratic guy so more bloodshed and confrontation is expected. Let all hope a civil war does not develop at our door step.

What with our safety, the potential exodus of more immigrants hiting our shores, and the uncertain fate of the substantial Maltese investments down there.

This is too close to our shores. I don’t want to sound alarmist but it seems to me our security may be in danger and it follows that our future economic well being could potentially be under threat.

By: Harry Purdie

Harry Purdie — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:36:26 +0000

All international news websites right up to date on what’s going on in Libya (01:25). Times of Malta still yakking about some assholes shooting spoonbills. Gaddafi’s son just said they are half an hour from Europe. Guess which part of Europe.

By: Joe Micallef

Joe Micallef — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:19:15 +0000

It is apparently over! Have just been watching the botched up effort of one of Gaddafi’s sons insultingly clutching at straws blaming all for the demise of his father’s regime.

The majority of Italian media report that security forces in Tripoli have also disappeared