“looking on the bright side, i am sure our runway never saw so many flights.. so I say, keep on fighting aa dirty lybians – its doing well for our economy! “

Which leader in his right senses would accept to discuss, or negotiate, on terrorism.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/20/opinion/there-sits-a-state-terrorist.html?scp=193&sq=malta&st=nyt

Colonel Qaddafi of Libya has taught us a good deal in his bungled attempt to reach into Egypt to kill a political opponent. The going rate for murder among British and MALTESE contractors is $250,000, plus $150,000 to the Egyptian locals for dirty work. *The fee is payable on receipt, at the Libyan Embassy in Malta, of a clear snapshot of the dead victim*. That evidence then becomes the basis for broadcast boasts that patriotic ”suicide squads” have eliminated yet another infidel or Zionist tool.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/11/world/in-malta-ties-to-west-at-issue-again.html?scp=371&sq=malta&st=nyt

If re-elected, Malta’s Labor Party, a Socialist group that has governed for the last 16 years, is pledged to press on with its contested policies of neutrality, nonalignment and friendship with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya. The policies have annoyed the United States and worried many other of the Western allies.
”We will take new initiatives to reduce superpower domination of the Mediterranean and strengthen our relationships with Libya as well as with Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco,” Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici said in an interview last week as the campaign drew to a close.
The Prime Minister also promised new public works projects that would provide a ”job for all the unemployed.”

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/06/world/malta-says-libya-got-a-tip-on-raid.html?scp=335&sq=malta&st=nyt

Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici said today that Malta had given Libya advance notice of the American air attack in April and would do so again if it had similar information. Mr. Mifsud Bonnici said Maltese air controllers had not been able to identify the planes that were picked up on their radar screens about 30 to 45 minutes before the raid. But he said the air controllers notified their Libyan counterparts soon after detection that ”a number of unidentified planes were going down toward North Africa.” ”We’ve committed ourselves to exchange information with all friendly countries, north and south,” Mr. Mifsud Bonnici said. ”Any information that might be beneficial to our allies we pass on to them. We do that regularly and systematically and will continue to do so.”

January 29, 1986, Wednesday

Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said today that Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi had offered to help halt Arab terrorist operations in Europe if the United States promised not to attack Libya. The Italian Government said it received the Libyan leader’s proposal this morning in a message from the Maltese Prime Minister, Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, who has been trying to serve as an intermediary between Libya and Italy after apparently coordinated attacks on the airports here and in Vienna on Dec. 27. A total of 20 people died as a result of the attacks, 5 of them Americans, and more than 100 people were wounded. A top aide to Mr. Craxi said the Italian Government was still evaluating Colonel Qaddafi’s message to determine ”whether there is any substance behind his words.”