Mohh il-haddiema Maltin ghandu Gaddafi bhalissa!

You saw him on Facebook because someone gave him away to you. Your commentary here is being specific on Dr Tonio Borg’s brother, in FB he’s lost in the crowd of the other Borg’s. You say you don’t do FB, someone told you about him and you’re spreading the word.

If someone wants to put himself in danger you should not make it easier for him to be in danger.

[Daphne – John, I’m a journalist, not a nanny. Nobody pointed him out to me. I know him. We’re the same age.]

“The Libyan secret service does not need me to tell them who or where this man is, and certainly not that he is the Maltese foreign minister’s brother.“

How would you know that the information is still available. You are assuming a lot, careless talk costs lives.

[Daphne – No, John, careless behaviour costs lives, and I’m not referring to myself.]

It could be that the Libyan Secret Service information system is down and they are relying on what is being written on the internet.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/homefront/spies/publicity/source2.htm
In this cacophony he could have ‘escaped’ unnoticed , but now you are giving him away on a silver plate.

[Daphne – He could have escaped unnoticed? I don’t think so. How do you think I found out he’s there: FROM FACEBOOK. If not even he is bothering to hide his presence there, why must I.]

“The foreign minister of an EU member state, who has a younger brother still in Libya and unable or unwilling to return, is in no position to sit at the negotiating table with other foreign ministers and discuss sanctions against that country.”

“Gaddafi hu bhima kbira imma gurdien xih. Trid tahdmu tohorgu mit-toqba bil-hlewwa. Imma Gaddafi hu psycho paranoiku. Jekk idahhal suspett f’mohhu li l-Maltin huma tradituri jibda jispara bl-addocc fuqhom u joqtolhom bla hniena u jkun hemm banju ta’ demm.”

Daphne, you gave away an innocent person who is still in danger of being taken hostage before boarding a plane or a ship. Why didn’t you write for whom he’s working and the location where he was staying?

Have you ever been kept in an Arab country for hours on end during peacetime waiting in some dirty room for your passport to be cleared?

If I were you I would remove this comment from here, Dr Borg’s brother can be targeted by some passport control officer.

[Daphne – The foreign minister’s brother is a grown man (my age, in fact) and certainly not my responsibility. My responsibility is to tell people that the foreign minister is compromised in his dealings with Gaddafi by the continued presence of his brother in Libya. It is important for people here to know this, so that they may assess the foreign minister’s comments and behaviour in the appropriate context. The Libyan secret service does not need me to tell them who or where this man is, and certainly not that he is the Maltese foreign minister’s brother. The Libyan security service knows everyone about everyone within its territory, and also spies on Libyan expatriates.]

Kretin. Dak twieled il-Canada. Il-veru imbecilli jekk ma tafx min hu Stephen Calleya.

How can anybody take somebody seriously when they change the way their name is spelled, from Calleja to Calleya?

Mela min tridu jmur jiggieled biex jinhelsu l-haddiema Maltin trappolati fil-Libja? Il-Moviment Graffiti? Jew il-gurnalisti tat-Times? Rigward policies ghandek ragun li Gaddafi jigi jaqa u jqum. Imma dwar trattativi ta’ helsien tal-haddiema Maltin, dik storja ohra. Din hi l-kwistjoni urgenti issa.

Why do many Maltese harbour this secret fantasy of us being bombed?

The usual selective memory. Every country worth its salt has a weapons industry, including many of your third world darlings: India, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Malysia, Jordan, the lot.

In fact European firms find it incredibly difficult to sell, because they require end user certicates and safeguards and a tonne of administrative and legal restrictions.

Besides, IDEX is not like immorru sat-Trade Faur where you have to buy the fridge on the spot. The deal can be made elsewhere. IDEX is just the exhibition.

Let me put it this way, Katrin: European foreign policy has been hijacked by the naive belief that trading with the third world would lift it out of poverty. What if they want to buy weapons? Do we treat them as equal partners and go ahead, as anti-racist sentiment demands? Or do we say: No, you cannot buy weapons even if the request comes from your legitimate government because we don’t trust you to act as decent human beings?

Ma nahsibx li l-ebda Malti huwa xi genju tal-geopolitika, specjalment hu Tonio Borg. L-uniku bniedem li jista’ jghid kelmtejn bis-sens, Stephen Calleya, qed jigi injorat minn kullhadd.