As usual, Kev, you are wrong. During the doctors’ strike, the majority of the imported doctors from East Europe managed to seek asylum in the USA and other democracies by skipping the connecting flights in Rome when they went for their holidays in their country of origin.

The border police in Malta had specific instructions to vet these people so that no attempt was made by the medics to escape from Malta.

I read on another site that the plane was carrying pilots to take the 2 fighter planes back that is why it was refused entry. And this makes much more sense that the story of Gaddafi’s daughter being on it.

Aisha Gaddafi denied having tried to enter Malta.

Sell those Mirages back to Dassault and get a few crates of Dom Perignon (woops! pun alert!) in a triangular deal.

The Gaddafis are not welcome in Switzerland anymore.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/25/muammar-gaddafi-libya

If the plane really had passengers fleeing from Libya they would have continued to Sicily rather than fly back to Tripoli.

All the same I don’t understand why no permission to land was given.

It looks like you’re at a loose end again. Try this
http://www.amazon.com/Passing-Time-Loo-Summaries-ebook/dp/B003ZUYT4U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&m=A2WARSRZ85F6LB&s=books&qid=1298495621&sr=8-2

I believe they also have a Kindle version. You can sneak that in under your shirt.

How I hate the eponymous use of ‘DHL’. TNT please.

What do you expect from a country with a prime minister interested only in passing laws to protect himself from legal action in corruption cases. Oh, and bunga-bunga with paid girls.
Il-veru kas, fiddling while Rome burns.

Dak il-bassa li kien jahdem Al Jazeera