sure … that’s why gonzi never visited Gaddafi … don’t make it political to favour PN cause both the MLP and PN did wrong … as was said by the opposition party in Benghazi … Gonzi met with Gaddafi emissaries …

So point being don’t blame it on labour blame it on both …

This has been done before with Gaddafi. Is it possible that you forgot?

[Daphne – Fear is exuded by those who are frightened, Jack, not by those who frighten others. Or is that what you meant?]

[Daphne – The European Union has made itself clear already on that one. You can’t call for somebody to step down, condemn his murderous behaviour, and then say ‘Right, now it’s back to business.’ We’ve gone beyond that point.]

So now what?

[Daphne – That’s what comes of being half-assed in your behaviour, Silvio. And we did not give Gaddafi the message that Malta is no longer his friend. Not at all. Rather the opposite, which is why we were the Gaddafi delegation’s first point of call.]

[Daphne – We don’t know what was said because we were not told, apart from that brief sentence that violence should stop. They met for an hour, and I hardly think the prime minister repeated that like a parrot. I would wish, however, for a public and categorical denunciation of Gaddafi that will severe our ties with that regime once and for all – publicly.]

But does it mean that the Pixtu can personally draw from the pot of gold?

agreed

The Nationalist government kept close to Libya and by necessity Gaddafi because the latter’s regime was the only authority internationally recognized, in Libya.

Have we forgotten the LP insinuations that the NP (to the detriment of Malta) distances itself from the coziness to Gaddafi previously accorded by the LP to Gaddafi? Now, all of a sudden, some are accusing the NP of being too close to Gaddafi?

The issue of OIL is a nonstarter. I wish for once the LP or indeed the government would illuminate us about the savings Malta reaped from buying ‘cheap’ oil from Libya. I was/is under the impression that oil is bought at market prices, whether from Libya or elsewhere.

Do I take it that in Labour’s years, they were buying at international prices and then receiving rebates or commissions through a back door? If so, where did these ‘finder’s fees go? Maybe Pixtu can shed some light especially when Gaddafi goes and the matter of ‘client secrecy’ no longer applies?

Can he become a material witness during Gaddafi’s trial?

How providential it turned out to be that the NP has kept a discreet distance from Gaddafi’s doings and how fortunate it was for Malta that the very close Gaddafi friend (Mintoff) toppled the Labour government and that these events are happening (and hopefully resolved) during a Nationalist administration.

I just read The Malta Independent’s editorial and it gives one food for thought. It indirectly points fingers at those gutless, or rather sinister ‘journalists’ who have been feeding international news networks with slanted information leading the world to believe that Malta is somehow a haven for a bunch of Gaddafi aficionados.

Of course, Dalli did not help matters. Sooner or later, Gaddafi goes, dead or alive, but in the meantime the world organizations stand idle letting the massacre continue and perhaps when very few of the ‘rebels’ are left to save, they will show their might!

A tad too late, say I.

We’ve had terrorist attacks even without the commission.

I can’t imagine why so many people are getting the jitters now as though kow-towing to Gaddafi for years afforded us any sort of protection from his insanity.