Comments on: Yes, and Mubarak hacked their website and brought it down

By: red nose

red nose — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:45:54 +0000

There are people who cannot even spell the word “honour” let alone know the real meaning

By: Ollie

Ollie — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:46:22 +0000

In reply to John Schembri.

… in which case, maybe Neil Dent could fill us in …

By: John Schembri

John Schembri — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:26:42 +0000

In reply to dery. He worked for Joe Grima’s radio and before that for Bay.

By: dery

dery — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:33:59 +0000

Karl Stagno Navarra used to work for the PN media. He packed his bags in a hurry for reasons that we don’t need to go into here. He then joined Malta Today, then left and joined Al Jazeera, left again and rejoined Malta Today. So Al Jazeera have a contact person here.

By: C Falzon

C Falzon — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:21:18 +0000

In reply to Antoine Vella.

He was beyond diplomatic in my opinion. He wasn’t just refraining from accusing.

He could easily have limited his reply to something like ‘I wouldn’t like to comment on that’ or some more diplomatic way of saying that.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:57:55 +0000

In reply to C Falzon. Tonio Borg was being diplomatic. There's no reason for the Maltese government to attack an EU commissioner who has already been publicly rebuked (more or less) by the President of the Commission himself.

By: Joe Micallef

Joe Micallef — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:34:59 +0000

Lou Bondi has just said that the “altar boy” (my addition) Toni Abela knew that his “breaking news” that Malta had exported small arms to Libya was false before he published it.

If this is true there is only one way out of it for Toni – disappear from the political scene.

By: Insolja

Insolja — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:13:31 +0000

Cal Perry, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Malta, said: “The [crew] initially said they had 14 people on board. They were circling overhead saying they were running low on fuel.

“At that point the ambassador from Libya who was here in Malta was called in to take part in the negotiations on whether or not they were going to allow this plane to land.

“As he entered the talks it became clear from the pilots that Aisha Gaddhafi, Muammar Gaddhafi’s only daughter, was aboard the plane.

“The government said it was an unscheduled flight, it doesn’t matter who is on board; they said it cannot land and diverted the plane back to Libya.”

Al-Jazeera TV quotes a source inside the Maltese government as saying that a Libyan plane carrying the daughter of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi sought to land on the island nation this evening but was turned back.

These two quotations refer to Aisha’s flight to Malta.

How could Perry have got his facts wrong?

I am sure he would have had somebody reliable to COUNT on in Malta!

By: C Falzon

C Falzon — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:10:18 +0000

I’m disappointed with the response of Tonio Borg on Bondi Plus – he now seems to be defending John Dalli in the same way as the latter defended Gaddafi.

I was hoping for, and expecting, a far more direct denouncement of Dalli’s statements.

According to him Dalli was ‘being cautious’. He also saw no problem with Dalli being sorry for how he was ‘interpreted’ rather than for what he said.