Comments on: Il-Kolonna tal-Partit: "this is the African and Arab culture" https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:14:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Red nose https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79258 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:14:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79258 Are the Chinese fit for democracy?

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79257 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:12:29 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79257 In reply to Antoine Vella.

He should read this, then:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/opinion/27kristof.html

Unfit for Democracy?

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79256 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:03:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79256 I’m not surprised about Calleja’s ignorance of weaponry or his predictable anti-Americanism. He’s an old Mintoffjan after all.

What is more repugnant however is his casual racist comment: Arabs and Africans are not fit for democracy.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79255 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:31:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79255 In reply to C Falzon.

DU munitions are just media-friendly scare-words for the uninitiated. Such as our genius Reno Calleja. The cancer risk from DU is about as high as having a residence in Marsa.

]]> By: The King's Breech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79254 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:31:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79254 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

And he fails to mention how many innocent children and women those adult combatants kill (deliberately). But I suppose that’s also fine because it’s part of their culture too.

]]> By: Clifford https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79253 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 17:00:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79253 How does he know that the allies’ missiles are uranium tipped? What study is he quoting when he says that ‘hundreds of children are diagnosed every month because (of) the uranium in the missiles’?

]]> By: Red nose https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79252 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:11:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79252 Reno Calleja, how many Chinese students were massacred at Tienamen Square. How many dissidents disappear (daily) in China. I suppose the less you speak the better

]]> By: C Falzon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79251 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:27:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79251 He finds it terrifying that NATO uses uranium tipped missiles to shoot at Gaddafi’s weapons but it doesn’t seem to bother him that Gaddafi shoots uranium tipped shells into civillians. Perhaps as long as the civillians aren’t pro-Gaddafi then it doesn’t matter.

That of course aside from the matter that he has his facs wrong, as one would expect of him.

None of the missiles currently being used are ‘uranium tipped’, or uranium anythinged for that matter. The only uranium that is (possibly) being used by the coalition is by the A10 (Warhog) ground attack planes and the AC130 (Spooky) gunships in the bullets of their machine guns. These are being used very sparingly, mostly because they need to fly low and are thus more vulnerable to ground fire.

I say possibly because there is in place a program to replace uranium by a tungsten alloy in these weapons (less effective but not toxic) but I’ve no idea at what stage that is, or even if it has started at all.

Although I am not 100% sure, at least some of the ammunition fired by Gaddafi’s tanks and anti-tank weapon are indeed uranium KE projectiles.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79250 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 03:11:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79250 F**king idiot. Misleading or misled, calling it uranium instead of depleted uranium.

And of course the drones never kill any adult male combatants. Just women, children and old people. A propagandist’s dream team.

]]> By: April Showers https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/04/il-kolonna-tal-partit-this-is-the-african-and-arab-culture/#comment-79249 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:04:46 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=11089#comment-79249 His wife has since disabled the comments-board on her blog, but you’ll find the comments that have gone in so far over here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5-NnuwFW6TUJ:haderza.blogspot.com/2011/03/libya-united.html+%22Musa+Mansour%22&cd=75&hl=mt&ct=clnk&gl=mt&source=www.google.com.mt

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