Corinthia Bab Africa being searched by rebel fighters for Gaddafi son
Reuters reports heavy gunfighting outside the Corinthia Bab Africa in Tripoli last night.
A Reuters reporter who was at the hotel said that a group of heavily armed rebels arrived there after they heard that Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi was inside and that they would search every room for him.
This Reuters reporter saw about six rebel fighters drive up to the hotel forecourt in a truck mounted with an anti-aircraft gun. They ran into the hotel and blocked off access to the lifts, then began to search the building.
The journalists who were rescued from the Rixos hotel after they were trapped there by Gaddafi loyalists (they hung white flags out of the windows to draw attention to their plight) were taken to the Corinthia yesterday and are there still.
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…and four Italian journalists have been captured yesterday by Ghaddafi’s supporters.
…and now they’ve been freed.
“I have always believed that Libya, both because of its geographical position and also because of its unique economic structure, should be Malta’s foremost strategic partner.”
Health Minister John Dalli, April 2009
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/snapshots-of-a-%E2%80%98special-relationship%E2%80%99
‘unique economic structure’ – that’s a nice a way how to put it.
Will someone please tell me what happened 20 years ago when we thought we had found oil in Gozo. Was Gaddafi somehow involved in that issue? Thanks.
Can you give me your email address please?
[Daphne – dcg@proximuspr.com]
The news item the Labour Party doesn’t want you to remember:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INPlZujD1Fs
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110825/local/377m-in-libyan-assets-frozen-in-malta.381849
Tghid hemm dawk li jiehu hsieb Joe Sammut, ukoll?
Oh, jolly! Could it be that The Times take a peek at your blog for news updates? They uploaded this article 3 hours after you did – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110825/world/tripoli-s-corinthia-hotel-under-attack.381843
V Cassar, timesofmalta.com comments-board
Today, 18:26
“I don’t think malta will get back the money it invested in libya, so i don’t see why they should get back what they invested in Malta.
Gonzipn is more of a charity organization than a government…Malta l-ahhar u wara kollox.”
How progressive.
No doubt, Mintoff and KMB would agree with Mr Cassar’s line of reasoning.
After all, it was during the golden era of Dom’s and KMB’s regimes that private property and land was beng requisitioned without compensation and handed over to galoppini Mintoffjani and to the Partit Socjalista Laburista Malti.
Who knows, maybe they were being advised at the time by Gaddafi himself.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110825/local/377m-in-libyan-assets-frozen-in-malta.381849
Some of the comments beneath that article are unbelievable; some people think that these assets are now ours to dispose of.
See a photo of the fighting at the Corinthia hotel entrance here:
http://shabablibya.org/news/canadian-rebel-fighter-killed-in-libya