Tmur ticcelebra mal-Musulmani. Jafu int x’int?

Taf li l-Imam ta’ Malta huwa favur il-ligijiet tax-Xarija?

Taf li f’pajjizhom illegali tkun kif int?

U tmur ticcelebra maghhom?

Ara vera d-dinja waslet f’l-ahhar ta!

Ghajjejt!

They had the cheek to admit that even though he’s not a political animal, his popularity could earn them votes.

What next? Cicciolina?

[Daphne – Because they’re ridiculous. Before that the official name was ‘Malta Labour Party’, and they used the name in English even when speaking Maltese: il-Malta Labour Party.]

Is the “Edgar Bonnici Cachia,” one of the two Maltese men responsible for the attempted assassination of Abdul Hamid Bakkush on November 16, 1984, the same “Edgar Bonnici Cachia” who was a candidate for the Malta Labour Party on the first district in the 1981 election?

http://books.google.com/books?ei=NetcTuaSD86k-gaDnNibAg&ct=result&id=P7sxAQAAIAAJ&dq=bakkush+malta&q=Malta#search_anchor

[Daphne – Yes. Thank you for bringing that up again. If you look through the archived posts for February and March, you’ll find quite a bit about all these stories.]

As for the attempted assassination itself, the Egyptians intercepted the four man team and organised a mock-up assassination photo-shoot.

“I 4 killer fanno le previste telefonate a Tripoli e a Malta per avvertire che l’operazione è stata compiuta e spediscono a chi di dovere una foto del corpo di Bakkush in mezzo a un lago di sangue (di bue).” – L’Espresso, issues 26-29, 1987.

“The four assassins make the planned phone calls to Tripoli and Malta to announce that the operation was completed, and to send a photo of Bakkush’s body in a pool of (ox) blood to their handler.”

Quoting from NEWSWEEK:

Bank clerks paid out the money – said to have been telexed from Rome via a Maltese bank and American Express – in piles of cash that Shiner’s escort promptly confiscated. “You people never keep your word,” he later shouted at officials as a NEWSWEEK photographer entered Cairo’s interior ministry. “I was tricked into coming to this country by Egyptian security.”

(Is this ‘Shiner’ a Maltese in disguise? His attitude to blood money is very Maltese. The other two assassins were a ‘Romeo Nicholas Schembri’ and an ‘Anthony Gill’)

[Daphne – Shiner/Cini – Chakambari/Schembri]

Abdul Hamid Bakkush himself had no doubt on the close ties between the Malta Labour Party and the Gheddafi regime:

«Gli aerei militari libici hanno sempre potuto rifornirsi all’aeroporto di Malta», assicura Bakkush, «tanto che facevano li anche delle esercitazioni». «Il governo laburista maltese, caduto da poche settimane, era così legato a Gheddafi, che nelle scuole dell’arci-

(Oggi: settimanale di politica, attualità e cultura, Volume 43. 1987)

“Libyan military aircraft were always able to refuel at Malta’s airport,” declared Bakkush, “they even used the place for training.” “The Maltese Labour government, recently voted out of office, was so tied to Gheddafi that in the archipelago’s schools –

The snippet view from Oggi (mercifully) stops there, but one can surmise that Bakkush was probably referring to the teaching of Arabic in Malta at the time. Unless, of course, he was referring to a mysterious spate of suicides at a certain Libyan school in Malta.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110207/local/muslim-and-former-pn-councillor-converts-to-labour.348995

Let’s see how many mosques the PL will build once in power…