'Labour and Gaddafi were intimate bedfellows' – Nationalist Party statement
Muscat and Michelle finally consider it prudent to visit CPD personnel who have been slogging away loading aid for the last five months or so.
timesofmalta.com reports on today’s statement:
Muscat urged to ‘come clean’ on Gaddafi links
The Nationalist Party reacted today to a jibe by Joseph Muscat that the Prime Minister had visited Muammar Gaddafi at the height of the Arab Spring, saying that ‘Labour and Gaddafi were intimate bed fellows’.
Dr Muscat made his comment yesterday when he spoke to journalists while visiting a warehouse of the Civil Protection Department, where aid to the Libyan people is being collected.
The PN said it was disgusted by Dr Muscat’s partisan comments during such a bi-partisan initiative.
“Far from politicising the conflict, the PN – never in cahoots with Gaddafi and his brutal regime – at the first visible signs of the Libyan ‘Spring’ six months ago immediately condemned the brutal ways and means employed by Gaddafi to try and silence the popular demonstrations against his regime.
The PN had absolutely no problem in saying that Libya’s biggest hurdle to democracy was Muammar Gaddafi,” the PN said.
“On the contrary, it took Muscat’s PL six months, and not before it was clear to all and sundry that Gaddafi had lost complete control of the country, that Labour finally broke its silence and expressed itself ‘in favour’ of the Libyan people and their quest for liberty. Why it took Labour so long to condemn Col. Gaddafi is simple: Labour and Gaddafi were intimate bed fellows,” the PN said.
It urged the Labour leader to ‘come clean’ and explain in detail the ‘intimate relationship’ which Labour has had with the Gaddafi regime since the 1970s.
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There is a reference to a “Malta Labor Party Partner, Carmello Vella” in the CIA disclosures:
“P/1 has found a Malta Labor Party Partner Carmello ((Vella)), and will use _____ brother in Tripoli to import the goods.”
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001518845/DOC_0001518845.pdf (Page 2)
“Not informed of any previous donations by the regime to the party,” indeed.
And there is another reference to a “Malta Labor Party (MLP) parliamentarian Dennis ((Sammut))” meeting privately a certain Al-Shahati – who was the chief of the Libyan People’s Bureau.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001518850/DOC_0001518850.pdf (Page 2)
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
This is getting juicy now. Looking forward to the MLP/PL rebuttal with bated breath! Maybe they will further qualify the laughable claim made by the ‘current’ administration over the weekend.
You never know, the next act of damage-control may be to re-word it to say, ‘The current administration of the Labour Party, apart from Karmenu Vella, Alex Sceberras Trigona…….’
Yep. And this is where MaltaToday could do some REAL investigative journalism, but probably won’t.
I believe that all Maltese politicians (except perhaps AD) were bedfellows of Moammar Gadaffi. If not, why is it that the Maltese government, under whichever political administration has never protested to Libya on its declaration of the Gulf of Sirt as a Libyan internal sea?
The Americians under president Reagan had challenged Gadaffi and sent warships to the Gulf of Sirt. Eventually this escalated in the Tripoli bombing.
But what did our politicans do about this issue that is of direct interest to Malta? Nothing! With Libya’s illegitimate declaration Malta has lost a sizeable part of its seabed in the southeast and with it the potential petroleum reservoirs.
Meanwhile, Malta’s oil exploration efforts can only be described as dismal to non-existent. Maltese politicians should be held accountable for not doing their primary job, that of defending and asserting the limits of Malta’s boundaries while promoting hydrocarbon exploration in our seabed.
Maltese politicians have failed miserably when it comes to defending national interest. These local incompetents have been surpassed by madman Gadaffi and the cannibal president of the miniscule Republic of Equatorial Guinea (dubbed as Africa’s Kuwait for its oil reserves) who despite their madness have excelled in defending their country’s national interests.
Bloody Hell! Check out the crushing MLP/PL response!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110829/local/pn-labour-and-gaddafi-were-intimate-bed-fellows.382442
What would have happened if our country was led by a PL government during this crisis, with all these Gaddafi friends on the Labour side?
Also, If Malta was not a member of the EU, I personally think that our situation would have been really difficult, with Alfred Sant, KMB and the likes leading our country.
We need Gonzi back in full swing. I don’t want to go back to the old Labour days.
Did they try importing green soap via the brother in question, rather than toys from Taiwan? Just wondering.
That’s the new speechwriter at work again. Could have avoided the cliché “and sundry” but otherwise not too shabby.