Comments on: 'Labour and Gaddafi were intimate bedfellows' – Nationalist Party statement

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:20:43 +0000

That’s the new speechwriter at work again. Could have avoided the cliché “and sundry” but otherwise not too shabby.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:10:50 +0000

In reply to Neil Dent. Yep. And this is where MaltaToday could do some REAL investigative journalism, but probably won't.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:09:26 +0000

Did they try importing green soap via the brother in question, rather than toys from Taiwan? Just wondering.

By: Grezz

Grezz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:08:29 +0000

We need Gonzi back in full swing. I don’t want to go back to the old Labour days.

By: Mediterraneo

Mediterraneo — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:08:52 +0000

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.

By: Neil Dent

Neil Dent — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:56:47 +0000

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

By: Farrugia

Farrugia — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:52:55 +0000

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.

By: Neil Dent

Neil Dent — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:57:41 +0000

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…….’

By: Delacroixet

Delacroixet — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:55:17 +0000

In reply to Delacroixet.

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)

By: Delacroixet

Delacroixet — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:43:20 +0000

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.