He’s been moved along
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June 9, 2014 at 9:19pm
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-09/news/all-seems-quiet-in-xemxija-after-busy-sunday-5402918912/
http://www.newsbook.com.mt/artikli/2014/6/9/ritratti:-zeidan-u-mhux-hawn-qed-joqghod.18889
Elementary. If they keep that kind of guard on him – it will be so obvious. Is he paying for it or the Government of Malta is paying for it?
About 3pm today I noticed an unusual road block just before St Michael’s School in Pembroke.
I’ll wager that now he has been well ensconced in the dark and humid bowels of Ghar Hasan.
And he can still be living there.
I’d still keep an eye on the apartment. The best place to hide something is always in plain sight. Remove the escort from outside for a few days until things die down, so the press thinks he’s been moved elsewhere. Keep him out of sight for a bit, then go back to the previous routine, just keep security a bit more discreet.
I’d probably also have a nice chat with the neighbours who I’m sure we’re not thrilled with the whole ordeal.
One of the neighbours complained about the attention. What she should have complained about was the national interest’s presence in that block.
What should have worried her was the prospect of a gun battle between Maltese security forces and God knows who else, unknown to the Malta public, was being protected under the silly pretext of national security.
They won’t risk anything now.
Great minds think alike . I would say he’s still in the apartment.
Discreet ? The Keystone Cops are more like show offs.
I am tempted to believe the story about the witch.
She waves her wand and a major threat to the country’s national security disappears. Into thin air.
Who is actually running the country?
Is it a bunch of clowns or a witch?
I said before that he would have been moved after his cover was blown.
They are not just clowns. They are amateur clowns.
And once again Joseph Muscat has come out of it unscathed.
I think not. Whom do you think people are believing?
Most of the people won’t have followed this new story. It didn’t even make it out of Malta.
But of the ones who have, most are of the Silvio type: “Imissha tisthi Daphne tpoggi l-hajja ta’ Zeidan fil-periklu.”
The others are of the Manuel Mallia type: “The government knows best. So shut up.”
That leaves you, me, and maybe half a dozen of us. Not enough to make a difference. And Joseph Muscat is still PM.
With a smirk on his face for having gotten away with yet another lie.
Something tells me that he is playing for time and is not considering the issue as closed. It all depends on whose backing he is relying on.
H.P Baxter, perhaps it does not make a difference in the grand scheme of things but it does make a difference to those who would prefer not to stick their head in the sand and beleive that everything is fine and dandy. Remeber that those who spoke so much about the people’s right to know and made money from washing the provious government’s dirty laundry on TV and radio have now morphed from Saul to Paul not with an eye on the pearly gates but drooling after a fattened bank balance.
Would you rather believe that everyone is happy in North Korea?
I somehow get the impression that when an issue being discussed on this site comes to an end, it’s just like all is said and done with, and all is back to normal for all. Nothing more is heard on other media. Everything is swept under the carpet with no consequences for those responsible. And life goes on.
What CiVi said, M. Cassar.
Something not quite right here. Not that I doubt the story. But isn’t it a bit obvious when you have strange looking men with guns parked outside your house for a few days, surely it’s going to cause a bit of commotion. It sounds deliberate to me. Then you get Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie for few days and no one knows.
The question is – given that the Libyan prime minister went to Switzerland before coming to Malta, what is it in this deal for Joseph Muscat and Keith Schembri?
Why does Keith Schembri, who does not have any official role in the security services, visit the ex-Libyan prime minister personally?
There were no cars and it was quiet outside the flat yesterday at around 6.30 pm so the move had probably already been carried out.
The government insists that Ali Zeidan was not a resident in the Xemxija flat.
Technically ‘residency’ is a concept which heavily affects the legal rights and responsibilities that are available to a person, including eligibility to vote, eligibility to stand for political office, eligibility to access government services, responsibility to pay taxes, and so on.
The government has obviously played with the term.
Perhaps one should ask if Ali Zeidan was staying there or had been occupying the flat.
“The government insists that Ali Zeidan was not a resident in the Xemxija flat.”
The government said no such thing. They did not mention the flat. That is your addition and it makes a difference. They kept it short and very, very dry.
“I can officially deny these allegations. Zeidan is not residing in Malta,” Farrugia told Malta Today.
There is no difference between ‘residing in Malta’ and ‘residing in a Xemxija flat in Malta’.
Both mean the same thing and both can be interpreted according to convenience.
That was the gist of the post
Isn’t saying that Zeidan “is not residing in Malta” equivalent to saying that “irregular immigrants in detention centres are not residing in Malta “?
If a relative or friend from a foreign country is my guest for a few months, or a year, in Malta, would he/she be residing in Malta?
If the Government of Malta provides lodging, secretly or openly, for a “special friend from a foreign country”, would the government describe that friend as “residing in Malta”?
I think I know what’s in that flat.
It must be the place where Kurt stashes his cookies.
As soon as Jack Farrugia switches on the GPS on his smartphone, they’ll be able to nail his position to within 5 metres.
I can’t understand – why such a tacky flat for somebody so important that he’s got all those guards outside?
Why didn’t ‘they’ take him to Portomaso or Tigne Point for example?
It would have been more discreet there, with all underground parking and with security included.
The national security was/is truly at stake.
He is definitely not there now. The place is empty.
empty? with all those residents? (tongue firmly in cheek)
Farsa mill-bidu sa l-ahhar.
Based on my experience of watching Mission Impossible episodes, I say that, even if they moved Mr X, they should have kept the bodyguards in place to make people think that he’s still there.
Perhaps they should have put him in that Burmarrad street where they have a policeman cunningly disguised as an ice-cream kiosk.
No seriously, we’re so used by now of seeing our Prime Minister and his house surrounded by a small army of bodyguards that nobody would notice a couple – or eight – more.
NIMBY. Il-prim ministru ma jridx inkwiet wara biebu, Antoine Vella.
I think that this little charade is an ego trip for somebody. I don’t know who. If this chap’s life were really in danger he’d have copped it by now, no matter how many houses he’s moved into.
Either that or his would-be assassins are the Middle Eastern version of ‘the gang that couldn’t shoot straight’.
You may remember Fathi Shqaqi’s killing by The Diplomat Hotel in Sliema. He was believed to be some sort of hawker by everybody, yet the Mossad (or whoever) knew who he really was and “did him in”.
Fathim Shqaqi wore a wig, travelled using an alias and stayed in a hotel under an assumed name. Ali Zeidan does not.
Whoever is or was in that flat, and in the one in Sliema before that, is not unknown to government. He is unknown to you.
Your government is withholding information that affects – in its own words – national security and, by extension, your personal security too.
If this shadowy figure is related to Malta’s national security, why was the prime minister’s chief of staff seen visiting him in plain sight?
You’ve heard about “Svizzera fil-Meditterran”. Now take a look at this:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/09/business/gallery/china-architectural-mimicry-town/index.html
God bless our journalists. We have such a grave issue to deal with (Ali Zeidan’s presence in Malta) and they run after comments about a simple move by the PN.
They had better explain the strategy employed last Sunday when they retracted two posts about the issue.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140610/local/pn-decision-on-sunday-sermons-welcomed.522714
Times of Malta, once the cradle of journalism in Malta and a newspaper we had to read both for content and grammar in preparation for our ‘O’ levels, is now providing the biggest disservice to its viewers / readers.
Since Sunday afternoon, it is the only online newspaper not to publish Kurt Farrugia’s (government’s) official denial re Ali Zeidan’s sojourn in this island.
There must be s struggle going on in there though.
Not surprised.
Their mind is still struck at the cold war era, USSR-propaganda style of doing things.
Perhaps someone should tell them that they aren’t fooling anyone, anymore.
So eventually it seems that the last resort was used: When you cannot possibly spin an issue any conceivable way; stay silent.
Remember all the bull about the ‘iggielidna ghal barrani’? Seems like now someone has seen fit to put our ass on the line without us knowing. One wonders why that would be and which principles this person/persons/country is representing? But as long as it’s a pig and not a human who is making the decisions, well then, that’s all right!
This episode raises some very important points.
What has the presence of any person in Malta to do with “national security”?
Is he a person contributing to our security or presenting a threat to it? What relationship is there between this person and our state officials that calls for the involvement of our security forces?
The handling of this situation may have been very amateurish if not downright farcical, but it is far from it being a laughing matter.
I have recounted in my memoirs how a very high-ranking Libyan official, who I can now say was the head of his country’s security services and later its foreign minister, and still relevant to the situation in Libya today, entered Malta unknown to the government thanks to the connivance of an airport employee known for his political links to the party then in opposition, and very close to the Libyan embassy.
Government officials should not delude themselves into thinking that they are so clever that they can outplay international troublesome intrigue.
It has everything to do with national security, because it makes Malta an ally of the Zeidan clan, and therefore an enemy of the current Libyan regime, plus the Libyan Islamists.
Zeidan has a German passport. In order to obtain that, he had to give up his Libyan passport. In fact, one of the accusations levelled against him by the Libyan parliament is that he could never have become prime minister since he does not hold Libyan citizenship in the first place.
Now Malta is officially protecting him.
I could go on but I won’t. This is getting very tiring.
And some of my opponents here will idiotically accuse me Labour-bashing. But this is not Labour bashing. The mess was started long ago, by PN governments who thought they were the elite high-speed international operators and starting dabbling in regime change.
My third and fourth sentences/questions quite clearly show what I think of the government’s claim that “national security” justifies its actions and cover-up.
As I have claimed more than once, the phrase “national security” is being misused by government spokesmen. Government is there to safeguard national security not to undermine it for unknown reasons.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-10/news/government-will-not-accept-people-who-were-dismissedfrom-their-country-carmelo-abela-5415796737/
The government calls a press conference to give us yet another lie. “Government whip and Cabinet spokesman Carmelo Abela said that the government will not accept to host people who have been dismissed from their country and pose a threat to national security.”. But they already did http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2014/03/libya-ousted-pm-zeidan-defies-travel-ban-20143127223227659.html