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.

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.

What CiVi said, M. Cassar.

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

“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

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.

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?

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.

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 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.