Comments on: People’s instinctive reaction to the hijack: fake and staged

By: Roberto Rizzo

Roberto Rizzo — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 10:48:00 +0000

Evarist Bartolo, when he taught us at the University of Malta, used to say that a message on its own doesn’t hold any value. “Ħanqa ta’ ħmar qatt ma telghat is-sema” he used to say.

That is exactly why it is important to know the source, the background and the purpose. It makes a difference, and how.

He taught us that a message depends also who finances the media, because no one will bite the hand that feeds him. What you are trying to do is sow doubt and facilitate the cover-up orchestrated by Dr Egrant and his goons.

At least, from what you said that’s how it looks. It is very unfortunate for you that most of us will not be swayed by your claims of reasoning beyond politics.

For me, you are just a troll, perhaps living off our taxes. We are aware that the triad sent trolls to wherever it wasn’t possible to monopolise.

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 15:24:00 +0000

In reply to torquemada. Just like me. I still write under my full name and profession. I still get prejudiced criticism. Am I intimidated? NO.

By: torquemada

torquemada — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:30:00 +0000

Anis Amri must have had a very violent struggle with the Polish truck driver. In fact his (Amri’s) blood was found in the cabin. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that his wallet came out of his pocket and fell under the seat. He wouldn’t have had time to look for it, especially in the dark and with a getaway being the priority.

Another matter gives rise to some thought. Why did Amri not shoot and kill the driver immediately? He had a pistol and could easily have done that and taken the truck.

I suspect that Amri did not know how to drive the truck properly and could have forced the Polish driver to do so at gunpoint.

At some stage, probably towards the end of the run, he shot the driver and steered the truck into the market. Had he been in full control of the truck, he would have wreaked much more havoc.

Ironically, Merkel had a plan to teach immigrants how to drive trucks so that they could get a job.

By: torquemada

torquemada — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:19:00 +0000

I am not afraid of the government. They have plenty of tools to find out who I am. I write under a pseudonym because if I use my real name, my comments will definitely be subject to prejudice by some readers.

By: Gez

Gez — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 22:40:00 +0000

Petty? Had this Prime Minister been consistent and honest I wouldn’t be asking the question but seeing how duplicitous his outfit is, it is a perfectly legitimate question. Your tone doesn’t help your clarification.

By: Kevin J

Kevin J — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 16:50:00 +0000

In reply to torquemada. Do you have access to the Malta SOP please? Can we see it?

By: torquemada

torquemada — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 16:00:00 +0000

Maybe only you and I saw that.

By: torquemada

torquemada — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:58:00 +0000

Operations were resumed as soon as the hijacked aircraft was secured. What if it had dragged on for a few days?

Woulc they keep the airport closed? Standard operating procedure: park the aircraft in a secure area well clear of the rest of the airport, and resume operations.

It was parked some 1.3 km away from the main runway and even further than that from the passenger terminal.

By: torquemada

torquemada — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:53:00 +0000

In reply to anthony.

Not according the the conspiracy theories doing the rounds. Everybody speculating that this Tunisian was set up because how could he conveniently have dropped his ID in the truck?

Sounded very similar to the passports ‘found’ on 9/11 among all that debris. Then his ISIS allegiance video was conveniently ‘released by ISIS.’

Then we got a photo of his dead body, bare chested showing a bullet wound above his left nipple.

Now the hijackers have been arraigned and let’s wait and see what develops. We all know that human stupidity, unlike the Universe, is infinite. These two could be further proof of that particular Einstein’s theory.

By: torquemada

torquemada — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 15:44:00 +0000

“I am far enough from Malta to speak openly about such things”

What a drama queen. I too speak openly about such things and am not exactly kind to politicians, Labour or Nationalist, and I haven’t been thrown in a dungeon yet.

As for how much it cost, look at it this way, it was a good exercise and they did not have to appropriate an Air Malta aircraft as they normally do when such exercises are routinely carried out.