Muscat is off to Libya today – on a private flight
I guess we won’t be hearing much more mocking from the Labour Party about private jets and private flights. Joseph Muscat should be landing round about now in Libya, having flown there on a private flight, on a Medavia plane.
Again, the Labour Party didn’t release the news itself. The Coconut probably felt that a secret mission would make him feel more glamorous.
I got a message this morning from one of my Maltese Benghazi contacts to tell me that Muscat had wrangled an invitation to go to the city with a party of eight people. He’s supposed to be in Benghazi tomorrow, so perhaps he’s stopping off in Tripoli first.
Who knows what Labour friends he’s going to meet? Most of them have been shot or imprisoned, or have fled into exile.
I’m told that Muscat’s request to meet the Libyan PM Abdurrahim El-Keib has not been met with a positive response, at least so far. The PM was shown – I gather – videos and newspaper cuttings of some of Muscat’s more ‘interesting’ remarks about the uprising and Muammar Gaddafi.
He will instead meet Mustafa Abdul Jalil, the NTC leader. The visit, my contacts tell me, was facilitated by a long-time friend of Alex Sceberras Trigona, Fathi Baja.
The Nationalist Party reported the news a little while ago on its website maltarightnow.com, after somebody spotted Muscat and his party in the VIP lounge at the airport and made some enquiries.
The Labour Party delegation includes old Gaddafi hand Karmenu Vella (it goes without saying), Michael Farrugia, Noel Farrugia (the turnip who was once Sant’s minister of agriculture), and Alex Sceberras Trigona (it goes without saying).
They were supposed to leave this morning, but the flight was postponed to 5pm. Perhaps Muscat wished to take it easy, this being Saturday.
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Shall we turn on Super One?
Can’t wait to see a picture of him on top of a camel.
Can’t wait to see a picture of him under a camel.
Can’t wait to see him riding a camel backwards.
Camel or elephant?
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Joseph Muscat made sure he takes enough copies of the Koran as gifts.
Maybe the government is about to announce some agreement on oil / gas pricing with Libya and Muscat wants to come back declaring that it was his divine intervention that brought it about.
And maybe after Libya we’ll go to North Korea and say hello to those jubilant and well nourished and over-joyous people, who just come out in their thousands to cheer their humble leader whenever he comes out on the balcony to see to their needs.
Then maybe, just maybe, when Joseph is in power, he too can copy the Great Leader and come out his purposely built balcony at Mile End.
“Then maybe, just maybe, when Joseph is in power, he too can copy the Great Leader and come out his purposely built balcony at Mile End”.
I’ve heard that he intends to flatten the area in front (including the PN HQ) so that the millions of Lejburisti from all over the world can come and acclaim their princely leader.
One hopes Jalil kept his left hand firmly in his pocket when shaking hands with Mr. Muscat.
Soon after Mr. Muscat’s visit to Gaddafi in 2010, Gaddafi was toppled in a war. And soon after his visit to Kevin Rudd in Australia, Mr. Rudd was politically assassinated by Mrs. Julia Gillard.