UPDATED: State security services for Libyan visitors: we’ve graduated from squad cars to military lorries
The news website Newsbook (same ownership as RTK radio) reported yesterday that a small party of Libyan men proceeded through the VIP lounge at Malta International Airport early yesterday morning, and got into two limos which then left in a convoy with three military lorries.
We know already what the reply will be if we ask what this is all about: “not in the interest of national security”.
This is one step up from “mhux fl-interess tal-poplu”, the standard reply of the Mintoffian government back in the 1970s and 1980s, which ended up becoming the title of anti-regime satirical newspaper.
UPDATE
Now we know who they were: Libyan’s interior minister and his aides. He held a meeting with our interior minister, Manuel Mallia, today.
You do know who he is, right?
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I’d say its time for a comeback of Mhux Fl-Interess Tal-Poplu.
This kind of thing happens every day on buses in Malta, but has never caused the kind of public outrage as it did in Australia.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-28145725?ocid=socialflow_twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Zuu-rsodA
Training of Libyan military personnel? Must be English as a foreign language.
The Italians and of course the Americans have cornered the market on that one, with Bulgaria providing the facilities.
Malta’s delusions of grandeur are beyond ludicrous. And we are signing agreements with a government which is hated almost universally by its own people, and which controls just a tiny fraction of the country.
I hope that when the rebellion overthrows the GNC, it will raze to ground the business interests of those Maltese bazuzli who advised successive governments on Libyan policy. They won’t go bankrupt – these people never do – but it will brighten my declining years to see them chased out of Libya in their nightshirts, and their warehouses reduced to smouldering rubble.
It’s Minister Mallia’s style of doing things.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/40795/mallia_meets_libyan_interior_minister_over_fuel_smuggling#.U7Z5LiiXK3U
They should consider providing the same kind of security to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, to make sure the Law Commissioner doesn’t invade their privacy when they are dining together at Da Pippo.
You mean to make sure he doesn’t invade their privacy again.
Mhux f’ l-interess tap poplu…what great memories. some very satirical moments that lit up such dark times
You reap what you sow.
You guys in Malta overwhelmingly voted for Muscat and his circus in March last year and now you are reaping the “benefits” of that wise decision.
Bill Millam
Los Angeles
Yes Bill, we all reap what the majority sows.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-07-04/news/libyan-interior-minister-visits-5712379906/
Is that arrowed guy ‘Do you know who I am?’ Scerri?