No secret weapon

Many thanks to Alfred Zammit (Secret Weapon, May 17) for conceding that the words "secret weapon" were quoted directly from a FKNK press release and that they were not used by Tolga Temuge.

The word "aggression" was also used by the secretary general of the FKNK at a public meeting in Rabat and is, therefore, not attributable in this context to Mr Temuge; furthermore, to "change tack" does not imply aggression or resorting to violence.

Finally, it is beside the point whether Mr Temuge or somebody else felt "irked" by Mr Zammit's false statement in one of our leading national papers - and chose to correct it. What counts is the truth. The issue in dispute was whether or not Mr Zammit made a misleading public statement by attributing words to somebody who never said them.