Lockerbie case rumbles on in Scotland and Malta

Cecil Herbert Jones

Oct 27th 2009, 11:19

@lgalea
Naive is what the previous administration was when it made deals with Libya that pretty much gave Gaddafi an open hand on Malta. By leaving the western fold we had crossed over to the other side of the cold war by default. As I mentioned in my first post in the other article parallel to this one, we had no intentions of partaking in any cold war but it would seem that we got embroiled in it. Do you think we enjoyed money and favour for free from Libya?

If I am too naive to understand the dirty world of politics it would be because I need to be like that, but the administration that chose to take Malta to Libya and vice versa was naive and not because it needed to, but because it wanted to, and not for the purposes of benefitting only Malta, more so than for personal advantage. There were other avenues, but these were never considered because democracy was not on the agenda.

Who is naive now?

Jesmond Micallef

Oct 25th 2009, 23:36

Here dear readers have a look :

Read the Section titled : U.S. intelligence officers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

Furthermore :

http://www.rense.com/general/cole.htm

lgalea

Oct 25th 2009, 21:55

Cecil Herbert Jones
Certain things cannot be proved Cecil. Do you think that the foreign countries secret services are so naive as to give a receipt for such transactions and shady dealings? As for you comment that we joined the other side in the cold war you are totally mistaken. We joined no sides but stayed neutral in our own interests. Why should we join any side in a war whether hot or cold? If you think that with our previous foreign policy we became a stepping stone, sorry to say but you are too naive to understand the dirty world of international politics.

Cecil Herbert Jones

Oct 25th 2009, 18:45

@Igalea We don't know if Al Megrahi was involved or not, but we do know that Libya did not press on relentlessly to clear his name? Why does he have to do it now that he has been released and when facing a terminal illness? Did the Libyan Government dissociate itself from him in some way? Many interpreted Gaddafi's massive financial donation to the families of the victims as an admission of guilt, but perhaps this was simply a goodwill gesture to show Libya was not involved. There is no certainty, only rumour, that the Gauci brothers received cash to lie and frame Al Megrahi. But investigative journalists or the police would do well to ask them a few questions to clear their name, after all they are Maltese Nationals. The West's Secret Services may well have wanted a scapegoat, but how do we prove it? Malta has never played an active role in international history, but only followed or reacted. One would guess we made some history when we joined the other side of the Cold War, but facts show this merely increased the risks of Malta being used as a stepping stone.

Jason Coleiro

Oct 25th 2009, 18:37

Didn`t the families get paid millions? i think the families of the victims are well off now on behalf of their lost family members so what is the fuss all about? oh sorry i think maybe someone wants more cash from Libya?

Jesmond Micallef

Oct 25th 2009, 14:57

@Mr. Cecil Herbert Jones

Good points!

Furthermore, the UK government let Mr. Augustus Pinochet free when he was in the UK for medical purposes, despite protests, even in London !!! In Pinochets Chile of 1970's hundreds of political opponents simply vanished !!

So question time !!

Question 1 :
Did Chile help the UK in the Falklands campaign ??

Question 2 :
Was this the background why he was let off the hook while in the UK ??

Question 3 :
Wheren't there discoveries of graves of missing political opponents from the Dirty War JUST BEFORE the Argentinian Military Junta invaded the Falkland Islands ??

What did the UK Government do about all this ???

lgalea

Oct 25th 2009, 13:26

Cecil Herbert Jones
What if he was not involved at all?
Why should his name not be cleared?
Why was certain evidence withheld?
Why was the Maltese witness who made a whole mess paid millions to give his evidence?
NO Cecil. The secret services of some countries wanted to have someone to blame.

"I'm also wondering why the UK's BP are allowed by the EU to deal in oil with Libya while Malta can't. "
BP are getting oil at commercial rates. Malta got it for a preferential price and the eu stopped us from continuing to do so because it considered it as an unfair advantage on its other competitors. It does not do so when others get cheaper energy from other sources and are therefore at an advantage when compared with us. This is another negative aspect of eu membership which is causing great hardship to Maltese citizens and making our industries less competitive. The only way out of this massive mess is OUT of the eu.

Cecil Herbert Jones

Oct 25th 2009, 12:08

Its ironic, why should this case be reopened and reinvestigated with the aim of establishing Al Megrahi's partner/s now after his release? Supposing he wasn't working alone, won't he and his partner/s have an easier time and opportunity to cover their tracks?

So the Maltese shop-owners are alleged to have received millions of Dollars, to either point their fingers at the wrong person or to point their fingers at just one person? I'm surprised they're not offered that kind of money by a newspaper only now to give their exclusive 'no-barrs-hold' story?

I'm also wondering why the UK's BP are allowed by the EU to deal in oil with Libya while Malta can't. Our risen and rising electricity & water bills + petrol & diesel consumption rates are a direct consequence of Malta's inability to continue benefitting from the reduced prices we once enjoyed from Col Gaddafi. Shouldn't 'our' investigators look into this?