French submarine
Photo: French Embassy
The French submarine Améthyste, which is operating off Libya, was in Maltese territorial waters earlier this week to disembark and embark personnel. With a crew of 68 men, the nuclear attack submarine had taken part in Operation Allied Force, the 1999 campaign in ex-Yugoslavia.
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c borg
Mar 31st 2011, 08:54
i could have sworn i heard the prime minister say we will not be used as a war base.
how do you categorize letting war planes fly through our airspace, war ships dock in our harbour and war submarines using our territorial waters to releive personnel?
reminds me of the products that say sugar free on the front only to find it contains sugar, listed in tiny print on the back.
Charles Sammut
Mar 31st 2011, 10:11
Dear c borg, since when do you believe anything politicians say or promise?
And how exactly do you propose to stop Gaddafi's massacre of civilians without resorting to military operations? You can't even placate him by sending him a box of Swiss chocolates because Libya boycotts Swiss goods since Gaddafi's son Hannibal had that infamous brush with Swiss police.
Welcome to the real world.
G Borg
Mar 31st 2011, 10:19
Yaaawn!! I think I heard this before......from KMB! Have you forgotten that Malta has ALREADY allowed two Libyan jets to land here? Did you protest then? The two jets (Gaddafi's 'toys') are being kept safe, and the pilots who came to take them away were not permitted to land. The best desicion taken. Had they been returned (probably if KMB was still our PM, God help us, he would have returned Gaddafi's toys to his boyfriend!), they would have been used to kill Libyans.
The airforces and navies using Malta's territorial waters and airspace are doing HUMANITARIAN work: stopping the madman from bombarding his OWN people! But is seems for you (or should I say KMB!), that Gaddafi is being 'victimised!
So, there's no need to swear, as by allowing a peacekeeping submarine in, does not mean that we are a military base! Had your hero (KMB), been in power, he would probably have preceded Uganda in offerring poor Gaddafi asylum.
G Borg (2)
Mar 31st 2011, 13:27
G Borg what did you expect them to do shoot them down? Why didn't the submarine change crew outside our waters? This was done on purpose to violate our neutrality because it is a military vessel and should not have been allowed to do so in our waters. They could have done so in Sicily, Italy, Lampedusa etc because Italy is one of the countries conducting the war and not involve us.
Charles Muscat
Mar 31st 2011, 13:30
May be you would have expect Malta to say that the maltese people are ONE FOR ALL, ALL FOR ONE with Libya. Grow up bro.