Nationalist MEP Simon Busuttil said today that he could not understand what is keeping the Libyan Ambassador in Malta from denouncing the Gaddafi regime once and for all and switching allegiance to the National Transitional Council in Libya.

"Several of his colleagues in other EU countries have already done so. What is he waiting for?" he asks in The Times.

Dr Busuttil said that last week, along with a group of MEPs, he had a meeting with the top officials of the Libyan Embassy in Brussels who, some time ago, did the logical thing and announced their allegiance to the Council.

They gave a chilling account of the terror that Muammar Gaddafi is unleashing onto his own people.

"Little wonder that Col Gaddafi is now the most wanted man of the International Criminal Court."

Dr Busuttil also noted that the European Union has already earmarked some €100 million in humanitarian aid to the Benghazi-based council.

"But it is not clear how much of this is actually translating into supplies, especially for hospitals in places like Benghazi where the situation is desperate."

Dr Busuttil will be leading a European Parliament delegation to the camps on the border with Tunisia in the coming days.

Read the opinion piece in full at

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110629/opinion/Muammar-Gaddafi-s-reign-of-terror-.372967