So we had to have it from the CIA itself, since Kurt, Joseph and the present administration didn't bother to ask Sciberras Trigona, Anglu Farrugia and Karmenu Vella about it before issuing a statement that the 'present administration is not informed of any donations by the Gaddafi regime'. Gaddafi's regime, apart from financing Labour's pride: the children's allowance and social services in the so called "Golden Years", financed the Labour Party's activities and election campaigns at least up to 1987. And Muscat's visit last year, while still Leader of the Opposition, on Gaddafi's private jet (something which in any other country would have led to his resignation, as with the case of the French Finance Minister travelling on Ben Ali's private jet), leads me to think that this funding probably didn't stop there.
So it wasn't really a bilateral country-to-country relationship as they would like us to think when comparing it with Gonzi's and EFA's visits as heads of state. It was a regime-to-party relationship. No wonder the PN had boycotted Gaddafi's "Gieh ir-Repubblika" award ceremony in 1975, when Gaddafi was still considered a terrorist by the international community. No wonder George Vella still describes the uprising as a "zmien ikrah" and "we need to see what went wrong". And no wonder that in SIX MONTHS the Labour Party has never condemned Gaddafi, never even dared to mention him by name. Just to be "wise and prudent", in case he gets back in power.
What do we care that Libyans were being killed, tortured, and arrested. What do we care that his regime treated their staff as slaves and rubbish (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8291777).
Read the comments from PL supporters online: "gid rajna m'ghand Gaddafi!" You'll realize that them, and their party's leaders, very much preferred Gaddafi and his funding than a democratic Libya. What do they care that his cheques were signed by his people's blood.
"Il-ftit minn ghand il-hafna". Yeah right, pity that the 'hafna' included the oppressed Libyan people.
References:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000478912/DOC_0000478912.pdf
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001518848/DOC_0001518848.pdf
So it wasn't really a bilateral country-to-country relationship as they would like us to think when comparing it with Gonzi's and EFA's visits as heads of state. It was a regime-to-party relationship. No wonder the PN had boycotted Gaddafi's "Gieh ir-Repubblika" award ceremony in 1975, when Gaddafi was still considered a terrorist by the international community. No wonder George Vella still describes the uprising as a "zmien ikrah" and "we need to see what went wrong". And no wonder that in SIX MONTHS the Labour Party has never condemned Gaddafi, never even dared to mention him by name. Just to be "wise and prudent", in case he gets back in power.
What do we care that Libyans were being killed, tortured, and arrested. What do we care that his regime treated their staff as slaves and rubbish (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8291777).
Read the comments from PL supporters online: "gid rajna m'ghand Gaddafi!" You'll realize that them, and their party's leaders, very much preferred Gaddafi and his funding than a democratic Libya. What do they care that his cheques were signed by his people's blood.
"Il-ftit minn ghand il-hafna". Yeah right, pity that the 'hafna' included the oppressed Libyan people.
References:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0000478912/DOC_0000478912.pdf
http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001518848/DOC_0001518848.pdf
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