Desmond Boomer
A head and shoulders picture of Desmond Boomer
Desmond was a 39 year old Belfast born, engineer working in the Libyan oil fields
Matthew Aquilina
A head and shoulders picture of Matthew Aquilina
Matthew was a 22 year old Maltese national returning to Malta
Michael Williams
A picture of Michael Williams
Michael was a 49 year old English born engineer and manager of rock band 'The Characters'
Tadeusz Gorney
Tadeusz Gorney - no picture is available of Tadeusz
Tadeusz was a 48 year Polish national working in the Libyan oil fields
Philip Farrugia
Philip Farrugia - no picture is available of Tadeusz
Philp was a 43 year old Maltese national returning to Malta
Carmel Bartolo
A head and shoulders picture of Carmel Bartolo
Carmel was a 47 year Maltese national and the pilot of flight 9H-ABU

Translation – One of the killers lived in Sliema Before and after the murder of Shqaqi

Translation of article in Kullhadd discussing the events leading up to the assassination of Fathi Shqaqi. Also mentions the motor cycle parked in front of the hotel being moved to Sir Arturo Mercieca Street. The attackers escaped from Tower Road, went into Sir Arturo Mercieca Street and took off. The motorcycle was found in Manuel Dimes Street in Sliema. From Sir Arturo Mercieca Street, the killers proceeded towards Victoria Avenue, drove to Dingli Street passing through St. Mary Street and into Manwel Dimech Street, passing by the Sliema Police Station.

Article by Don Mullan, Ireland On Sunday

DESMOND BOOMER has a wife and five children who live in Co. Down. He worked in the Libyan oil fields as an engineer for a company based in Britain. Because of international sanctions imposed against Libya by the UN in 1992 after the Lockerbie bombing, foreign workers were forced to fly to a neighbouring country and travel onwards to Libya by road. For Boomer and other workers, the preferred route was an international connection to Malta and a private flight from the island to Djerba Airport in Tunisia. Boomer was en route home to Belfast for his Christmas holidays when he disappeared. There are three possibilities concerning the disappearance. The first and one that cannot be easily dismissed is that Desmond Boomer and his fellow passengers were in the wrong place at the wrong time when Islamic fundamentalists arrived to exact revenge on their pilot, Carmel Bartolo, a marked man. Bartolo was the owner of a small private airline called Excelair. On November 5, 1995 precisely one month before Boomers mysterious disappearance a local Maltese newspaper Kull Hadd, in an act of gross journalistic