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

List of contacts sent to Don Mullan

You requested me sometime ago to put together a list of names and addresses, sorry for the delay but it takes me some time to get my head around these exercises, the following are not set out in any particular order and they can always be added to if required.

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Reports of 9H-ABU Being Shot Down My A Missile

Tony Gregory TD …was in a group when someone who knew of the family connection enquired of …developments in the search for information related to the disappearance of the plane…Tony said, oh that plane was shot down by a missile, when asked where he got that information from he said he got his info. from Foreign Affairs.

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Protest outside Malta’s Embassy in Tripoli

Ramadan Abdatlah Shallah, the man chosen as leader of the anti-Israel group, Islamic Jihad, helped run a controversial US think tank on Islamic affairs, an expert on radical groups. Steven Emerson, the producer of the PBS documentary “Jahad in America” said Shallah was administration director of the World and Islamic studies Enterprise (WISE) that was once associated with the University of South Florida in Tampa.

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Cormac Boomer responds to Don Mullan’s request for more information

Cormac Boomer responds to Don Mullan’s request for more information on the outbound flight of 9HABU. Cormac mentions that Mr. Alfred Fenech stated at three separate sittings of the Board that based on the report of Rodger Wood the plane would be unable to start up and totally incapable of taking off. Cormac also details when Desmond and Matthew phoned home that weekend to confirm that the flight was delayed due to bad weather.

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Response from Irish Foreign Affairs Office, Dublin

Response from Irish Foreign Affairs Office, Dublin. Taoiseach. Mr. Bertie Ahern T.D. asked the Maltese authorities whether there was anything else they could do to assist. There was no further advice nor assistance the Maltese authorities could offer. With regard to the Irish Government seeking an independent judicial inquiry the Minister considers that such a move would imply a lack of confidence in the report of the Board of Inquiry and that would be likely damage our relations with Malta.

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Letter from Jim Dougal EU unable to help

Letter from Jim Dougal, EU unable to help. European Commission cannot intervene as falls within the competence of the British authorities who look after the interests of their citizens anywhere in the world. The European Commission cannot help in problems relating to one individual citizen of a Member State and therefore does not have a mandate to act.

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