Bill's Message of the Day
Friday, April 19
(Valletta, Malta) The Russian sitting in a seaside cafe looks exactly like one of the guys Denzel Washington waxed in the first and best "Equalizer" movie.
Short-cropped hair, unshaven, sullen, he is flanked by two young women cosmetically enhanced and covered with garish tattoos. All three are smoking cigarettes and drinking wine. One of the ladies snaps a picture of a journalist watching the table.
For thousands of years, the island nation of Malta, located south of Sicily, one hundred kilometers off the North African coast, has attracted dubious characters.
