During the meeting with Prime
Minister Mifsud Bonnici,
Christopher proposed to
him that Fort St. Angelo
be returned to the Knights
of Malta, officially known
as the Sovereign Military
Hospitaller Order of Saint
John of Jerusalem of Rhodes
and of Malta���S.M.O.M.
Christopher���s idea landed
on my desk with both a call
from the Prime Minister and
a follow up note from him ���to
see if we could find a way to
realize it.���
Fort St. Angelo, as Hyland
envisioned it, should be
revived by handing it over
to the S.M.O.M., who had
formerly
occupied
the
Maltese Islands. A massive
fortress, St. Angelo was built
by the Knights in the sixteenth
century in the center of Malta���s
main harbor, Grand Harbor,
in order to defend the island
from attacks by the Ottoman
Empire. Christopher believed,
and I agreed with him, that
