mohatheer mohammad in bbc interview, page-2

Mahathir: "In the eyes of the law he is innocent but in the eyes of the people, he is not."

Mr. Bumble: If the law supposes that, then the law is a ass, a idiot! If that's the eye of the law, then the law is a bachelor. And the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience. - Oliver Twist


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The Australian newspapers’ story was based on US cables recounting separate meetings between senior US officials and Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Tommy Koh in 2008 and 2009. These three held senior foreign ministry positions through that period.

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy charges are the result of a ”set- up job” which the politician ”walked into”, according to an assessment by Australia’s peak intelligence agency. A leaked US state department cable reveals that Singaporean intelligence officials told their Australian counterparts that Dr Anwar engaged in the conduct for which he is accused, a claim he has steadfastly denied.

The cable that deals with Dr Anwar’s sodomy case, dated November 2008 and released exclusively to The Sun-Herald by WikiLeaks, states: ”The Australians said that Singapore’s intelligences services and [Singaporean elder statesman] Lee Kuan Yew have told ONA in their exchanges that opposition leader Anwar ‘did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted’.”

The document states the Singaporeans told ONA they made this assessment on the basis of ”technical intelligence”, which is likely to relate to intercepted communications.

The ONA is also recorded as saying that Dr Anwar’s political enemies engineered the circumstances from which the sodomy charges arose.

”ONA assessed, and their Singapore counterparts concurred, ‘it was a set-up job and he probably knew that, but walked into it anyway’,” the cable states.

— Sydney Morning Herald, 12 Dec 2010, Caught in political sex trap

[Note by Yawning Bread: ONA is the Australian intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments.]

Hello? Except for pro-Anwar diehards, most people in Malaysia already believe that sex happened between Anwar and his accuser Saiful Bukhari Azlan. Most people have long ago also conlcuded that it was a set-up by people linked to the ruling party, or even the current prime minister Najib himself.

There is nothing new here.

What is waiting to be answered, but is apparently not, is what does this reveal of Anwar? After having suffered imprisonment (despite later vindication) for the similar incident a decade earlier, did he feel somehow invincible? Did it never occur to him that it could be a trap?

(My personal curiosity though is where ruling party UNMO, or whoever was scheming this, managed to find a guy like Saiful — who looks totally gay if you ask me. Here is someone prepared to do it with Anwar and take the publicity that goes with it.)

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