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Anwar confirms met Ku Li, denies bid to coax defection
PKR denies tactic to smear Najib
Pathologist says Sarbaini slipped and fell
Muslim NGO to lodge report against Chong
Ex-Umno MPs want Najib out
Khairy says not Pak Lah’s envoy to Anwar
Anwar approached Ku Li after Sept 16 flop, says leaked cable
‘Ku Li unlikely to join opposition’
‘Wan Azizah should stay as Sabah PKR chief’
PSM 6 charged for subversion
Guan Eng: ‘Not anti-Chinese or Malay, only anti-graft’
Utusan says Ku Li splitting Malays further

Anwar confirms met Ku Li, denies bid to coax defection

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:39 PM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim admitted meeting Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah "before" and "after" his failed September 16, 2008 takeover bid, but he denied enticing the Kelantan prince to defect to Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

The PR de facto leader refuted today a Wikileaks' leaked US diplomatic cable which said that he (Anwar) had continued to claim Putrajaya through crossovers by seeking Tengku Razaleigh's support.

Anwar told The Malaysian Insider that his meeting with the Gua Musang MP was no secret, and that it was merely to discuss "political issues."

"There was a meeting, it is public knowledge, I met him (Tengku Razaleigh) before and after September 16.

"(But) we met because he wanted to be informed about issues, political issues," Anwar said, and repeatedly stressed that there was no discussion about any form of crossovers.

"No, not like that. Not in that form," Anwar added.

The leaked cable said that Anwar's efforts were "inconclusive" as the Kelantan prince was said to be eyeing the prime minister's spot personally.

In the cable, US ambassador James R. Keith told his government that the opposition leader had only altered his tone but not his goal nor his tactics, and had even stayed in contact with then prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi through Khairy Jamaluddin before Datuk Seri Najib Razak took over in 2009.

PKR party leaders Chua Tian Chang (Tian Chua) and R. Sivarasa purportedly confirmed this when met by "polcouns", or political counsellors, separately in November 3 and 5, believed to be in 2008, but added that their leader had relaxed his pace to a "lower key approach" after his failed September 16 plan.

But Anwar also denied today that he contacted Abdullah through Khairy.

"No, what the report (leaked cable) says is not right. There is no basis," he told The Malaysian Insider.

The Rembau MP himself has refuted the leaked cable's report, and said that he has "never met Anwar" secure the opposition's support for Abdullah's reform legacy before the prime minister stepped down from office in 2009.

The leaked US cable also said that Anwar had lost significant political momentum after the debacle but PKR planned to recoup its losses by finding ways to weaken the new administration, to be helmed by Najib in April 2009, with scandals like the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu and the Eurocopter aircraft purchase.

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PKR denies tactic to smear Najib

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:34 PM PDT

By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider

Former PKR vice president Sivarasa Rasiah has denied that the opposition had planned a smear campaign against Datuk Seri Najib Razak after an attempt to secure federal government through defections on September 16, 2008 had failed.

The Subang MP told the Malaysian Insider today that such a strategy was never part of Pakatan Rakyat's (PR) plans as stated in a leaked United States diplomatic cable.

"Whatever information we brought up was already made public. There was no such deliberate strategy to scandalise Najib," he said this afternoon.

Sivarasa, who is now a member of the party's political bureau, was said to have told US political officers that Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim remained determined to take over federal government through defections before Najib took over the reins in April 2009 from then prime minister Tun Abdullah Badawi.

US ambassador to Malaysia James Keith had written to his government that along with current vice president Chua Tian Chang, Sivarasa had said that Anwar was "focused on preempting Najib's takeover if possible, because they believe Najib would invoke authoritarian measures to scuttle the Opposition before the next national elections."

"In the months ahead, PKR would look for opportunities to weaken support for Najib and the government... using new information linking Najib to scandals, like the Altantuya case and the Eurocopter purchase," the cable stated.

But Sivarasa insisted that "after September 16, there was no longer any attempt to take over by defections. It ended there."

The opposition pact has persistently linked Najib to the gruesome 2006 murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shariibuu, the mistress of Abdul Razak Baginda, said to be a close aide of the prime minister.

The case was also linked to the RM7 billion purchase of two Scorpene submarines from a French defence firm when Najib was still defence minister in 2002, a deal that is still being investigated by French courts for an alleged RM500 million kickback to Abdul Razak's Perimekar Sdn Bhd.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:26 PM PDT

By Melissa Chi, The Malaysian Insider

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 — The lead forensic pathologist in the death of Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamed told the inquest today that the Customs officer had slipped and fell to his death at the offices of the national graftbusters.

Ahmad Sarbaini, the Selangor Customs assistant director, is believed to have fallen from the third floor pantry of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office in Jalan Cochrane here on April 6 and landed on the badminton court on the first floor.

Professor Dr Shahrom Abd Wahid, 54, is the lead forensic pathologist for the case and a forensic pathology lecturer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He told the court he was involved in the overall supervision of the autopsy and crime scene investigations.

"The re-enactment by the stuntman showed it was probable for the deceased person to have fallen backward when his right foot slipped from the window lower ledge and the left foot reactively kicked the edge of the ledge," he said in the post-mortem report, citing a diagonal white paint mark on Ahmad Sarbaini's left shoe sole.

He then told lawyer for Ahmad Sarbaini's family, Awtar Singh, that the deceased had kicked his left foot against ledge as a defence mechanism when he went off balance.

Shahrom had performed the second autopsy on Ahmad Sarbaini on April 7, 24 hours after the first one.

He explained that the second autopsy was done "to allow detection of any bruises which may become clearer in appearance after 24 hours of death".

Based on the evidence found, the autopsy and the re-enactment, Shahrom ruled out the possibility of homicide, suicide, and natural death.

"The image visualisation showed that the deceased person landed on his right knees then left knee, almost simultaneously, followed by the right elbow, left wrist, forehead and facial part of the head," he told the court.

Shahrom said that severe head injury and skull fractures as well as positional asphyxia may have caused the rapid death of the deceased.

He explained positional asphyxia as a condition where there was a lack of oxygen intake due to nose and mouth obstructed by fluid blood.

Shahrom said he found no suspicious marks, scratches or injuries on the limbs, body and head, other than those due to the fall.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 06:02 PM PDT

By The Daily Express

Kota Kinabalu: Yayasan Islam Sabah said it will be lodging a police report against Dr Chong Eng Leong for "repeatedly instigating matters on racial and religious issues."

"The issue of citizenship is a very serious matter, especially when it purportedly aims the Malays and Muslims. The reportedly 70,000 people given citizenship and issued with Malaysian identity cards are Muslim and Malay stocks," said its Chairman, Tan Sri Harris Salleh.

In a statement, Monday, Harris said the claim made by Dr Chong was based on taking names from the Electoral Rolls.

Unfortunately, Dr Chong only picked the Malay and Muslim names, he said, adding that it was unfair and inciting racial and religious hatred.

"Surely the issue of fake or false ICs not only happens to the Malay and Muslims, but also to other races. The proof is that during the late registration exercises out of the 25,000 who were then registered at Tenom and Keningau, overwhelmingly were non-Malays and non-Muslims.

"Dr Chong does not see it fit to investigate this racial and religious imbalance?" he asked. Harris said the evidence given by Dr Chong publicly and in the court were mere statements.

"The court did not confirm that these were phantom voters, nor any decision confirms these phantom voters were non-citizens.

The hearing was all about election petition and not about identity cards.

"Therefore, as long as anyone having valid Identity Cards, it is legally valid. There is no question as to whether you are a Malay or Muslim," he said.

Yayasan Islam Sabah received many complaints about people going around in the Malay and Muslim settlements in KK asking for evidence that they were newcomers and given identity cards, he said.

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Ex-Umno MPs want Najib out

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:55 PM PDT

By Muda Mohd Noor, FMT

PETALING JAYA: Speculation has been rife that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's position in Umno is under threat.

Party insiders have long claimed that the daggers are out, alleging that while in public, support is expressed for the president, behind closed doors his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin with the blessings of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is making his move.

The prime minister's grip on power slipped further following the Bersih 2.0 rally on July 9 while the controversies surrounding his wife Rosmah Mansor are also taking a toll.

Now, an organisation representing former Umno members of Parliament has voiced its lack of confidence in Najib's leadership and wants him to step down.

The organisation called Penawar is headed by former Cabinet minister Aziz Shamsuddin, who was Mahathir's political secretary from 1981 to 2002.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Penawar member said the organisation decided in a meeting last week that it is time for Najib to relinquish his post.

"It is up to Najib. If he loves the country and the Malays, he should resign as soon as possible.

"If he is not a selfish person, then he must quit," the former MP told FMT, adding that the meeting was attended by ex-ministers from the Mahathir era.

According to him, Penawar, which represents some 50 ex-MPs, is dissatisfied with Najib's leadership due to several reasons.

When pressed, he declined to elaborate on the reasons, stating that these are common knowledge.

Contacted later, Aziz, who is Penawar's chairman, declined to comment on the matter but disclosed that the organisation will be holding another meeting tomorrow.

Muhyiddin's brother also present?

Najib took over the reins in April 2009 and immediately portrayed himself as a moderate leader under his 1Malaysia concept aimed at luring back Chinese and Indian votes.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:32 PM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - Khairy Jamaluddin has denied that he met with Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to secure the opposition's support for Tun Abdullah Badawi's reform legacy before the prime minister stepped down from office in 2009.

The Rembau MP told The Malaysian Insider that he "never met Anwar" on behalf of his father-in-law as stated in a leaked United State diplomatic cable.

"Abdullah wanted bi-partisan support for the bills. It was important for him and Umno that they were passed," the Umno Youth chief said.

The Malaysia Today news portal published the leaked US cable that cited then PKR vice president Sivarasa Rasiah and his successor Chua Tian Chang as saying that Khairy "approached Anwar regarding support for judicial reform measures... as part of Abdullah's parting legacy."

Khairy also denied that the reform package, including the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act, the Judicial Appointments Commission Act and the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission Act, were political strategies to head off a move to replace Abdullah as prime minister.

"I remember Abdullah asked Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to brief all MPs including the opposition on the bills," Khairy said, but insisted that he played no role as an intermediary between Abdullah and PKR de facto leader Anwar.

In the cable, US ambassador to Malaysia James R. Keith told his government that Abdullah had kept in touch with Anwar through Khairy before handing over the reins to Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2009.

PKR party leaders Chua and Sivarasa purportedly confirmed this when met by "polcouns", or political counsellors, separately in November 3 and 5, 2008.

Keith also wrote that Umno veteran leader Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had speculated that Khairy acted as a go-between as there "existed grounds for PM Abdullah and Anwar Ibrahim to work together."

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - The spectacular failure of his September 16, 2008 takeover bid did not deter Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim from continuing attempts to claim Putrajaya through crossovers, as he sought to entice Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah even after the public flop, a leaked US diplomatic cable has said.

The cable added that Anwar's efforts were "inconclusive" as the Kelantan prince was said to be eyeing the prime minister's spot personally.

"The prime minister's circle — through Khairy — has approached Anwar regarding support for judicial reform measures that would be presented in Parliament soon as part of Abdullah's parting legacy, according to Sivarasa and Tian Chua.

"The opposition, however, was unlikely to support these measures because they did not represent meaningful changes," said the cable, leaked by whistleblower site WikiLeaks through the Malaysia Today news portal today.

Keith also said that Anwar had lost significant political momentum after the debacle but PKR planned to recoup its losses by finding ways to weaken the new administration, to be helmed by Najib in April 2009, with scandals like the murder of Mongolian model Altantuya Shaariibuu and the Eurocopter aircraft purchase.

"The time horizon has shifted from December to March 2009, in line with the shift in the Umno party elections, at which time Najib is set to become Umno president uncontested," Keith said.

He added that without sufficient ethnic Malay support, Anwar had banked his hopes on attracting Umno crossovers through approaching "losers" in the transition between Abdullah and Najib, namely Tengku Razaleigh or "Ku Li", who was at the time the sole challenger to Najib's impending Umno presidency.

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‘Ku Li unlikely to join opposition’

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 04:18 PM PDT

Political analysts say the idea has some merit but there are too many obstacles and considerations to be taken into account for it to materialise.

(Free Malaysia Today) - Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah's stature is respected by both the Malays and the non-Malays but for him to take over as the opposition leader is most unlikely.

Political analysts while admitting that Tengku Razaleigh (Ku Li ) is the one man who has the credibility and respect to weld the opposition parties together, say it may however never materialise.

This speculation was started a few days ago by Independent MP Zahrain Mohamed Hashim of Bayan Baru.

He told Utusan Malaysia that the Pakatan leadership met Ku Li to convince him to head the opposition coalition for fear that Anwar Ibrahim may be jailed for sodomy.

"To even think of that… it's not there yet. It is highly speculative at the moment but many things have to be in the right place.

"There have been rumours about Ku Li leaving Umno for a few years now but that has never taken place and he has stayed on. It will require something really dramatic for him to want to leave," said Ooi Kee Beng, co-ordinator of Malaysia study programme at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

"Pakatan will also need to allow Ku Li to assume that position. There are so many other factors like Ku Li's age for one," he added of the politician who is in his seventies.

"We must also remember that for this to materialise, Anwar needs to be out of the 'race' legally," he said.

However, Ooi added that Ku Li's name is being bandied about as the Gua Musang MP was a Malay leader who was broadly acceptable by Malays and the non-Malays.

"PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang still requires a lot support. Ku Li can fill in the gap. He is someone of stature and moral standing and respected by Malaysians. He also has a record of being a competent statesman," he said.

Crazy idea

Prof James Chin of Monash University said that the idea is "crazy" but admitted that Ku Li is one of the few politicians in the political scene capable of holding the opposition together.

"There are very few politicians in the Malaysian political landscape that can bring together DAP, PAS and PKR. Ku Li is one of the the few," he said.

"He can be brought in to hold Pakatan together if Anwar is jailed. But I think all of this is just in anticipation of the election and thus people are pushing for this crazy idea," he added.

Chin also shared Ooi's sentiment saying that Ku Li's political skills are "not questionable" but stressed that the switch is unlikely.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Eighteen of the 26 PKR divisons in the state are all for retaining Wan Azizah as the party's PKR chief.

(Free Malaysia Today) - Eighteen of the 26 PKR divisions in Sabah and Labuan want party president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail to continue to head the state chapter, at least until the next general election is over.

It comes in the wake of a claim on Sunday that 18 division chiefs reportedly want one of them to be drafted in immediately as the state chief. Wan Azizah assumed the post in January this year and had initially been widely expected to step down three months later.

The newly-discovered level of support for Wan Azizah within Sabah PKR was confirmed by a party veteran who requested anonymity.

"Fifteen of the 18 division chiefs signed a resolution last Friday in Kota Kinabalu, pledging full support for Wan Azizah as interim Sabah chief," revealed the party veteran.

"That's why the secret ballot on Wan Azizah's position, proposed last Friday by a division chief, became a non-issue,"he said.

The veteran leader was clarifying a statement last Sunday by a key PKR insider in Sabah that "party chief Wan Azizah did not allow a secret ballot to be taken on her position as head of the state chapter".

According to the key insider linked to the 18 division chiefs cited last Sunday, there's consensus among them to hold a secret ballot soon on whether their party president should continue to head the state chapter.

Meanwhile, the 15 divisions behind Wan Azizah, according to the party veteran, are Tenom, Kimanis, Beluran, Kudat, Beaufort, Sepanggar, Keningau, Kinabatangan, Kota Kinabalu, Papar, Semporna, Labuan, Pensiangan, Penampang and Kalabakan.

Presidential camp

In addition, it's being claimed that three division chiefs who did not sign the Friday resolution and are aligned to two other camps in Sabah PKR, have since reportedly indicated to the presidential camp that they will support Wan Azizah's leadership of Sabah.

It was reliably learnt early today that Kota Marudu, one of the three divisions, has since text messaged Wan Azizah to pledge its support.

The president's people, according to the veteran leader, are keeping their fingers crossed while waiting for the other two division leaders to go public with their stand on Wan Azizah's leadership role in Sabah.

The nearness of the forthcoming polls and the need to maintain party unity are reportedly among the rationale for the "unflinching" support of the 18 division leaders for the president.

The third reason appears to be that no division leader in Sabah aspiring for the state chief's post can muster more than five or six divisions behind him. One exception, it's conceded, was former PKR vice-president Jeffrey Kitingan who was able to call on support from 18 division chiefs including a core group of 14 divisions who never abandoned him.

"From this it can be seen that last Fridays's meeting in KK has overtaken the competing claims by two factions in Sabah PKR that they have the support of the majority of the divisions in the state chapter," said the veteran leader.

According to the leader, the support for the rebel factions in the local chapter is at five and six divisions respectively.

The divisions in the group of five rebel chiefs, said the veteran leader, include Kota Belud, Batu Sapi, Kota Marudu (since defected to Azizah), Tuaran and Ranau.

Rebel factions

The divisions in the group of six rebels, it appears, include Silam, Putatan, Libaran, Tawau, Sipitang and Sandakan.

Touching on the autonomy issue raised by the key insider last Sunday, the party veteran said that it was a non-issue considering that "the claimants were silent when Jeffrey was beating the drums of war on autonomy".

"Now, they – the two rebel factions – appear to have done an about-turn and are both suddenly trying to hijack the autonomy issue for their own self-serving ends," said the party veteran.

"However, we welcome their change of heart, if genuine, and fully support them on the issue of autonomy."

Wan Azizah, said the party veteran, has no issues with Sabah and Sarawak having autonomy under a Pakatan Rakyat government or the local chapters of PKR being independent/autonomous.

Asked to elaborate on this statement, the party veteran pointed out that "the party headquarters was still wrestling with the issue of credibility on the autonomy for Sabah and Sarawak".

He added that "perhaps the national leadership should be given the benefit of the doubt on the autonomy issue and some more time to demonstrate their credibility".

PKR vice-president Fuziah Salleh has also become another issue among rebel factions in Sabah PKR, said the party veteran.

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PSM 6 charged for subversion

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 02:29 PM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - The six Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) members who were released from their Emergency Ordinance (EO) detention last Friday were charged today for possession of subversive documents.

The six, including Sungai Siput MP Dr Michael Devaraj Jeyakumar, claimed trial to the charges under Section 43 and 48(1) of the Societies Act as well as Section 29(1) of the Internal Security Act.

Butterworth Sessions Court judge Kamal Hisham Mohd Tajuddin set bail at RM8,000 each, and fixed hearing for October 10.

The charge was also read to another 24 PSM supporters who were also arrested on June 25 in the run-up to the July 9 Bersih rally for attempting to revive communism and "waging war against the Agong."

Although the two dozen were later released, the six were rearrested under the EO on July 2 before being released on the second day of Dr Jeyakumar's hunger strike against his detention without trial.

The 30 people facing the two charges under the Societies Act could end up being jailed for a total of eight years and/or a combined fine of RM10,000 if convicted.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 01:29 PM PDT

(The Malaysian Insider) - Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng questioned today how he could be both anti-Chinese and anti-Malay as alleged by MCA and Umno, pointing out instead that he was only anti-corruption instead.

"Before this, they (Umno) claimed that I was anti-Malay and had sidelined them (the Malays), now they (MCA) said that I am anti-Chinese for not giving contracts to the Chinese.

"What is their actual basis to attack me?" he said at a DAP talk here last night.

In the past two weeks, Penang MCA has repeatedly accused the DAP-led state government of being anti-Chinese for awarding only two contracts in the past three years to Chinese contractors.

In its latest salvo yesterday, the state MCA said the Penang government's decision to award only 0.2 per cent of the 968 projects tendered since the opposition party took power in 2008 suggested that Lim thought the Chinese community "incompetent".

Before this latest attack, the Penang administration under Lim has regularly been accused by Umno, MCA's senior partner in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, of being racist for allegedly discriminating against the Malay community.

"I am neither anti-Chinese nor Malay, I am only anti-corruption," said Lim last night.

Yesterday, the Malay Contractors Association of Malaysia's (PKMM) Penang branch defended the state's open tender system as fair and warned Penang MCA to stop politicising contracts awarded to Bumiputeras there.

Acting Penang PKMM chief Datuk Izham Merican condemned what he said was Penang MCA's "ignorance" for failing to understand that open tenders allowed the state government to select the best and most competitively priced contractors, regardless of race.

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