Khairy sifatkan pendedahan WikiLeaks amat serius - Berita Hairan
KUALA LUMPUR: Ketua Pemuda UMNO, Khairy Jamaluddin, berkata pendedahan WikiLeaks berhubung aksi liwat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim amat serius kerana salah laku Ketua Pembangkang itu dibincangkan pada peringkat antarabangsa yang sekali gus boleh menjejaskan imej negara.
Justeru, katanya, jika dakwaan itu benar, Anwar tidak sesuai dipilih menjadi pemimpin rakyat Malaysia kerana maklumat itu ada pada risikan asing yang boleh diguna pakai untuk mendapat keistimewaan dan melemahkan negara.
Hahaha.. Lucunya... Berita sat td bgtau Malaysia akan menghantar nota bantahan kerana komen daripada diplomat Singapura mengenai Anwar itu boleh menggugat jalinan dua negara.
Mengapa tetiba concern sgt pasal Anwar?
Hahaha..
Sebab komen keseluruhan diplomat tu menyentuh pasal BN, Najib, Mahathir & KJ. Tak hairanlah KJ tetiba keluar daripada pertapaannya. Bukan sebab anwar semata.. Baca kisah penuh wikileaks kat bawah>>
Devastating criticism of BN leadership
What should be of great interests to Malaysians are the thoughts of the Singapore leadership of its Malaysian counterpart – thoughts that should not be exposed for diplomatic reasons. In this respect, WikiLeaks provided invaluable insights.
The Age reported on Dec 12 (from WikiLeaks) that all the three top Singapore officials – Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Tommy Koh – gave damning assessments of Malaysia.
In a meeting in September 2008, Kausikan, now permanent secretary in the foreign ministry, told US Deputy Secretary of Defence for East Asia David Sedney that “the situation in neighbouring Malaysia is confused and dangerous”, fuelled by a “distinct possibility of racial conflict” that could see ethnic Chinese “flee” Malaysia and “overwhelm” Singapore.
Comments regarding specific Malaysian leaders are reported as follows.
Najib Razak (then deputy prime minister).
Kausikan said in Sept 2008: “A lack of competent leadership is a real problem for Malaysia” and cited the need for Najib to “prevail politically in order to avoid prosecution” in connection with a 2006 murder investigation linked to one of Najib’s aides. Kausikan further said: “Najib Razak has his neck on the line in connection with a high-profile murder case”.
Peter Ho, then head of civil service, told another US official in March 2008: “As for Najib Razak, he is an opportunist. Although he has not been critical of Singapore, he will not hesitate to go in that direction if it is expedient for him to do so. Najib’s political fortunes continue to be haunted by the … murder scandal.”
Mahathir Mohamad
Among Peter Ho’s critical remarks made in March 2008, was one directed at former premier Mahathir Mohamad. He said Mahathir has been “throwing stones” at his replacement, Abdullah Badawi.
Khairy Jamaluddin
Peter Ho said: “The political knives will be out for Abdullah’s son-in-law, Umno politician Khairy Jamaluddin, whom nobody likes because he got where he is through family ties.”
To observers of Malaysian politics, the above comments are of course no-news, as these are already common knowledge. What is more interesting, would be the response of the BN leadership and the expected spinning the mainstream media would make out of these explosive leaks.
None of BN leaders responded on the same day – Dec 12. Significantly, premier Najib Razak turned down two opportunities to speak to the press after public functions. He cancelled a press conference scheduled after closing the Ikatan Hati Warga Felda Carnival, next to the Palace of Justice. Later, he again declined to speak to reporters after launching Samy Vellu’s biography at the Mines International Exhibition and Convention Centre.
As for spinning by the mainstream media, the Star in a front page story today (Dec 13) said that Singapore officials “supported a conclusion by the Australian intelligence agency on the Sodomy II charges against Datuk Seri Anwar”. As for the predicament of Najib, the Star said “They described Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as being in a tight spot but also at the same time concurred that Anwar was guilty of the charges which they also said were a ‘set up’.”
Such spinning! Instead of the Singapore Intelligence supporting its Australian counterpart as claimed by Star, it was the Australian intelligence which picked up the information from its Singapore counterpart, which in turn based its opinion on an unspecified “technical intelligence” – whatever it means. As for the scandalized Najib Razak, the Star glossed over the scathing attack with a euphemism “tight spot”.
It is this type of debasing journalism that has caused the Malaysian public to turn its back on the mainstream media.
To persistent critics of the BN government, they must have derived a certain amount of satisfaction in that the hidden views of these top Singapore officials, which are reflective of those of Singapore’s political leadership, concurred with them in their low opinion of the present BN leadership.
Kausikan said in Sept 2008: “A lack of competent leadership is a real problem for Malaysia” and cited the need for Najib to “prevail politically in order to avoid prosecution” in connection with a 2006 murder investigation linked to one of Najib’s aides. Kausikan further said: “Najib Razak has his neck on the line in connection with a high-profile murder case”.
Peter Ho, then head of civil service, told another US official in March 2008: “As for Najib Razak, he is an opportunist. Although he has not been critical of Singapore, he will not hesitate to go in that direction if it is expedient for him to do so. Najib’s political fortunes continue to be haunted by the … murder scandal.”
Mahathir Mohamad
Among Peter Ho’s critical remarks made in March 2008, was one directed at former premier Mahathir Mohamad. He said Mahathir has been “throwing stones” at his replacement, Abdullah Badawi.
Khairy Jamaluddin
Peter Ho said: “The political knives will be out for Abdullah’s son-in-law, Umno politician Khairy Jamaluddin, whom nobody likes because he got where he is through family ties.”
To observers of Malaysian politics, the above comments are of course no-news, as these are already common knowledge. What is more interesting, would be the response of the BN leadership and the expected spinning the mainstream media would make out of these explosive leaks.
None of BN leaders responded on the same day – Dec 12. Significantly, premier Najib Razak turned down two opportunities to speak to the press after public functions. He cancelled a press conference scheduled after closing the Ikatan Hati Warga Felda Carnival, next to the Palace of Justice. Later, he again declined to speak to reporters after launching Samy Vellu’s biography at the Mines International Exhibition and Convention Centre.
As for spinning by the mainstream media, the Star in a front page story today (Dec 13) said that Singapore officials “supported a conclusion by the Australian intelligence agency on the Sodomy II charges against Datuk Seri Anwar”. As for the predicament of Najib, the Star said “They described Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak as being in a tight spot but also at the same time concurred that Anwar was guilty of the charges which they also said were a ‘set up’.”
Such spinning! Instead of the Singapore Intelligence supporting its Australian counterpart as claimed by Star, it was the Australian intelligence which picked up the information from its Singapore counterpart, which in turn based its opinion on an unspecified “technical intelligence” – whatever it means. As for the scandalized Najib Razak, the Star glossed over the scathing attack with a euphemism “tight spot”.
It is this type of debasing journalism that has caused the Malaysian public to turn its back on the mainstream media.
To persistent critics of the BN government, they must have derived a certain amount of satisfaction in that the hidden views of these top Singapore officials, which are reflective of those of Singapore’s political leadership, concurred with them in their low opinion of the present BN leadership.
-excerpt from The Centre for Policy Initiatives
