The by-elections in Penanti will be keenly followed as BN is not contesting. BN would have about 30-40% support here. What will these BN supporting voters do?
Some may be on some all-paid-for trips. Some may just not be bothered as this will be the 3rd time within a short period of time of slightly more that a year that elections are called.
Some may just vote for an independent.
PR is expected to win.
Maybe another history to be created with the most number of spoilt votes.
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Anwar Ibrahim, PKR advisor and de facto leader has been summoned to appear at the Jalan Duta Magistrates' Court later this (7/8/08) morning on the alleged sodomy charge.
This whole thing has been called a conspiracy. But by whom? Dr Mahathir says the Government not so stupid to frame sodomy a second time.
The way it has developed, it appears to lead to nothing but a joke being played by some idiots.
Some thoughts.
1. Can the charges be sustained if it was not preferred by the AG cum PP. The Govt says the AG is not involved in this case.
2. An initial medical report would suggest Saiful not sodomised. But this doctor has disappeared.
3. Anwar has not given a sample for DNA, a corroborative evidence crucial in sex related crimes. Anwar fears it can and may be used to fabricate evidence AGAIN.
4. The police already have a DNA profile from 1998. But they may not be able to use it as it was not legally obtained.
5. The Govt will rush the DNA bill through parliment at the next sitting. Not just to compel an accused to provide a sample for DNA, whether retrospective or not. The hastening of the DNA bill is to give power to the police to use whatever DNA sample or profile they already have irrespective of how or when it was obtained.
6. Alibi. Anwar says he has an alibi for all times. As previously demonstrated in 1998, the prosecution are able to change the dates/times of the alleged incident as when countered by an alibi.
7. If, as they had suspected, Saiful was a plant, would Anwar be foolish enough to be observed to be alone with the plant.
8. I would not be surprised if at a crucial time during the trial, a video turns up featuring the plant buggering himself with a plastic in the high end condo.
9. Given Anwar's ambitions, didn't the police compile a dossier on Anwar with all his movements since his release from prison? And doesn't Anwar know that the police are capable of doing so and therefore checks himself? All the more given his past experience with the police.
As some are saying, Malaysia is turning out to be a laughing stock.
The story so far.
Saiful Bukhari Azlan volunteers his help to PKR just before the last general elections. PKR suspects UMNO had sent them a mole (but not revealed at that time)
Saiful lodges police report alleging Anwar sodimised him. Anwar is 61 years old and with a bad back and Saiful aged 23.
Pictures of Saiful with some UMNO leaders appears on the internet
First Najib denied knowing or having met Saiful. Later admits he met Saiful in his house a few days before the incident.
Anwar arrested, questioned, medically checked and released a day later. Anwar had to complete a form that is normally filed by a rape victim. Anwar was also 'measured' at the hospital. Anwar refused to give blood sample for DNA.
UMNO makes public call for Anwar to give a sample for DNA analysis. Anwar says Govt the police have a DNA profile obtained during the 1st sodomy allegation in 1998.
Government says IGP and AG will not be involved in this sodomy investigation.
A lawyer and a 'Uncle Pet' hold a press conference supposedly on behalf on Saiful's father.
Raja Petra releases medical report from Hospital Pusrawi which implies that there was no evidence of Saiful being sodomised.
A main stream media reported that Saiful went to the KL hospital for a medical problem. The KLH doctors who examined him suspected something amiss and upon questioning Saiful determined it to be a case od sodomy and advised Saiful to make a police report.
Some KL doctors vouch that a medical was not given to the police.
Raja Petra alleges the police met Saiful secretly in a hotel 3 days prior to the alleged sodomy.
Govt says the IP with the Solicitor General for him to make a decision on whether to charge Anwar.
Anwar ordered to appear in Magistrates Court on 7/8/08.
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Raja Petra news for those who have been unable to access
Malaysia-Today.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin has been asked to report to the Sentul Police Station at 5..30pm today, Saturday, 5 July 2008.
He received a phone call from ACP Aziz that the police want to record his statement in relation to the Statutory Declaration he signed on 18 June 2008.
Malaysia-Today
So he is being called by the police regarding his SD.
No, I am NOT expecting a contradictory SD2 from Raja Petra tomorrow. But knowing Raja Petra, he will keep the police busy.
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PI Bala has retracted his SD dated 01/07/2008 which was released by Anwar Ibrahim on 03/07/2008.
What were his reasons for the retraction, which came after his visit to the Brickfields police station?
It seems he did not take questions and left immediately after his press conference this morning.
But one thing in his 1st SD struck me as being odd. Bala declared
"25. During this discussion and in an attempt to persuade me to continue my employment with him, Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that :-
25.1 He had been introduced to Aminah by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak at a diamond exhibition in Singapore.
25.2 Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak informed Abdul Razak Baginda that he had a sexual relationship with Aminah and that she was susceptible to anal intercourse."
Now how could someone remember such trivia as "...
she was susceptible to ...", when being practically under siege? What was his state of mind at that time?
Unless of course there was some truth in it.
If this bit was true, would any of the women who had the occassion to be intimate with a certain VIP recall this particular 'preference' of this VIP?
Shall we have some more SDs coming out soon?
The 2nd Statutory Declaration by PI Balasubramaniam released to the press.
I, Balasubramaniam Perumal, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:
1. I have been a police officer with the Royal Malaysian Police Force having joined as a constable in 1981. I was subsequently promoted to the rank of lance corporal and finally resigned from the Royal Malaysian Police Force in 1998.
2. I currently work as a freelance private investigator.
3. I wish to refer to the statutory declaration I affirmed on July 1, 2008. I refer specifically to paragraphs 8, 25, 28, 49 and 50 to 52, wherein I have stated inter-alia that:
a) Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that he was introduced to Altantuya Shaaribuu by a VIP;
b) Najib Razak informed Abdul Razak Baginda that he had a sexual relationship with Altantuya Shaaribuu and that she was susceptible to anal intercourse;
c) Najib Razak instructed Abdul Razak Baginda to look after Altantuya Shaaribuu as he did not want her to harass him since he was the deputy prime minister;
d) Najib Razak, Abdul Razak Baginda and Altantuya Shaaribuu had met and all been together at a dinner in Paris;
e) Altantuya Shaaribuu wanted money in the sum of US$500,000 as a commission for a submarine deal she assisted with in Paris;
f) Altantuya Shaaribuu met Najib Razak in Singapore;
g) Altantuya Shaaribuu wanted me to arrange to see Najib Razak;
h) I told the police about the relationship between Najib Razak and Altantuya Shaaribuu but when it came to sign my statement this detail was left out;
i) The prosecutor during the course of the trial in the High Court of Shah Alam did not ask me any questions in respect of Altantuya Shaaribuu’s purported relationship with Najib Razak or of a phone call I received from one DSP Musa Safri, whom I believe was the ADC to Najib Razak and/or his wife;
j) Abdul Razak Baginda informed me that he had sent Najib Razak an SMS the evening before he was arrested but did not receive a response; and
k) Najib Razak sent an SMS to Abdul Razak Baginda on the day of his arrest to the effect that he was going to see the IGP that day and that the matter should be resolved and for Abdul Razak Baginda to remain calm.
4. I wish to retract all the statements that I have made in paragraphs 8, 25, 28, 49 and 50 to 52 of my statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008. The statements contained in paragraphs 8, 25, 28, 49 and 50 to 52 of my statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008 are inaccurate and not the truth. I wish to expressly state that:
a) At no material time did Abdul Razak Baginda inform me that he was introduced to Altantuya Shaaribuu by a VIP;
b) At no material time did Razak Baginda inform me that Najib Razak had a sexual relationship with Altantuya Shaaribuu and the she was susceptible to anal intercourse;
c) At no material time did Abdul Razak Baginda inform me that Najib Razak instructed Abdul Razak Baginda to look after Altantuya Shaaribuu as he did not want her to harass him since he was the deputy prime minister;
d) At no material time did Razak Baginda and/or Altantuya Shaaribuu inform me that Najib Razak, together with Abdul Razak Baginda and Altantuya Shaaribuu had met and all been together at a dinner in Paris;
e) At no material time did Altantuya Shaaribuu inform me that she wanted money in the sum of US$500,000 as a commission for a submarine deal she assisted with in Paris;
f) At no time whatsoever did Abdul Razak Baginda and/or Altantuya Shaaribuu inform me that Najib Razak met with Altantuya Shaaribuu in Singapore;
g) At no time whatsoever did Altantuya Shaaribuu inform me that she wanted me to arrange to see Najib Razak;
h) At no time did I tell the police during the course of their investigations about any relationship between Najib Razak and Altantuya Shaaribuu as no such relationship existed to my knowledge. Accordingly, the statement I signed before the police is complete;
i) At no time did Abdul Razak Baginda inform me that he had sent Najib Razak an SMS the evening before he was arrested; and
j) At no time did Abdul Razak Baginda inform me that Najib Razak had sent him an SMS on the day of his arrest to the effect that he was going to see the IGP that day and that the matter should be resolved and for Abdul Razak Baginda to remain calm.
5. In addition, I wish to retract the entire contents of my statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008. I was compelled to affirm the said statutory declaration dated July 1, 2008 under duress.
And I make this solemn declaration voluntarily and conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act 1960.
Balasubramaniam a/l Perumal
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