Dari Just Gan

Bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad berkata jika penasihat Parti Rakyat Keadilan (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim setia kepada kumpulan-kumpulan Yahudi, dia tidak akan setia kepada negaranya sendiri” (Bernama,. 12 Julai 2010).

Jika logik ini digunapakai, maka bekas PM Dr Mahathir meludah ke langit terkena muka sendiri, kerana sejarah menunjukkan Dr Mahathir yang sebenarnya tidak setia kepada Malaysia.Mahathir telah terlibat Salmon Smith Barney (sebuah syarikat Yahudi) sebagai penasihat kewangan selama krisis mata wang. Dia juga terlibat Goldman Sach (firma lain Yahudi) untuk tugas-tugas lain. Putera Mahathir, Mirzan, bekerja untuk Salomon Brothers (sebuah syarikat Yahudi). Mahathir berdamai dengan George Soros, seorang Yahudi yang pernah dihinanya, tetapi ketika Soros melawat Malaysia beberapa tahun yang lalu Mahathir secara terbuka menyatakan (untuk alasan yang masih misteri ) bahawa Soros tidak bertanggung jawab atas krisis kewangan Malaysia.Abramoff, seorang Yahudi, menetapkan pertemuan antara Mahathir dan George Bush selepas kerajaan Mahathir membayar USD 1.2 Juta ke Heritage Foundation yang dikendalikan oleh Abramoff. Ini hanya beberapa dari kerjasama Mahathir-Yahudi. (more…)

Malaysiakini | July 13, 2010

CNN has stringently denied that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim paid the global news broadcaster to do an interview early this month.

MCPX
“The story about CNN accepting payment from anyone for Anwar Ibrahim to appear on ‘Connect the World’ is clearly fabricated,” said a CNN spokesperson, who is based in Hong Kong where the network’s Asia headquarters are located.

“It is disturbing that no effort was made to contact us and independently verify these groundless allegations before they were subsequently reported as fact.”

Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia had last Friday kicked off the controversy with its July 9 report headlined ‘Anwar alleged to have paid CNN’.

The report referred to Trevino Strategies and Media Inc president Joshua Trevino, who wrote in a US-based news portal The New Ledger that Anwar hired media contacts, particularly in CNN, to convince Jewish lobbyists that he is not anti-Israel.

Trevino had lamented that the CNN’s ‘Connector of the Day’ interview on July 2 was “tame” in questioning Anwar’s anti-Zionist rhetoric.

Following the Utusan report, a number of Umno leaders attacked Anwar over the alleged “paid” interview.

“If it is true that Anwar paid for the CNN interview, it shows that he stoop so low to the United States and the Jews… he will do anything to achieve his ambition of becoming the prime minister,” said Umno vice-president Mohd Shafie Apdal the day after the Utusan report.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also Umno deputy head, said the allegation shows that Anwar was desperate.

“He can use the media. If he has to pay, then let him pay to clarify his position and the lies he told when he went abroad,” he was quoted as saying by New Straits Times in a July 11 report headlined ‘Muhyiddin: Anwar paid CNN’.

Another round of attacks

Utusan, an Umno-owned newspaper, has since ratcheted up the tempo against Anwar, this time with another report on Sunday alleging that the PKR supremo was a CIA stooge.

The report is based on the posting of an obscure American blogger, Elaine Meinel Supkis, who claimed that her source was “a Jewish editor of the warmongering Washington Post”.

Utusan cited Meinel’s posting – bizarrely entitled ‘CIA and Mossad want Anwar Ibrahim assassinated’ – which claimed that Anwar serves to protect the US’ interests and to undertake covert planning on its behalf in Malaysia.

This sparked another round of attacks from other Umno leaders, including Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Information Communication and Culture Minister Rais Yatim.

KENYATAAN AKHBAR

12 JULAI 2010

Laporan mengenai perlombongan pasir yang disiarkan akhbar hari ini adalah tidak benar kerana fakta-fakta yang diberikan kepada media adalah salah.

Berdasarkan gambar yang disiarkan akhbar, Kumpulan Semesta Sdn Bhd (KSSB) pasti gambar ini diambil di sekitar lombongnya yang mempunyai permit sah di Kampung Olak Lempit di Mukim Tanjung 12, Daerah Kuala Langat, bukannya di Bukit Canggang.

Permit melombong pasir di kawasan itu yang dikeluarkan pentadbir Tanah Kuala Langat sejak Januari 2010 selepas mendapat kelulusan jabatan teknikal termasuk Jabatan Alam Sekitar, Jabatan Pengairan dan Saliran, Jabatan Kerja Raya, Jabatan Mineral dan Geosains, Lembaga Urus Air Selangor, Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat dan pejabat Daerah/Tanah Kuala Langat.

Kelulusan dari jabatan ini diperolehi selepas Skim Melombong (mining Scheme) dan Pengurusan Alam Sekitar (EMP) diluluskan oleh jabatan-jabatan ini.

Operasi perlombongan dijalankan selepas JAS dan LUAS berpuashati dengan EMP yang disediakan oleh KSSB. Antara kandungan EMP adalah operasi perlombongan KSSB tidak jejaskan alam sekitar termasuklah Paya Indah Wetlands.

Syarikat perunding, Enviro Enhance Sdn Bhd juga bertanggungjawab menghantar laporan setiap bulan kepada JAS.

KSSB juga menyediakan zon penampan selebar 20 meter dari sempadan kawasan melombong. Kecerunan tebing yang landai dengan purata 27 darjah disediakan untuk memastikan tebing tidak runtuh dan membahayakan pekerja serta alam sekitar. Ini adalah mengikut Skim Melombong yang memenuhi syarat JMG.

Lombong KSSB ini adalah seluas 120 ekar, bukannya 120 hektar (250 ekar) seperti yang dilaporkan oleh akhbar.

Operasi fasa pertama hanyalah seluas sekitar 60 ekar. Operasi fasa kedua pula sedang dalam proses pembersihan kawasan.

Kerja-kerja melombong telah diberikan kepada syarikat kontraktor, Cheong Weng Trading yang berpengalaman selama 15 tahun dalam industri pasir.

Semenjak operasi bermula pada Januari 2010, sebanyak 400,000 tan metrik pasir telah dijual dengan pendapatan sekitar RM7 juta bukannya 10 juta tan pasir bernilai RM220 juta sepertia yang dilaporkan akhbar.

Adalah tidak munasabah untuk mengeluarkan 10 juta tan dalam masa 2 minggu seperti yang dilaporkan kerana untuk mengeluarkan pasir sebanyak itu memerlukan lebih 500,000 muatan lori.

Jentera-jentera dan peralatan melombong tidak berkemampuan untuk mengeluarkan 10 juta tan pasir dalam masa 2 minggu.

Kerajaan Negeri berterima kasih kepada mereka yang prihatin dengan kejadian curi pasir. Kita mencuba sedaya upaya untuk membanteras jenayah ini supaya negeri tidak terus kerugian.

Pentadbir Tanah telah mengenal pasti kawasan-kawasan kecurian pasir seluruh Selangor termasuklah di Bukit Canggang dan sedang mengambil tindakan termasuklah memberi Notis 7A di bawah Kanun Tanah Negara.

Kita juga berharap pihak media lebih berhati-hati dengan fakta yang diberikan oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab. Kerajaan Negeri akan terus menambah baik perlombongan pasir yang menjadi sumber untuk agenda Merakyatkan Ekonomi Selangor.

YAB TAN SRI DATO SERI ABDUL KHALID IBRAHIM
DATO’ MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR

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From Vancouver Sun
By Jonathan Manthorpe

The ghost of murdered Mongolian model and translator Altantuya Shaariibuu refuses to lie quiet.

For the Malaysian government of prime minister Najib Tun Razak a line appeared to have been drawn under the sordid and politically explosive affair when two of his bodyguards from his days as defence minister were convicted last year of the young woman’s murder in the jungle outside Kuala Lumpur in October 2006.

But in the last few weeks two events have revived simmering questions about the connection of the murder to a $1.2 billion contract to buy two French Scorpene-class diesel submarines ordered while Najib was defence minister.

Najib’s friend and adviser on defence matters, Abdul Razak Baginda, whose wife’s company was paid a questionable $150 million over the submarine contract, had recently brought a love affair with Shaariibuu to an acrimonious end when she was abducted and murdered.

During the months’ long trial of the two police bodyguards every effort was made to ensure prime minister Najib’s name didn’t figure in evidence.

And in a move that astonished legal experts, the judge early on in the trial exonerated Baginda of any responsibility. He promptly fled to Britain where he remains.

The stage management of the trial convinced Malaysian human rights groups that it would be pointless to try to resolve the Shaariibuu case in the senior courts in Kuala Lumpur.

One of those Malaysian human rights groups, Suaram, has therefore pressed for a judicial inquiry in France, where there are a number of investigations underway of the notorious willingness of state-owned defence companies to pay bribes or other inducements in order to gain arms contracts.

In this case Parisian prosecutors started inquiries in March focusing on the $150 million paid to a Malaysian company called Perimekar, which was set up just before Najib signed in 2002 the deal to buy the two Scorpene submarines from the French state-owned shipbuilder DCN.

Perimekar was ostensibly hired to provide “coordination and support services” for the contract, but no evidence has been produced to show the company had the skills for such tasks or ever attempted to perform them.

Perimekar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of a company called KS Ombak Laut Sdn Bhd., whose principal shareholder is lawyer Mazalinda Baginda, the wife of prime minister Najib’s friend and adviser Razak Baginda.

Shaariibuu, 28 at the time of her death, had learned French when she was a model in Paris and there is evidence she acted as translator for her paramour Baginda during his negotiations with DCN over the submarines on behalf of Najib and the Malaysian government.

Malaysian authorities have responded to the move by French prosecutors to investigate DCN and particularly its submarine-manufacturing subsidiary Armaris, for possible corruption and paying kickbacks by insisting nothing is wrong.

A spokesman for prime minister Najib said recently the French prosecutors have the right to investigate, “but for us, there is no case to answer.” He added that the deal was entirely free of corruption.

Exactly why Shaariibuu was murdered by Najib’s bodyguards has never been entirely resolved, despite the long trial and 45 witnesses.

By some accounts, after Baginda jilted her, the young woman and a friend launched several noisy demonstrations outside Baginda’s house.

Baginda reportedly went to Najib’s chief of staff, Musa Safri, and asked for help in keeping the young woman away from his home.

As a result, the two police bodyguards, Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, abducted Shaariibuu during one of her demonstrations, took her to the jungle outside the capital and shot her.

But they then used military C4 explosives to blow up the body in an apparent attempt to foil identification, though this act has, of course, led to speculation that Shaariibuu was pregnant.

But in a letter written by Shaariibuu and discovered after her death -a letter never produced in evidence -she indicated she was trying to blackmail Baginda for $500,000 to keep quiet about the details of the $150 million paid to his wife’s company, Perimekar.

There have also been suggestions that Shaariibuu knew details of the many other arms purchases made in the military equipment buildup overseen by Najib while he was defence minister from 2002 to 2008.

These deals include the purchase of Sukhoi supersonic fighter jet aircraft from Russia and of a small fleet of coastal defence vessels.

As well as Malaysian human rights organizations, Shaariibuu’s parents have been adamant that there has been no real justice for their murdered daughter.

With the stage-managed criminal trial now done, Shaariibuu’s father and mother have tried to bring a civil suit seeking compensation for her death against Baginda and the two convicted policemen.

In a strange move, Malaysia’s High Court in March ordered the family to make a security deposit of the equivalent of $20,000 for the case to be heard by the Court of Appeal and potentially to continue to the Federal Court.

The family was distraught, saying it could not raise such a sum.

But last week The Mongolian government announced it will put up the security bond demanded by the Malaysian court so the case can be heard, though at this point it seems more likely that Shaariibuu’s ghost will get justice in Paris rather than Kuala Lumpur.

Dari Harakah Daily
Oleh Hazayani Zakaria

Pakatan Rakyat mendesak satu Suruhanjaya Diraja ditubuhkan untuk menyiasat kapal selam Scorpene bernilai EURO1.084 bilion kerana gagal berfungsi dengan baik dan kerap kali mengalami masalah teknikal.

Ahli Parlimen Batu, Tian Chua ketika merujuk berita Malay Mail pada 7 Julai lepas mengenai isu kapal selam KD Tunku Abdul Rahman, mendedahkan kapal selam berkenaan yang diterima pada 26 Januari tahun lepas masih lagi mengalami masalah teknikal dan tidak boleh menyelam sehingga kini. (more…)

Dari TV Selangor

Penyiasat persendirian P.Balasubramian dijadualkan disoal siasat oleh polis Perancis malam ini berhubung kes penyelewengan pembelian kapal selam Scorpene oleh Malaysia yang turut dikaitkan dengan pembunuhan warga Mongolia Altantuya Sharibbu.

Meskipun Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) enggan mengambil langkah sama untuk menyoal siasat Bala, pihak berkuasa Perancis mempamerkan kesungguhan untuk mengetahui kebenaran di sebalik pembunuhan Altantuya dan dakwaan pembelian kapal selama oleh Malaysia membabitkan rasuah lebih setengah billion ringgit.

Pembelian kapal selam oleh Tentera Laut di-Raja Malaysia diluluskan Perdana Menteri Najib Razak ketika beliau menjadi Menteri Pertahanan ketika itu. (more…)