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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

20th September

On this day, 7 years ago, sacked deptuy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was arrested after thousands of his supporters demand the removal of then Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamed [now Tun]. That night he received his now famous black eye. In Aug this year, the one who gave him the black eye, then IGP, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Noor [still Tan Sri as far as we know], publicly apologize after claiming responsibility. We are also told that an undisclosed amount of money was paid [by the gomen? by the Tan Sri?] to settle the case out of court.
On this day, this year, DSAI is in the news again. TODAYonline reported that he has taken steps to get the Tun to retract a statement the Tun made about Anwar recently. Saying that he will not allow these lies and slander to continue, he added :: "Thus I have instructed my counsel to initiate legal action against Dr Mahathir." According to DSAI's lawyer, he will demand the Tun to retract his statement, make an apology and pay RM100 million because of the latter's offensive statement which is serious and damaging.
So what did the Tun have to say about DSAI this time around. At a recent press conference, was it after his controversial piece about the US and UK being terrorists, the Tun had this to say ::

"I cannot have a person who is like that in my Cabinet who may succeed and become the prime minister.
"Imagine having a gay prime minister — nobody would be safe."

Can anyone be clearer than that with regards to what the Tun has to think of DSAI?
With Anwar being awarded only RM4.5 million when he recently won the case in connection with the "50 Dalil mengapa Anwar tak boleh jadi PM" book, one would think that defamation cases involving millions would be over and done with. There appears to be one more to come. According to TODAYonline, political analysts are saying that savvy Anwar is taking the opportunity to try and stay in the limelight and this could help DSAI on the way to return to the Malaysian political mainstream. The article quoted, newly out-of-a-job Prof Ramasamy as having the following to say :: "For a man who is in retirement, Dr Mahathir certainly knows how to remain in the forefront of things." "But the outcome of his latest outburst can cause embarrassment to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, as they are both senior men in Umno." Others feel that this time around though both DSAI and the Tun may get to be in the limelight, DSAI might stand to benefit more.
This threat by DSAI to sue his former mentor has appeared in international news providers like Japan Today, Aljazeera.net, Gulf Daily News; locally it has only made it to Malaysiakini.
Maybe we should be patient and wait till Friday to see whether Anwar will carry out his threat to sue. According to Anwar's lawyer, on that day the letter of demand would be sent to the Tun. Maybe then the playing-deaf mainstream papers would finally pick up this piece of news.

| ¶ 9/21/2005 08:52:00 AM

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