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Monday, March 23, 2009

se7en days is a LONG time in politics...

RECENTLY, a long time ago, my favourite blogger -- I'm sure of many of my ER2! -- wrote that 14 days is a long time in politics, meaning that anything can happen, implying that Najib Tun Razak may be stopped in his tracks from becoming Prime Minister, confirming the wish of my bud Kim Quek that the DPM waiting feverishly in the wings on the PWTC Stage MUST BE STOPPED.

And we all know the only "issue" that can stop Najib is somehow linked to a lady named ALTANTUYA. Yes, the late Altantuya left behind more than one issue, and it's making Malaysians asking one question after another, and another ... you just repeat after Desi and you will understand why the next se7en dies is a long, long, long, long, long, long, long time. Yes, se7en is my favourite number, and it rhymes wit' heaven. Mitch Albom has an affinity with this fan's fave number2, and 2 hear stands for "too", you Ignoramus!

For more Ignoramus-esout there/dare, Desi has this theory to offer when one concerned Malaysian deemed me qualified to give my vain opinion: How is KQ's wish/mission to stop Najib ascending the CEO's throne -- the time bomb is ticking away...

AND THAT BLARDY "PHOTOGRAPH" of tea4three -- I can't write tea43, can I? -- caricatured by Sdr Tian Cua remains a prized caricature although highly esteemed sources like a court witness and Pete -- ah, RPK is Pete-lah to buds if you must know, busybodies, luckily not dead by virtue of C4! -- -- had elegantly hinted about.

NOW CAN SOMEBODY OUT HEAR -- withing hearing of Desi's distance -- just upload that picture if you have it in your mail/male box if you have the balls. Yes, using an English idiom the idiotic way, the ball is now in your court.

Meanwhile, have FUN-D, come to BUM2009 -- you can throw pies at RPK's (Pete's) handsome face. Even Desi's winsome wan, especally IF THOU HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPH! No,not of RPK and Desi at BUM2008 (REF: bum2008-desiderata.blogspot.com) or at BUM2007 (REF: bum2007.wordpress.com).

What is Desi saying about BUM2009, you Ignoramice oouch there dare aRsEk?

STAY TUNED...

I have ofTEN preached -- yes, ten also rimes wit' se7en and My Blue H'aven! -- Miss patience as being miss virtuous... ala like being a virgin like Madonna. You don wanna become pregnant and give forth more damning issue, or you do?
Let's re-visit one evening by the beah in Port Dickson wit' Ziana singing Hosanna in the HI-est desibelles even the angels come out from where devils fear to tread.

If you don undersatnd 30% of what I've writ, it's alright. I've got NO SATISFACTION, satusfying you,my dear; and I've run out of PuErh2! Bye, buy some heap stocks as I hear Daim Z is back in the market... This is jest a rumour, but in NegaraKu, rumour is GOoD humour, it buys thee points when ascending the stairway to heaven...Bonus is giften out on the way down...YL, Desi, knottyaSsusual:)

UPDATEd
@8.32PM, from malaysia-today.net:

Arms deal link to death of model

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/19505/84/
Posted by admin
Sunday, 22 March 2009 11:45


The scandal exploded last week after the French newspaper Libération alleged that the submarines deal and the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu, 28, were connected.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER


Michael Sheridan and Matthew Campbell, The Sunday Times

A FRENCH arms company is at the centre of a deepening scandal involving the sale of three submarines, the murder of a beautiful Mongolian interpreter and the man most likely to become prime minister of Malaysia next month.

All three have been linked in a sensational sequence of revelations that has convinced many Malaysians that the woman was killed to silence her demands of a share in the rewards of the transaction.

The scandal exploded last week after the French newspaper Libération alleged that the submarines deal and the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu, 28, were connected.

A glamorous, cosmopolitan woman, Altantuya grew up in St Petersburg, spoke Russian, Chinese, Korean and English, moved in elite circles and has been dubbed “a Far Eastern Mata Hari”.

She became the mistress of a Malaysian political fixer and was allegedly trying to extort money from him at the time of her violent demise.

Two members of an elite Malaysian police unit that protects top politicians are on trial in Kuala Lumpur, accused of shooting her in the jungle and then blowing up her body with military explosives.

Azilah Hadri, 32, and Sirul Azhar Umar, 36, officers in the Special Branch, could go to the gallows if convicted of abducting and murdering Altantuya on October 19, 2006. A verdict is expected early next month.

Their trial is unfolding as Najib Razak, the country’s deputy prime minister, stands on the verge of taking over as premier after a ruling-party leadership election, due within days.

Najib was accused by a young opposition MP, Gobind Singh Deo, in parliament, of involvement in the murder. Deo was suspended by the Speaker for making the remark. The deputy prime minister has strongly denied any involvement.

Testimony in an earlier court case has established an intimate personal and financial connection between the dead woman and a close aide to Najib, who was minister of defence at the time of the submarine deal.

The aide, Abdul Razak Baginda, was acquitted by a court last November of being an accessory in the murder. He has since been working on a doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford.

Baginda admitted that the dead woman was his mistress for about a year and prosecutors said she had pestered him for money after their break-up.

Just before her death she arrived in Kuala Lumpur, accompanied by a Mongolian shaman, who was to put a curse on Baginda if he did not pay up.

Altantuya was dragged away from outside Baginda’s home by two Special Branch officers, but he was acquitted after maintaining that he never gave orders for her to be harmed.

The Libération exposé linking the murder to the shadowy world of arms contracts has embarrassed the French war-ship firm DCNS. Armaris, a firm now merged with DCNS, sold the three submarines to Malaysia in 2002 for £937m.

Attention has centred on why Armaris paid £107m to a Malaysian company called Perimekar in 2006.

Opposition leaders alleged in parliament that the payment was a “commission” for intermediaries and that Perimekar was secretly owned by Baginda. Najib replied that it was not a “commission” and that Perimekar was a “project services provider”.

Libération has alleged that Altantuya, who toured France with Baginda in a Ferrari, wining and dining at expensive restaurants, learnt of the payment. It said she was demanding $500,000 (£345,000).

DCNS has refused to comment. It is already the subject of a French judicial investigation into corrupt practices, thanks to a whistleblower who has detailed bribery and industrial espionage allegations.

Last week, efforts to contact Baginda, a self-styled political analyst, at his new home in Oxford were unsuccessful.

Najib has avoided public comment but his politically influential wife, Rosmah Mansor, told the French news agency AFP that she was “shocked” by attempts to link her husband and her to the case.

Additional reporting: Alex Yong in Kuala Lumpur

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