BEGINIKAH KITA MEMBALAS BUDI JASA SEORANG PARAJURIT?

Apakah ini cara negara membalas budi jasa seorang parajurit yang telah berkhidmat untuk negara dan yang telah sedia berkorban nyawa mempertahankan ibu pertiwi?

Bacalah cerita malang Othman Naim yang tersiar dalam NST 18, July. Apa komen saudara?

Men in balaclavas

In another part of the world.

Somewhere nearby...

Anwar arrested!

Anwar arrested for sodomy

KUALA LUMPUR, July 16 - Police have arrested opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for sodomy under Section 377 of the Penal Code, lawyer Sivarasa Rasiah said.

Proton gets flak over Harley’s buy of MV Agusta for RM360m

KUALA LUMPUR, July 15 — American motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson has, according to the Associated Press, agreed to buy MV Agusta for US$109 million (RM360 million), in sharp contrast to the one euro Italian company Gevi paid when it bought the Italian bike-maker from Proton Holdings in 2006.

Harley-Davidson said in a statement out of Milwaukee last Friday that it was likely to seal the deal in weeks but the news is likely to unleash a firestorm of criticism against Proton, which was savagely assailed for the 2006 sale by no less a person than former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who conceived Proton back in 1984, according to the Singapore Business Times.

More here

DAP denies attending rally meeting

KUALA LUMPUR: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and vice-chairman Dr Tan Seng Giaw denied attending a meeting with Pakatan Rakyat leaders on July 9 on the alleged Monday rally.

DAP has called for a retraction from Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar who said Monday that the meeting was attended by various leaders, including Kit Siang, Guan Eng, Dr Tan and PAS treasurer Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli.
DAP claims there was no such meeting among the Pakatan top leadership.

Kit Siang added that there should be a public inquiry into the massive road blocks on Monday.
He also called for Syed Hamid to resign if he failed to provide an explanation for the massive jams on Monday.

Syed Hamid's reply..... " I'll apologise only if they ask nicely"
Source : The Star
========================

Minister: Police action justified
Source : The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: The police action of putting up roadblocks in the city for three days is justifiable based on the intelligence gathered, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Syed Albar. He told a press conference at his office in Parliament yesterday that the information included blog postings and the SMS sent out inviting people to gather at Parliament yesterday.

“The blogs calling for people to turn up were 1426.blogspot.com and zul4kulim.blogspot.com,” he revealed. Syed Hamid said intelligence was also gathered from a July 9 meeting chaired by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. at the PKR headquarters. “Anwar said at the meeting that some BN MPs would give support to PKR (on the no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister) and he would then lead the demonstration at Parliament,” he added.

Syed Hamid said the meeting was attended by various leaders, including DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, DAP vice-chairman Dr Tan Seng Giaw and PAS treasurer Dr Mohd Hatta Ramli.

Syed Hamid apologises, says roadblocks for security

Control Freak of the Year Award

It's close call between Syed Hamid Albar and KL Police Chief Muhammad Sabtu Osman

Syed Hamid has proof of planned protest.

PARLIAMENT, July 14 - Despite protests from the opposition that they were not planning any demonstrations, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar today claimed the authorities have intelligence pointing to an assembly organised by the Pakatan Rakyat at the Parliament.
"We cannot compromise our intelligence network. This information also comes from their people. Now if they ask who these people are, of course we won't reveal," Syed Hamid told reporters . Full story here

Road blocks may go on
KUALA LUMPUR, July 14 – On the day that thousands of workers got to their offices late because road blocks all over the city had reduced traffic to a total standstill, the police are saying that road blocks just may go on as they are a necessity and "successfully prevented any illegal activities from taking place".
At a press conference in the KL Police Contingent headquarters in Jalan Hang Tuah today, Kuala Lumpur Police Chief Datuk Wira Muhammad Sabtu Osman reiterated that police road blocks have proven to be an effective method in helping to curtail anti government activities which could threaten national security. Full story at the Malaysian Insider.

Where is ?