In the news: Matters of "National Security"?

Umno seeks QC help to break Perak deadlock
By Leslie Lau, Consultant Editor, MalaysianInsider

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 – An Umno lawyer is understood to have been instructed by the Barisan Nasional (BN) party to seek advice from a Queen’s Counsel in London in an effort to break the constitutional impasse in Perak.
The lawyer is said to have left for London yesterday to meet with an unnamed QC even as the question over the legitimacy of the current MB Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir is already before the courts here. British lawyers are occasionally instructed in courts here but only when the expertise is not available locally.......

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Comment:
Dang! I thot QC wasn't too welcome under the "ketuanan melayu" ideology (especially since the time of "constitutionally Malay" leader some time back)!
After all these years, they couldn't find an ally among the best legal minds, good enough for their satisfaction?
Maybe they're disillusined with Shad Faruqi - and they realized after his recent U-Turn (on the "Interpretation act says that Sultan can fire the MB" statement), that he wouldn't want to appear the fool as a legal spinmeister much longer .....

Umno cannot find any spin doctor ally in Malaysia these days, meh?
"The usual suspects" won't do it?
Maybe they have some pride and are too smart not to notice a minefield and a lost cause?

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Manhunt for detainee facing death penalty

Feb 22, 09 11:26am

Malaysian police have launched a manhunt for a Singaporean detainee facing the death sentence, who escaped from custody in handcuffs while being escorted to court.

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Comment: I had a Dream - A little bird said, "Don't believe in press statements - They just need to "build a relationship" thru "cooperation". As they say. there is 'honour among cops'. It's a 'Singaporean Wayang Kulit' for gottsakes! .... It was a case of "Kugan"! Case closed!

P.S. At least they didn't have a body, and didn't say that the victim died after drinking water in the police station during interrogation .....
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