Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has opened questions on who was behind the Oct. 18, 2006 murder of the Mongolian translator and party girl Altantuya Shaariibuu by two bodyguards of then-Defense Minister Najib Tun Razak. The killing is arguably the most notorious murder in recent Malaysian history.
Another question that has to be asked, however, is why Mahathir didn’t ask who killed the Mongolian beauty eight years and six months ago. It is tempting to suspect that Mahathir, who asked the questions on his blog chedet.cc on April 2, knows the answer. In the wake of the killing, top political circles in Malaysia were throbbing with rumors, especially over the fact that Altantuya was pregnant and that her body may have been blown up with military explosives to destroy the DNA of the person who made her that way. Those rumors have long suggested that someone close to Najib had ordered her killed.
Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, then members of the elite Police Special Action Force, were convicted in April of 2009 of having dragged the then 28-year-old expectant mother out of a car in a patch of jungle near the suburban city of Shah Alam and shot her in the head twice as she begged for her life, then blew her apart.
It is also tempting to suspect that the 89-year-old Mahathir is asking questions now not out of concern for who killed her but because he has taken off the gloves out of frustration in his drive to rid the country of Najib as prime minister. It was Mahathir, three years after Altantuya’s death, who engineered the ouster of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and installed Najib in his place as the country’s leader. Full story...
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Another question that has to be asked, however, is why Mahathir didn’t ask who killed the Mongolian beauty eight years and six months ago. It is tempting to suspect that Mahathir, who asked the questions on his blog chedet.cc on April 2, knows the answer. In the wake of the killing, top political circles in Malaysia were throbbing with rumors, especially over the fact that Altantuya was pregnant and that her body may have been blown up with military explosives to destroy the DNA of the person who made her that way. Those rumors have long suggested that someone close to Najib had ordered her killed.
Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri and Corporal Sirul Azhar Umar, then members of the elite Police Special Action Force, were convicted in April of 2009 of having dragged the then 28-year-old expectant mother out of a car in a patch of jungle near the suburban city of Shah Alam and shot her in the head twice as she begged for her life, then blew her apart.
It is also tempting to suspect that the 89-year-old Mahathir is asking questions now not out of concern for who killed her but because he has taken off the gloves out of frustration in his drive to rid the country of Najib as prime minister. It was Mahathir, three years after Altantuya’s death, who engineered the ouster of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and installed Najib in his place as the country’s leader. Full story...
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