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Kemalangan: Nizar ditahan di Hospital Raja Perempuan Bainun

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IPOH, 7 Jan: Menteri Besar Pakatan Rakyat Perak, Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin sedang ditahan di Wad 8C Hospital Raja Perempuan Bainun setelah terlibat dengan kemalangan jalan raya di hadapan Hotel Cassuarina, di sini pagi ini. Menurut pembantu peribadinya, Amran Harun, semasa kejadian, Nizar yang memandu sendiri cuba mengelak sebuah kereta yang keluar dari simpang dan terbabas lalu melanggar pembahagi jalan. Katanya, Ahli Parlimen Bukit Gantang itu hanya mengalami luka-luka di bahagian siku kanan walaupun kenderaannya rosak teruk. Sementara itu, Berita Harian online melaporkan Nizar cedera selepas kereta dipandunya terbalik dengan empat tayar ke atas akibat kemalangan jalan raya di Ipoh pada 9.30 pagi tadi dan kini dirawat di Hospital Ipoh.

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Jet engines: Zahid rejects calls for Royal Commission | Print | E-mail Wong Choon Mei KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7: Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has rejected calls to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into a jet- engines debacle despite mounting public indignation at home and swirling speculation in international circles that Malaysia may be trying to cover up military sales to Iran. "I am satisfied with the Attorney-General's action and investigations into the case," Zahid told reporters when asked for comments about the government's decision to prosecute two men for the theft of two jet engines used in F5E fighter jets (pic). On Wednesday, the public prosecutor had charged an air force sergeant for stealing the General Electric J85-21A turbo engines and a company director for selling them. A bail of RM150,000 was slapped on each man, but that has not stopped the wave of criticism that the Umno-BN government was under-probing the case. Both the RMAF sergeant and the company director have obscure backgrounds and neither of them influential. “The real story has not emerged yet. These are just the puppets, the small fry. What everyone wants to know is who master-minded the theft and was it really a theft,” Dr Syed Azman Syed Ahmad, head of PAS international bureau, told Harakahdaily on Thursday. Questions remain Zahid also added to an already long string of conflicting statements issued by the police and other government agencies when he insisted that each engine was worth between RM9 million and RM20 million, and not RM50 million as was widely reported in the press. Indeed, so far, more doubt has been cast rather cleared in this shocking case, bolstering calls for a full-scale Royal Commission of Inquiry. Last year, Malaysia fell nine spots to 56th place in Transparency International's closely-followed corruption index. Where were the RMAF’s internal controls, checks and balances? Who were sleeping on the job, why shouldn’t they be sacked? Who is to reimburse taxpayers their RM100 million? These are just some of the key questions bouncing in the public domain. But neither Zahid nor the cabinet have been able to provide satisfactory answers yet. International angle Speculation is also high that the engines may not have been stolen after all but sold by people in authority. The engines went missing whilst being taken for routine maintenance from an air base in Butterworth to another in Kuala Lumpur. Opposition leaders have warned Prime Minister Najib Razak that Malaysia will become a laughing in the international arena if he did not do more to show that he was serious about getting to the bottom of the case. This was not just petty theft but a serious breach of national security, they chided. “Already, speculation is high in the diplomatic circles that Malaysia may have sold the engines to Iran and is now trying to pass off the incident as a theft so as not to anger the United States,” Syed Azman had said in a previous interview. “There is even talk of a back-to-back deal with US. If the Malaysian government was not involved in any wrongdoing, then it should show that it is serious about getting to the bottom of this. Arresting one sergeant and one businessman is not enough.” ------------------ Pemuda PAS jumpa Paderi, tidak berdemo Harakahdaily KUALA LUMPUR, 7 Jan: Ketika Pemuda Umno dan Ngo yang menyokongnya mahu mengadakan demo, Pemuda PAS telah menghantar satu surat semalam dan mahu mengadakan pertemuan serta dialog bersama Ketua Paderi Roman Katolik Kuala Lumpur, Tan Sri Murphy Nicholas Xavier Pakiam dalam tempoh terdekat ini berhubung isu nama Allah. Surat itu dihantar oleh Ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah (DPPWP), Kamaruzaman Mohamad (gambar). Pemuda Umno bersama beberapa Ngo telah merancang untuk mengadakan demo bagi membantah keputusan mahkamah itu. Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Hishamudin Hussein pula dalam langkah yang mengejutkan telah membenarkan demo itu diadakan walaupun jelas demo itu akan memanaskan hubungan antara agama dan kaum di negara ini. Dalam satu kenyataan medianya, Kamaruzaman berkata, Pemuda PAS Wilayah tidak berhasrat untuk menyertai atau mengadakan apa-apa demontrasi berhubung isu nama Allah pada masa ini demi mengelakkan ketegangan antara agama yang berlaku menjadi lebih serius. "DPPWP melihat pertemuan sebegini adalah ruang yang lebih positif bagi membincang dan menyampaikan hasrat umat Islam berhubung isu yang sensitif ini secara matang," katanya. Menurutnya, ruang diplomasi masih ada dan pihaknya menolak sebarang tindakan agreasif bersifat provokasi yang boleh memburukan lagi keadaan ini. "DPPWP menyokong keputusan PAS Pusat supaya perkara ini dibincang dengan mengambil kira sensitiviti rakyat keseluruhannya," katanya. DPPWP juga bercadang untuk menjemput beberapa pimpinan lain untuk turut serta selepas pihak mereka memberikan jawapan berhubung hasrat pertemuan ini. "Kita amat berharap agar pihak mereka menerima tawaran dialog ini demi kebaikan rakyat keseluruhannya," katanya. DPPWP juga berharap agar umat Islam dapat bertenang dan tidak mengambil sebarang tindakan yang boleh memburukkan imej Islam. (Berita2 ini diambil dari Harakiah Daily, 7 Januari 2010)