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Anwar-MH370 link: Why is PKR so jumpy?

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 11:13 PM PDT

On the day Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was reported missing, a Pakatan Rakyat MP tweeted that 'Malaysian Muslim terrorists' were responsible in downing or hijacking it. Lucky enough, another DAP MP did not accuse Umno and Barisan Nasional of orchestrating it!

In the media social, some pro-PR stooges were fast pointing their fingers at BN by posting unscrupulous remarks about the incident, some even thankful to God and others relating it to Anwar Ibrahim's court verdict.

And today, Anwar's PKR got jumpy over foreign reports that the MH370 pilot 'did that for protesting' against the Opposition Leader's 5-year jail sentence.
PETALING JAYA: PKR leaders have swiftly dismissed a British tabloid report which claimed MH370 flight captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah is a "political fanatic."
PKR communications director Fahmi Fadzil said the Daily Mail report was "wild allegations" and the paper "is a sensationalist tabloid known for cooking up stories."
"These allegations are wild speculation for the moment.
"If there is an concrete data backing up an allegation we will respond to it. If anyone aboard (the flight) chose to attend the Anwar trial that is their right as it was in open court.
"We do not want this to be used by unscrupulous parties as an avenue to attack PKR or Pakatan Rakyat component parties," he told The Star Online.
Fahmi hoped that the federal government would not use the opportunity to "label" Pakatan Rakyat leaders.
A British daily yesterday published a report on the MH370 crisis, linking it to the possibility that it was deliberately done to protest Anwar's jail sentence.
With the authorities settling on what amounts to air piracy, the Daily Mail is reporting a theory that the pilot of MH370 may have hijacked the plane as a political protest against Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's latest sodomy conviction.
The British tabloid revealed that hours before he took command of the Boeing 777-200ER (9M-MRO) bound for Beijing last Saturday, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah had gone to court on March 7 for the trial and sentencing of Anwar in the sodomy case.
The opposition leader was jailed for five years by the Court of Appeal which had overturned his High Court acquittal for sodomising a former aide in 2008.
The newspaper said police sources confirmed that the 53-year-old captain was a vocal political activist, and were probing into the probability that he would have been profoundly upset by the court ruling.
Why angry?

Some opposition leaders have been lambasting at the way the government managed the search and rescue (SAR) operations with about 16 countries amid understanding how difficult it is to locate a missing plane 'which neither go down the sea nor the land'.

Has the opposition organised any 'prayers' for the safety return of the plane and passengers? No... they were so busy focusing on Kajang by-election, neglecting the fact that the whole nation and some parts of the world are in agony over the plane incident.

And PKR, DAP and PAS cannot take a little pinch and criticism but know how to hit out hard at the government.

What did Anwar say about PM Najib's speech pertaining to the missing plane on Friday? Has PKR forgotten about it?
KAJANG: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim criticised Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak for not taking questions from the media following his first press conference on the missing MH370 yesterday afternoon.
"It is the first press conference by the Prime Minister but what took place was a speech delivered by him. No questions were allowed," said the PKR de facto leader while delivering an address in a forum targeted for Indians here in the run-up to the state seat by-election on March 23.
"He said maybe this, maybe that and questions would be addressed at 5.30pm but then there was no press conference at 5.30pm," he added.
Anwar has been consistent in his criticism on the manner the government has been handling the missing Malaysia Airlines search and rescue efforts and the ongoing investigations.
When Malaysia was hit by the Asian economic downturn in 1997-98, did Anwar answer questions as to why he preferred Malaysia to subscribe to the IMF and World Bank's financial package?

And where are Rafizi Ramli? Did he express his sympathy for families of the missing passengers and crew members? What about his other PKR colleagues?

A deliberate act... (hijacked?)

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 02:37 AM PDT

The key points from Prime Minister's statement on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370:

1. New data shows last confirmed location was Saturday, 8 March at 8.11AM which indicate how far the plane has flown.

2. Based on new satellite communication data, we can say with a high degree of certainty that the Aircraft Communications, Addressing and Reporting System or ACARS, was disabled just before the aircraft reached the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

3. Shortly aftewards, near the border between Malaysia and Vietnamese air traffic control, the aircraft transponder was switched off.

4. From this point onwards, the Royal Malaysian Air Force's primary radar showed that an aircraft, believed to be (but not confirmed to be) MH370, did indeed turn back.

5. It then flew back over Peninsular Malaysia, before turning northwest into the Straits of Malacca, up until the point at which it left military primary radar coverage.

6. The PM also said that plane movement was consistent with "deliberate action" by someone on the plane.

7. There will be refocused investigation into the crew and passengers on board.

8. Despite news reports that investigators concluded it was a hijacking, PM Najib said "I wish to be very clear we are still investigating all possibilities as to what caused MH370 to deviate from its original flight path." Hijacking is not ruled out, however.

9. Based on the direction in which the plane flew, the plane could have headed in one of two possible corridors:
- Northern corridor: border of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan to Northern Thailand.
- Southern corridor: From Indonesia to Southern Indian Ocean.

9. Operations in the South China Sea will be ended and deployment of assets will be reassessed.

10. Malaysia Airlines is informing families of the passengers of the new developments.

11. "The search has entered a new phase... We hope this new information will bring us one step closer to finding the plane."

As to who and why, there was still no answer.

Earlier, the Associated Press (AP) said a Malaysian investigation has concluded that one or more people with flying experience switched off communications devices and deliberately steered the airliner off-course.
The official called the disappearance a hijacking, though he said no motive has been established and no demands have been made known. It's not yet clear where the plane ended up, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media.
The official said a deliberate takeover of the plane was no longer a theory. "It is conclusive," he said, indicating that investigators were ruling out mechanical failure or pilot error in the disappearance.
He said evidence that led to the conclusion were signs that the plane's communications were switched off deliberately, data about the flight path and indications the plane was steered in a way to avoid detection by radar.
The Boeing 777's communication with the ground was severed just under one hour into a Malaysia Airlines flight March 8 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian officials previously have said radar data suggest it may have turned back toward and crossed over the Malaysian peninsula after setting out on a northeastern path toward the Chinese capital.
Earlier, an American official told The Associated Press that investigators are examining the possibility of "human intervention" in the plane's disappearance, adding it may have been "an act of piracy."
While other theories are still being examined, the U.S. official said key evidence suggesting human intervention is that contact with the Boeing 777's transponder stopped about a dozen minutes before a messaging system on the jet quit. Such a gap would be unlikely in the case of an in-flight catastrophe.
The Malaysian official said only a skilled aviator could navigate the plane the way it was flown after its last confirmed location over the South China Sea. The official said it had been established with a "more than 50 percent" degree of certainty that military radar had picked up the missing plane after it dropped off civilian radar.
Why anyone would want to do this is unclear. Malaysian authorities and others will be urgently investigating the backgrounds of the two pilots and 10 crew members, as well the 227 passengers on board.
Now that the search and rescue (SAR) operations in the South China Sea has been called off to censor the two new areas, more countries in the respective region are expected to give their cooperation to locate the plane.

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