Umno's link with militants?
BELOW is reproduced from an email
content being circulated by Malaysians:
UMNO
and the Abu Sayyaf Group
Sunday, 03 March 2013 19:18 posted by.... On Monday, 26
February 2007, the Parliament Select Committee heard the
testimonies of various people who had once been detained under Malaysia's draconian and dreaded Internal Security Act (ISA). These people, who used to walk in the corridors of power, were detained under the ISA because they once worked for the government and their government job was to 'import' an estimated
one million Muslims from the countries neighbouring Sabah and issue them with Malaysian identity cards so as to flood the state with Muslim voters. The specific purpose of this clandestine operation was to dilute the Christian voters in Sabah so that Umno could topple the Christian-dominated PBS government
of Pairin Kitingan. The testimonies of these ex-ISA detainees was of course not made public but Malaysia Today found out that their testimonies revealed a partnership that was established between Umno and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) of the Philippines. But
the partnership went terribly wrong when the Umno nominees who were entrusted with the job of paying off Umno's Abu Sayyaf partners never delivered the money.
To 'encourage' the very recalcitrant Umno to pay its extremely long outstanding debt, the Abu Sayyaf Group raided Sipadan and Pandanan islands off the coast of Sabah in 2000 and kidnapped 24 Malaysians and foreigners whom they held for ransom as 'security' for the debt.
Subsequently, Umno had no choice but to pay the money it owed the Abu Sayyaf Group to secure the release of the hostages. But that is not all. The Malaysian government denied it had paid the Abu Sayyaf Group any money to secure the release of the hostages. This was true of course because the money came from Libya, not from Malaysia. However, while Libya paid USD100 million, only USD23 million reached the Abu Sayyaf Group. What happened to the balance of USD77 million? Only one man, Aziz Shamsuddin, can reveal what happened to that money. In fact, earlier, Libya had given Umno USD38 million to pay the Abu Sayyaf Group their fees to bring in the one million new voters into Sabah -- who were
subsequently all issued with Malaysian identity cards and which eventually resulted in the defeat of PBS in March 1994 and the emergence of Umno thereafter. But this money too disappeared and Abu Sayyaf never received what they had been promised. So that makes roughly USD115 million in total that has disappeared.
Malaysia Today will trace the events and probe into what happened in 2000 and the role Umno played in securing the services of the Abu Sayyaf Group to kick out the PBS Christian government from Sabah and eventually bring the state under direct Umno control from Kuala Lumpur. And, with that, the federalisation of Sabah was complete and never again would the state be able to exercise its limited autonomy promised to the state when they opted to join the Federation of Malaysia together with Sarawak and Singapore.
testimonies of various people who had once been detained under Malaysia's draconian and dreaded Internal Security Act (ISA). These people, who used to walk in the corridors of power, were detained under the ISA because they once worked for the government and their government job was to 'import' an estimated
one million Muslims from the countries neighbouring Sabah and issue them with Malaysian identity cards so as to flood the state with Muslim voters. The specific purpose of this clandestine operation was to dilute the Christian voters in Sabah so that Umno could topple the Christian-dominated PBS government
of Pairin Kitingan. The testimonies of these ex-ISA detainees was of course not made public but Malaysia Today found out that their testimonies revealed a partnership that was established between Umno and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) of the Philippines. But
the partnership went terribly wrong when the Umno nominees who were entrusted with the job of paying off Umno's Abu Sayyaf partners never delivered the money.
To 'encourage' the very recalcitrant Umno to pay its extremely long outstanding debt, the Abu Sayyaf Group raided Sipadan and Pandanan islands off the coast of Sabah in 2000 and kidnapped 24 Malaysians and foreigners whom they held for ransom as 'security' for the debt.
Subsequently, Umno had no choice but to pay the money it owed the Abu Sayyaf Group to secure the release of the hostages. But that is not all. The Malaysian government denied it had paid the Abu Sayyaf Group any money to secure the release of the hostages. This was true of course because the money came from Libya, not from Malaysia. However, while Libya paid USD100 million, only USD23 million reached the Abu Sayyaf Group. What happened to the balance of USD77 million? Only one man, Aziz Shamsuddin, can reveal what happened to that money. In fact, earlier, Libya had given Umno USD38 million to pay the Abu Sayyaf Group their fees to bring in the one million new voters into Sabah -- who were
subsequently all issued with Malaysian identity cards and which eventually resulted in the defeat of PBS in March 1994 and the emergence of Umno thereafter. But this money too disappeared and Abu Sayyaf never received what they had been promised. So that makes roughly USD115 million in total that has disappeared.
Malaysia Today will trace the events and probe into what happened in 2000 and the role Umno played in securing the services of the Abu Sayyaf Group to kick out the PBS Christian government from Sabah and eventually bring the state under direct Umno control from Kuala Lumpur. And, with that, the federalisation of Sabah was complete and never again would the state be able to exercise its limited autonomy promised to the state when they opted to join the Federation of Malaysia together with Sarawak and Singapore.
