US embassy denies offer to help topple govt in 2014
Charge d’Affaires says his country has never sought to decide Malaysia's political leadership
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang claimed yesterday the party was offered assistance by the US to topple the government during a meeting at the US embassy.
PETALING JAYA: The US embassy has denied that it offered to help topple the government in 2014, following a claim by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.
Charge d’Affaires David H Gamble Jr said the US has never sought to decide Malaysia’s political leadership.
“Any account to the contrary is false,” he said in a statement.
At PAS’s muktamar yesterday, Hadi claimed that the party was offered assistance by the US to topple the government in 2014.
He said this took place at a meeting at the embassy during the visit of former US president Barack Obama, attended by several PAS leaders.
He said then PAS assistant secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan and Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, who was Hadi’s political secretary at the time, went to the embassy for the meeting.
However, Takiyuddin and Samsuri were not swayed by the offer and remained firm in rejecting it, he said.
Hadi also claimed that after the meeting, the US ambassador requested a separate meeting with him, which he attended with Mustafa Ali, then PAS secretary-general.
He said the ambassador asked him for the name of PAS’s proposed prime minister, to which he responded by saying, “Who does America agree with?”
Hadi said he recounted the incident to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who said it was “good”.
Barisan Nasional was ousted from Putrajaya in the 2018 general election, with the then opposition Pakatan Harapan’s campaign focused heavily on the 1MDB scandal and corruption allegations against then prime minister Najib Razak.
PH won the elections and Mahathir was subsequently sworn in as the prime minister.
Charge d’Affaires David H Gamble Jr said the US has never sought to decide Malaysia’s political leadership.
“Any account to the contrary is false,” he said in a statement.
At PAS’s muktamar yesterday, Hadi claimed that the party was offered assistance by the US to topple the government in 2014.
He said this took place at a meeting at the embassy during the visit of former US president Barack Obama, attended by several PAS leaders.
He said then PAS assistant secretary-general Takiyuddin Hassan and Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar, who was Hadi’s political secretary at the time, went to the embassy for the meeting.
However, Takiyuddin and Samsuri were not swayed by the offer and remained firm in rejecting it, he said.
Hadi also claimed that after the meeting, the US ambassador requested a separate meeting with him, which he attended with Mustafa Ali, then PAS secretary-general.
He said the ambassador asked him for the name of PAS’s proposed prime minister, to which he responded by saying, “Who does America agree with?”
Hadi said he recounted the incident to former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who said it was “good”.
Barisan Nasional was ousted from Putrajaya in the 2018 general election, with the then opposition Pakatan Harapan’s campaign focused heavily on the 1MDB scandal and corruption allegations against then prime minister Najib Razak.
PH won the elections and Mahathir was subsequently sworn in as the prime minister.
If you examine the bigger picture, it is not something out of the ordinary. Obama's role with respect to radical Islamic jihadis, the spread of Arab Spring, Ikhwan, IS, Russian equivalent to US A10 in assisting Syria of that period...lot's of things being exposed now.
ReplyDeletePAS, bring the receipt or ya a liar. Even that, it is about Islamic idea of conquering the world. The correct term slip my mind now. US Military already on their case.
But then again, chatters also point to British establishment the one that established the salafi idea several hundreds years ago, as ikhwan being a creation of the brits as well?
Que sera sera...things are being exposed.
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