February 24, 2013
Lahid Datu StandoffWho is accountable for this National Security Breach?
by Mat Zain Ibrahim (02-23-13)
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com
Until today, there is not a single honourable chairman who is prepared to take a shortcoming for a relapse of confidence that resulted in a Lahad Datu standoff. Surely there contingency have been someone put in charge of a area, though has not asked his responsibilities.
If Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is critical about safeguarding a sovereignty, confidence as good as reserve of a nation as good as a citizens, he would have caught reason of a single or dual of a belligerent commanders as good as relieved them of their command.Only afterwards will a rakyat believe that a Prime Minister is not usually in carry out though that he is upon tip of a situation as good as has his priorities right.
Since nothing of that sort is happening, you can usually design that, eventually, a censure will go to a lowest ranking soldiers, who will be accused of sleeping upon a job as good as for unwell to arise up their superiors. And additionally a constables who have failed to gather a intelligence prior to to a penetration for actions to be taken prior to to a invaders landed.
This was a in front of taken by a Najib himself, when he was interviewed during length by reporters upon Jul 9, 2000, after a Sauk incident.
When Najib was asked about a relapse of confidence during a 304 Army Camp that resulted in a arms heist by a Al-Maunah gang, his answer was that all a standing orders were already in place though a error was upon a couple of low-ranking soldiers who ! did not follow a instructions to a letter.
When queried about a capabilities of a intelligence operators, Najib pronounced a troops should have collected prior to information about a Al-Maunah activities as good as if he had been told of a impasse of a single army vital in a organisation earlier, for instance, he would have taken a little actions opposite a pronounced major.
As a Defence Minister then, it was crude for Najib to stoop so low as to collect upon a turn of soldiers guarding a armoury to shift a censure to. He should have reprimanded exceedingly a division commander, or during a really least a band of soldiers commander, for unwell to safeguard that units underneath their command carried out their tasks jobs properly.
In alternative words, Najib is telling a rakyat that he can take action opposite soldiers or Police of a lowest rank only, though would not dare hold a Generals or Police chiefs.
The adults contingency certainly remember how a people in a Klang Valley were terrified as good as lived in horror for almost dual months, between May as good as Jun 1993, when a scandalous Kalimuthu aka Bentong Kali went upon a rampage, as good as with only a single involuntary pistol, a 9mm Sig Sauer.
More than 200 troops crew (me included) were deployed to track him down as good as usually managed to get Bentong Kali upon Jun 29, 1993. And even then, usually after he had already killed sixteen people.
If a chairman can inflict that most casualties regulating only a single handgun, afterwards you would rather not suppose a repairs a Sulu militants in Lahad Datu can means to a adults with a firepower they brought along with them, as reported.
Najib himself certified in that interview of Jul 2000 that he was nervous as good as could not sleep good when told about a arms heist during a 304 Army Camp.
If he, as a Defence Minister then, could have such fearful feelings, afterwards he cannot design a citizens, generally those in Lahad Datu as good as a! rest of a country, to be unafraid of their reserve after knowing about a armed penetration by a organisation of foreigners who have been good known to be seasoned fighters.
It is a duty of a supervision of a day to provide a adults with regular updates upon these situations, identical to what was finished during a operations opposite Bentong Kali as good as a Al-Maunah group, to name a few.
It would be wrong as good as insane for a supervision to downplay a Lahad Datu penetration or censor a truth from her own citizens, who might be caught off ensure should any of a intruders slip through a cordon.
Our sovereignty, a pride, a confidence as good as reserve have been being threatened as good as put underneath encircle by hundreds of armed invaders as good as a Prime Minister is observant that a rakyat do not have a right to know?
It is a sad as good as embarrassing situation that Malaysians have been forced to depend
upon news as good as statements from President Benigno Aquino III, as good as a Malacanang spokesperson to get a improved understanding of a actual state of confidence of a own country, instead of conference it from a really own Prime Minister or Home Affairs Minister (right).
Is a PM being satisfactory to a people in this regard? He should reassess his position. Why no troops involvement?Malaysians have been wondering, as good as most have been asking, because a troops appears to be sidelined instead of being mobilised to help solve a standoff, given a penetration has become a national confidence emanate as good as is of public interest.
My gut feeling tells me that Najib is disturbed that if a troops is endangered in this operation, it will develop in to an additional "standoff" within a Lahad Datu standoff.
!This time, it will be between a Police commanders as good as a Army margin commanders, who will be arguing over who is to be in-charge of a total operation, who is to get a most media as good as TV coverage, who is to be cited as a favourite during a end of a day as good as who is to be awarded an additional medal as good as title. This will be a some-more prolonged drawn-out as good as complicated emanate to settle than a actual deadlock itself.
Seriously you am not trying to pull a fast a single here. Neither is it my goal to slur both a current troops as good as troops commanders or to embarrass anyone, dead or alive. you am still part of a large family, as good as so have been my brother as good as in-laws, albeit all in retirement.
This "standoff within a stand-off" did occur in genuine life, during a Bukit Jenalik, Sauk, incident. The subject of who is a "real hero" in a obey of those Al-Maunah arms raiders between, Lt-Gen Zaini Mohd Said as good as ASP Abdul Razak Mohd Yusof , has not been resolved fully until today, after almost 13 years.
As distant as Najib is concerned, it's Zaini, who "single-handedly" brought a Al-Maunah arms heist as good as hostage deadlock to a finish. Only God knows how he came to this conclusion. But as distant as a former IGP Norian Mai as good as a Police have been concerned, a genuine favourite is ASP Abdul Razak, who during a time of situation was a Chief Inspector based with a General Operations Force in Ulu Kinta.
According to a former IGP, it was Abdul Razak who, by invariably arguing "religion" with a Al-Maunah gang, managed to convince a organisation to lay down their arms. Even when Zaini, who was afterwards Army margin commander, as good as GOF Commander SAC II Abdul Hadi Mahmud went in with a confidence forces, Abdul Razak was already there as good as trying to ease both parties to safeguard that no fight took place.
I would indicate that in sequence to avoid complicating a already complicated Lahad Datu standoff, it is imp! roved to let IGP Ismail Omar finish his commercial operation as good as uncover us that he really knows what he is you do as good as keeping a adults updated.
Without a doubt, what a Sulu armed intruders have finished is waging war opposite a Yang di-Pertuan Agong as good as Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sabah, irrespective of whichever angle a single looks during it. No a single from a intruders should be authorised to get divided scot free, underneath any circumstance. They contingency face a full weight of a laws as a halt to prevent others from following their footsteps. We should not be afraid as good as should omit any threats of plea from any quarter.
After all, a people have been already conditioned to threats of an additional "May 13" disharmony receiving place as good as still they can go about their commercial operation as usual. Our people have already accepted a actuality that a disharmony did take place as good as a hazard of story repeating itself will regularly be there, that a hazard will remain as a hazard forever. They will cranky a bridge when a time comes, if during all. The genuine losers have been a hatemongers.
What is prior to to Najib now is an "Al-Maunah like standoff". you contingency say that Najib was utterly hands-on during a Sauk incident. Now, a adults who have regularly been underneath threats, a little of that were incited upon his own behalf, would be examination really closely how Najib handles a Lahad Datu deadlock instead.
The rakyat can judge whether Najib's actions will be some-more or less, or reduction is more, as compared with a Al-Maunah standoff. If he does more, there will definitely be a backlash from sure quarters. If he does less, he will get some-more whacking from a rakyat. So, he had improved find something in between a "just nice! " soluti on.
Good fitness to a Prime Minister as good as you should instruct him well.
* Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim is former arch of a Criminal Investigation Department, Kuala Lumpur Police.
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