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MH370 Malaysia Airlines: Anwar Ibrahim says government purposefully concealing information

Malaysia's sophisticated radar system would have immediately detected Flight MH370 as it crossed the country's mainland after changing course and should have alerted the air force, Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, has claimed

By Barney Henderson

8:30PM BST 03 Apr 2014

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Malaysia's government is deliberately concealing information that would help to explain what happened to missing Flight MH370, the country'sopposition leaderhas claimed.

In a wide-ranging interview that cast doubt on the official investigation into the disappearance of the plane, Anwar Ibrahim said the country's "sophisticated" radar system would have identified it after it changed course and crossed back over Malaysia.

Mr Anwar, who personally knew the pilot of the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing in the early hours of March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, called for an international committee to take over the Malaysian-led operation because "the integrity of the whole nation is at stake".

He indicated that it was even possible that there was complicity by authorities on the ground in what happened to the plane and the 239 people on board.

[SUP][SUB]RAAF Warrant Officer Wright looks from a RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft during the search for flight MH370 (Australian Defence Force)[/SUB][/SUP]

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In an interview with The Telegraph, he said that he had personally authorised the installation of "one of the most sophisticated radar" systems in the world, based near the South China Sea and covering Malaysia's mainland and east and west coastlines, when he was the country's finance minister in 1994.
It was "not only unacceptable but not possible, not feasible" that the plane had not been sighted by the Marconi radar system immediately after it changed course. The radar, he said, would have instantly detected the Boeing 777 as it travelled east to west across "at least four" Malaysian provinces.
Mr Anwar said it was "baffling" that the country's air force had "remained silent", and claimed that it "should take three minutes under SOP (standard operating procedure) for the air force planes to go. And there was no response."
He added: "We don't have the sophistication of the United States or Britain but still we have the capacity to protect our borders."
It was "clearly baffling", he said, to suggest that radar operators had been unable to observe the plane's progress.
[SUP][SUB]A Malaysian soldier at Kuala Lumpur International Airport reads messages about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane (AP)[/SUB][/SUP]
He said the families of the 153 Chinese victims on board were right to demand information from the Malaysian government, which had permitted a multi-national search operation to spend a week searching in what it must have known was the wrong place.
"Why didn't we alert the Chinese, the Vietnamese that the operation should cease in the South China Sea and let them spend millions on search and rescue in a place that they know fairly well cannot be the site of the plane?"
As hope fades of recovering the plane's black box before its batteries start to fail which could be as early as Monday - Mr Anwar said it was "at the least, incompetence" on the part of the Malaysian government that it is still not known what happened to the plane, but there was also a deliberate "intention to suppress key information".

"Unfortunately the manner in which this was handled after the first few days was clearly suspect," he said. "One fact remains. Clearly information critical to our understanding is deemed missing.
"I believe the government knows more than us. They have the authority to instruct the air force … or Malaysia Airlines. They are privy to most of these missing bits of information critical to our understanding of this mysterious disappearance of MH370."
Mr Anwar indicated that it was a possibility that officials on the ground were complicit in what happened on the plane.
However, he later added that "the realm of possibilities is so vague, I mean, anything can have happened", adding: "Whether they (the authorities) are complicit in a terrorist act, I'm not in a position to comment."
A source close to the government claimed that Mr Anwar was attempting to exploit the tragedy for political gain.
"The international media response, completely condemning Malaysia, is unfair. It's been partly orchestrated by Malaysia's opposition," the source said.
"The government has a duty to the families not to release uncorroborated information that leads to false hope or wild goose chases which hamper the investigation. At every step, international investigation protocols have been followed.
"The situation is unprecedented. And the search has actually been handled well. The government is coordinating an enormous operation, and both the commanders on the ground and all the international investigators involved have been complimentary about Malaysia's efforts."
[SUP]Relatives of Chinese passengers onboard the Malaysia Airlines MH370 stand near messages of well wishes (AP)[/SUP]
"Far from avoiding questions or withholding information, since day one the Malaysian authorities, including ministers, military chiefs, the department for civil aviation and Malaysia Airlines have made themselves available to the media daily. As soon as information has been corroborated, it has been released."
Malaysian authorities did not respond officially to requests for comment on Mr Anwar's accusations, but have previously accused him of politicising the crisis.
Efforts to recover the plane in the southern Indian Ocean, more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Perth, continued on Thursday night over a search area roughly the size of Poland. A British Trafalgar-class nuclear submarine is helping to hunt for wreckage, including the black box before it stops emitting pings.
[SUP]A member of the Australian team continues the search in the Indian Ocean (EPA)[/SUP]
Mr Anwar, 66, was once deputy prime minister in Malaysia's ruling coalition, which has governed the country since independence from Britain in 1957.
However, after falling out with the country's leaders, he was charged with sodomy, imprisoned twice and beaten in custody. He now leads a pro-democracy coalition of parties that lost last year's election despite winning over 50 per cent of the popular vote amid allegations of widespread corruption by the government.
Mr Anwar was convicted for sodomy, an offence under Malaysian law, for the third time just hours before the flight went missing and is currently on bail pending appeal. He claimed that the government moved his court date to stop him standing in provincial elections.
Investigators and media have focused on the plane's pilot, Capt Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a passionate supporter of Mr Anwar's pro-democracy opposition coalition, despite there being no evidence against him.
Reports have claimed that Capt Zaharie was a "fanatic" who could have hijacked the plane in despair at the latest setback to the opposition leader.
[SUP][SUB]A graphic showing the north-westerly view of the search area (Geoscience Australia, Dr Beaman, James Cook University)[/SUB][/SUP]
However, both Mr Anwar and Capt Zaharie's family have strongly denied any such possibility.
"After personally having been subjected to such unjust accusations, I strongly feel that you should not cast aspersions against people until you have evidence to support it," he said.
"If you say or suggest that the pilot may have been involved, what about the concealing (of information)? He could not have concealed the radar readings. He could not have instructed the air force to remain completely silent. Or the prime minister to remain completely silent. The investigations have got to be far-reaching and open."
Describing him as an "ardent supporter", Mr Anwar said he had had several exchanges with Capt Zaharie and that he "was nice, smart, articulate but there was clearly a strong passion for justice. He is known to be very attached to the family, a family man.
[SUP]Mr Anwar (AFP)[/SUP]
"To condemn a person because he is a supporter of democracy is totally unjustified. Having said that, there's nothing stopping the police or the authorities from conducting an open and fair investigation into anybody including the radar operators, the defence minister why are they concealing this information?"
The disappearance of MH370 has placed the Malaysian government under unprecedented international scrutiny, with persistent criticism that the release of official information has been both inaccurate and inconsistent.
Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysia's defence and transport minister was criticised on Thursday for claiming that MH370's disappearance was a "blessing in disguise" because its loss meant he now "understood the beauty of unity, the sweetness of having each other".
Mr Anwar said that "to save the image of the country and to save the country", an international committee should be established consisting of representatives of countries whose nationals were among the passengers, who included Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysians and Australians.

Quote:The disappearance of MH370 has placed the Malaysian government under unprecedented international scrutiny, with persistent criticism that the release of official information has been both inaccurate and inconsistent.

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Quote:The disappearance of MH370 has placed the Malaysian government under unprecedented international scrutiny, with persistent criticism that the release of official information has been both inaccurate and inconsistent.

Once again, this might be a key. The current Malay regime is the target of this increasingly possible black op.

Russia "Puzzled" Over Malaysia Airlines "Capture" By US Navy

MH370 Mystery Suspicious Cargo & Death of 2 Ex-Navy Seals aboard MV Maersk Alabama

UPDATE :Suspicious Cargo Destroyed in a Massive Explosion near 1945 Nuclear Bomb Test Site

A new report circulating the Kremlin prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) states that Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) experts remain "puzzled" as to why the United States Navy "captured and then diverted" a Malaysia Airlines civilian aircraft from its intended flight-path to their vast and highly-secretive Indian Ocean base located on the Diego Garcia atoll.

The military base in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean is of great importance to the British. Diego Garcia has a long history of hosting B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers and their supporting tanker aircraft, for operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brief History of Diego Garcia

In January of 1985, during his visit to New Delhi, Henry Kissinger declared that he now considered India the most crucial power in South Asia and one that is crucial to American national security.It was under the policy umbrella of the "China Card," an alleged U.S. strategic alliance with China against the Soviet Union for which Washington was prepared to pay any price, that Soviet agent-of-influence Kissinger launched the U.S. policy of strategic withdrawal from American allies in Asia. An "[B]India Card" was to function in much the same way.[/B]
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British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) of Diego Garcia

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[B]The content of this policy was laid out in the spring 1986 issue of Foreign Policy journal. In the issue, alongside the article penned by economist [B]Francine Frankel "Play the India Card" is an overall perspective for U.S. policy toward the region by Carnegie Endowment fellow Selig Harrison. Harrison's outline begs the Question : With friends such as these, who needs enemies?[/B][/B]
[B]For Harrison, the India card is but one step in a process that is to bring about [B]a joint agreement between Moscow and the United States, for dominion over the strategically crucial region of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.[/B][/B]
[B]Harrison's article is unambiguously titled [B]"Cut a Regional Deal." Beginning with the necessity of the United States to recognize India as a naval power in the Indian Ocean, Harrison lays out a twisted logic of deals laid upon deals by which the New Yalta is to be imposed on the Indian subcontinent.[/B][/B]
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Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia

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[B]The first phase is what Harrison calls "[B]a detached American posture toward South Asia." Under this idea, the United States would recognize India's preeminence in the region, but "India should be prepared to provide a quid pro quo in the form of unambiguous recognition of the legitimacy of the U.S. naval presence in the Indian Ocean"-specifically the U.S. naval base at Diego Garcia.[/B][/B]
[B]Today, the United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon under the [B]The U.S. Navy's 2005Natural Resources Management Plan for the Naval Facilities of Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory.[/B][/B]
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger is Christopher Hitchens' examination of the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later United States Secretary of State for Presidents Richard Nixon and President Gerald Ford. Acting in the role of the prosecution, Hitchens presents evidence of Kissinger's complicity in a series of alleged war crimes in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus and East Timor

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[B][B]Kissinger faces legal trouble over his part in the ethnic cleansing of the British colonial island of Diego Garcia in the early 1970s, when indigenous inhabitants were displaced to make room for a United States military base.[/B][/B]
[B]Lawyers for the Chagos Islanders have already won a judgment in the British courts on this matter, which now moves to a hearing in the United States. The torts cited are [B]"forced relocation, torture, and genocide."[/B][/B]
[B][B]The Debate Over the Base and the Island's Former Inhabitants[/B][/B]
[B]For more on this watch [B]STEALING A NATION (by John Pilger, 2004) an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base. The base, on the main island of Diego Garcia, was a launch pad for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.[/B][/B]
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Now coming back to our report, it is interesting to note that it says that Flight 370 was already under [B]GRU "surveillance" after it received a "highly suspicious" cargo load that had been traced to the Indian Ocean nationRepublic of Seychelles, and where it had previously been aboard the US-flagged container ship MV Maersk Alabama.

What first aroused GRU suspicions regarding the MV Maersk Alabama, this report continues, was that within 24-hours of off-loading this "highly suspicious" cargo load bound for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, the two highly-trained US Navy Seals assigned to protect it, Mark Daniel Kennedy, 43, and Jeffrey Keith Reynolds, 44, were found dead under "suspicious circumstances."
2 ex-Navy SEALs on Maersk Alabama died of respiratory failure, police say

Mark Daniel Kennedy

Jeffrey Reynolds

Both Kennedy and Reynolds, this report says, were employed by the Virginia Beach, Virginia-based maritime security firm The Trident Group which was founded by US Navy Special Operations Personnel (SEAL's) and Senior US Naval Surface Warfare Officers and has long been known by the GRU to protect vital transfers of both atomic and biological materials throughout the world.
[ Interestingly this happens after just 4 months when an American ship was apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard for unauthorized presence in India's territorial waters raising concerns over such floating armories that could lead to another26/11 type attacks.
On October 12, 2013 an American vessel MV Seaman Guard Ohio, belonging to the US firm AdvanFort, was apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard for unauthorized presence in India's territorial waters. The vessel was being replenished with 1600 liters of high speed diesel by an Indian fishing trawler. The vessel with 35 members (10 crew and 25 security guards) in contravention of law, carried 35 assault rifles and 5680 rounds of ammunition. The crew and the guards were of various nationalities, i.e. Estonians, British, Ukrainian and Indian. All the 35 members were arrested for illegally carrying arms in India's water and lodged at Palayamkottai Central Jail in Tamil Nadu. Even though there was no US citizen on the vessel, three officials from the US Consulate General at Chennai visited them the very next day. The US authorities maintained that the vessel was engaged in anti-piracy operations for protection of American merchant vessels, and were well beyond the Indian maritime territorial limit of 12 nm.
The ship caught was run by AdvanFort that officially is a private maritime security company but actually is a front forNaval Intelligence. All caught on board were ex-Naval Intelligence Officers. AdvanFort is already complicit in it's dubious activities in Nigeria and other ports. Atleast one on the advisory board Charles Dragonette is a retired analyst for the Office of Naval Intelligence.
There is a major multi-billion dollar Crude Oil, Petrol, Diesel, Kerosene racket on the high seas, where entire massive vessels are involved, from which smaller vessels offload the material and deliver the material to Bombay for further distribution. This was the same protected route that was followed by the terrorists who hit Bombay on 26/11. The journalist J Dey was exposing this very smuggling racket when he was shot dead by gunmen. ]
Upon GRU "assests" confirming that this "highly suspicious" cargo was aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 on 8 March, this report notes, Moscow notified China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) of their concerns and received "assurances" that "all measures" would be taken as to ascertain what was being kept so hidden when this aircraft entered into their airspace.
However, this report says, and as yet for still unknown reasons, the MSS was preparing to divert Flight 370 from its scheduled destination of Beijing to Haikou Meilan International Airport (HAK) located in Hainan Province (aka Hainan Island).
Prior to entering the People Liberation Army (PLA) protected zones of the South China Sea known as the Spratly Islands, this report continues, Flight 370 "significantly deviated" from its flight course and was tracked by VKO satellites and radar flying into the Indian Ocean region and completing its nearly 3,447 kilometer (2,142 miles) flight to Diego Garcia.

Critical to note about Flight 370's flight deviation, GRU experts in this report say, was that it occurred during the same time period that all of the Spratly Island mobile phone communications operated by China Mobile were being jammed.
China Mobile, it should be noted, extended phone coverage in the Spratly Islands in 2011 so that PLA soldiers stationed on the islands, fishermen, and merchant vessels within the area would be able to use mobile services, and can also provide assistance during storms and sea rescues.
As to how the US Navy was able to divert Flight 370 to its Diego Garcia base, this report says, appears to have been accomplished remotely as this Boeing 777-200ER aircraft is equipped with a fly-by-wire (FBW) system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface allowing it to be controlled like any drone-type aircraft.
However, this report notes, though this aircraft can be controlled remotely, the same cannot be said of its communication systems which can only be shut down manually; and in the case of Flight 370, its data reporting system was shut down at 1:07 a.m., followed by its transponder (which transmits location and altitude) which was shut down at 1:21 a.m.
Malaysia Airliner Communications Shut Down Separately, US Officials Say
However in the previous article on GreatGameIndia we already covered on how that could be possible. Read more on it here Malaysian Airlines MH370 911 Mystery Hidden in Plain Sight
What remains "perplexing" about this incident, GRU analysts in this report say, are why the American mainstream media outlets have yet to demand from the Obama regime the radar plots and satellite images of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea regions as the US military covers this entire area from Diego Garcia like no other seas in the world due to its vital shipping and air lanes.
Most sadly, this report concludes, the US is actually able to conceal the reason(s) for the "disappearance" of Flight 370 as they have already done so after the events of 11 September 2001 when the then Bush regime "disappeared" American Airlines Flight 77 and its 64 passengers and crew after falsely claiming it hit the Pentagon, but which was confirmed by the CNN News Service not to have happened.
9/11 CNN Pentagon Report NO PLANE Only Aired Once

9/11 Hotel Video Released of NO PLANE hitting the Pentagon
Confiscated video of a Hotel in Arlington, Virginia by FBI disclosed in 2002 following a lawsuit (pointed out by Jonathan Tooker to GGI).

With Inputs from Shelley Kasli
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