aljazeera: Bagaimana Mencuri Engin Jet, Cara Malaysia

How to steal a fighter jet engine, Malaysian style

Photo by AFP

Two US-made jet engines, worth about 15 million US dollars each, disappeared two years ago, and the theft has only just come to light.

it is not easy to just cart away [jet] engines without authorisation and proper documents,

So says Malaysia's Police chief Musa Hasan.

Unfortunately, he is contradicted by the facts.

But as The Malaysia Insider wryly notes, even this breathtaking deed doesn't display quite enough chutzpah to qualify as "Malaysia's biggest shame of the year."

the Barisan Nasional's behind-the-scenes machinations to topple the democratically-elected government in Perak 11 months ago surely qualifies as Malaysia's shame of the decade.

In related Malaysian news:

[Prime Minister] Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has dismissed the call to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate the claim that former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wasted RM100bil during his years in office

The accusations against Malaysia's longest serving premier were made in a new biography, and have caused quite a fuss. The government is still trying to decide whether to ban the book, perhaps unaware of the fact that it's freely available online and just across the border in Singapore, and that its most astonishing claim is already public knowledge and being freely discussed in the local media.