Did Najib do it?

span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"/spandiv style="text-align: justify;"blockquotespan style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"Updates/span 17/6/09:br /1. a href="http://www.mmail.com.my/content/karpal-%E2%80%98i-just-wanted-direct-clarification%E2%80%99"span style="font-style: italic;"Karpal considers keris issue closed/span/a (Malay Mail, June 17)br /2. Azmi Anshar: a href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Wednesday/Columns/2584326/Article/index_html"span style="font-style: italic;"Karpal's poser an Urban Legend/span/a (NST, June 17)br /br /span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"Original Posting:/span/blockquote/divbr /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlDGgOvtzOEwxoRpxBJsH__hV6oqCX5F2qtRhyphenhyphenMnbd4ky1zCe5fnkTeqiumshOEP6-4-8s19Iw2E4PXfaw3THMj2qUtnjwI4jWmqkDPY1kxfMEPuQ2-JqHjhOR5uY5XUtTG_T9o6XwV0/s1600-h/photoshop+Najib+keris+with+inset.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLlDGgOvtzOEwxoRpxBJsH__hV6oqCX5F2qtRhyphenhyphenMnbd4ky1zCe5fnkTeqiumshOEP6-4-8s19Iw2E4PXfaw3THMj2qUtnjwI4jWmqkDPY1kxfMEPuQ2-JqHjhOR5uY5XUtTG_T9o6XwV0/s400/photoshop+Najib+keris+with+inset.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347834410174202066" border="0" //abr /div style="text-align: justify;"blockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"/spanblockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"For Internet's more gullible:/span A "photoshopped" pic of the PM in Malaysia Today recently, complete with a caption that does not say the picture is computer-generated. Inset (which is mine, with Tony Yew's help) is the original picture, of Hishammuddin Hussein at a recent Umno General Assembly./spanbr //blockquotebr /Karpal's Question: span style="font-size:180%;"Did Najib, in 1987, wave a keris and challenged the Chinese community?/spanbr /br /br /The more gullible among Malaysia's Netizens believed that Najib did. That the PM, who was acting Umno Youth leader then, had uttered the words a href="http://rockybru.com.my/2008/05/they-werent-najibs-words.html"span style="font-style: italic;""soak the keris in (Malaysian) Chinese blood"/span/a or something to that effect.br /br /No proof has ever been produced by anyone that Najib had waved the keris and said those words but yesterday YB Karpal Singh, whose son Gobind is serving a one-year ban from Parliament for calling Najib "murderer" in the Dewan,br /br /br /Excerpts from a href="http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Frontpage/20090615183305/Article/index_html"span style="font-style: italic;"Najib illuminates 1Malaysia, denies keris challenge/span/a [NST, June 16]:-br /br /blockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"In his question, Karpal alleged that Najib, during a rally in the run-up to the 1987 Operasi Lallang, had waved a keris in challenge to the Chinese community.br /br /“If it was true, are you prepared to ask for forgiveness from the Chinese community?” Karpal demanded.br /br /The allegation did nothing to dampen Najib’s mood.br /br /“The incident did not take place. I have never said that. The one who should apologise is the YB concerned, not me,” he said./span/blockquotebr /p.s. A fellow blogger, who was convinced that Najib had waved the keris and said those words in 1987 (even though he wasn't there), recently told me that I should prove that Najib DID NOT do it. I told him that if I would if I had the resources that the NST or Malay Mail had.br /br //blockquote/divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28452020-7704662768433867779?l=rockybru.com.my'//div

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