Former premier Mahathir Mohamad today expressed his incredulity at the allegations that Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was the target of sexual entrapment.

"They said it was entrapment? To trap a person like that, you need a whole army. Everybody must cooperate.

NONE "No I don't think there is any entrapment. It is not so easy to trap this guy," said Mahathir after opening the fifth outlet of The Loaf chain of bakeries at Bangsar Baru today.

He was responding to reporters when asked about communiques leaked by whistle blower website Wikileaks , that alleged that Singapore Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had said that Anwar was set-up in a ' sex trap '.

He expressed doubts that such a sheer number of people from judges, to witnesses, to the police, to laboratory staff and others could be told to lie or fake a case against his one-time deputy.

"About 150 people will have to be told to please tell lies. It's just impossible. It's not logical," he argued.

Quizzed about other Wikileaks diplomatic cables leaked, that seem to show that Singaporean officials have low opinions of Malaysia, Mahathir hit back.

"Well, those are their opinions. But they are so rigid in their thinking that they cannot think beyond what Lee Kuan Yew says.

"And you can quote me," said Mahathir.

'Singapore watching us closely'

Asked his opinion on how Lee would know about Anwar and his alleged activities, Mahathir said, "I suppose he has suspected as much, he must have been told. Singapore is watching us closely, as are the CIA, and the Australians.

"They know the real thing, but for political reasons they will not admit it. But now it has been leaked," said the former premier coyly.

Newspapers yesterday reported that the WikiLeaks non-profit media organisation had exposed the matter based on information obtained from an intercepted cable of the US State Department dated November 2008.

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