The police are barking up the wrong tree for refusing to cross him out as a bomb threat, PKR’s Rafizi Ramli said today.

As a counter-measure for what he yesterday dubbed as “a bad play” , the PKR director of strategy will not only pay for a fake email contest but also today made a police report against four pro-Umno blogsites for first publishing a malicious email.

The email which was allegedly sent by Abdul Rahim Ghouse to Rafizi, talked of a bomb threat on New Year's eve. It was taken seriously by the police, who hauled Rafizi up for questioning on the matter yesterday.

“I am capable of many things but certainly not bombs, which have escaped my skills,” Rafizi, the MP for Pandan, said.

“I am still officially under suspicion of planting bombs... the police have refused to rule me out as a suspect.”

Rafizi said he lodged a police report against the pro-Umno bloggers, The Unspinners, The Flying Kick, bidaman.blogspot.com, and badurakyat.blogspot.com to give them some real work.

These pro-Umno websites first published the alleged ‘bomb threat’ email, he said.

Also, Rafizi gave more details about a contest to hand out RM1,000 (from his own pocket) for the best fake email to be sent to the prime minister, home minister and inspector-general of police (IGP).

'Extremely dangerous to fabricate email'

He said this was meant to tell the police that if they try to fool the public, the public can also do the same.

Rafizi then went on to point out that it is an "extremely dangerous" matter for anybody to fabricate email that is intended to mislead the people and cause havoc.

But in the case of the email for which he was being hauled up, he charged the police with acting with bias for not checking the veracity of the email before hauling him up.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure out which email is genuine and which is a threat," Rafizi said. "It is not about public safety but they were creating the perception of a bomb plot."

At the Dang Wangi district police headquarters yesterday, he said, PKR lawyer and MP N Surendran pressed the police to state whether he was being called up as a witness or as a suspect, but the investigators refused to rule on that.

He admitted that his police reports against the four pro-Umno blogs was his test to see if the police would now do their leg work without "double standards". And as a MP, he would also kick up a fuss in Parliament on shoddy police work.

"You mark my words, I can be quite crazy," Rafizi said.

"Until and unless these four bloggers are called up for questioning and actions are taken against them and they are charged in court... I will spend every hour during the Question Time in Parliament after this matter."

Elaborating on his "fake email" contest, Rafizi said it would last for a week from today until Jan 6. The winning email, which will be judged on humour and its grounding in current affairs, will be announced on Jan 10.

The email, he added, should be addressed to: najib@pmo.gov.my ;

ahmadzahid@moha.gov.my and abkhalid@rmp.gov.my , with CCs to pertandinganemail@gmail.com

The emails sent will also be published at http://emailpalsu.blogspot.com