comment The ‘third force’ or ‘third party’ is getting a bum rap these days.  

No sooner had inspector-general of police Musa Hassan insinuated that a ‘third force’ was hovering balefully over his contingent than independent MP Zulkifli Noordin alludes to the machinations of some such party that he claimed was willing to reward him handsomely if he implicated the prime minister and his wife in the Altantuya murder...