Daim on Anwar: Unravelling fact from fiction
COMMENT How to disentangle fact from fiction, how to extract the kernel of truth from the husk of musings Daim Zainuddin aired yesterday in the Utusan Malaysia , a paper that has made it its mission to destroy the main subject of the interview: Anwar Ibrahim?
First, that the usually taciturn Daim has spoken at all is in itself remarkable because of a preference for the shadowy corners of public life where he is able to defy categorisation.
Daim is a lawyer who disdains legal work, a businessman whose holdings are unlisted because of clever use of proxies, an economist who learned about the dismal science from another lawyer-cum-economist (James Puthucheary), and a political soothsayer who has been spot-on - he predicted, before the last general election that the BN would do badly in Kedah and Selangor, and was proven right...
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