YOURSAY ‘Salleh Said Keruak, which part of Al Jazeera report is fictitious and malicious?’

Minister accuses Al Jazeera of peddling 'distortion, lies'

Tholu: Salleh Said Keruak, just because you are a minister, do not think you can fool the 30 million people or so in Malaysia.

Remember Salleh, even if you think only 1% of the population is intelligent, you would only be one among 300,000 such people. Please, by that fact alone, be humbled.

We know that Najib Razak made you a minister not because you are intelligent or competent, but simply because you are a staunch supporter and defender of the prime minister against the onslaught of his detractors over the 1MDB and RM2.6 billion scandals.

You were rewarded, like most ministers, for apple-polishing him. You say Al Jazeera spun and lied on the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case. Please do tell us what was spun and what the investigative journalist had lied about?

You and your cabinet colleagues keep denying accusations hurled at the PM and the government and keep telling us the accusations are spun and that they are all lies, but none of you has debunked the accusations with evidence to the contrary.

Anonymous #19098644: I watched the Al Jazeera documentary and there were re-enactments based on the facts raised during the trial.

Interviews were conducted, sworn affidavits presented and images of SMS text shown. So Mr Minister, which part of the documentary is fictitious and malicious?

Secondly, why would Al Jazeera, which is also operating out of Kuala Lumpur, suddenly decide take a malicious stand against its host country?

Headhunter: Salleh should not be so quick on the trigger. The Altantuya case has not been solved and is very much a burning issue. He should ask himself what if she was his daughter.

And the case will remain alive as long as the real murderer and the motive for her killing were not established.

We all want to know because it involved people at the very top of the country leadership who, for all intent and purpose, could be subjected to blackmail with our national security compromised.

As a minister, Salleh should be at the forefront to see the case solved to the satisfaction of all Malaysians and one very distraught Mongolian family. He should immediately ask the police to open the case. After all, what has he to be afraid of?

Victor Johan: Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keruak chose to accuse Al Jazeera of having an "ulterior motive", but whether it's an ulterior motive or not, surely it's an ultimate motive to investigate the truth behind the gruesome killing of Altantuya.

Just why didn't the prosecution (the attorney-general and police), the defence and the judges find it imperative to investigate the motive of the murder? Altantuya's family and Malaysians have every right to know.

Simple Malaysian: The Jews, Chinese, DAP, the opposition, Western powers have all an agenda against Malaysia that they will go to the extent of spending much effort, time and money to spin stories to make Malaysia look bad.

This is what the authorities here wish us all to think and believe. All wise and thinking Malaysians know that this is not true.

The people out there in the kampungs (not that they are not wise or thinking but merely been isolated from the truth) need to know the truth, only then things will change.

Dingy: The Al Jazeera documentary was based on research and interviews with individuals who were directly involved in the case. To claim it's fake is nonsense.

The world knows that the Altantuya murder trial was full of loopholes. Important witnesses were not called.

Sirul Umar Azhar's murder confession where he claimed he and Azilah Hadri were promised RM50,000 to RM100,000 for the job was not admitted in court. Why?

Otherwise the court would have to determine who the person who promised them money was.

Armchair Newspaper: Salleh, you accused Al Jazeera of having ulterior "motives". What then were the motives of the two convicted murderers in the murder of Altantuya?

GE14NOW!: Everyone has an ulterior motive. For some, it is to plunder and loot the country and to try and appear righteous and pious while doing so.

Al Jazeera journalist Mary Ann Jolley's ulterior motive is to expose the people involved in the murder of that poor girl.

My ulterior motive, well, is that the country be rid of corrupt politicians.

Salleh, you personally also have an ulterior motive - you want to butter up the boss so that you can get to a higher position.

Odin Tajué: Salleh, surely your - ahem! - brotherly Arab nation cannot have allowed more fiction than facts but more facts than fiction to be presented, no?

If you think your brotherly Arabs have been mischievous, you can always block their website, jam their TV broadcast, and take them to court - and at the same time get Interpol to issue a red alert with Al Jazeera’s top guns Sheikh Hamad Thamer Al Thani and Dr Mostefa Souag as POI (persons of interest).

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