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Raja bomoh dakwa Zahid Hamidi adalah kawan dia...

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 07:06 AM PDT


Ibrahim Mat Zin, "raja bomoh" yang mencetuskan kekecohan dengan upacara ritualnya dalam usaha mencari pesawat MH370 yang hilang, dilihat sebagai seseorang yang berkeyakinan tinggi, malah berlagak.

Dia mendakwa dirinya sebagai bomoh jutawan dengan pelanggan terdiri daripada orang kaya dan berpengaruh, termasuk ahli politik Umno dan personaliti luar negara.

Dia juga menganggap Naib Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi sebagai kawan.

Ahli politik Malaysia, katanya, ada mendapatkan bantuannya untuk memperolehi antara lain kelebihan dalam politik, perniagaan dan perkahwinan.

"Saya tidak menafikannya. Tetapi bukan mereka sahaja pelanggan yang datang mendapatkan perkhidmatan saya. Ada juga pelanggan dari Brunei, Arab Saudi dan Indonesia yang minta bantuan saya untuk menyembuhkan mereka menggunakan perubatan tradisional," katanya.

Beliau yang yakin dengan kehandalan dan kebolehannya menyembuh menggunakan cara tradisional tidak terganggu dengan isu yang membuatnya terkenal susulan aksinya di KLIA minggu lalu menggunakan kelapa, teropong buluh dan sangkar ikan untuk "menghalau semangat jahat" dalam usaha mencari pesawat Malaysia Airlines MH370.

Aksi "permaidani ajaib" Ibrahim mencetuskan kemarahan dan pengguna sosial media menganggap perbuatan itu memalukan menyebabkan mereka mengkritik dan mempersenda Ibrahim.

Perkataan "bomoh" menerima tweet lebih daripada 200,000 kali dan sentimen utamanya kelihatan ia sesuatu yang memalukan.

"Saya tidak melakukan apa-apa yang haram.

"Saya guna ayat Al-Quran dan doa supaya pesawat dan penumpang boleh dikesan. Ini tidak menyalahi agama. Jangan panggil saya murtad kerana ini.

"Mengejek saya juga tidak membawa kebaikan. Saya ikhlas menolong kerajaan," katanya.

Dalam dua upacara di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur minggu lalu, ditemani beberapa pembantu, Ibrahim melakukan ritual bertujuan "melemahkan semangat jahat supaya penyelamat dapat menemui pesawat".

Lelaki berusia 80 tahun dari Sungai Manik, Pasir Salak, Perak itu yang juga guru seni mempertahankan diri, berkata dia sudah membantu ramai orang sejak berusia 10 tahun.

"Pelanggan saya pelbagai. Kebanyakan daripada mereka adalah orang penting, kaya dan ahli politik," katanya.

Ibrahim mendakwa, beliau adalah generasi kelima keturunan bomoh dan ada kaitan dengan pahlawan Melayu, Datuk Maharajalela pada tahun 1800-an.

Residen British pertama di Perak, J W W Birch, dibunuh oleh pejuang kebangsaan Melayu dan negarawan, Datuk Maharajalela dan Sepuntum pada 1875.

Ibrahim juga menyenaraikan peranannya dalam beberapa kejadian besar dalam negara: antaranya ialah memanggil semula roh mangsa tsunami 2004; menjejak mayat mangsa lemas di banjir besar di Kuala Dipang; mengesan mayat mangsa kondominium Highlands Tower yang runtuh pada 1993; dan melemahkan ilmu hitam Mona Fendy supaya hakim boleh menjalankan tugasnya tanpa diganggu di mahkamah Temerloh di Pahang, di mana Mona Fendy akhirnya disabitkan bersalah membunuh ahli politik pada 1993 dan dihukum gantung.

Mengenai kaedahnya yang "istimewa" dalam membantu Putrajaya mencari MH370, Ibrahim berkata, setiap individu ada cara tersendiri untuk membantu.

"Orang teknikal guna sains dan radar kesan pesawat. Saya guna ayat Al-Quran dan barangan yang saya bawa bersama ketika sesi (ritual) bukan untuk dipuja.

"Saya tidak puja barang itu kerana mereka hanya sebagai symbol. Seperti menangkap ikan, adakah kita hanya berharap dan berdoa menangkap ikan tanpa ada peralatan? Tidak, bukan? Jadi mata kail dan perangkap ikan adalah symbol mendapatkan pesawat itu," katanya.

Mengenai kutukan yang diterimanya sejak episode di KLIA dan cadangan beliau ditangkap kerana melakukan ilmu hitam, Ibrahim berkata, mereka tidak sepatutnya menghakiminya tanpa bercakap dahulu dengannya.

"Saya bukan bomoh tepi jalan. Saya bomoh jutawan. Saya ada perniagaan pembinaan selain membantu dan merawat orang. Anda tidak pernah dengan tentang saya kerana saya tidak menunjuk-nunjuk kekayaan saya seperti orang lain.

"Khairy Jamaluddin (menteri belia dan sukan) hanya cakap besar tetapi dia tidak ada apa-apa. Saya lebih kaya daripada dia," katanya.


Awal minggu ini, Ibrahim mengugut untuk menampar Khairy yang juga Ketua Pemuda Umno kerana memperkecilkannya dan meminta supaya dia ditahan.

"Dia patut hormat orang tua. Dia mungkin tidak tahu saya tetapi ahli politik yang lebih tua kenal sangat dengan saya. Malah, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi ialah ketua seni mempertahankan diri kami," katanya merujuk kepada menteri dalam negeri.

Maklum balasnya terhadap ejekan Khairy ialah beliau mengugut untuk menamparnya seperti buaya.

Khairy, bagaimanapun, tidak mengambil ugutan itu secara serius dan terus membuat lawak mengenai perkara itu dalam beberapa siri tweet menerusi akaunnya.

Dalam satu tweet, Khairy berkata:"Raja Bomoh nak tampar saya cam kokedai".

Ibrahim berkata, beliau tidak teragak-agak untuk melakukan ugutannya itu dan akan melaksanakannya jika kesabarannya teruji.

"Saya tidak kisah membayar denda (kerana menampar Khairy). Saya ada duit. Saya ada peguam. Saya bukan bomoh kelas bawahan. Saya mungkin saman dia dan Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim) RM100 juta jika mereka tangkap dan tuduh saya khurafat," katanya.

Beliau berkata, tidak ada apa yang hendak dimalukannya dan tidak beranggapan caranya "membantu" kerajaan mencari pesawat hilang itu meletakkan negara dalam keadaan yang memalukan.

"Tidak, saya tidak buat apa-apa kesalahan. Anda hanya rasa malu jika buat salah, dan saya tidak melakukan kesalahan," katanya.

Perbualan kami berakhir di situ, dan sebelum itu Ibrahim berkata, dia biasanya berjalan dengan sekurang-kurangnya 16 pengawal peribadi.

"Saya dalam perjalanan ke Kuala Lumpur. Saya tidak berseorangan. Saya ada 16 pengawal peribadi bersama saya setiap masa. Saya masih berfikir di mana patut saya sembahyang bila sampai di sana," katanya.


~ The Malaysian Insider

MH370 : Nama Anwar Ibrahim mula dikaitkan...

Posted: 16 Mar 2014 12:30 AM PDT


Biro Siasatan Persekutuan (FBI) tidak menolak kemungkinan pesawat MH370 yang hilang sejak sembilan hari lalu, mungkin berada di lokasi rahsia.

DailyMail Online yang memetik kenyataan sumber berkata, pesawat terbabit mungkin dirampas dan kesemua penumpang kini ditahan di tempat tertentu.

Stesen radio Amerika Syarikat (AS) WNYC melaporkan, sebanyak 634 lokasi yang boleh menjadi tempat pesawat MH370 mendarat, dari Australia ke Maldives ke Pakistan.

Sementara itu DailyMail Online turut melaporkan Polis sedang menyiasat kemungkinan juruterbang pesawat MH370 dirampas oleh Kapten pesawat sendiri sebagai protes politik .

DailyMail difahamkan bahawa Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah merupakan penyokong tegar ketua pembangkang Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim.

Dan beberapa jam sebelum penerbangan dijadualkan meninggalkan Kuala Lumpur difahamkan Shah, 53 tahun menghadiri perbicaraan kontroversi di mana Ibrahim Ibrahim telah dipenjara selama lima tahun.




Doomed airliner pilot was political fanatic:

Police are investigating the possibility that the pilot of missing Flight MH370 hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre political protest.


The Mail on Sunday has learned that Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah was an 'obsessive' supporter of Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur it is understood 53-year-old Shah attended a controversial trial in which Ibrahim was jailed for five years.

Campaigners say the politician, the key challenger to Malaysia's ruling party, was the victim of a long-running smear campaign and had faced trumped-up charges.

Police sources have confirmed that Shah was a vocal political activist – and fear that the court decision left him profoundly upset. It was against this background that, seven hours later, he took control of a Boeing 777-200 bound for Beijing and carrying 238 passengers and crew.

Yesterday, Malaysian police searched his house in the upmarket Kuala Lumpur suburb of Shah Alam, where he had installed a home-made flight simulator. But this newspaper can reveal that investigators had already spent much of last week examining two laptops removed from Shah's home. One is believed to contain data from the simulator.

Confirming rising fears, Malaysia's prime minister Najib Razak announced yesterday that MH370 was deliberately steered off course after its communication system was switched off. He said it headed west over the Malaysian seaboard and could have flown for another seven hours on its fuel reserves.

It is not yet clear where the plane was taken, however Mr Razak said the most recent satellite data suggests the plane could have been making for one of two possible flight corridors. The search, involving 43 ships and 58 aircraft from 15 countries, switched from the South China Sea to the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.

Data showing the number of plausible runways where the plane could have touched down - which need to be at least 5,000ft - offer a baffling number of potential locations.

According to a map drawn up by U.S. radio station WNYC, there are 634 locations which could fit, from Australia to the Maldives to Pakistan.

However, the true number is likely to be even higher, as estimates of how far the plane could have travelled have been increased since the calculations were carried out.

US investigators say faint 'pings' were being transmitted for several hours after the flight lost contact with the ground.

Meanwhile, military radar showed the jet climbed to 45,000ft – above its service limit – which could have been a deliberate attempt to knock out the passengers and crew.

Anwar Ibrahim is a broadly popular democracy icon and former deputy prime minister whose prosecution on a charge of sodomy is seen by many Malaysians as political persecution.

The raids on Captain Shah's home appeared stage-managed as a display of intent after the Prime Minister said the focus of the investigation was now on 'crew and passengers' as a result of the latest leads.

But investigators have told the Mail on Sunday inquiries into the background of the pilot actually began days earlier.

Malaysian police, helped by FBI agents from the US, are looking into the political and religious backgrounds of both Zaharie and his co-pilot. Zaharie's home was sealed off yesterday as police spent an hour inside.

However, a senior investigation source said two laptops were taken from the property in low-key visits by police early last week despite a series of denials by officials that his home had been searched or raided.

One laptop taken away is thought to contain data from the flight simulator while a second contained little information. Zaharie's personal laptop was not found, and is thought to have been with him in the cockpit of the plane, the source said.

Zaharie's co-workers have told investigators the veteran pilot was a social activist who was vocal and fervent in his support of Ibrahim.

'Colleagues made it clear to us that he was someone who held strong political beliefs and was strident in his support for Anwar Ibrahim,' another investigation source said. 'We were told by one colleague he was obsessed with politics.'

In their interviews, colleagues said Zaharie told them he planned to attend the court case involving Anwar on March 7, just hours before the Beijing flight, but investigators had not yet been able to confirm if he was among the crowd of Anwar supporters at court.

Zaharie is believed to be separated or divorced from his wife although they share the same house, close to Kuala Lumpur's international airport. They have three children, but no family members were at home yesterday: only the maid has remained there.

Malaysian officials initially appeared keen not to direct any suspicion towards Zaharie or his co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid, who was last week revealed to have invited two women passengers into the cockpit and smoked on an earlier flight to Phuket.

But evidence of the way the plane's transponder and communication systems were disabled and the way the plane was expertly flown over the Indian Ocean apparently using navigational waypoints meant only a skilled aviator could have been at the controls. Investigators were also baffled by why, if hijackers took over the plane, there was no Mayday call or signal from the two pilots to say the cockpit had been breached.

At yesterday's press conference, the suspicion over the pilot's involvement mounted as prime minister Najib Razak said that investigators had found 'deliberate action' on board the plane resulted in it changing course and losing contact with ground crews.

As a result of the new information, Malaysian authorities had 'refocused their investigation on crew and passengers aboard', he said. Police sealed off the area surrounding Zaharie's home and searched the house shortly after the press conference.

Mr Razak said the new satellite evidence shows 'with a high degree of certainty' that the one of the jet's communications devices – the Aircraft and Communications Addressing and Reporting System was disabled just before it had reached the east coast of Malaysia. ACARS is a service that allows computers aboard the plane to relay in-flight information about the health of its systems back to the ground.

Shortly afterwards, near the cross-over point between Malaysian and Vietnamese air traffic controllers, the plane's transponder, which emits an identifying signal, was switched off or, less likely, failed.

According to a military radar, the aircraft then turned and flew back over Malaysia before heading in a north-west direction.

A satellite was able to pick up a 'ping' from the plane until 08:11 local time, more than seven hours after it lost radar contact, although it was unable to give a precise location. Mr Razak went on to say that based on this new data, investigators 'have determined the plane's last communication with a satellite was in one of two possible corridors – north from the border of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan through to northern Thailand, and south from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean.

If as suspected the plane was diverted into the Indian Ocean, the task of the search teams becomes more difficult, as there are hundreds of uninhabited islands and the water reaches depths of around 23,000ft.

Countries in the plane's potential flightpath have now joined a huge effort to locate the missing passengers, but China described the revelation as 'painfully belated'. And FBI investigators say the disappearance of MH370 may have been 'an act of piracy' and that the possibility that its hundreds of passengers are being held at an unknown location has not been ruled out.

Meanwhile, leading aviation lawyer James Healy–Pratt, who is helping relatives, said Malaysian Airlines had declined to buy Boeing's Airplane Health Management system, which monitors systems in real time and could have alerted it to any potential problems, rather than having to recover a black box.

'If the transponder was manually disabled then one can only hope that the black boxes were not also manually disabled,' he said. 'Otherwise, the truth will never be known.'

The revelations about Zaharie's political affiliations are highly sensitive in a country where political dirty tricks are widespread.

One of the investigation sources said: 'We are looking into the theory that Zaharie's political beliefs may be a factor. There are huge sensitivities surrounding this but we cannot afford not to pursue any angle brought to our attention.'

Separately, a police source told the Mail on Sunday: 'I can confirm our investigations include the political and religious leanings of both pilots.'

Zaharie joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981. He became a captain about ten years later and has clocked up 18,360 hours of flying experience.


~ Mail Online

MH370: Lokasi terakhir dikesan di barat Perth lapor Bloomberg

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 09:30 PM PDT


Lokasi terakhir pesawat MH370 dikesan ketika berada di sebuah zon kira-kira 1,609 kilometer dari barat Perth, Australia, kata pasukan penyiasat Amerika Syarikat (AS).

Laman web berita Bloomberg melaporkan, petunjuk terbaharu itu dimaklumkan oleh sumber kerajaan AS berdasarkan keputusan analisis data transmisi satelit oleh pasukan penyiasat tersebut.

Combing Ocean for Flight 370 Harder Than 2-Year French Hunt

By Andrea Rothman

As the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner shifts to the vast expanses of the Indian Ocean, the hunt for an Air France (AF) plane that vanished over the Atlantic in 2009 provides some sobering lessons.

Wreckage from the French jet took two years to locate on the seabed even though debris was found floating five days after the plane went missing. In the case of Malaysian Flight 370, a week of searching has produced not a trace of physical evidence.

Parallels between the incidents are limited to Air France Flight 447 disappearing abruptly on an overnight flight between Rio De Janeiro and Paris, and MH370 vanishing in the early hours en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

While surface debris and data downloads quickly pointed to the French plane's likely fate, it took a deep-sea trawl costing $100 million to locate black-box flight recorders that finally revealed what happened. Searchers in Southeast Asia have even less to go on.

"Here we have no solid information, and nobody's found any debris to help provide indications," said Jean-Paul Troadec, who was in charge of France's BEA air-accident investigating bureau when the AF447 search was under way. "The problem here is, what is the last position?"

The last satellite transmission from Flight 370 has been traced to the Indian Ocean off Perth, Australia, far from where searches have been taking place, according to a person familiar with the search, who spoke on condition of not being named because of the sensitivity of the information. That would leave it flying over a stretch of ocean with depths of more than 10,000 feet, similar to those where AF447 went down.

Breakdown Messages

In the case of the Air France Airbus Group NV (AIR) A330 jet, the authorities had an invaluable insight into the plane's final minutes on June 1 following the transmission of 24 automated breakdown messages. As soon as June 6, a Brazilian rescue ship was already retrieving bodies from the ocean surface.

Views on where to even begin looking for debris from the Malaysian Airline System (MAS) Bhd. Boeing Co. (BA) 777 have changed from one day to the next since the plane's disappearance, with initial efforts focused on the Gulf of Thailand, the site of its last know position one hour after takeoff.

Subsequent searches also took in the South China (1668) and Gulf of Tonkin to the north, before the focus changed completely.

Transponder Off

While the transponder responsible for identifying the jet to ground controllers quit working 40 minutes into the flight, information emerging from military radars and satellite systems began to suggest it had changed course and backtracked hundreds of miles west, beyond its original point of origin.

Search efforts moved to the Malacca Strait between Malaysia and Indonesia and most recently to the Andaman Sea, north of Sumatra, and the Bay of Bengal at the northern extremity of the Indian Ocean, a body of water that's the third-largest in the world after the Pacific and Atlantic.

Now, the most recent satellite data shows it last flying near Perth, the person familiar said.

Whereas the Gulf of Thailand is a relatively small sea, often shallower than a 777 is long at about 50-60 meters (165-195 feet), the new area is huge and complex. That makes the search tougher and any retrieval effort more challenging, said Dave Gallo, director of special projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Research Institute in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Robots in Search

"It's akin to searching more than the entire North Atlantic," said Gallo, whose robots helped find the wreck of AF447. "It's like Los Angeles to New York to London. And it's very dynamic topographically -- very volcanic, lots of landslides and eruptions and earthquakes, making it an extremely difficult area to move around in."

While the Andaman Sea has an average depth of about 1,000 meters, far greater than the Gulf of Thailand though still relatively modest versus the 3,900 meters at which AF447 was found, the seabed drops off dramatically to the west. There, a series of trenches marks the geologically volatile boundary between the Eurasian the Indo-Australia continental plates. Beyond lie the depths of the Indian Ocean's abyssal plane.

Airbus financially contributed to the search for the Air France aircraft, and only the fourth salvage attempt brought a result in the form of the wreckage and flight-recorder boxes. France even enlisted the help of a nuclear submarine to trawl the seabed on earlier, ultimately futile attempts.

Computer Models

While researchers can use computerized, mathematical models to study currents and winds to help narrow down the search zone from recovered debris, Troadec of the BEA institute said such methods proved futile in the hunt for AF 447.

"We discovered that the currents went every which way," said Troadec.

Even if the wreckage was to be found in the deep ocean, only a "small club of people" could contemplate reaching the site, according to Gallo, who reckons the search effort on the surface is equally daunting, given that the Boeing wide-body had enough fuel keep flying for at least another 2,500 miles.

"Usually by this point there's some trace of something to go on, but we have none of that," he said. "Every night I go to sleep thinking there'll be new, fresh leads in the morning, but things only seem to go backwards. It seems impossible."

~ Bloomberg

Polis serbu rumah Kapten MH370

Posted: 15 Mar 2014 07:32 PM PDT


Beberapa jam selepas Malaysia mengisytiharkan pesawat MH370 hilang semalam, polis menyerbu rumah juruterbang Boeing 777-200ER yang sudah menjadi "misteri penerbangan belum pernah berlaku sebelum ini" sejak hilang lapan hari lalu dengan 239 penumpang.

Siasatan jenayah dilakukan sebaik sahaja Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak berkata misi pencarian pesawat hilang itu sekarang akan meliputi sejauh utara Kazakhstan dan selatan Lautan Hindi.

Tidak mengesahkan pesawat dirampas, Najib semalam berkata, aktiviti luar biasa MH370 itu "adalah hasil tindakan secara sengaja oleh seseorang yang berada di dalam pesawat berkenaan."

Media barat memetik pegawai perisikan Amerika Syarikat mengatakan pesawat diterbangkan oleh pakar selepas hilang daripada skrin radar pada awal pagi 8 Mac, 2014 ketika dalam perjalanan ke Beijing.

Ini menyebabkan penyiasatan dilakukan terhadap semua 239 penumpang dan anak kapal MH370 dengan harapan akan bertemu dengan fakta yang dapat membantu misi pencarian.

Polis menyerbu rumah Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah semalam dan dijangkakan membekalkan maklumat kepada penyiasat.

Juruterbang berpengalaman itu pernah terbang sejauh 18,000 batu dan dikenali oleh rakan-rakannya sebagai seorang yang baik hati dan cintakan pekerjaannya.

Bapa kepada tiga anak itu, Kapten Zaharie memuat naik video di YouTube dan menganggapnya sebagai "khidmat awam" menerangkan bagaimana untuk melaraskan peti ais bagi menjimatkan tenaga elektrik. Dalam video itu, beliau dilihat duduk di hadapan simulator penerbangan yang dibina di rumahnya.

Tahun lalu sebelum Pilihan Raya Umum ke 13 (PRU13), beliau menjadi sukarelawan untuk berkempen bagi calon PKR, Sivarasa Rasiah. "Beliau seorang yang peramah dan banyak membantu," kata Sivarasa.

Menurut seseorang yang dekat dengan keluarga Zaharie, keluarganya sudah putus harapan beliau akan ditemui hidup dan sudah mengadakan solat jenazah.

Pembantu juruterbang, Fariq Hamid, yang baru-baru ini melepasi kelayakan untuk menerbangkan Boeing 777-200, sama seperti pesawat yang hilang pada 8 Mac, dikatakan melakukan kesalahan dalam penerbangan sebelum ini.


Media antarabangsa melaporkan wanita dari Afrika Selatan mendakwa pada 2011 Fariq menjemputnya dan seorang lagi wanita untuk berada di kawasan juruterbang atau kokpit dalam satu penerbangan dari Phuket, Thailand ke Kuala Lumpur dan berada di situ sepanjang penerbangan.

Malaysia Airlines bagaimanapun dalam satu kenyataan awal minggu ini berkata, mereka "terkejut" dengan pendedahan itu.

~ The Malaysian Insider
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