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my goodness there 887 documents on Singapore
and we only see the first one on MM remarks
election coming, disaster also looming
this is the second one i reckon,
WikiLeaks has released latest US State Department cables exclusively to Australia's Fairfax Media group that allegedly carry controversial comments by senior Singapore foreign affairs officials on Malaysia, Thailand and other countries in the region.
Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age carried the content of the cables in their Sunday editions, Asiaone online reported Sunday.
The cables reportedly detail separate meetings in 2008 and last year between senior US officials and their Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) counterparts Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Tommy Koh.
Ho and Kausikan were both permanent secretaries at the MFA at the time, and the latter still holds that position. Koh is the ministry's ambassador-at-large.
Another cable dated November 2008, reporting the conversations of US diplomats with their Australian counterparts, mentions former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case.
The cable reportedly says: "The Australians said that Singapore's intelligence services and Lee Kuan Yew have told Australia's Office of National Assessments (ONA) in their exchanges that opposition leader Anwar 'did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted'."
The report adds that unnamed "Singaporeans" made the assessment on the basis of "technical intelligence", which is likely to relate to intercepted communications.
The Australian ONA is also recorded as saying its Singapore counterparts concurred with its assessment that Mr Anwar's sodomy charge "was a set-up job and he probably knew that, but walked into it anyway".
Koh allegedly described Japan as "the big fat loser" in the context of improving ties between China and Asean.
He attributed the relative decline of Japan's stature in the region to Japan's "stupidity, bad leadership, and lack of vision."
He also allegedly did not spare India and was equally merciless towards them, describing his "stupid Indian friends" as "half in, half out of Asean."
Ho alleged assessment of Malaysia according to WikiLeaks as reported by the Australian press stated that former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been "throwing stones" at his replacement, Abdullah Badawi.
"As for... Najib Razak, he is an opportunist. Although he has not been critical of Singapore, he will not hesitate to go in that direction if it is expedient for him to do so." the report quoted him as saying.
Meanwhile Kausikan was also allegedly critical in his assessment of Singapore's other neighbour, Thailand reported the Australian press.
He had supposedly said that Thaksin Shinawatra was "corrupt" along with "everyone else, including the opposition".
He was also implicated in the cables for his assessments of Singapore's neighbours reported the Australian press.
He was allegedly quoted telling US Deputy Secretary of Defence for East Asia David Sedney in 2008 that, "the situation in neighbouring Malaysia is confused and dangerous", fuelled by a "distinct possibility of racial conflict" that could see ethnic Chinese "flee" Malaysia and "overwhelm" Singapore.
He supposedly also said: "A lack of competent leadership is a real problem for Malaysia," Kausikan said, citing the need for Najib Razak - now Malaysia's Prime Minister - to "prevail politically in order to avoid prosecution" in connection with a 2006 murder investigation linked to one of Mr Najib's aides.
The Australian press also mentioned that Kausikan had raised his worries about other neighbouring countries and their state of affairs in his 2008 report.
He had supposedly said that Burma's neighbours, including China and India, are "more concerned with stability than justice" and they feared the Burmese junta's demise could produce "an Asian reprise of the breakup of Yugoslavia".
Also that he would be "more comfortable with a nuclear-capable North Korea, than a nuclear-capable Iran".
The report also finally pointed out that he had apparently said that Russia's economy is "Third World", its health system a shambles and its demographic challenges almost insurmountable
