Cry Rape:The Most Wanted Man Who Raped America Naked.

Hantu Laut

If it were to happen anywhere in Asia or Africa, the West would be screaming their heads off calling it blatant violation of human rights, state abuse of the free flow of information and judiciary running a kangaroo court.

What happened to Julian Assange?

Was he given a fair hearing? Did the English court adhere to the rules of law and natural justice.What happened to the English legal doctrine that protects against arbitrary exercise of power by ensuring fair play.

The English legal system clearly stated that no accused, or a person directly affected by a decision, shall be condemned unless given full chance to prepare and submit his case and rebuttal to the opposing party's arguments.

Why was Assange refused bail for a presumptuous and highly suspicious rape charges that manifested only after the release of Wikileaks documents to the world that have embarrassed the United States government and its allies.

The American are known for hiding wrongdoings of its military in war zones.

The famous "My Lai Massacre" during the Vietnam War was one such atrocities that prompted widespread outrage throughout the world.Mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army on defenceless civilians majority of whom were women, children and the elderly.Many of the victims were sexually abused, beaten and tortured.

If you believe in American justice than you may be the greatest fool and an incurable idiot.Of all the soldiers involved only one was convicted and the sentence ??? .....3 years under house arrest.

These are the very same people who killed innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, trampled on the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners whom they conveniently decide to brand as terrorists instead of as prisoners of war and accorded them the rights under the Convention.

These are the same people who make noise about the sodomy trail of Anwar Ibrahim and accused Malaysia of violation of human rights.

Was Assange given sufficient chance to present his case before he was found guilty by the court by denying him bail for what normally is a bailable offence. Was his crime any worse than murder where if the police or court deemed fit, bail was never denied. Many suspected rapists have been released on bail while awaiting their court cases.What makes Assange's case any different from the rest?

Assange has blown wide open to the world the cloak of secrecy, hypocrisy and double standards of the Western powers and he'll have to pay a heavy price for his intrusion into their secret and wicked domain.

For going against the powers that be, their dirty works, their scandalous manipulations of third world leaders and world politics, murder and blatant abuse of human rights in the war zones and their murderous wars to re-colonise certain parts of the world under the pretext of fighting terrorism, even the prestigious English court has succumbed to the hegemonic influence of the United States. The pre-trail detention of Assangee is unconstitutional.Is he such a dangerous criminal that justified denial of his rights.

Even worse, in his recent hearing for bail the English court after allowing him bail refused to release him while awaiting appeal from the prosecution which they claimed would come in the next 48 hours.

Isn't it absurd that after having given bail you can still detain a person? Was it flawed English law or a judge flawed in judgement?

Most suspected rapists get bail but Assangee crime seems worse than normal rape cases. Look at what the English court decision on what should have been the rule of law...a man is innocent until proven guilty.... but Assangee, who voluntarily surrendered to the police, is considered worse than a dangerous felon.

Bail was set at $310,000.Assange must spend every night at his given address and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, subjected to curfew every day from 10 p.m to 2 a.m and from 10 a.m to 2 p.m and is required to report daily to the police from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.The police have also taken away his passport as under the terms of his bail he is not allowed to travel abroad.

Now, you can scorn the British judges, for succumbing to America's pressure that Assangee is a dangerous threat to the world, a kind of rapist/terrorist who raped naked the most powerful nation on earth.

Obviously, looking at the detention order, Mr Assange is held for treason and not for rape?

Now, you can also laugh at the West for what is clearly their double standards and hypocrisy?

Sweden was only a tool to get Assange on what obviously was a politically motivated crime made against him.The real culprit is the United States.

We should thanks Julian Assange and Wikileaks for exposing the misdeeds, murders and atrocities committed by the the rich and powerful nations particularly the United States.

Release on Bail of WikiLeaks Founder Is Delayed by Appeal

By RAVI SOMAIYA and ALAN COWELL

Published: December 14, 2010

LONDON — After a week in detention facing possible extradition,Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, was ordered released on $310,000 bail by a court on Tuesday as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor’s demand that he return to Stockholm for questioning about alleged sex offenses.

However, Mr. Assange remained in custody pending a hearing on an appeal by the prosecutor, which would take place within the next 48 hours.

In granting bail, Judge Howard Riddle ordered that Mr. Assange appear again in court on Jan. 11. He also said that between then and now he must reside at Ellingham Hall, a Georgian mansion in Bungay, in eastern England, owned by Vaughan Smith, the founder of a club for journalists. Mr. Assange must spend every night at the mansion and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, the judge said. Read more.

Wikileaks Never Mentioned Malaysian Special Branch As The Source

M'sia ex deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim 'did commit sodomy' - WikiLeaks

Ningbo/Shanghai Daily

Singapore's intelligence services as well as its minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew believe that opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim "did indeed commit the acts for which he is currently indicted".

This was revealed by WikiLeaks through a release of a US State Department cable issued in Nov 2008.

The cable was exclusively released to the Australian tabloid, The Sun-Herald, and was widely reported by other Australian newspapers yesterday.

WikiLeaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organisational or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors.

The US State Department cable that dealt with Anwar's sodomy case, dated Nov 2008, and was released exclusively to The Sun-Herald by WikiLeaks, had stated: "The Australians said that Singapore's intelligence services and (Singapore elder statesman) Lee Kuan Yew had 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'."

In the newspaper report, it said the document stated that the Singaporeans told ONA that they made this assessment on the basis of "technical intelligence", which was likely to relate to intercepted communications.

In a posting on Twitter yesterday, Anwar denied the allegations.

Hantu Laut's comment.

(Anwar was quick to jump the gun and blamed the Malaysian Special Branch for the exposure, which was never mentioned in Wikileaks released documents.It mentioned "technical intelligence" related to intercepted communication" and former Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew's assertion with ONA (Australia's Office of National Assessment) about Anwar's indiscretion.

When you are going to be the next prime minister of a nation you wouldn't know who is interested in your extracurricular activities and putting you under surveillance.

Most Western nations have their sleuth-hounds all over the place tracking world leaders and would-be world leaders.

Singapore, have all the reasons for sleuthing on our leaders, their peaceful future and co-existence rest on level-headed leaders running the country.

Also read Raja Petra's "Why I am A Loose Cannon"

Hantu Laut does not necessary endorse their views.

Superstar Muslim Preacher Amr Khaled - the televangelist with a bigger audience than Oprah Winfrey

By Matt Prodger
BBC Newsnight, Yemen

President Ali Abdullah Saleh does not give many interviews at the moment. The man who has governed Yemen for 32 years is fed up with the press characterising the country as a "cradle of terrorism".

But for Amr Khaled he was willing to make an exception. The Egyptian Muslim televangelist is, in the words of the president a "good guy", but there is of course more to it than that - in the Middle East Amr Khaled is like a rock star.

My big aim is to uproot extremism in Yemen by encouraging people to be positive, face down the extremists and say 'We don't want you in our country Amr Khaled

Dubbed "The Billy Graham of Islam" by Time Magazine, his television shows get more viewers than Oprah Winfrey, his videos have racked up 26m hits on YouTube, and he boasts two million friends on Facebook.

He is a sharp-suited, smooth-talking whirlwind of progressive Islam, preaching co-existence with the West while telling Muslims how to mix their faith with the modern world.

He is not even an imam, but a former accountant for multinational auditors KPMG.

It is easy to see why Mr Khaled's massive popularity has unnerved largely authoritarian governments in the Middle East - in the past he has been forced to leave his native Egypt and broadcast from the UK - he is calling for social change, of sorts:

"We need a better future in the Middle East. We need development in this area of the world. Youth in this area need a chance and the world should listen to them, support them," he told me when we met in Yemen.

'Unfair demand'

Mr Khaled is visiting Yemen on an ambitious mission to, as he puts it, take the battle against al-Qaeda to its heartland.

President Saleh: 'Yemen is not a haven for terrorists'

"My big aim is to uproot extremism in Yemen by encouraging people to be positive, face down the extremists and say 'We don't want you in our country'," Mr Khaled said.

I also went to the presidential palace in the port city of Aden, where Mr Saleh granted Newsnight an interview, a rarity for Western media.

Mr Saleh insisted that far from being a cradle of terror, "Yemen is a victim of terrorism".

When challenged about why he himself has failed to kick al-Qaeda out of the country he threw the question back, asking:

"Why should Yemen be expected to get rid of terrorism before others have? Why hasn't the United States and its allies got rid of terrorism in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq?"

"Yemen is carrying out its own efforts through its army and security apparatus to fight terrorism and has scored excellent victories. So Yemen is not a cradle for terrorism, on the contrary it rejects it, is fighting it, and in as much has lost tens of victims from the police, army and citizens."

Civil war

But recently this claim of Yemeni victories has been dented by documents from whistleblower website, Wikileaks.

He is not like other clerics with beards. He talks to youths without boundaries and that is why he is so attractive to me." Young Yemeni woman

US cables released by the website suggest that Yemen allowed secret US air strikes against suspected al-Qaeda militants, raids which, according to the cables, Mr Saleh claimed were conducted by Yemen's own military.

The reason? The Yemeni government does not want to look like it is kowtowing to the US by granting unrestricted access.

In many ways Yemen is ideal territory for al-Qaeda. It is a tribal society with limited central government control.

A civil war in the north has been going on for so long that few recall what started it, there is rampant corruption and in the south a separatist struggle.

Yemeni journalist Zaid Ali al-Alaya'a says al-Qaeda has also benefitted from a "lack of trust and co-operation" between Saudi, Yemeni and Western intelligence organisations.

Message of moderation

Mr Khaled's mission to end al-Qaeda's grip began with a media blitz, and a speech at the enormous Saleh Mosque in the capital Sanaa.

Addressing an audience of fifty thousand people inside the mosque, several thousand more outside, and millions more Yemenis watching live on TV, his message was uncompromising - it is your religious duty to safeguard moderation.

"Every father, every mother, must shield their children from the creeping reach of extremism," he urged.

Mr Khaled's plan to change Yemen centres on young people. "Youth can be the difference, youth can change, can take out the roots of the extremism in Yemen," he told me.

In concrete terms his Right Start organisation has begun training youth leaders and imams to take his message of moderation into mosques and schools.

Bin Laden's former bodyguard on al-Qaeda in Yemen

And he is using local activists to set up a micro-finance project to extend credit to the poorest in Yemen, whom he sees as being most susceptible to al-Qaeda's draw.

One man who understands the lure of al-Qaeda is Nasser al-Bahri, Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard and a veteran of Jihadi missions in Bosnia, Somalia and Afghanistan.

When I met Bahri, who says he is now a reformed character, he voiced concern about the younger generation of extremists in Yemen:

"This latest generation is motivated by anger with the government" he said. "This is very dangerous because most of south Yemen wants independence, so their ideas are mixed up with that struggle."

"It's more difficult to reason with them, and they're more ignorant than previous generations," he added.

Al-Qaeda aim

Bahri said that while he supports the aims of moderate Muslims like Amr Khaled, al-Qaeda is so determined to draw US soldiers into conflict in Yemen, that the likes of Mr Khaled are unlikely to be able to stop them:

"From what I have seen they absolutely do not affect in any manner whatsoever the programme or work of al-Qaeda," he said.

Critics say US counter-terrorism funds would be better spent on alleviating poverty

Outside Saleh Mosque, after Mr Khaled's speech, I spoke to a group of Western-educated young women who gave a glimpse of why Mr Khaled's message of moderation may succeed in Yemen. He is everything the country's conservative clerics are not:

"He is not like other clerics with beards," one told me. "He talks to youths without boundaries and that is why he is so attractive to me."

"I think he is trying to solve the crisis, but he is trying to make it a bit easier and more fun along the way," said another. "So I think he is doing it in a very good way, but we have to wait for the results."

But it will take more than sermons to uproot al-Qaeda. The US is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Yemen in a bid to combat the terror network, but that money is ring-fenced for counter-terrorism measures.

Critics say the money would be better spent on alleviating poverty and addressing the resentment that recruits for al-Qaeda.

Yemen is hooked on a dwindling oil supply for three quarters of its revenue, it is running out of water, and a third of its adults are out of work.

As one man said to me: "Al-Qaeda is your problem, we've got bigger ones."

Watch Matt Prodger's film from Yemen in full on Newsnight on Tuesday 7 December 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two, the afterwards on the BBC iPlayer and Newsnight website.