Ops Daulat - Harga Sebuah Keamanan - Bahagian Pertama

Harga sebuah keamanan bukan sahaja wang ringgit untuk memastikan sesebuah negara itu mempunyai kelengkapan aset persenjataan secukupnya untuk mempertahankan diri, tetapi darah, keringat dan tangisan mereka yang tersayang. Dalam hal ini, tiada satu kisah yang lebih sedih berbanding kisah lain. Namun, peredaran masa menjadikan kisah mereka sekadar statistik. Bagi memastikan legasi mereka terus kekal, inilah kisah mereka, kisah perjuangan mempertahankan negara dari anasir-anasir yang ingin membawa kehancuran kepada negara kita.

Demi Kepentingan yang Segelintir

Saya tidak terkejut dengan berita ini apabila dilaporkan oleh media arus perdana Malaysia. Sebenarnya, kejadian ini sekadar menunggu masa untuk berlaku.

Apabila Parti Warisan yang dipimpin oleh Ketua Menteri Shafie Apdal memenangi negeri tersebut bagi pihak Pakatan Harapan, antara dua langkah terawal yang diambil oleh mereka adalah dengan membatalkan pengharaman ke atas perdagangan barter dan pengharaman ke atas bot pam biarpun langkah tersebut dibantah oleh pengurusan ESSCOM.

For the Needs of Few

I was not surprised when Malaysian mainstream media broke the news. In fact, it was waiting to happen.

When Chief Minister Shafie Apdal's Parti Warisan won the state as part of a larger Pakatan Harapan's coalition, two of their earliest moves was to uplift the ban on barter trade and the ban on pump-boat, despite the protest from ESSCOM.

Protecting Sabah

Giving credit to where it is due.

What was once a scourge for Sabahans is now slowly becoming a thing of a past.

Sabah Earthquake - Lessons Learnt

The recent earthquake in Sabah has exposed once again the inadequacy of Malaysian government's approach to Search and Rescue operations.  However, contrary to the approach that many people took the last few days when it comes to criticizing the Malaysian government's response, I choose to look at this unfortunate event from a different perspective.

Murkier Account of Battle of Mamasapono

The aftermath of Mamasapono attack that cost the lives of 44 Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP - SAF) together with 17 MILF and 5 other civilian lives is getting murkier.  After the initial shock that 44 police commandos had lost their lives in the erstwhile successful raid that was said to have managed to eliminate Marwan @ Zulkifli Hir, holes begin to appear in the official version of the incident.

Condolences to Philippines National Police Special Action Forces (PNP - SAF)

We were lucky.

In the Kampung Siminul Jaya ambush that killed 6 of our men, of which one of them was the husband of my ex-colleague, we were lucky that Kiram's terrorists did not press their advantage. Why they did not press their advantages, we will never know.