Diari Pengarang: 24.02 peratus keluar mengundi di Galas

11.27am Di pusat pengundian Bandar Baru di Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Indra Petra, kelihatan helikopter polis berlegar-legar di langit yang mulai cerah.

Keadaan tenang. Penyokong PAS mula berselawat dan penyokong BN mencari tempat berteduh daripada panas matahari.

Di SK Lepan Jaya, pusat pengundian bagi LepanTupai keadaan hampir sama.

11.35pm Sehingga 11 pagi, jumlah keluar mengundi di Galas sebanyak 4,589 orang atau 39.72 peratus (tidak termasuk enam kawasan Orang Asli).

10.55am Pengerusi MCA Kelantan Dr Ng Yen Yen berkata beliau yakin kejayaan akan memihak kepada BN kerana rakyat tempatan mahukan perubahan.

"Mereka mahu kemajuan dan mereka mahu konsep 1Malaysia menjadi kenyataan," kata Ng kepada pemberita di luar SK Gua Musang di Bandar Lama Gua Musang, kawasan campuran Melayu dan Cina.

10.55am Setakat 10 pagi, peratusan keluar mengundi sebanyak 24.02% (2775), tidak termasuk 6 kawasan Orang Asli.
Gear 2 naik bukit
10.15am Pemilih terpaksa berjalan 300 meter mendaki jalan yang curam ke pusat pengundian.

Ramai mengadu keletihan, terutamanya wanita mengandung dengan anak kecil dalam dukungan untuk berjalan ke SK Sri Wangi.

"Rehatlah dulu, sekejap lagi nak masuk gear dua," keluh mereka.


10.14am Di Sg Terah, Timbalan Presiden PAS Nasharuddin Md Isa tiba, bersalaman dan kelihatan berseloroh dengan Ahmad Maslan.

"Pertandingan persahabatan," kata Ahmad.

10.03am Ketua Penerangan Umno Datuk Ahmad Maslan berkata selain insiden di SM Tengku Indera Putra, suasana tenang di tempat lain.

Ahli parlimen pontian itu berkata penyokong BN mengalami kececeraan ringan.

Ditanya sama ada beliau akan membuat laporan polis, Ahmad berkata, kedua-dua pihak telah bersalaman dan berbaik semula selepas kejadian itu.

Mustapha: Penyokong dia nampak lebih ramai
10.02am Menurut seorang pegawai SPR, sehingga jam 9.50, peratus keluar mengundi di Sg Terah hampir 300 orang daripada 1,912 orang yang layak mengundi.

Beliau menjangkakan 400 akan turun menjelang jam 11.

9.49am Pengerusi Perhubungan Umno Kelantan Mustapa Mohamed berkata proses membuang undi hari ini bermula perlahan.

"Tapi kita tengoklah nanti," katanya ringkas ketika ditemui di luar SK Seri Wangi.

"Penyokong dia (PAS) nampak lebih ramai dekat sini," katanya lagi ketika meninjau kumpulan penyokong berkenaan.

Beliau juga berkata, jalan utama di simpang yang menghala ke sekolah berkenaan juga terlalu sempit.

9.51am Setakat jam 9 pagi, peratusan keluar mengundi di Galas sebanyak 9.93 peratus. Sebanyak 1147 telah membuang undi. Ini tidak termasuk di enam kawasan orang asli.

Hadang dengan Landrover

9.18am Lebih seratus orang telah membuang undi di SRJKC Gua Musang sejak peti undi itu dibuka sejam lalu.

Sedikit ketegangan berlaku berhampiran SK Gua Musang, di Bandar Lama (kawasan campuran) apabila penyokong PAS melintas kawasannya, mengundang kemarahan penyokong Umno.

Polis menggunakan Landrover sebagai penghadang kepada dua kumpulan yang rancak berperang mulut.

SK Gua Musang, kawasan tumpuan, 600 orang daripada PAS dan BN berkumpul sejak pagi.

8.45am Nik Aziz dan calon PAS Zulkefli menghabiskan kira-kira 10 minit di SRJKC. Ramai mengambil kesempatan bergambar dengannya. Pengarah Strategik PKR turut tiba lima minit kemudian.

8.41am Di kubu kuat PAS di Sg Terah, kelihatan kira-kira 400 penyokong parti itu berbanding hanya 50 berbanding BN. Kelihatan Pengerusi Umno negeri Mustapha Mohamad berlegar sekitar kawasan penyokong BN.

'Penimbang lama' lawan 1Malaysia

8.35am Penyokong PAS kelihatan jauh melebihi penyokong BN di sepanjang jalan menuju SK Sri Wangi.

Mereka mengejek penyokong BN yang agak senyap sebagai 'penimbang lama'.

Sementara itu, kelihatan beberapa pemilih memakai kemeja-T bertulis 1Malaysia di SK Gua Musang dan SRJKC Gua Musang.


8.26am Seorang penyokong PAS berpakaian Briged Muslimat menyuarakan perasaan tidak puas hati dengan kuat kepada SPR dengan mendakwa tidak membenarkan petugas Pakatan Rakyat memasuki kawasan yang ditutup sekitar SMK Agama di Taman Mawar.

8.25am Calon PAS Zulkefli meluangkan kira-kira 10 minit bertegur sapa dengan pemilih, pegawai polis dan kakitangan pilihan raya.

Beliau meninggalkan tempat itu dengan laungan takbir daripada penyokong PAS.

Perang mulut berlaku antara kedua-dua penyokong menyebabkan polis dan pegawai SPR menjarakkan lagi kedudukan penyokong bagi mengelakkan sebarang insiden tercetus.

Pagi mendung
8.15am Di SK Gua Musang - salah satu pusat pengundian di Kampung Baru Gua Musang - penyokong PAS yang berkumpul kelihatan memakai baju bertulis 'PAS for All, manakala penyokong Umno pula membawa poster bertulis 'PAS Penipu'.

8.02am Cuaca di Galas sedikit mendung. Bagaimanapun, tiada hujan lebat seperti malam tadi.

Di pusat pengundian SK Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra, calon PAS Dr Zulkefli Mohamad tiba diiringi Menteri Besar Kelantan Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.

Zulkefli ditentang calon BN Abdul Aziz Yusof dalan pertembungan satu lawan satu.

Zulkefli menggalas beban berat di DUN itu ekoran Galas merupakan antara kubu kuat Umno yang berjaya ditawan PAS dalam pilihan raya umum lalu.

Bagaimanapun, kejayaan dalam pilihan raya ini tidak akan memberikan sebarang kesan terhadap kawalan PAS di DUN. Parti itu kini menguasai 38 daripada 45 kerusi di Kelantan.

Manakala sekutunya PKR mendapat satu dan Umno sebanyak enam.




Dipetik dari: MalaysiaKini

BN RASUAH LAGI: RM20 bayaran utk dedahkan butiran PENGUNDI

Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) yakin bahawa bayaran RM20 yang ditaburkan kepada orang ramai sebelum majlis jamuan makan malam anjuran Wanita Umno di Batu Sapi, Sabah bukan bertujuan membeli undi.

Ketika dihubungi hari ini, pengerusi SPR, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof berkata dakwaan seumpama itu sukar dibuktikan.

“Kita banyak dengar perkara ini, ada orang bagi basikal dan makanan. Mereka boleh beri pelbagai alasan. Lihat contoh PAS, kata mereka bayaran RM250 untuk pengundi luar supaya pulang mengundi di Galas bukan rasuah tetapi sebagai elaun pengangkutan,” katanya dengan panjang lebar melalui telefon.

Lagipun, kata Aziz kesalahan seumpama itu sukar dibuktikan mengikut Akta Kesalahan Pilihan Raya 1954 kerana mereka perlu menunjukkan bahawa penerima habuan berkenaan telah mengundi parti yang memberi.

“Undi kita rahsia, jadi bagaimana kita nak tahu parti mana yang dipangkah oleh orang yang menerima wang itu? Saya tidak dapat melihat hubungan itu.

“Terdapat ramai peguam hari ini dan mereka boleh memutar daripada hitam kepada putih, jadi kamu kena ada bukti yang jelas dan pasti 100 peratus perkara itu berlaku. Jika tidak, usaha itu jadi sia-sia.”

Malaysiakini sebelum ini telah melaporkan bahawa Wanita Umno dikesan menyerahkan wang RM20 kepada mereka yang sanggup memberikan butiran peribadi dan juga mendedahkan parti mana yang disokong mereka.

Malah, perkara itu juga berjaya dirakamkan oleh seorang wartawan. Seseorang yang perlu menunjukkan myKad mereka bagi membuktikan mereka adalah pengundi di kawasan itu.

Menurut seorang wanita yang berbaris: “Ini untuk pengundi. Tunjukkan myKad untuk buktikan kamu pengundi dan mereka akan berikan wang.”

Kebanyakan yang beratur pada hari berkenaan adalah rakyat Malaysia keturunan Cina meskipun majlis berkenaan didakwa untuk sayap pekerja Wanita Umno.

Malah, Ketua Wanita Umno, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil sendiri mengesahkan wang itu adalah untuk pekerja parti yang ke Sabah untuk membantu kempen BN.

Bagi membuktikan perkara itu, wartawan Malaysiakini juga beratur dan juga diberikan wang RM20 itu. Malah identiti pengenalan juga toidak lagi diminta.

Aziz kemudian diminta membaca laporan berkenaan dan melihat klip video tersebut. Selepas berbuat demikian pengerusi SPR itu menghantar mesej teks kepada Malaysiakini bahawa beliau yakin bahawa wang RM20 itu adalah hanya untuk pekerja parti dan bukannya untuk pengundi.

“Selepas baca (laporan berita) saya percaya bahawa pekerja parti adalah dari seluruh Sabah dan yang penting mereka bukan pengundi Batu Sapi.

“Wang tunai RM20 diberikan sebagai bayaran pengangkutan dan malah wartawan Malaysiakini juga dapat, baiknya...Apa ini?”

Namun, katanya, beliau akan menyerahkan laporan dan video berkenaan untuk penasihat undang-undang SPR supaya mengjkajinya dan mengambil tindakan jika perlu.

Malaysiakini akan menyerahkan wang tersebut kepada pihak SPR bagi membantu siasatan.

Dipetik dari: MalaysiaKini

Stephen Timms attacker guilty of attempted murder

 

CCTV images of Roshonara Choudhry stabbing Stephen Timms at his constituency surgery in Beckton. Photograph: Metropolitan Police

Police believe a gifted student convicted today of attempting to stab to death a former government minister for supporting the Iraq war is the first Briton to have been inspired by al-Qaida to assassinate a politician on British soil.

Police and those close to Roshonara Choudhry have both told the Guardian she was radicalised after watching sermons she downloaded off the internet given by Anwar al-Awlaki.
Awlaki is an Islamist cleric, now in Yemen, who the United States suspects was the mastermind of several terrorist plots. Top of those is the attempt uncovered on Friday to send bombs on cargo travelling in planes, which sparked a worldwide terrorist alert.

At the Old Bailey in London today Choudhry, 21, was convicted on three charges after a short trial in which she ordered her defence team not to challenge the prosecution's case. The jury took just 20 minutes to return unanimous verdicts on the attempted murder charge and two counts of having an offensive weapon.
On 14 May 2010 she stabbed her local MP Stephen Timms twice in the stomach. She confessed to the attack to police later that day.

The case, thought to have resulted initially from mental illness, was taken over by Scotland Yard's counter terrorism command, after the link to al-Awlaki was discovered on Choudhry's computer and after she told detectives in interviews after her arrest she had watched the extremist's sermons. Al-Awlaki is the "spiritual leader" of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

The court heard Choudhry wanted to stab Timms to death as "punishment" for voting for the Iraq war. Timms, who was a minister in both the Blair and Brown governments, was attacked at his constituency surgery in east London. The attack came days after Labour lost power.

 

Choudhry raises her right hand in the attack. Photograph: Metropolitan police Her conviction highlights the concern police and the authorities have about "self radicalisation", where people turn to Islamist violence after finding material themselves on the internet urging a holy war against the west, and become convinced by it.
A senior source told the Guardian that Choudhry turned to violence after being inspired by al-Awlaki's sermons urging that the alleged western oppression of Muslims demanded a violent response.
The senior source said: "She was inspired by his sermons, and radicalised by watching them.
"His message is do anything, whatever you can."

It is the first terrorist attack to injure someone on the UK mainland since 7 July 2005.
Choudhry, 21, "smiled" just before plunging the knife into the abdomen of Timms, who was saved when an aide grabbed the knife and a security guard put Choudhry in a "bear hug".
She told police during interview under criminal caution that she was intent on stabbing the MP to death, the court heard. Weeks before, she had bought two new knives for the attack, one with a three-inch blade which she used in the stabbing; the other, with a five-inch blade, was kept in her handbag as back up in case the first broke during the attack, she told officers.

After her arrest, Choudhry explained she stabbed Timms in the stomach because it was a soft area of the body and she feared being too weak to force the knife into another area.
The Old Bailey jury was told she was not mentally ill and was calm after the attack. The incident was captured on CCTV, stills of which were shown to the jury.

Choudhry, the jury was told, does not recognise the jurisdiction of the court.
The jury heard that she had told detectives: "I was not going to stop until somebody made me." Interviewed hours after the attack, Choudhry told officers: "I was trying to kill him."

When the interviewing officer, Detective Inspector Simon Dobinson, asked why, she replied: "Because he wanted to invade Iraq." Asked what that would achieve, she said: "Punishment." She later added: "I was hoping to get revenge for the people of Iraq."

Choudhry, who was not in court, was convicted of attempted murder and two charges of having an offensive weapon.

She will be sentenced on Wednesday, and her family are said to be devastated by the fate of their eldest child, who wanted to become a teacher.

Choudhry had been a student in English and communications at King's College, London, and in her first two years had been a prize-winning student who was predicted to get a first. She was also a gifted linguist who was fluent in Arabic, Bengali, and French.

She dropped out of her studies at the start of 2010 and began downloading extremist material, according to police examination of her computer, around the autumn of 2009.

Choudhry appears to have no links to known extremist groups.

On the day of the attack, Choudhry took a bus from her East Ham home to Timms's constituents' surgery at the Globe community centre in Beckton, east London. Choudhry asked to see Timms, who is her local MP, rather than his assistant. She then waited for her appointment.

She approached the desk where Timms was sat. He told the court he got up, and thought her left hand was outstretched because she wanted to shake hands. He added that Choudhry appeared to be "smiling" and "friendly".

Timms told the jury: "I was a little puzzled because a Muslim woman dressed in that way wouldn't normally be willing to shake a man's hand, still less to take the initiative to do so, but that is what she was doing. She lunged at me with her right hand."

The court heard while her left hand was outstretched, Choudhry used her right hand to stab the former minister. Dobinson said Choudhry told him during the police interview: "I purposefully walked round the side of the desk so I could get close to him. He pointed for me to sit down on the chair but instead I walked towards him with my left hand out as if I wanted to shake his hand."

She thought he had shaken her left hand with his left hand, but she could not remember. Her right hand had been in her pocket.

She continued: "Then I pulled the knife out of my bag and I hit him in the stomach with it. I put it in the top part of his stomach like when you punch someone."

She managed to stab Timms a second time before she was pulled off.
Nigel Tai, the surgeon who operated on Timms, described the injuries he suffered as "potentially life threatening" because of the possible loss of blood and infection had he not been treated.