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It's very typical of Anwar Ibrahim to craft a drama at the international stage. That's why he seeked refuge at the Turkish Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Apparently, he was offered to stay there after he received a death threat. But according to Turkish Daily News, that is not the case.

I wonder why Anwar has not lodge a police report about the death threat. And I don't understand why the ruling government did not offer to send a police officer to facilitate that report for Anwar? I know Anwar is just another citizen and rightfully, he should go to the police station. But he did not. He went to the Turkish Embassy instead.

Now that he's left the embassy, the government should take Anwar's allegation seriously and assign the police to go get the report done. This is an exceptional case. Assurance of his safety by both the PM and DPM is not enough.

I am saying this despite my indiferences with Anwar's ideology because the story of the alleged sodomy made it into the headline of CNN over the weekend. My friends who live overseas said, "so malu". Yes. It is really embarassing to kill Anwar's political career this way. That shows that our politicians are not very smart. They just rehatch an old idea.

One Malaysian abroad asked me what would happen if Anwar is assasinated? I'm not a soothsayer. So, I can't predict although I can speculate. I have some theories but I just don't want to give my readers any ideas.

Although I agree that this is an attempt to destroy Anwar's political career, I don't think it's Najib Razak's doing. I believe, this is the working of someone who wants to also kill Najib's chances to be the next PM. But we don't know who.

Najib learned from Anwar's fall-out with Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in 1998 that he should not be in a hurry to takeover the leadership from Pak Lah. He's being patient cos he doesn't want to ruin his chances. But Najib has many enemies within Umno.

So what that Saiful Bukhari Azlan has taken a picture with Najib's officer and other cabinet ministers? Our ministers are very obliging when asked to be photographed with the people. More often than not, the ministers don't even know the names of people they're being photographed with.

There are so many theories about this latest incident. Mostly said it's Najib's doing. It's just a convenient accusation just because he's the DPM and people are tired of Pak Lah.

Another theory is that, a supporter of Pak Lah might have planned this to prevent Anwar from becoming the PM. He or she could do this without Pak Lah's consent. After all, Pak Lah is not smart enough to strategise his next political move.

This month, Anwar is supposed to announce which parliamentary area he's going to contest in. He's confident of winning the seat. And there are rumours saying that there will be at least four MPs from BN who will crossover to join the Pakatan Rakyat (PR). That would give PR a majority and the license to form a government.

IGP, Musa Hassan was the investigating officer in Anwar's sodomy case in 1998 and Attorney-General Gani Patail was the prosecuting officer then. That's the reason why some people have reasons to believe that Saiful could have been arrested to make that allegation under duress.

There will be more dramas to come. Forget about the Venezuelean drama series. This is 'the' drama that we all should follow closely.