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At Jalan Riong, where dirty linens are washed publicly and stubborn stain of factual errors at the highest dongeng chair refused to go away, the battleline shifted to A Kadir Jasin, who sits among the minority shareholders as the AGM is being held today.

In 1998, rumblings started of differences between Dr Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim, and amid allegations of "nepotism, corruption and collusion" Dr Mahathir revealed the whole list of privatisations and major government contracts given out.

Among the many names, including friends and relatives of Anwar and Dr Mahathir himself, were media man Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin and Datuk Yahya Jalil, whose Gerbang Perdana was awarded the contract for the crooked bridge. Kadir and his partners were the largest recipients in a number of projects, including three Independent Power Plants (IPPs). Therefore, Ani Arope's comments must have stung.

Kadir — during whose tenure as NSTP editor-in-chief the newspaper dropped from being the top-selling paper to being a far second behind The Star by the time he left — was allowed to buy the group’s magazine publisher, Berita Publishing, which included Malaysian Business and Her World, for RM1. Sounds almost like MV Agusta, doesn’t it? Only, Agusta was a massively debt-laden company.

Kadir’s proposal to privatise the national news agency, Bernama, together with Dr Mahathir’s former special assistant Datuk Jalaluddin Bahaudin, was rejected by the Government a few years ago.

Today, he remains one of Dr Mahathir’s staunchest supporters and is a harsh critic of the current administration through his blog, Internet websites and the dwindling Malaysian Business he bought for RM1.

Will AKJ ask The NST for his 'Right of Reply?' The last time he was framed by Kalimullah for "wedging vendetta" against The NST, he wrote a Letter to Editor and demanded for the letter to be published. The NST denied him the right.

Is this you called 'media proxy war'? Would Dollah Kok Lanas be next? Sate, mari-mari...