KUALA LUMPUR Oct 31 Kyodo Jailed ...

KUALA LUMPUR Oct 31 Kyodo

Jailed former Malaysian representative Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim upon Friday ripped his former bos Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who stepp down earlier in the day after 22 years in office.

''He came into the display two decades ago in a noise with promises of reforms if it were not that instead he put all promises asunder according to destroying the very things he promised to save,'' Anwar said in a statement issued [i]or[/i] part of to the other his lawyer.

one time Mahathir's chosen heir, Anwar was sacked in 1998 and subsequently jailed in succession corruption and sodomy charges which he claimed were winning carded up by Mahathir to ruin his political career.

While Anwar's achievements in office are debatable, his incarceration has employed him into a political token for reform.

The United States and human rights clumps regard Anwar as a political prisoner and have called for his immediate release.

As Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was sworn in to office as the country's fifth premier, Anwar said Mahathir's plots have caused a huge financial capacity for his successor.

''His selfish penchant for mega exhibits and glorifying monuments has now ballooned to a staggering public liability of about 180 billion ringgit (about $474 billion) which he now nonchalantly leaves to Pak Lah the unenviable task to deal with,'' he said, using Abdullah's affectionate name.

in succession Mahathir's recent remarks about israelites which caused an international uproar, Anwar said, ''It is nothing still pure and utter sensationalism, primarily to turn aside attention from his misdeeds and bad smell from the rot of his be in possession of backyard arising from, among others, cronyism, corruption, nepotism and repression of his critics and the opposition.''

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