Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Probably quite a bit. According to documents and correspondences sighted by The Edge, the
Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force had in
2015 and 2016 shared information with Bank Negara Malaysia about
suspicious transactions involving Iron Rhapsody Ltd, which had a bank
account at UBS in Singapore.
Tawfiq and a son are beneficial owners of Iron Rhapsody, according to CAD. In reply to a query, Bank Negara said it was unable to respond, as it
was “bound by the international protocol for sharing of financial
intelligence”.
It took place in 2008 and 2009 and the STR alerts were flagged to Bank
Negara only in 2015 and 2016 by CAD, after investigators there, together
with those in Malaysia, Switzerland and the US, launched probes into
the theft and laundering of billions of dollars that belonged to 1MDB. The probes were triggered by exposés published from March 2015 by The Edge, Sarawak Report and The Wall Street Journal.
Documents shared by Singapore’s CAD with Malaysian investigators
showed that Iron Rhapsody received a total of US$16.22 million from
companies/bank accounts of Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low:
1) June 18, 2008: US$7.42 million from Butamba Investments Ltd’s bank
account at RBS Coutts Singapore. Jho Low is the beneficial owner of
Butamba Investments, which was involved in a May 2008 RM3 billion land
deal with Khazanah Nasional Iskandar Malaysia (see The Edge Malaysia,
Issue 1057, March 9 to 15, 2015: “How Jho Low made RM400 million by
quick flip of Iskandar land deal”);
2) May 21, 2009: US$0.732 million was received from Jho Low’s US law
firm Shearman & Sterling’s account in Citibank in the US. The US
Department of Justice has named Shearman as a firm that Jho Low used to
launder money stolen from 1MDB:
