Obama visit: Kuala Lumpur set to be in 'security lockdown'

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OBAMA'S OFFICIAL VISIT TO MALAYSIA
Kuala Lumpur set to be in 'security lockdown'
The Star
Asia News Network

KUALA LUMPUR: -- With United States President Barack Obama coming to town, be prepared for a total "security lockdown".

As customary wherever the US commander-in-chief is abroad, it will be strictly out of bounds as far as roads and airspace are concerned.

Besides heightened police presence, expect road closures in major parts of the city with a "no-fly zone" to be enforced to protect the president ahead of his arrival onboard Air Force One at the RMAF base in Subang on Saturday afternoon.

Everyone is tightlipped on the president's movements here. A US Embassy official responded, tongue-in-cheek: "To tell you I'll have to kill you."

The US Secret Service has been in the country over the past month, "securing" the president's routes, hotel and places he will step foot in.

US military cargo planes have begun delivering logistical supplies for Obama's visit, including supp­ort vehicles and trucks loaded with sheets of bullet-proof glass, to cover windows of the hotel Obama will stay in.

Obama's trip will be the first by a sitting US president to Malaysia in 48 years since Lyndon B. Johnson came way back in 1966.

Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman confirmed that security in the skies would be "airtight", saying the department was well prepared.

"I cannot tell you any more as that will be a breach," he said when contacted yesterday. City deputy police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Amar Singh said the police were fully prepared on the security aspect.

"We have sufficient manpower and will work with other agencies to ensure everything goes smoothly," he said.

The 44th president would be ferried in his Cadillac One, tagged The Beast (refer to graphics).

A taste of what to expect here is already being experienced in Tokyo, where security has been dramatically ramped up with 16,000 police officers deployed in readiness for the first state visit by a US president there in nearly two decades.

The president is currently in the Japanese capital and heads to Seoul before flying here. Local media said a full third of Tokyo's police force had been pressed into service for Obama's two-night visit, which begins today.

Left luggage lockers and rubbish bins have been sealed in some stations and thousands of security cameras have been put into operation.


-- The Nation 2014-04-23

[ZigZagMan]

He's coming in person to explain what the NSA did with Flight MH370.

[Torrens54]

Just what Malaysia needs: "Bungling Barack" to tell them how to run the place.

The guy needs to stay at home and sort out his own country's problems before spending his Taxpayers Money on trips aimed at attempting to boost his own ego.

Obama has the reverse of the Midas-Touch.

Instead of everything he touches, turning to Gold, it simply turns to Poop!

[Scott]

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[outsider]

Thailand, especially their security details and agencies, have so much to learn from countries mentioned in this article. Japan, Korea and Malaysia are keeping mum about the potus' movements, while the Thai clowns literally shared almost the whole of Obama's agenda during his recent visit to BKK.

[squarethecircle]

I heard everything was on lockdown when he came through Bangkok in November 2012 - street vendors that normally paid bribes to operate were shut down, etc. - so certainly no surprise here.

[rotary]

They need a security lock down to protect their citizens from the rubbish that comes from Obama's mouth.

They could just ban teleprompters........that would silence him.

[ggt]

The US President, Obama, feels very comfortable coming to a Muslim country...

[chooka]

He is just another politician from another country, geez Australia doesn't go into paranoid panic mode when our P.M's travel. What is it with these Americans when the self appointed King of their imaginary world travels. You have the next KING & Queen of the Commonwealth freely wondering around Australia and they are far higher class than some lowlife American politician who, tomorrow will be a nobody. Geez America get off your holier than thou crap, he is just a politician and not royalty just another unemployed looser tomorrow.

[Frank James]

They need a security lock down to protect their citizens from the rubbish that comes from Obama's mouth.

They could just ban teleprompters........that would silence him.

How long did it take you to think up that intelligent quip?

[rotary]

Less time than it took you to think up yours

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[LennyW]

And all of a sudden the presumed missing MH370 comes out of hiding scoring a direct hit........well anything is possible until it is found otherwise!

[rickirs]

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The US President, Obama, feels very comfortable coming to a Muslim country...

Well, he admitted his muslim faith in a video. Just google: video obama admits he is a muslim and at 1:01 into the clip hear it in his own words.

No he did not say "he is a muslim." He said "he is one of them" FOLLOWING his satement made to Americans who know Muslims to be good people that he is one of those AMERICANS who knows so as well. Obama is an acknolwdged Christian. You have taken Obama's speech out of context. Obama is comfortable being in a muslim country because he harbors no religious discrimination, and the Malaysian government and its people have a high regard for the US, its President, and its people.

[rickirs]

I hope Obama brings plenty of AWACS to detect unidentified aircraft that might fly into Malaysia airspace. We already know Malaysia doesn't know dickens about whether unidentified aircraft fly into its airspace until a couple days afterwards when it can gather a committee to reach a consensus on radar trackings. And of course as we've heard from the Mayalsian government, aircraft apparently only has to fly at 4,000-5,000 feet to evade Malaysia radar.

[rickirs]

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He is just another politician from another country, geez Australia doesn't go into paranoid panic mode when our P.M's travel. What is it with these Americans when the self appointed King of their imaginary world travels. You have the next KING & Queen of the Commonwealth freely wondering around Australia and they are far higher class than some lowlife American politician who, tomorrow will be a nobody. Geez America get off your holier than thou crap, he is just a politician and not royalty just another unemployed looser tomo

Americans don't worship their politicians like other people worship royalty, especially royalty that has no official government authority and only claim their royalty by birth. In fact Americans love to hate their politicians, makes for a vigorous democracy.

And just to keep a little perspective, Australia owes its freedom to have the next King and Qween of the Commonwealth wander around the Australian countryside to the American military power who defeated the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater and more specifically in the Battles of Guadacanal, the Coral Sea, and Savo Island off the coast of Australia. To give Australia credit, it did provide ONE battle cruiser in support of American landings.

Now the US cames back again to Asia to assist the ASEAN countries to protect their sovereignty and right of passage throughout the China Sea and adjacent Pacific and Indian Ocean areas against China's geopolitical expansion of its "inherent" right to waters that touch its soil. Nothing trivial or funny about that.

[rotary]

The US President, Obama, feels very comfortable coming to a Muslim country...

Well, he admitted his muslim faith in a video. Just google: video obama admits he is a muslim and at 1:01 into the clip hear it in his own words.

No he did not say "he is a muslim." He said "he is one of them" FOLLOWING his satement made to Americans who know Muslims to be good people that he is one of those AMERICANS who knows so as well. Obama is an acknolwdged Christian. You have taken Obama's speech out of context. Obama is comfortable being in a muslim country because he harbors no religious discrimination, and the Malaysian government and its people have a high regard for the US, its President, and its people.

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We'll I am not so sure they hold Obama in any kind of regard. I assume they are like most of the world regarding Obama

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