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PAS chief to face Malaysian police over claims US would help ‘topple’ government

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Malaysian police have contacted Islamist opposition leader Abdul Hadi Awang over his explosive claim that the United States once offered to help his party topple the government – an allegation Washington has flatly dismissed as false. The controversy erupted after Hadi told thousands of delegates at the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) congress in Kelantan on Saturday that American representatives had approached party leaders when Barack Obama visited Malaysia in 2014. Hadi’s political...

First report: US Rejects Claim It Sought to Influence Malaysia’s Leadership — bloomberg.com, 9d