Mahathir: a master of progress and offense From: International Herald Tribune | Date: October 20, 2003| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Thomas Fuller
International Herald Tribune
10-20-2003
For those who have spent some time observing Mahathir bin Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister, his comments last week about Jews ruling the world by proxy were perhaps not surprising. Mahathir has been well known during his two decades in power for his offensive comments and sarcastic tone. During the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990's, he once called his foreign critics ''cockerels crowing arrogantly but with the tail-feathers mired in feces.''And he famously called George Soros, the American financier and philanthropist, a ...

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