Najib beats the war drums


EVERYONE was expecting Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to beat the war drums at the Umno general assembly.

What they did not expect was that the Umno president would start banging it barely 10 minutes into his presidential speech. From then on, it was bang, bang, bang all the way till the end.

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