COMMENT Right now, for Anwar Ibrahim a bunker in Benghazi under siege from a crumbling dictator would be a safer place than any redoubt he might chance to have, either in in Segambut Dalam, where he has his house, or even Cherok Tok Kun, his village back in Permatang Pauh.

Barely had he emerged from what turned out to be a Pyrrhic victory - the refusal of the court, reversed subsequently, to allow personal effects from his brief incarceration in Sodomy II as items for DNA procurement - than he found himself bushwhacked by a sex video purportedly capturing him in flagrante delicto with a sex worker...