Raja Petra Kamarudin is left bewildered at the allegations in the Umno police report against Malaysia Today, saying that he did not write any articles on the date in question.

"I didn't write anything on July 11," said Raja Petra, "so I want to know, which article are they talking about?"

The editor of Malaysia Today, a political blogsite, added that the articles he had written closest to that date were on July 8 and 13 respectively.

According to Umno information chief Muhammad Muhammad Taib, who filed yesterday's report against Malaysia Today, the report concerned remarks and articles published on the website on July 11.

Taib claimed that the postings and articles were disrespectful to the King and Islam

Raja Petra said that he had not received a copy of the police report, and thus could not say whether or not the allegations were justified.

However, responding to what he had heard from the media about the allegations contained in the report, he said that he had checked the archives of the website and there was no article written by him on July 11.

Umno's mission

Raja Petra also said that, according to inside sources, the July 11 references were arbitrary and picked randomly to substantiate the report.

"When Umno had a meeting about this issue," he said, "they didn't have an article yet. Only while they were drafting the report did they look for an article to support it, not the other way around."

According to his sources, Taib and other Umno members met with their lawyers to discuss the report two days ago.

"My sources told me that there was a big team making sure it was a strong argument," he said. "And that they were at the moment looking for articles to fit into the report."

Raja Petra said that Umno was on a mission to decrease blog influence in the country, and that the party had created a committee to counter blogs, including Malaysia Today.

Junk messages

Raja Petra said that people from Umno had attacked his website, leaving multiple comments and junk messages so that he had to block their IP addresses from entering the site again.

"Each day, I had about 500 or 600 repetitive comments which accused me of "fitnah" and "lies"," he complained.

"In the end I had to clean up all the junk and bar the IP addresses. Now they can't get into the website anymore."

He said that the report against Malaysia Today was part of the same scheme to counter alternative websites in Malaysia.

In another development, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Mohd Najib Abd Aziz told reporters today that investigations was ongoing but did not elaborate.

"We will investigate from all angles," he said during a press conference after a function at the Bukit Aman national police headquarters.