"I'm fed up!" he shouts, his voice quivering with emotion.

                   For RM10 (S$4.30), the politically curious can listen to what is believed to
                   be the ousted Deputy Premier as he confronts his adversaries 24 hours
                   after he was sacked.

                   Audio tapes, said to be of the closed-door meeting when Anwar faced off
                   against his mentor-turned-adversary, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
                   and Umno leaders, are on sale in the capital.

                   The Sept 3 gathering was Anwar's first meeting with party chiefs over sex
                   allegations and corruption that had plagued him for months before his
                   sacking.

                   It is not known who recorded the meeting and then made the tapes public.

                   An Umno spokesman said the tapes were not distributed by the party,
                   adding that she could not comment on their authenticity as she had not
                   listened to them.

                   Umno information chief Yusof Noor said the leaking of the tapes,
                   considered a party secret, was a serious matter and Umno would
                   investigate how they fell into the public's hands.

                   By now the accusations and counter-accusations are familiar fare to anyone
                   who has followed Anwar's saga from his ouster on Sept 2 to his arrest on
                   Sept 20 to his trial on sex and corruption charges.

                   But the tape communicates the highly-charged atmosphere of the four-hour
                   meeting that marked Anwar's final humiliation within his political party.

                   If genuine, it also offers a rare glimpse of the inner workings of Umno's
                   Supreme Council. Apart from Mahathir and Anwar, 10 other leaders
                   spoke during the fateful meeting.

                   The statements on the recording are consistent with the stands that Dr
                   Mahathir and Anwar staked out publicly after the meeting.

                   Dr Mahathir has said Anwar was morally unfit to be a leader. Anwar has
                   said the corruption and sodomy charges which he denies are part of a plot
                   to topple him.

                   In the two-tape recording, a speaker believed to be Dr Mahathir starts the
                   meeting by divulging what he says he discovered in his own checks on
                   Anwar. He talks of uncovering womanising and secret trysts with
                   prostitutes.

                   "I admit I was shocked because I did not expect that a person, a friend I
                   thought was very religious, was involved in these activities," he says in
                   Malay.

                   "But the charge that shocked me was linked to the womanising, having sex
                   with a number of women, the charge that he tried to seduce someone's
                   wife, and worst of all that he has sodomised a man."

                   On the tape, a man believed to be Anwar vigorously defended himself,
                   saying he was the victim of a conspiracy. He thumped the table a number
                   of times, speaking in a loud voice.

                   "By God! I will have to fight because this is a conspiracy and I know the
                   persons who are involved!" he said.

                   Among the Umno elders who spoke, only two, believed to be Deputy
                   Finance Minister Affifuddin Omar and former Umno Youth leader Zahid
                   Hamidi, said the party should not punish Anwar without a court verdict.

                   Other leaders asked Anwar to quit quietly for the sake of party unity.
                   Some feared embarrassment if he were to be expelled from the party, as
                   elders would then have to explain his alleged sexual offences to the rank
                   and file. -- Reuters