Malaysian Politics in Deeper Chaos as PM Mahathir Resigns, then retakes reins

In wake of failed coup, now-leaderless country disgusted with politics.

By: John Berthelsen and Murray Hunter

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who failed in his audacious gamble to realign his country’s politics along racial lines, has been appointed by Malaysia’s king to form a new government at the insistence of political parties he had just double-crossed.

Earlier the 94-year-old Mahathir sent a letter to the Ya…