ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 7 July 2013 28 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5753 Price: QR2 Barwa launches Bartoli crushes property in Lisicki for first central London Wimbledon title Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Syria opposition Qaradawi asks elects new leader amid Egyptians to divisions ISTANBUL/BEIRUT: Syria’s fractious opposition elected a new leader yesterday but rebel back Mursi groups were reported to be fighting among themselves in a sign of growing divisions on the ground between factions try- Fatwa against president’s ouster ing to topple President Bashar Al Assad. DOHA: Noted Islamic scholar oath. He and his team represent The Syrian National Coalition and head of International but a few Egyptians.” The cleric chose Ahmad Jarba as its presi- Union of Muslim Scholars, Dr said that Asisi rebelling against a dent after a close runoff vote that Youssef Al Qaradawi, has in an legitimate president was unjustifi- reinforced the influence of Saudi edict (fatwa) issued yesterday able. “He has breached the trust Arabia over a perpetually divided asked Egyptians to back ousted of the entire Egyptian society opposition movement that has President Mohammed Mursi of because it were they who chose struggled to convince its Western the Muslim Brotherhood and Mursi as their president.” and Arab allies that its fighters said the military should with- Al Qaradawi’s fatwa has, mean- are ready to be given sophisti- draw from the political scene. while, evoked sharp reactions in cated foreign weaponry. The fatwa, posted on the cler- Egypt. Some people commenting Jarba is a tribal figure from the ic’s official website, said the mili- on Egypt’s popular news website, eastern Syrian province of Hasaka tary’s move deposing Mursi was almasryalyaum.com criticised the who has Saudi connections. against democracy and Egypt’s cleric. “A change was needed,” Adib constitution. Shishakly, a senior official in the Al Qaradawi said the Egyptian US NOT TAKING SIDES coalition, told Reuters after the constitution should be retained Meanwhile, US President vote held at an opposition meeting with the necessary modifications, Barack Obama condemned the Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi carry mock coffins during a symbolic funeral for in Istanbul. and asked the armed forces and violence in Egypt yesterday and the four men killed during clashes with police outside the Republican Guard headquarters a day earlier, in Cairo, “The old leadership of the those backing them to reinstate said that the United States was yesterday. coalition had failed to offer the the deposed president. not working with any particular Syrian people anything sub- It is the bounden duty of every Egyptian political party or group stantial and was preoccupied Muslim to support Mursi, the as the country reels from a mili- with internal politics. Ahmad famous cleric said. tary takeover. Egypt hits first snag over PM Jarba is willing to work with For decades, Egyptian people Obama, spending the weekend everybody.” were longing to have an oppor- at the Camp David presidential CAIRO: The appointment for the job and the presidency had Mansour said the two issues were The Muslim Brotherhood, the tunity to choose their country’s retreat, convened a secure con- of liberal Egyptian politician to take account of opposition to linked. only organised faction in the president from their free will. ference call with members of his Mohamed ElBaradei as interim ElBaradei. Losing Nour’s backing would Syrian political opposition, has “God gave them that opportu- national security team as he seeks prime minister hit a snag yes- He mentioned no other candi- significantly weaken the position seen its mother organisation nity and the people chose Mursi as to help shape events in Egypt days terday, as the army-backed dates and added that there was of the military, removing any in Egypt thrown out of power their president,” said Al Qaradawi after a military ouster of elected transitional authorities were no set date for the appointment Islamist support from the tran- in Cairo this week along with in his edict. President Mohammed Mursi. under pressure to restore order of interim prime minister. sition process, fiercely opposed by President Mohammed Mursi. Criticising the defence minister “The president condemned the after deadly Islamist protests. The Nour Party, Egypt’s sec- Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood. The rebel infighting comes as and commander of armed forces ongoing violence across Egypt State media and officials had ond biggest Islamist force, said it Generals said they had inter- forces loyal to Assad have made General Abdul Fattah Asisi, the and expressed concern over the said earlier that the 71-year-old opposed ElBaradei and threat- vened in response to huge popu- gains on the battlefield. cleric said, while taking oath as continued political polarisation. Nobel Peace prizewinner and ened to withdraw its support for lar demonstrations calling for But the Brotherhood repre- defence minister from Mursi he He reiterated that the United former UN nuclear agency chief the military-backed overthrow of Mursi to resign. Mursi’s Muslim sentative, Farouq Tayfour, was had taken the vow to be loyal to States is not aligned with, and would be named interim prime President Mohammed Mursi on Brotherhood, the dominant elected one of two vice-pres- him. “The whole world saw him does not support, any particular minister last evening. Wednesday, which was the trigger Islamist force in the Arab world’s idents of the Syrian National taking oath. But now he (Asisi) Egyptian political party or group,” But a presidential spokesman, for the bloody unrest. most populous nation, called for Coalition. has become the highest author- a White House statement said. speaking shortly before midnight, A youth activist who met more protests today. REUTERS REUTERS ity in the land and breached his THE PENINSULA/AGENCIES said there were several options interim head of state Adli See also page 6 See also page 7 Boeing 777 crash-lands Turkey protesters Ethiopia sets terms for clash with police ISTANBUL: Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon sending maids to Qatar to disperse hundreds of pro- testers in an Istanbul square DOHA: Ethiopia has agreed to recruitment process to take off yesterday as they gathered to send domestic workers, includ- based on terms and conditions enter a park that was the cen- ing maids, to Qatar but said it agreed on by both sides, local tre of protests against Prime would need monthly reports Arabic daily Al Watan reported Minister Tayyip Erdogan last about salary payments to them yesterday. month. Taksim Solidarity, com- and that their work timings The Chamber delegation led by bining an array of political should not exceed that agreed Ali Hamad Al Marri held discus- groups, had called a march to upon in their job contracts. sions with the Ethiopian labour enter the sealed off Gezi park, The dignity and rights of ministry for two days beginning but the governor of Istanbul Ethiopian workers must be pro- June 30. warned that any such gather- tected in Qatar, the country’s The wages paid to the Ethiopian ing would be confronted by the Minister of State for Labour domestics will be uniform, the police. Riot police chased pro- and Social Affairs, Dr Zerihun Qatari delegation told Ethiopian testers into side streets in what Kebede, told a visiting delegation officials. There are 120 man- appeared to be the biggest police of Qatar Chamber, representative power agencies in Qatar while intervention since the mid-June body of the private sector. the number of recognised recruit- protests and riots. He said requests to recruit ment agencies in Ethiopia is 380. Full report on page 6 Ethiopian domestics will need Those shortlisted for recruit- to be submitted to the country’s ment will have to undergo medi- embassy in Doha, and it would cal tests in Ethiopia, and later on Militants kill 27 be sent to manpower agencies in here. If a worker is sent home on Ethiopia for approval. health grounds, all costs would schoolchildren However, an extensive mecha- be borne by the Ethiopian agency A KTVU image grab of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 after it crash-landed at San Francisco International nism is being put in place for the concerned. THE PENINSULA MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: Airport in California yesterday. There were no casualties till reports last came in. Suspected Islamist gunmen killed 27 students and a teacher in a boarding school in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum yesterday, a police Three South American countries offer asylum to Snowden source said. The attack is a fur- ther sign that Islamist insurgent LA PAZ/CARACAS: Bolivia surveillance programmes. Bolivian President Evo Morales “I want to tell ... the Europeans town of Chipaya. group Boko Haram remains a offered asylum yesterday to Snowden, 30, is believed to be had said earlier this week that he and Americans that last night I “If we receive a legal request, threat to Africa’s top oil pro- former US spy agency contractor holed up in the transit area of would consider granting asylum was thinking that as a fair pro- we will grant asylum,” he said. ducer despite a crackdown on it. Edward Snowden, joining leftist Moscow’s Sheremetyevo inter- to Snowden. But he took a harder test, I want to say that now in Bolivia’s Foreign Ministry was The attackers set fire to build- allies Venezuela and Nicaragua national airport and has been line yesterday, angered that some fact we are going to give asylum to not immediately available to com- ings and shot pupils as they tried in defiance of Washington, trying to find a country that European countries banned his that American who is being per- ment on whether a formal asylum to flee, the source told Reuters by which is demanding his arrest would take him since he landed plane from their airspace this week secuted by his fellow Americans,” request had been received.