Five Suspects in Kuwait Attack Face Legal Action
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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015 RAMADAN 13, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Blast victims Arab League Djokovic and officially deplores Serena off to Emsak: 03:06 ‘Martyrs of terror winning starts Fajer: 03:16 Shrooq 04:51 Kuwait’ attacks at Wimbledon Dohr: 11:51 Asr: 15:25 Maghreb: 18:51 3 13 20 Eshaa: 20:24 Five suspects in Kuwait Min 29º Max 46º attack face legal action High Tide 1010 & 23:40 Low Tide Bomber’s ‘last audio message’ warns of more attacks 03:20 & 17:15 40 PAGES NO: 16567 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait’s interior ministry yesterday referred five Ramadan Kareem suspects linked to the suicide bombing of a mosque to the prosecution service for legal action, a security official Overview of the Quran said. “We have referred five suspects accused of assisting the suicide bomber to the public prosecution,” the official By Teresa Lesher told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. They include the driver who took the Saudi bomber to Part 1 the mosque and the car’s owner and his brother, all state- he holy Quran is the most recent holy scripture and, according to it, the last to ever come. It is less people or bedoons. They also include two Kuwaiti Talso the only scripture that is intact in the origi- citizens-the owner of the house used as a hideout for the nal language. It is regarded by Muslims as the driver, and his brother, the official said. Speech of God that was revealed through “More suspects are expected to be referred later,” he Muhammad (PBUH) over a period of 23 years to him, added. Security agencies have rounded up an unspeci- his contemporaries, those who believe, and to all of fied number of suspects in connection with Friday’s blast humankind. The main topics in the holy Quran, pre- that killed 26 people and wounded 227. The public pros- sented in 600 Arabic pages, relate mainly to faith, ecution will now interrogate the suspects and then refer deeds, and the ramifications of our choices in these them for trial. spheres. Kuwait’s security agencies have “revised security plans While the Quran’s verses cover various topics and measures following the attack”, said the official, throughout, there seem to be three main sections adding that the new measures involve boosting security that prompt us to 1) adopt the basic faith as well as in general and around mosques in particular. The Islamic the basic deeds required by our Creator and needed State group’s Saudi affiliate, the so-called Najd Province, for our salvation, 2) develop deep faith in God and awareness of the unseen world, and 3) refine and claimed the bombing and identified the assailant as Abu perfect our character and behavior in light of eventu- Suleiman Al-Muwahhid. al consequences. In the first third of the Quran, the Amir receives Egypt-Kuwait Kuwaiti authorities on Sunday said the real name of chapters and verses are long, and the sentence struc- the bomber was Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen Al- ture is simple and clear. The material is very detailed, Gabbaa, who was born in 1992. He entered the country it contains a lot of rules, and it often relates to the Cooperation Council members through Kuwait Airport at dawn on Friday, the day of the community as a whole; it is telling communities how KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yester- bombing. A handout photograph of Gabbaa showed a to live. This section contains the longest verse - which day Chairman of the Egypt-Kuwait Cooperation Council Mohammad Jassem Al-Sager, accompanied by the young bearded man wearing a traditional Saudi head- is about documenting debts and trade transactions. dress. Continued on Page 13 council’s members. Deputy Minister of Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah also attended the meeting. —KUNA Continued on Page 13 Parliament may extend term to pass urgent laws By B Izzak new legislation though this could still be done. Dhafiri said that the Assembly had passed a number of anti-ter- KUWAIT: Although the Cabinet did not publicly ror laws including a law for combating money launder- announce any urgent legislation it could require to con- ing and terror funding which stipulate stiff penalties. front terror threats, the National Assembly is expected Nevertheless, the Assembly is ready to approve any leg- to decide today to extend the current term to approve islation for any shortcomings. urgent laws. MP Mansour Al-Dhafiri said he is certain that a majority of lawmakers will agree to extend the Special debate parliamentary term, scheduled to end this week, if it The Assembly will today convene its first session fol- was necessary to pass legislation for this extraordinary lowing the suicide bombing that killed 26 people and situation. Dhafiri said that MPs totally back the interior wounded 227 others. Shiite MP Faisal Al-Duwaisan said ministry in taking precautionary measures to prevent he and other MPs will request a one-hour special the brutal mosque bombing from taking place again. debate to pay tributes to the victims of the terror attack. Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair said on Sunday that the cab- The government is also likely to brief the Assembly inet was due to study in its meeting legislation to fight about the latest developments regarding the terror extremism. He did not provide any details. But the cabi- attack and any future plans. net did not announce in its statement any plans to issue Continued on Page 13 UAE woman sentenced to death ABU DHABI: A United Arab Emirates court sentenced an Emirati woman to death yesterday after convicting her of the jihadist-inspired murder of an American teacher, Abu Dhabi newspaper The National reported. Alaa Bader Al- Hashemi, 30, was found guilty of stabbing to death school teacher Ibolya Ryan, 47, in a shopping mall toilet, the paper said. She was also convicted of “creating a handmade bomb” she placed in front of an Egyptian-American doctor’s home, it CAIRO: Security personnel investigate the site added. The attacks took place within of a bombing that killed Egypt’s top prosecutor hours of each other in the UAE capital on Hisham Barakat (inset) in Cairo yesterday. —AP December 1. Tracked down using CCTV footage of her going into and out of the restroom Egypt prosecutor where the teacher’s murder took place and near the doctor’s building, Hashemi killed in bombing was arrested 48 hours later. She was dressed in black from head-to-toe as she carried out both attacks. Hashemi was CAIRO: Egypt’s state prosecutor was His assassination will come as a arrested at her home where her car was killed in a powerful bombing that hit blow to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, found with blood on the steering wheel his convoy in Cairo yesterday following the former army chief who overthrew and bomb making materials inside. jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary Morsi and won elections pledging to The National said that Hashemi “was to avenge a crackdown on Islamists. wipe out Islamist militants. There was also found guilty of sending money to Al- The health ministry and senior offi- no immediate claim of responsibility Qaeda in Yemen, knowing the funds cials including Justice Minister Ahmed for the attack. The bomb had destroyed would be used in terrorist acts”. The ruling Al-Zind told AFP that Hisham Barakat several cars and blew out storefront was made by the Federal Supreme Court had died in hospital several hours after windows, an AFP reporter at the scene in Abu Dhabi, which means it cannot be the morning bombing in the upscale said. At least five vehicles were com- appealed. The president can, however, district of Heliopolis in east Cairo. pletely gutted in the explosion. Health decide to overturn the sentence or reduce Barakat, 64, was the most senior gov- ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel it. Hashemi, surrounded by four police ernment official killed since jihadists Gaffar said eight people were wound- officers, “showed no emotion as the ver- launched an insurgency following the ed in the blast, including two civilians dict and sentence were announced,” the military overthrow of Islamist presi- and five policemen guarding Barakat. paper said. dent Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015 LOCAL KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad. —Amiri Diwan photos Amir receives UN KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday Chairman of the Egypt-Kuwait Cooperation Council Mohammad Jassem Al-Sager, accompanied by the council’s members. — KUNA Envoy for Yemen KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh firmed the international organization’s Mourners pay respects at Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah renunciation of the criminal blast, and reit- received at Seif Palace early yesterday First erated support to Kuwait’s efforts to com- Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign bat all forms of terrorism, through interna- Affairs Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al- tional solidarity seeking to fight the phe- Grand Mosque for 2nd day Sabah, accompanied by Special Envoy of nomenon and dry up its sources of financ- the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General ing worldwide. for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmad. His Highness the Amir meanwhile By Meshaal Al-Enezi that it helped reduce the impact of this tragedy stressed that the number of citizens rushing to The Foreign Minister and the UN envoy received the Iranian Supreme Leader’s on the families of the martyrs.