Iran Fires Missiles at Jihadists in Syria After a Deadly Attack Militant Leaders Killed, Infrastructure Destroyed
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MUHARRAM 22,1440 AH TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2018 Max 42pº 28 Pages Min 24º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17646 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Saudi Crown Prince sends cable Workers caught between US-Canada trade deal Patriots back on track 2 to Amir expressing his gratitude 4 law redress and abuses 11 boosts global markets 28 with win over Dolphins Iran fires missiles at jihadists in Syria after a deadly attack Militant leaders killed, infrastructure destroyed TEHRAN: Iran said it fired missiles yesterday at State. The US-led coalition confirmed Iranian forces Islamic State militants in Syria it blames for an attack had conducted “no notice strikes last night”. “At this on its soil on Sept 22 and said the action shows the time, the coalition is still assessing if any damage government’s readiness to punish the “wickedness” of occurred and no coalition forces were in danger,” Col its enemies. Tehran has accused US-backed Gulf Arab spokesman Sean Ryan said. states of attacking a military parade in southwestern Fars News posted video footage of several missiles Iran and killing 25 people, nearly half of them members streaking into a dark sky during the attack. The six bal- of the elite Revolutionary Guards. listic missiles used in the attack flew 570 km to hit the Yesterday’s strike targeted the bases of “takfiri ter- targets, the Guards said. A map shown on state TV pin- rorists” backed by Washington and regional powers in pointed Kermanshah in western Iran as the launch site eastern Syria, the Guards said in a statement on Sepah and Albu Kamal in southeast Syria as the target. The News, their news site. It killed a number of militant missiles were Iranian-made Zolfaqar and Qiam missiles, leaders and destroyed their supplies and infrastructure, Fars News reported. they said. Iranian officials often use the word “takfiri” to “Our iron fist is prepared to deliver a decisive and describe Sunni Muslim hardliners. Iran is predominantly crushing response to any wickedness and mischief of Shiite Muslim. “Death to the family of Saud,” “Death to the enemies,” the Guards, the most powerful military America,” and “Death to Israel” were written on one of force in the Islamic Republic, said. Seven drones were the missiles shown on the Fars News site. also used to bomb militant targets during the attack, The strike targeted the last pocket of territory in they said. The Ahvaz National Resistance, an Iranian southeastern Syria held by Islamic State, said an official ethnic Arab separatist movement, and the Islamic State in the Iran-backed regional alliance fighting in support have both claimed responsibility for the Sept. 22 attack. of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. It is an area Neither group has presented conclusive evidence to Photo shows missiles being launched from an undisclosed location to target militants in eastern Syria. Iran’s where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) back up its claim. Revolutionary Guards said yesterday they had launched a missile attack against a ‘terrorist’ headquarters in launched a new offensive last month against Islamic Continued on Page 24 Syria in retaliation for a September attack on the Iranian city of Ahvaz. — AFP In my view US, Japanese pair win Nobel Fatal policies Prize for cancer therapy STOCKHOLM: Two immunologists, James cancer can be managed.” In 1995, Allison was By Tareq Ahmad Al-Duaij Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, one of two scientists to identify the ligand won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for CTLA-4 as an inhibitory receptor on T-cells. [email protected] research into how the body’s natural defenses T-cells are a type of white blood cell that can fight cancer, the jury said yesterday. Unlike play a central role in the body’s natural immu- uring one of my visits to the Sulaibikhat more traditional forms of cancer treatment that nity to disease. directly target cancer cells, Allison and Honjo Allison, 70, “realized the potential of releas- cemetery, I noticed six graves lined next to figured out how to help the patient’s own ing the brake and thereby unleashing our each other - two large and four small. A quick D immune system tackle the cancer more quickly. immune cells to attack tumors,” the Nobel jury glance at the names made me realize they were all The award-winning discovery led to treat- said during yesterday’s prize announcement in members of the same family - dad, mom and their ments targeting proteins made by some Stockholm. Around the same time, Honjo dis- four children. What happened to them, I asked immune system cells that act as a “brake” on covered a protein on immune cells, the ligand myself. In any other country, one might think they the body’s natural defenses killing cancer cells. PD-1, and eventually realized that it also were victims of a house fire, a violent crime, or food The Nobel Assembly said after announcing worked a brake, but it acted differently. This combination of file pictures taken shows Tasuku Honjo (left) of or gas poisoning, perhaps. the prize in Stockholm that the therapy “has Writing on his cancer centre’s website, Allison Japan and James P Allison of the US. James P Allison of the US and But in Kuwait, I could only think of a car accident. now revolutionized cancer treatment and has said he was “honored and humbled to receive Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research Then I asked myself - what sort of car accident? fundamentally changed the way we view how Continued on Page 24 that has revolutionized the treatment of cancer. — AFP Could the driver have been distracted by his mobile phone (while the use of mobiles is dangerous in any case, I cannot understand parents who use their phones when their children are with them in the car - don’t they fear for their safety?) Or were they victims Indonesia buries of a careless driver who smashed their car and got away with minor injuries? Since then, every time I see a car in my rear-view quake victims mirror swerving left and right on the highway at great speed between other cars, I can’t help but think that in mass grave one day he/she will kill an entire family, or kill a mem- ber of that family and break the hearts of the others. PALU: Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in But I never thought this would happen to my family. a mass grave with space for more than a thousand peo- There are many good remedies to traffic prob- ple yesterday, victims of a quake-tsunami that devastat- lems, but the decision to allow the use of the hard ed swathes of Sulawesi and left authorities struggling to shoulder (also known as the safety lane) is not one of deal with the sheer scale of the disaster. Indonesia is no them. Even if this decision reduced rush-hour jour- stranger to natural calamities and Jakarta had been keen neys by 20 or 30 minutes, what is the use if hospitals to show it could deal with a catastrophe that has killed keep receiving casualties? Even police officers have at least 844 people, according to the latest official fallen victim to this decision (according to nurses at count, and displaced some 48,000 more. Mubarak Hospital). But four days on some remote areas are only now I don’t think this decision was made to reduce being contacted, medicines are running out and res- traffic, but it was an indirect admission by the Traffic cuers are struggling with a shortage of heavy equip- Department that it had lost control of the streets, and ment as they try to reach desperate victims calling out the hard shoulders in particular. Cars were driving on from the ruins of collapsed buildings. In response, the hard shoulder way before the decision was made President Joko Widodo opened the door to the dozens and then the authorities allowed it (with certain of international aid agencies and NGOs who are lined guidelines) in order to permit what was already dan- up to provide life-saving assistance. “Last night, gerously taking place. President @jokowi authorized us to accept international PALU, Indonesia: Officials carry body bags into a mass grave ahead of a mass funeral for quake victims in A simple look at the streets of Kuwait makes it Continued on Page 24 Palu, in Central Sulawesi yesterday. — AFP clear that many people are not competent drivers. Safe driving requires manners and etiquette, and both are absent in Kuwait. There is no respect for the law in Kuwait, traffic or other laws. And if the vast was 22-year-old social media influencer majority of people in Kuwait respect all laws, then the Murders of and model Tara Fares. Her bloody demise minority that doesn’t causes considerable damage. at the wheel of a white Porsche convert- Who knows what the guidelines are for the use of the trailblazing ible in Baghdad on Thursday has sparked hard shoulder? Decisions about mobiles and seat- as much debate as her racy photos. belts are just ink on paper, disrespected from the Fares had built an Instagram following of start, so did the Traffic Department expect drivers in Iraqi women 2.7 million people thanks to edgy fashion Kuwait to respect guidelines on the use of the hard shoots, assertive missives and eyecatching, shoulder? It has become an extra lane for the use of spark fears colorful hairstyles.