SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015 SAFAR 5, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Govt health Marriott buys Veteran No pay, less insurance for Starwood Indian-British power: Bahrain expats to stop Hotels for actor Saeed sheikh’s FIFA in three5 years? $12.221 billion Jaffrey37 dies presidency19 pitch CIA chief expects more Min 12º Max 25º IS attacks in ‘pipeline’ High Tide 01:48 & 16:20 Low Tide US states shun Syrian refugees after Paris carnage 09:27 & 21:27 40 PAGES NO: 16700 150 FILS WASHINGTON: CIA director John Brennan warned yes- terday that the attacks in Paris were likely not a “one off Hollande outlines fightback against IS event” and that he expects the Islamic State group has more operations in the pipeline. “Security and intelli- gence services right now are working feverishly to see PARIS: President Francois Hollande unveiled France’s what else they can do in terms of uncovering it,” he said riposte to Islamic State yesterday after its atrocities in at a Washington think tank. The CIA chief said Friday Paris, vowing tough new anti-terror measures and night’s attacks by gunmen in suicide vests in the heart of intensified bombing of Syria in a historic speech to the French capital were carefully planned and executed. parliament. Describing the coordinated attacks that “This was not some- killed 129 people as “acts of war”, Hollande urged a thing done in a matter global fightback to crush IS and said he would hold of days. This is some- talks with his US and Russian counterparts on a new thing that was carefully offensive. and deliberately Friday’s “acts of war... were decided and planned planned over the in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium (and) course of several perpetrated on our soil with French complicity,” months in terms of Hollande told an extraordinary meeting of both whether they had the houses of parliament in Versailles. “The need to operatives, the destroy Daesh (IS) ... concerns the entire internation- weapons, explosives, al community,” he told lawmakers, who burst into an suicide belts. I would emotional rendition of the La Marseillaise national anticipate that this is anthem after his speech - only the second time in not the only operation more than 150 years a French president has ISIL has in the pipeline,” addressed a joint session of parliament. he said, using an alter- On the domestic front, Hollande called for an nate acronym for IS, John Brennan extension of the state of emergency by three months the militant group that and announced 8,500 new police and judicial jobs to has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq. help counter terrorism. France and Belgium staged At least 129 people were killed in the attacks carried dozens of raids on suspected extremists as the man- out by at least eight gunmen nearly simultaneously at a hunt continued for an eighth jihadist, including in a stadium, a concert hall and restaurants as throngs of known radical hotspot in Brussels where some of the Parisians were enjoying a night out. The attacks were the attackers are thought to have lived. With emotions latest in a burst of horrific attacks attributed to IS - fol- running high, thousands paused in the streets of lowing the apparent bombing October 31 of a Russian Paris for a minute’s silence to remember those killed airliner over the Sinai with 224 people aboard and twin at nightspots and at the national stadium in the suicide bombings that killed 44 people in Beirut on worst-ever attack on French soil. VERSAILLES: French President Francois Hollande and members of parliament sing the French national anthem during an exceptional joint gathering of parliament yesterday. — AFP Thursday. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 News IS takes war to foes after setbacks in brief BEIRUT: Facing military setbacks in its and security brigades to start moving, US approves $1.29bn sale self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq including in Lebanon and Turkey,” the of bombs to Saudi Arabia and intensified air strikes from a US-led Syrian IS fighter said via social media WASHINGTON: The US government has approved a Top court affirms coalition, Islamic State may have decided from northern Syria. “Lebanon and France request from Saudi Arabia to buy more than 19,000 in September to take the fight to France and other places are all part of the opera- bombs and smart bombs for its air force, the State and elsewhere. The ultra-hardline group tions ordered two months ago.” Islamic Department said yesterday. Congress will have to green closure of Watan has frequently threatened to strike inside State has said it was behind Friday’s light the deal, but the $1.29 billion sale is likely to go Western countries since it established killings of at least 132 people in Paris in through, with Saudi jets in action against rebel forces in MP asks about surplus funds itself amid Syria’s civil war and then revenge for France’s air strikes against it Yemen. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said spread to northern Iraq last year, but one as well as twin suicide bombings which the Saudi air force’s arsenal is low “due to the high oper- By B Izzak updating its electronic website after fighter reached inside Syria said its killed 43 people on Thursday in a Beirut ational tempo in multiple counter-terrorism operations”. substantially reducing its content. spokesman Abu Mohammad Al-Adnani stronghold of Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah, The order includes 5,200 Paveway II laser-guided bombs KUWAIT: The cassation court yester- Authorities in June also shut down Al- had issued an instruction to act abroad. which is fighting the group in Syria. in their GBU-10 and GBU-12 variants, along with 1,100 day upheld the rulings of the lower Watan satellite TV, which is part of the “He sent a written order to all sectors Continued on Page 13 of the more modern, longer range GBU-24 Paveway III. and the appeals courts upholding the same organization, citing similar rea- There are 12,000 general purpose bombs weighing government decision to shut down Al- sons. between 500 and 2,000 pounds and 1,500 devastating Watan newspaper for failing to fulfill In another development, National 2,000-pound “bunker busters,” the BLU-109 penetrator. financial requirements. The ministry of Assembly Speaker Marzouk Al- These are designed to smash hardened concrete struc- commerce and industry revoked the Ghanem said yesterday that the tures. In addition to the bombs themselves, the Saudis commercial license of the newspaper grilling filed by MP Saadoun Hammad will receive thousands of “tail kits” to convert dumb in January after it lost more than 75 against Minister of Public Works and munitions into satellite-guided smart bombs. percent of its capital. The action was Electricity and Water Ahmad Al-Jassar followed by the information ministry is constitutional. He said the grilling withdrawing the media license of the has been placed on the agenda of the Some Saudi schools newspaper after it lost its commercial Dec 1 session for a possible debate. close ahead of rains status. Jassar has tendered his resignation to RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense crews have The lower court supported the gov- the government, which has not yet raised their preparedness levels ahead of expected ernment’s decision and this was con- made any decision on it, but the minis- heavy rains and thunderstorms as some schools sus- firmed by the court of appeals. Owners ter has been away from office. Ghanem pended classes in some areas along the kingdom’s of Al-Watan then challenged the rul- said the government has three options Red Sea coastline. The schools were closed yesterday ings at the cassation court, whose rul- to deal with the issue. It can either and today. The US Embassy in Riyadh also warned ings are final. The newspaper is owned accept his resignation and the grilling American citizens that heavy rainfall, high winds and by former oil and finance minister ends, the minister ends his holiday and rough seas are expected to last until tomorrow. The Sheikh Ali Al-Khalifa Al-Sabah, a mem- comes back, or he can ask for the statement said dust storms could make for danger- ber of the ruling family. Since its clo- grilling to be delayed for a certain ous driving conditions. Areas most likely to be hit by sure in January, the daily stopped pub- duration. This undated image from the Islamic State’s English-language magazine Dabiq significant rainfall include the western regions of lishing its print edition and has been Continued on Page 13 shows Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was identified by French authori- Makkah and Madinah and the northern regions of ties yesterday as the presumed mastermind of the terror attacks in Paris. — AFP Tabuk and Jawf. Severe thunderstorms are also expected in southwestern Iraq and eastern Jordan. 40 Islamists on trial in More than $1bn in ‘skips’ hit UAE banks UAE linked to Nusra ABU DHABI: Forty Islamists charged with attempting to DUBAI: Banks in the United Arab Emirates are work- of those absconding fear the consequences if they these loans. UAE central bank governor Mubarak overthrow the Emirati regime are linked to Syrian ing together to try to stem the number of small busi- stay. Rashid Al-Mansouri, at the same conference earlier Islamist militants and have smuggled in weapons for ness owners fleeing the country with unpaid debt, a “We want to take coordinated action on risk man- yesterday, said the government was keen to press attacks, a court heard yesterday.