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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2016 THULHIJJA 18, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net National Gulf World leaders ‘Game of Rams triumph identity a at UN approve Thrones’ in historic ‘necessity’: plan for makes Emmys return to Info Minister5 refugee crisis7 history38 Los20 Angeles New York bombing suspect Min 25º captured in police shootout Max 45º High Tide 01:38 & 14:22 Obama urges Americans ‘not to succumb to fear’ Low Tide 08:14 & 20:37 40 PAGES NO: 16996 150 FILS NEW YORK: An “armed and dangerous” Afghan-born Finance minister suspect wanted in the weekend bomb attacks in New York and New Jersey was wounded yesterday in a welcomes grilling shootout with police and taken into custody. The Saturday attacks and a separate stabbing carried out by over petrol prices a Somali-American with possible links to the Islamic State extremist group has put America on edge over By B Izzak terror fears less than 50 days before the presidential election. KUWAIT: Finance Minister and acting oil minister President Barack Obama, in New York yesterday Anas Al-Saleh yesterday welcomed the announce- attending the UN General Assembly with world leaders, ment of MP Faisal Al-Kandari in which he said he will called on Americans “not to succumb to fear” in his first file to grill the minister over the government’s deci- remarks about the three attacks in the same 24-hour sion to hike petrol prices. period. “Even as we have to be vigilant and aggressive Saleh said in a statement the both in preventing senseless acts of violence but also grilling is a constitutional right of lawmakers and that making sure that we find those who carry out such acts it will be a good opportunity and bring them to justice, we all have a role to play as for him to explain the series citizens in making sure that we don’t succumb to that of economic reform meas- fear,” he said. ures the government has Obama stressed that investigators at this point saw taken in the face of declining “no connection” between the incidents on the East oil revenues. Coast and the Minnesota stabbing, where police said Anas Al-Saleh He said he will be able to the attacker made “some references to Allah” in carrying outline what the government has done in imple- out the attack. Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was shown menting the financial and economic reform charter stretchered into an ambulance, sporting a bloodied with regards to economic development, and not bandage on his right arm and moving his head with his only rationalizing expenditures, but also boosting eyes open in the New Jersey town of Linden, according revenues. The minister said that such decisions serve to ABC News footage. the interests of the country and citizens in the medi- Two police officers were also shot and hurt in the um and long-term although it could be described as exchange, said the mayor of the suspect’s neighboring unpopular at present. He said the measures had hometown Elizabeth, adjacent to Newark International been based on studies and recommendations by Airport. “Mr Rahami is currently under arrest,” Mayor LINDEN, New Jersey: American citizen of Afghan descent Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a Continued on Page 13 Chris Bollwage told CNN. shootout with police yesterday. (Inset) Rahami is seen in an image released yesterday by the FBI. — AP/AFP Continued on Page 13 News in brief Saudi forces foil IS plot, arrest 17 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry yesterday said found several blocks away. Also, a pipe bomb explod- activities,” he said. Saudi hospital staff its forces had uncovered an Islamic State group-linked ed in a New Jersey shore town, though no one was The arrests followed months of investigation into the strike over wages terrorist network that was involved in past attacks in injured. A pressure-cooker bomb was used in the 2013 network, Turki said, adding that the militants had pre- RIYADH: Staff at a hospital in eastern Saudi Arabia have the kingdom and was planning future attacks against Boston Marathon bombings. pared more than 25,000 kg of adhesive bombs and explo- gone on strike over unpaid wages, workers said yester- civilians, security personnel and government sites. The Interior Ministry spokesman Maj Gen Mansour Al- sive belts. Authorities also seized pipe bombs, firearms, day, in the kingdom’s latest case of corporate financial state-run Saudi Press Agency posted images on its Turki said in a press conference the Saudi-based terror silencers and cash in excess of 600,000 riyals ($160,000). difficulties. “We are on strike,” a nurse at Saad Specialist Twitter account showing a pressure cooker, an assault network was comprised of three cells. Seventeen sus- Local Islamic State group branches and IS-linked Hospital in the Gulf coast city of Al-Khobar told AFP by rifle equipped with a silencer and suicide vests that pects, among them one Saudi woman, were arrested attackers in Saudi Arabia have mostly targeted minori- telephone. “We didn’t receive any salary for three-and-a- were seized by security forces in the months-long in the sweep. Eleven are Saudi citizens, in addition to ty Shiites and security personnel, killing dozens of half months,” she said. The nurse told AFP that “almost operation. three Yemenis, two Egyptians and one Palestinian. people over the past two years. The Interior Ministry all” the medical staff, which includes about 1,200 nurses, Though US authorities have been careful to say Turki said the network was involved in preparing sui- said the terrorist network was involved in harboring have joined the strike action in a country where labor there is no evidence of a link to international terrorism, cide vests and improvised explosives, and providing two attackers involved in a bombing and shooting in unions are banned. Lower-paid housekeeping and secu- on Saturday a blast in the Chelsea neighborhood of logistics, cover, funding, arms and transportation for the eastern Al-Ahsa governorate against the Shiite rity staff have been paid and remain at work, she said. New York City injured 29 people, and another unex- terrorist operations inside the kingdom. The network Imam Reda Mosque. About 100-150 hospital workers stood outside the hos- ploded device made out of a pressure cooker was also communicated “with leaders abroad in all their Continued on Page 13 pital yesterday morning as part of the walkout. They also planned to visit the local governor’s office to state their grievances, and if that brings no results they would continue the job action today, the nurse said. Only outpatient clinics are closed during the strike and Qatar to create urgent cases are not endangered, she said. its own version 140-character limit of ‘Wall Street’ on tweets relaxed DOHA: Qatar plans to establish its own version of New WASHINGTON: Twitter announced yesterday it York’s “Wall Street” financial district, a senior official said was easing its 140-character limit on tweets, yesterday, as the emirate seeks to cut its reliance on oil and implementing a policy announced in May to no gas. Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida, head of the Qatar Financial longer factor certain add-ons including pictures Centre (QFC), said businesses including his own will relo- into a message’s length. “Say more about what’s cate to the previously run-down Msheireb area of Doha happening! Rolling out now,” said an official tweet from mid-2017. The project comes as gas-rich Qatar seeks from the social network, which is seeking to to establish itself as a regional commercial powerhouse. broaden its appeal. The new policy exempts The aim was to improve Qatar’s financial standing media attachments such as photos, videos and and create Doha’s “version of Wall Street or (London’s) polls from the character limit, as well as tweets Canary Wharf”, said Jaida. “The objective... is to create a that are quoted in a retweet. The latest move eas- leading financial and business center in the region,” he es but does not entirely eliminate the 140-charac- said. “The relocation is part of our commitment to sup- ter limit, which was set due to mobile phone text port Qatar in its efforts to diversify national income messaging constraints in place when Twitter sources,” Jaida told a Doha press conference to launched in 2006. HOMS, Syria: Syrian women walk between destroyed buildings in the government-held Jouret al-Shiah neigh- announce the relocation. The new financial center will borhood of this central city yesterday. — AFP cover an area of up to 300,000 sq m. Jaida said he hoped the QFC’s relocation from central New Abu Dhabi rules Doha would act as a catalyst for other companies includ- for ride-hailing apps Syria declares truce ing the Qatar Stock Exchange to follow suit. Msheireb is a ABU DHABI: Ride-hailing services such as Uber and oth- major regeneration project in downtown Doha which ers will have to register their apps and heed new regula- seeks to revive an old commercial heart of the capital at an tions to operate in Abu Dhabi, a top official at the Gulf estimated cost of more than $5 billion. It will not only emirate’s taxi regulator said yesterday. The new regula- over, blames rebels incorporate the financial center but also luxury apart- tions are coming “very soon” and will include a provision ments and museums. requiring ride-hailing apps to register with The Centre DAMASCUS: Syria’s armed forces said yesterday that a killed more than 300,000 people and displaced millions.