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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 IS captures Jordan pilot Black teen shot GCC manpower dead in US BERKELEY: Officials scram- bled to head off renewed anger yesterday after an armed black agencies set teenager was shot dead by a white officer in a St Louis sub- urb, insisting the use of force was justified. to form union The killing took place late Tuesday at a gas station in Berkeley, near Ferguson, Missouri — ground zero of a protest move- 300 agencies in Qatar supply maids ment over police killings of black men — and triggered immediate DOHA: Manpower agencies in for the high recruitment charges, demonstrations. the GCC states are to form a which is not true. Nationwide protests were union in a bid to have collective “That is why we have decided to sparked after unarmed black bargaining power over their form a union because not we, but teenager Michael Brown was shot counterparts in countries send- the agencies in manpower export- dead by a white officer in Ferguson, ing workers, to help reduce spi- ing countries are responsible for a mainly African American town ralling recruitment charges for raising the charges for maids’ with a mostly white police force. housemaids. recruitment.” After several weeks, demonstra- Recruitment business rep- “We hope to be able to develop tions gained momentum in reac- resentatives from the region ways and mechanisms whereby tion to several other killings of are meeting in Saudi Arabia on we are able to deal with those black suspects by police, includ- January 5 to set up the union.