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Pirates Make Botched Bid to Seize Kuwaiti Oil Tanker SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 21, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait sounds Quartet thrash Sam Smith Ivory Coast alarm over out Ukraine triumphs finally win regional summit as Merkel with four African security3 meets Obama7 Grammy38 wins Nations20 Cup Pirates make botched bid Min 13º Max 31º to seize Kuwaiti oil tanker High Tide 03:08 & 15:38 Vessel crew foil attack in Gulf of Aden Low Tide 09:31 & 22:09 40 PAGES NO: 16429 150 FILS KUWAIT: Crew and security personnel of a Kuwaiti oil Sisi reassures Gulf tanker sailing through the Gulf of Aden have succeeded Amir meets Prince Charles in foiling a bid by pirates to take over the gigantic ves- leaders after sel. alleged audio leaks Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Chief Executive Officer of Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, told CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called KUNA the botched attack was launched on the tanker at the leaders of Gulf Arab states to reassure them of 20:50 on Sunday, while it was en route from the Kuwaiti strong Egyptian-Gulf ties after a leaked audio recording Al-Ahmadi port to Horizon Terminal port in Djibouti. that purports to show him and senior aides being deri- The crew members and personnel skillfully confronted sive of their rich Gulf donors. the pirates and foiled their attack, according to standard Mekameleen, a pro-Islamist TV channel that aired the security procedures. tape at the weekend, ran subtitles to identify the A squad specialized to deal with such situations was detailed conversations heard as being between Sisi and aboard the vessel and took part in combating the two of his senior staff on how to get Gulf states to fun- pirates who approached it on four boats. An Indian nel them more money. The last conversation suggested naval force at the sea also took part in resisting the it had occurred before Sisi became president in 2014. attackers. Reuters listened to the audiotape but its authenticity The tanker, Burgan, which was loaded with 40,303 could not be confirmed, and it was not able to reach tons of aviation fuel, is owned by the KOTC. It is fully government officials for comment yesterday. The presi- equipped to deal with such situations. It proceeded dency has made no official comment on the alleged with the journey safely and no one was hurt. recording or its veracity. Piracy is a common problem in the strategic Gulf of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates Aden, which links the Indian Ocean with the Suez Canal have given Egypt over $12 billion in aid, deposits for the and the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important energy central bank and petroleum products since the army corridor, particularly because Gulf oil is shipped to the toppled Islamist President Mohammad Morsi in 2013 West via the Suez Canal. after mass protests against his rule. Pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean Last week the Egyptian news website Al-Youm Al- have dropped from a peak of 237 in 2011 to only a Sabea said the three countries would deposit $10 bil- handful in 2014, according to the International lion in the central bank before Cairo hosts a high-profile Maritime Bureau. However two Iranian oil tankers were investment conference that it hopes will generate ven- KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets visiting Prince Charles reportedly approached by pirates in early February tures worth billions of dollars. of Wales at Bayan Palace yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 2) though the attack was thwarted by Iranian navy ships in Continued on Page 13 the vicinity at the time. Bahrain closes Saudi prince’s TV channel DUBAI: Bahrain yesterday announced the dards “aimed at stemming the tide of closure of a new pan-Arab news channel, extremism and terrorism,” according to the HSBC SwissLeaks owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed official Bahrain News Agency. bin Talal, which had vowed to practice Alarab officials declined to comment. claims spark “objective” journalism. The network’s website was blank except for The government said it suspended the a logo yesterday. One of Alarab’s first channel within hours of its first broadcast broadcast interviews was with government political row because it failed to obtain a proper license critic Khalil Al-Marzooq, a top official in the LONDON: Allegations that London-based banking and did not meet anti-terrorist standards. largest Shiite opposition bloc in the Sunni- giant HSBC helped rich clients dodge tax triggered The Alarab network disappeared from TV ruled kingdom. a political firefight in Britain yesterday, with the screens early on Feb 2, a day after its Al-Marzooq and other Shiite lawmakers main parties blaming each other for not taking launch. Bahrain initially declined to explain withdrew from Bahrain’s parliament in action. Prime Minister David Cameron’s why. 2011 following protests seeking democrat- Conservatives appointed former HSBC chief execu- The government’s Information Affairs ic reforms. He was acquitted last year of Authority said yesterday that the station “inciting terrorism,” a charge that human CAIRO: An Egyptian man wearing a mask of the anonymous movement gestures tive Stephen Green to the House of Lords in 2010, does not possess a valid Bahraini operating rights groups called politically motivated. near a burning car outside a sports stadium in a Cairo’s northeast district, on where he served as a trade minister. license. It said Alarab failed to meet stan- Continued on Page 13 Sunday during clashes between supporters of Zamalek football club and securi- But the main opposition Labor party, hoping to ty forces. — AFP take power after May’s general election, also faced allegations that it had not clamped down on tax dodging when it was in power until 2010. Labor’s tenure covered the period when HSBC’s Unrest fears in Egypt Swiss private bank is accused of helping clients evade taxes on accounts containing $119 billion after stadium deaths (104 billion euros). The row highlights the complex task both parties face in defining their relationship with big business ahead of the May 7 general elec- Stampede, clashes leave 19 dead tion, in which opinion polls suggest they are virtual- ly neck-and-neck. CAIRO: Egyptian football fans blamed crowd. Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives are tradi- police yesterday for a stampede and Health officials and police said all the tionally seen as more in tune with Britain’s largest clashes at a Cairo stadium that left 19 victims, mostly youngsters, were companies. Labor labelled it “the party of Mayfair people dead, raising fears of further crushed in a stampede. “Nineteen peo- hedge funds and Monaco tax avoiders” last week unrest. Egyptian authorities suspended ple died,” interior ministry spokesman over a tax loophole for hedge funds. Meanwhile, all major football games indefinitely Hani Abdel Latif said, revising an earlier centre-left Labor’s policies-which include raising after Sunday’s violence, which broke out death toll of 22 given by prosecutors. the top rate of income tax and a new “mansion tax” when police fired tear gas and birdshot He said that 22 policemen were also for expensive homes-have drawn criticism from sev- at disruptive fans. injured in the clashes and 18 people eral business leaders who say they could damage Egypt’s hard-core football fans have were arrested. “The deaths were caused the economy. been repeatedly involved in the coun- due to a stampede. There are no signs of Continued on Page 13 MANAMA: A file picture taken on December 15, 2014 shows Alarab News Channel try’s explosive political mix and gunshot or birdshot,” senior health offi- staff on duty at the editorial office in the Bahraini capital Manama. — AFP Sunday’s violence showed once again cial Khaled Al-Khatib said. the willingness of police to use force. “The victims had lots of bruises, while The radical fans of one of the clubs some had broken necks... People were Gunshots fired at police in Marseille involved in Sunday’s match, Cairo- trampling each other.” At least 25 others based Zamalek SC, accused the authori- were injured, the health ministry said. MARSEILLE: Police said yesterday they came his visit, Valls said the shots, which left no one those who fired the Kalashnikovs, and riot police ties of carrying out a “planned mas- President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi under fire as they rushed into a housing estate hurt, were “unacceptable” and said the push to will deploy in the estate over the next few days, sacre”. The Ultras White Knights, who ordered an investigation “to uncover the in the French city of Marseille after residents reduce crime was a “long-term struggle.” Bourniquel said. have been at the forefront of previous root causes” of the violence, his office alerted them that hooded people had shot According to a source close to the case, resi- anti-government protests, said on their said. Television footage showed crowds “Kalashnikovs” in the air. The outbreak of vio- dents in the housing estate-where a 25-year-old Easy availability of Kalashnikovs Facebook page that most of the victims of fans squeezed inside the narrow met- lence in La Castellane, an estate known as a was shot dead last month in a settling of scores- Police say much of the violence in Marseille is had been trapped inside a metal enclo- al enclosure, jostling to get inside the drug trafficking hotspot, came just hours before alerted police earlier yesterday that “five to ten” linked to turf wars between multiple rival gangs sure that was only set up at the stadium to watch Zamalek play another Prime Minister Manuel Valls visited the southern hooded people had fired “Kalashnikovs” in the battling for control of the drugs trade in the grounds the day before the match.
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