SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2014 THULHIJA 25, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Saudi Arabia, Fire exposes Japan unveils Aguero hits 4 Kuwait halt illegal Chinese first passenger as City survive production at factories jet in four penalty drama Khafji 2oilfield in14 Italy decades27 to20 rout Spurs New charges, dearer fuel Max 31º Min 23º deter would-be campers High Tide 07:40 & 21:42 Facing budget constraints, some may stay home or rent Low Tide 02:16 & 15:17 40 PAGES NO: 16317 150 FILS By Nawara Fattahova KUWAIT: While the Municipality has launched a cam- paign called ‘License & Camp’ to make people aware of the of the locations where they are allowed to camp and the procedures of issuing a permit and the fees involved, many people have concerns about setting up their own camps due to the additional charges this year. This year the Municipality set a registration and deposit system for camping, which obliges those who want to set up camp to pay a KD 50 licensing fee and KD 300 as deposit to ensure respecting the rules, which they will get back after removing the camp and cleaning the place. On top of that, the government last week hiked the prices of diesel and kerosene from 55 fils to 170 fils a liter. As every camp has to be equipped with a power generator or maybe more depending on the size of the camp to supply it with power, the rise in the prices of these fuels will surely affect the budgets of campers. Such price hikes and camp fees will also affect the prices of companies and businesses providing camping services. Fatma Offtada, Operations Manager at Nuzha Tours, said the company will update its price list. “This great increase in the price of kerosene and diesel and the camp registration fees will definitely force us to increase our prices. We have a guard who is present at the camp the whole time, even when it’s not rented to customers. He uses the power generators every day, so we have to charge our customers higher prices,” she told Kuwait Times. DUBAI: Players from Kuwait’s Qadsiya SC celebrate after they won the 2014 AFC Cup final football match against Iraq’s Arbil FC ta Many of those used to camping or those intending the Maktoum bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Stadium yesterday. Qadsiya won 4-2 after a penalty shootout following a goalless draw. to set up camp this winter feel it’s an expensive matter. Qadsiya have been runners-up twice over the last four years, and lost out on the title last year to Kuwait SC, who won the last two “Although camping is one of the essential activities for editions. (Inset) Sheikh Talal Al-Fahd, President of the Kuwaiti Football Federation, celebrates.— AFP most Kuwaitis during the winter season, this year I will have to search for more people to join our group so we can share the expensive cost of the camp,” said 25-year- old Talal. Petrol prices may rise too Manal, 35, said her family might not go camping this year. “Last year the camp was already expensive, and this year it will be even more so. I heard about the latest By A Saleh products will be permanent and gradual. It started reduce citizens’ burdens expected after the lifting of price hikes of diesel and kerosene, but this is not all - with diesel, kerosene and aviation fuel, and will later subsidies, the government might provide special cards other important items for the camp have also become KUWAIT: A well-informed oil sector official justified the include gasoline,” the official said. to them. The official added that GCC oil ministries were expensive, and I doubt my husband will pay up. We will government’s decision to lift subsidies from diesel and The government last week tripled diesel and currently considering unifying oil product prices within just rent a camp for one weekend rather than bothering kerosene because of smuggling to other GCC states kerosene prices from 55 fils to 170 fils a liter. The source five years to prevent smuggling from one country to with the responsibility and huge expenses of setting up and neighboring countries. “Lifting subsides from oil however added that as an alternative solution to another because of price variations. our own,” she pointed out. Houthis, Sunnis clash in Yemen Protest outside Saudi embassy in Sanaa Saudi oil pipeline set alight MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Flames rise from an explosion in the Syrian town of Kobane after a US-led coalition strike, seen from the Turkish border in this RIYADH: Gunfire aimed at security forces set fire to southeastern village in Sanliurfa province yesterday. — AFP an oil pipeline in eastern Saudi Arabia yesterday, official media said, three days after a dissident local Shiite cleric was sentenced to death. Officers in the US military sees long Sunni-dominated kingdom “came under heavy gun- fire from an unknown source, which led to a limited haul ahead in IS war fire breaking out on a subsidiary oil pipeline,” the official SPA news agency said. The attack occurred at WASHINGTON: Ten weeks into its war army and build a viable opposition ground 2:00 am, the report cited the Eastern Province police against Islamic State extremists, the force in Syria. “The campaign to destroy ISIL spokesman as saying, adding that the fire had been Pentagon is settling in for the long haul, will take time, and there will be occasional extinguished. short on big early successes but still bank- setbacks along the way,” Austin told a The incident is similar to one last September in ing on enlisting Syrians and Iraqis to fight Pentagon news conference, “particularly in Awamiya, when gunfire also targeted police and the ground war so that US troops won’t these early stages of the campaign as we triggered a pipeline fire. The community has been have to. The US general overseeing the coach and mentor a force (in Iraq) that is the scene of periodic clashes involving security SANAA: Yemeni protesters take part in a demonstration yesterday outside the campaign on Friday predicted that the actively working to regenerate capability forces since demonstrations began in the east three Saudi embassy against the death sentence on Shiite cleric and anti-government jihadists will be “much degraded” by after years of neglect and poor leadership.” years ago. Eastern Province is home to the bulk of oil protest leader Nimr Al-Nimr (portrait). — AFP airstrikes a year from now, in part because While hammering the jihadists daily reserves in Saudi Arabia, the top producer in the he is focusing attacks on those resources from the air, the US military is talking of a Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. SANAA: Yemeni Shiite Houthi fighters strewn on the main street in Yareem. In a that enable IS to sustain itself and resupply years-long effort - one that will require On Wednesday, a court convicted Nimr Al-Nimr of and supporters of the Sunni Muslim party letter seen by Reuters, the police chief of its fighters. more than aerial bombardment, will show sedition and sentenced him to death. Nimr was a Islah clashed in central Yemen yesterday, Ibb province resigned after the Houthis On Friday, for example, the US military results only gradually and may eventually driving force behind demonstrations against the residents and local officials said, another entered Ibb. “There are heavy clashes said one of its six airstrikes overnight in call for a more aggressive use of US military authorities that erupted in 2011 alongside a Shiite- sign of sectarian warfare in the violence- now between the Houthi fighters and the Syria hit several IS petroleum storage tanks advisers in Iraq. “This isn’t going to get led protest movement in neighbouring Bahrain. The prone country that borders Saudi Arabia. supporters of Islah. It’s a very scary situa- and a pumping station - sites that are cen- solved through 18 airstrikes around a par- court also found Nimr guilty of seeking “foreign Yesterday’s fighting in the town of tion,” a local Ibb official told Reuters. tral to the militants’ ability to resupply their ticular town in a particular place in Syria. It’s meddling” in the country, a reference to predomi- Yareem in Ibb province came after 15 The Houthis established themselves as forces and generate revenue. Likewise, it going to take a long time,” the Pentagon nantly Shiite Iran, of “disobeying” the kingdom’s people were killed in fighting on Friday powerbrokers in Yemen last month, cap- said two coalition airstrikes in Iraq dam- press secretary, Rear Adm. John Kirby, said rulers and taking up arms against security forces. between Sunni tribesmen and Houthi turing the capital, Sanaa, on Sept 21. The aged or destroyed IS military targets near Thursday, referring to a recent concentra- Nimr’s family in Awamiya and the coastal com- rebels on the outskirts and in the city of weak administration of President Abd- the contested town of Beiji, home of Iraq’s tion of American airstrikes on the Syrian munity of Qatif accused the court of ignoring the Ibb, 150 km south of Sanaa. Rabbu Mansour Hadi put up little resist- largest oil refinery. city of Kobani, near the Turkish border. sheikh’s “peaceful and non-violent approach,” saying Houthi fighters were attacking the ance. Clashes between Houthis, Sunni In his first public overview of the cam- That is one reason why the Pentagon is the case had caused “social and political discontent”. home of an Islah official, Ali Bdeir, in tribesmen and fighters from al Qaeda, paign he leads from the Florida headquar- preparing to set up a more formally organ- They called for a dialogue with officials, “out of con- Yareem, residents said.