ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER

14 September 2013 8 Dhul-qa’da 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5822 Price: QR2 ON SATURDAY

Homeowner killed by thieves in Ain Khalid DOHA: A homeowner was killed on Thursday in Ain Khalid while he was try- ing to capture two thieves stealing valu- ables from his home, Al Sharq reported yesterday. A relative of the deceased told the daily that the man had gone out for some work, and when he returned at 8pm, he saw the thieves. When he tried to capture them, they overpowered him and continued to attack him with a knife and some sharp object until he died. The report, which did not identify the victim, said one of the thieves had been arrested, while the other was at large, and investigation continued. The report did not provide details about the incident and nationalities of the victim and the arrested man. Syria treaty papers incomplete: UN UNITED NATIONS: The UN has asked Syria for more information about its application to join the chemical weap- ons convention, holding up accession, a spokesman said yesterday. Syria applied on Thursday as part of a plan to head off a Western military strike over the alleged use of banned chemical arms. “We are in touch with the Syrian CUTTING government about their application. We are trying to obtain some further information so that the accession process can be com- pleted,” Farhan Haq said. In Washington, the Wall Street Journal said Syria had scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to 50 sites to complicate US efforts to track them. The Syrian opposition coalition, mean- while said it had reached consensus to appoint Ahmad Tumeh, an independent Islamist, as premier today to run rebel-held areas. See also page 8 FAT Philippine militants agree to discuss truce MANILA: The leader of Muslim rebels THE ISSUE locked in a stand-off with Philippine forces in a key southern city has agreed to discuss a ceasefire, a spokesman for Vice The dramatic increase in the While obesity remains a major challenge in ‘quick fix’ short-cut solution when the problem President Jejomar Binay said yesterday.

number of people undergoing the Qatari population, what’s more alarming is can be addressed with a change in lifestyle and Design: Abraham Augusthy “He (Binay) talked to (Moro National the number of adolescents who struggle with a little workout. Liberation Front leader Nur) Misuari and weight loss surgeries in the obesity and opt for weight loss surgery. According to one fitness expert, although he talked to (Defence Secretary Voltaire) cash-rich Qatar has become a Studies suggest that nearly 28 percent of people register at gyms with high enthusiasm, Gazmin, and they agreed to discuss a cease- serious cause of concern for many Qatari children are overweight and 50 percent a majority lose interest within a few weeks fire,” Joey Salgado said, adding Binay had of Qatari boys suffer from severe obesity. when they do not see ‘instant results’. proposed for the truce to begin from 1600 community members. To recall, the youngest patient to undergo Parag Parelkar, an exercise physiotherapist, GMT yesterday. See also page 11 weight loss surgery at HMC was a 13-year-old suggests that weight loss surgery may not be a Qatari boy. solution for many problems linked with obesity. Delhi gang rapists ith the waiting list for weight The surgery took place a year ago in which He says weight loss surgery is advisable only loss surgeries mounting to a the boy lost close to 60kg. Doctors said he had in extreme cases where people are suffering sentenced to death few thousands at the Hamad become obese only because his parents gave from morbid obesity. WMedical Corporation (HMC) him too much to eat. “Obesity is linked to hypertension, high cho- NEW DELHI: A judge yesterday sen- in recent months, an increasing number of The issue raises a serious concern about the lesterol, diabetes as well as mental and emo- tenced to death four men convicted of people are also travelling abroad for similar lifestyle of many here, where high purchas- tional imbalance, which cannot be addressed the fatal gang rape of a student on a New procedures. The HMC performed an average ing power has led to a rise in the culture of through weight loss surgery alone,” Parelkar Delhi bus last December, fulfilling the of 70 to 100 surgeries every month over one eating out while physical inactivity remains a points out. last wish of the 23-year-old victim. and a half year alone. dilemma for many. Many people who struggle with weight Crowds of onlookers outside the packed This has also led to a mushrooming of weight Experts also link obesity to many physio- issues are stuck in a vicious cycle, which can courtroom burst into applause after Yogesh loss facilities in the private sector that are logical disorders where people are constantly be addressed simply by a ‘good run’, suggests Khanna announced his sentence during a catering to the increasing demand of people under stress because they think they are not the expert. short hearing that began at 02.30pm. struggling with obesity, many of whom are will- ‘attractive enough’. “It’s not just magic. Scientific studies show The defendants — lowly paid migrants to PAGEing to pay a whopping 6 QR50,000 for a surgery. Some people, according to studies, eat more that exercise alters brain chemistry and pro- New Delhi, mostly in their 20s — had tears Doctors suggest that authorities needed to either because they are stressed or because duces good stress hormones which have a good in their eyes and one of them, gym assistant take obesity as a serious problem and include they just feel bored. impact on the body.” Vinay Sharma, cried as he was led away by it in health insurance schemes. Many people opt for weight loss surgery as a See also page 2 police. See also page 13

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home Slimming through surgery Increasing number of Qatari women and adolescents are fighting obesity through weight loss procedures

BY FAZEENA SALEEM obesity. A person undergoing the sur- The HMC performed 1400 gery could lose weight gradually The demand for weight ight against the rising weight loss surgeries, at an aver- over 18 or 24 months up to 50kg loss surgery in Qatar obesity in Qatar has age of 70 to 100 per month within to 60kg. has been growing taken a new turn, with one and half years and 85 percent However only people doing a significantly over demand for bariatric or of them involved Qatari women. routine follow up with the doctors F the past few years. weight loss surgery for adoles- Over 2000 people are on waiting and adopting a new healthy life cents and adults growing dra- list for six months to one year. style will benefit from the surgery. Statistics show that matically over the past few years. Over 40 youngsters have “The demand for weight loss about 30 percent of The waiting list at the Hamad undergone weight loss surgery surgery in Qatar has been grow- our population are Medical Corporation (HMC) and and majority of them were Qatari ing significantly over the past obese and they would the high cost of treatment at pri- boys. All of them are between the few years. Statistics show that need the surgery vate hospitals have even pushed age of 12 and 17 years of age. about 30 percent of our popula- Dr Moataz Bashah, some people to go abroad to coun- More than 95 percent among tion are obese and they would Consultant, tries like Jordan and Lebanon and teenagers who have under- need the surgery,” said Dr Moataz Bariatric and undergo weight loss surgery. gone weight loss surgery were Bashah, Consultant, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Weight loss surgery at HMC Qataris and the rest belong to Metabolic Surgery at HMC. at HMC. is done free for Qataris and at a other nationalities like Bahrainis, “There is a long waiting list and cost of QR5,000 for expatriates, Saudis, Egyptians, Americans and HMC is trying to provide more while the same could cost as high British. space for the surgery,” he added. as QR50,000 in a private hospital. Life style changes for adoles- Dr Bashah has advised people There are two basic methods of They are carried out through lifelong commitment to follow-up Studies show that at least 30 cents and adults after the weight against going abroad for weight weight loss surgery- Restrictive open surgeries and laparoscopic care and extensive diet, exercise percent of Qatari population is loss surgery as they become more loss surgery due to several com- surgery and Malabsorptive sur- operation. and medical guidelines. Also a over weight and many of them are active and confident, claim doc- plications and risks involved in gery. Restrictive surgery decreases Experts suggest the weight psychological evaluation is done obese, while 28 percent of Qatari tors, They even suggest that the procedure. food intake by creating a small loss surgery should not be con- on the patient before the surgery. children are overweight and 50 authorities should consider “Some people seek treatment upper stomach pouch to limit food sidered until all other options “Like all surgeries this too has percent of Qatari boys have a including obesity and weight loss abroad because of the long wait intake. Malabsorptive surgery will are ruled out. The end result of complications. Some people may Body Mass Index (BMI) between surgery in the national insurance list, and majority of them come alter digestion, thus causing the the weight loss surgery depend even develop serious complica- 22 and 36, an indication of severe scheme. back with complications. The food to be poorly digested and on how strictly people adopt diet, tions,” said Dr Hussain. idea shouldn’t be just to do the incompletely absorbed. exercise and lifestyle. “Weight loss However, obesity related health surgery but do it perfectly,” he These two methods are imple- surgery is not a cosmetic surgery,” conditions may improve or be said. mented through procedures said Dr Hussain. resolved with weight loss surgery. “Also follow up is very nec- known as gastric banding, gas- Problems may arise after sur- It can reduce hypertension, gall- essary. They should meet the tric balloon and sleeve bypass gery leading to a re-operation for stones, high cholesterol, depres- doctors every three months for surgeries. some people. sion, infertility, gastroesophageal check-ups and medical advice. Also there are several proce- Therefore, a weight loss surgery reflux disease, cardiovascular Otherwise, many complica- dures that combine the restric- is done only on people who have diseases, sleep apnea and type 2 tions would arise like weakness tive and malabsorptive methods a documented medical history diabetes, he added. in nerves and muscles,” said Dr of weight loss surgery. of dietary weight loss attempts, THE PENINSULA Bashah. Demand for weight loss surgery remains high at private hospitals as well despite the high cost. Surgery: Results and Risks However, these hospitals don’t have a long waiting list and the waiting period is not more than hile all major surgeries two weeks. involve a certain level of risk, The Al Ahli Hospital performs Wfollowing risks are related to 80 to 100 weight loss surgeries per different types of weight loss surger- month on an average. ies. However, it may vary in individual “At private hospitals we have cases. selective guests, especially those who are rich who can afford the Deficiency BPD with cost,” said Dr Abdul Azim A W Hussain, Senior Consultant duodenal switch Surgeon, Medical Director and Director of General Surgery Procedure Type - Malabsorptive Department at Al Ahli Hospital. Description: Combines a lower level Majority of people undergoing of restriction with a higher degree of weight loss surgery at Al Ahli are malabsorption. Stapling is used to Qatari women of different ages, create a sleeve of stomach retaining varying from 15 to 40 years. They the natural stomach outlet. The major- also include women preparing for ity of the small intestine is bypassed stool gas. Close lifelong monitoring 10, 11. Reduced risk of dumping marriage and those who have dif- causing nearly complete malabsorp- for protein malnutrition, anaemia syndrome. ficulty in getting pregnant. tion of food contents. and bone disease is recommended. Risks: Short-term: “In our society men would like Results: Studied patients have Increased risk for removal of the gall- Leaky staple lines. Injury to pan- to marry slim women. For some achieved excess weight loss of 74 bladder Intestinal irritation and ulcers. creas and spleen by the surgeon or women obesity is a hindrance percent at one year, 78 percent at two Susceptibility to dumping syndrome his instruments during the operation. to getting pregnant,” said Dr years, 81 percent at three years, 84 with ingestion of sweets, high-calorie Excessive narrowing of the stomach Hussain. percent at four years and 91 percent liquids or dairy products. (gastric stenosis). Pulmonary embo- The surgery would cost around at five years. Long-term: Lifelong vitamin sup- lism or respiratory insufficiency. QR50,000 as most of the equip- Provides less restriction of food plementing is required. Increased risk Long-term: ment are used only once and it consumed than the other proce- of gallstone formation. Increased risk of gall stones. alone would coast QR20,000, dures and patients are able to eat Incisional hernia. according to Dr Hussain. larger meals than with restrictive Laparoscopic adjustable “I think it’s very important that procedures. Gastric bypass roux-en-y the authorities consider this as Risks: A period of adaption to gastric banding a disease and provide insurance bowel movements that can be very Procedure Type - Combined cover,” he suggested. liquid and frequent - may lessen over Procedure Type - Restrictive Restrictive/Malabsorptive The BMI is a key factor in time, but may be a lifelong occur- Description: A band is placed Description: Stapling is used to deciding overweight. It shows the rence. Abdominal bloating and mal- around the upper most part of the create a smaller, upper stomach relationship between a person’s odourous stool gas. Lifelong vitamin stomach separating the stomach pouch which restricts the amount of weight and height. If an adults’ supplementing is required into one small and one large portion. food able to be consumed. A por- BMI is over 40 or has health con- Close lifelong monitoring for pro- Band can be adjusted to increase or tion of small bowel is bypassed thus ditions such as diabetes, cardio- tein malnutrition, anaemia and bone decrease restriction. Surgery can be delaying food from mixing with diges- vascular diseases, high cholesterol disease is recommended Increased reversed. tive juices to avoid complete calorie or depression, the person could risk of gallstone formation. Increased Digestion and absorption is normal. absorption. choose to undergo weight loss risk for removal of the gallbladder, Results: Average of 77 percent surgery. intestinal irritation and ulcers and Results: In European studies, of excess body weight loss one year pulmonary embolism or respiratory mean weight excess loss (EWL) three, after surgery. Studies show that after insufficiency. four and five years after surgery was 10 to 14 years, patients have main- 49, 55 and 57 percent respectively. tained 60 percent of excess body Biliopancreatic diversion Risks: Short-term: weight loss. VLCC treats 250 people every day Outlet obstruction. May not pro- A study of 500 patients showed Procedure Type - Malabsorptive vide the necessary feeling of having that 96 percent of certain associ- any people suffering “They are also given a face body firming, toning and detoxi- Description: Approximately 3;4 of had “enough to eat.” Expansion of the ated health conditions studied were from obesity issues, firming, under chin firming and fying therapies to help keep the the stomach is removed. Restricts stomach pouch. Nausea and vomit- improved or resolved, including back Ma majority of them breast firming and figure correc- skin firm and toned throughout food intake and reduces acid output. ing. Pulmonary embolism or respira- pain, sleep apnoa, high blood pres- Qatari women, seek weight loss tion after weight loss,” Madan the weight loss process, accord- Small intestine is divided. One end tory insufficiency. sure, Type II diabetes and depression. solutions at VLCC willingness said. ing to Madan. is attached to the stomach pouch Long-term: In most cases patients report an centres in Doha. “Our services are for men and “We suggest that a person to create an alimentary limb. Food Slippage and migration of the early sense of fullness, combined with The VLCC takes unique women, but the majority of our could lose 10kg within 60 days. moves through alimentary limb with band. Leakage of the band. Erosion or a sense of satisfaction, that reduces holistic approaches without any clients are Qatari women,” she We have a client who lost 46kg little absorption of food. migration of the band. Port infection the desire to eat. appetite suppressants, medica- added. within seven months.” Results: Studied patients have after insertion of band. Increased risk Greater total weight loss com- tion, crash diets, food supple- Everyone at VLCC is given a However, VLCC pays spe- achieved excess weight loss of 74 of gall stones and incisional hernia. pared to restrictive procedures. ments or invasive surgeries. tailor-made programme, keep- cial attention to adolescents as percent at one year, 78 percent at two Risks: Short-term: Over 80 percent of visitors at ing in mind cultural eating pat- weight loss could affect their years, 81 percent at three years, 84 Laparoscopic sleeve Nausea and sickness. Vitamin VLCC centres are Qatari women terns and individual lifestyles. growth. percent at four years and 91 percent B12 deficiency. Leaky connection and more than 250 people are Medical history, body mass Also, parents of those children at five years. gastrectomy between stomach and intestine or treated on daily basis. index and body composition are advised on lifestyle changes Provides highest level of malab- two sections of the intestine (anas- Also, five percent of visitors analysis are also considered. which need to be followed during sorption. Patients are able to eat Procedure Type - Restrictive tomotic insufficiency), constipation are adolescents and are Qataris Then a safe modification the weight loss process. larger meals than with restrictive Description: Stapling is used to and diarrhoea. and other Arab nationals, in food intake and lifestyle is “We provide all adolescents procedures. create a smaller sleeve of stomach. Long-term: Protein, mineral and according VLCC officials. advised and a passive and physi- coming here with a balance Risks: Short-term: Restricts food intake. Retains the vitamin deficiency. Chronic anaemia ‘’We provide our clients with cal activity regimen is worked of nutrition counselling and A period of adaption to bowel natural stomach outlet. Digestion and due to vitamin B12 and Incisional her- diet consultations, it’s a com- out, while intensive counselling physical activity,’’ said Amanda movements that can be very liquid absorption is normal. nia. Intestinal occlusion. Narrowing at bination of nutrition, diet and continues at every stage. Yaacoub, Area Technical Head and frequent - may lessen over time, Results: Patients have achieved one of the surgical connection points exercise,” said Sheena Madan, Every weight loss programme — Slimming at VLCC. but may be a lifelong occurrence excess weight loss of 50-80 percent and Increased risk of gall stones. area head of VLCC-Qatar. is supplemented with essential THE PENINSULA Abdominal bloating and malodourous two to three years after surgery’- 9, THE PENINSULA Home SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY Three Lusail victims still in hospital

DOHA: Three of the 18 workers injured development of the project, said the com- “The cause of the accident is being inves- in an accident at a construction site at pany was trying to ascertain the cause of tigated under the supervision of LRDC, in Lusail City on Thursday evening are still the accident, with concerned authorities. collaboration with MIDMAC Contracting in hospital “under medical observation”. The construction workers, mostly and authorities,” it added. The other 15 were discharged after treat- Nepalese, were injured when the steel struc- “Both CEOs of Qatari Diar and LRDC ment on the same night, the Lusail Real ture caved in. visited our injured colleagues yesterday Estate Development Company (LRDC) said “Eighteen of our colleagues were injured. at hospital and offered them needed in a statement yesterday. Our medical team on site immediately support. The Peninsula was the first to report the attended to them and accompanied them “Our thoughts and prayers are with our collapse of the steel structure of a bridge to hospital. Fifteen received treatment colleagues and their families. We are provid- which was being readied for concrete work and were discharged last night. Three ing all necessary support to those affected,” in the upcoming city. remain under medical observation,” said the statement added. The LRDC, which is responsible for the the statement. THE PENINSULA

Katara, UNIC to www.swiss-belhotel.com hold activities to Qatar slams all Tel promote culture Fax DOHA: The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) and the United National Information Centre (UNIC) Tel have agreed to hold joint activities to forms of slavery Fax enrich the global and local culture and activate joint projects. Katara Director General Dr Khalid State’s efforts highlighted at Geneva session Al Sulaiti said Katara had adopted a list of international days of the UN to hold DOHA: Qatar has sharply He also highlighted Qatar’s provides assistance and pro- Tel activities. He met UNIC Director for criticised all forms of slav- Law No. 15 of 2011 on com- tection to victims and helps Fax the GCC, Najib Friji, who visited Katara ery as violating human bating human trafficking and in their rehabilitation, he recently and discussed cooperation. rights and impeding their said it guarantees protection said. They also agreed to activate the role enjoyment. of victims, and provides them He also stressed Qatar’s of UN goodwill ambassadors, host them This came in an address by with healthcare, education care and keenness to pro- Tollfree in Katara activities as guests of honour Al Mohannad Al Hammadi, and social care. mote and protect rights of and hold events to serve their causes. the Second Secretary at the He said the law also expat workers guaranteed Fax permanent delegation of focuses on creating the in the state’s Constitution Qatar envoy presents Qatar in Geneva, to the 24th appropriate conditions for and conventions and agree- session of the Human Rights victims’ rehabilitation and ments of the International Tel Council. reintegration into society in Labour Organisation, signed Fax credentials in Ukraine The session was within a way that takes care of their by Qatar. KIEV: Ukrainian President Viktor the framework of interactive needs and dignity. Al Hammadi said Qatar Yanukovich yesterday received the debate on the report of the Al Hammadi about spoke welcomed recommen- Qatari Ambassador, Jassim bin Special Rapporteur on con- about efforts Qatar has been dations in the report of Tel Rashid Al Khalifa, who presented his temporary slavery, its causes exerting to combat human Gulnara Shahinian, Special Fax credentials. and consequences. trafficking and related Rapporteur, on slavery, espe- Earlier, Ukraine’s Special Al Hammadi recalled crimes through institu- cially the establishment of Representative for Middle East and Article IV of the Universal tions, including the Qatar specialised agencies or insti- African Affairs at the Foreign Ministry, Declaration of Human Foundation for Combating tutions with specific mission Tel Latiy Gennady, met Al Khalifa and Rights, which says no one Human Trafficking. to promote awareness and Fax wished him success and further progress shall be held in servitude and QFCHT promotes aware- provide mechanisms to end in relations. prohibits slavery and human ness about human trafficking the scourge. www.doha.hilton.com QNA trafficking in all forms. and ways to combat it and QNA Tel +974 44233333 Mending the fishing net Fax +974 44233000 SEC focuses on safety of Qatari students in Egypt DOHA: In light of the unrest in Egypt, the Institute of Higher Education at the Supreme Education Council (SEC) is considering steps to ensure the safety of nearly 3,000 Qatari students enrolled in Tel Egyptian universities. Fax One solution being considered is to trans- fer the students to universities in other countries if authorities are not able to find functional universities in Egypt, Al Sharq reported yesterday. Tel An SEC official told the Arabic daily that Fax the council gives priority to the safety of stu- dents and their education and is willing to work with authorities to find solutions for any possible challenges the students could Tel face. Fax When unrest erupted in Egypt last June, many Qatari students returned home, with support from the Qatari embassy in Cairo and Qatar Airways, while some moved to other countries to continue studies. Tel A majority of about 3,000 postgraduate Fax Qatari students were sent to Egyptian uni- versities on government scholarships. THE PENINSULA A fisherman mends his fishing nets at Al Khor fishing port yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL Tel Fax

‘Loan’ panels come in handy for needy Tel Fax DOHA: The idea of form- “It is simple and very useful. formalities.” However, he said some losses when one member ing an informal association, A committee can be formed in a committee without any legal did not return from home after popularly known as ‘com- an hour by friends or relatives status may face problems. his annual vacation.” mittee’ to promote the cul- sitting in a majlis, for example,” “When some members fail THE PENINSULA ture of saving and facilitate said Mohammad Ziab, member to make their interest-free loans is gaining of an association. monthly con- popularity among Qataris and Those involved in such com- tributions due expatriates, local Arabic daily mittees say it is not only easy to, say, job Al Sharq reported yesterday. to get organised and raise funds loss or any Tel The idea is not new, and for useful purposes, but it also other reason, Fax works in a very simple way. ensures easy, interest-free loans the commit- People, especially young men to people who do not want to tee can do and women, form an association get involved in ‘complex’ bank- very little as and contribute a fixed sum of ing system and riba (interest) there are no Tel money every month to a respon- which is haraam (prohibited) legal papers.” Fax sible person, called treasurer, in Islam. An expa- who is selected by the group. Committee members use triate from Every month one member of the pooled money for various Africa, who www.renaissancedoha.com the committee is provided with purposes such as buying cars, did not wish an interest-free loan to be paid furnishing new homes, meeting to be named, Tel +974 44195000 in easy installments. marriage expenses and buying said: “I know Fax +974 44195100 The trend is popular among holiday trips overseas. one of my employees and salaried work- Fawaz Al Anzi, a member of friends was ers irrespective of their monthly a similar committee, said: “It a member of income. Monthly contributions is good for those who do not such a com- may very from QR1,000 to like complex banking system. mittee. He QR10,000, depending on their It provides interest-free loans rued because income. to the needy without much he had to bear SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

Libya funeral Egypt cracks Iraq attack on down on Sinai militants as worshippers protests held

CAIRO: Egyptian troops and helicopter gunships attacked Islamist militants in the Sinai kills 30 Peninsula yesterday in a drive to crush a security threat now spilling over into the rest of the Bombs target Sunni-Shia prayers country. Three soldiers were wounded in BAQUBA: Two coordinated Security forces imposed a tight clashes in three separate villages, bombs targeting worshippers cordon on the area and were security officials said. streaming out of joint Sunni- searching nearby houses and Islamist militant attacks have Shia prayers in a mosque killed buildings for the perpetrators. increased in the desert region at least 30 people north of No group claimed responsibility adjoining Israel and the Gaza Baghdad yesterday. for the blasts, but Sunni militants Strip and elsewhere in Egypt Unrest elsewhere left three linked to Al-Qaeda have claimed a since the army ousted Islamist others dead, as authorities grap- spate of attacks in recent months President Mohammed Mursi on ple with Iraq’s worst bloodshed in the capital and central Iraq. July 3 following mass protests since 2008. They frequently target Shia against his rule. A roadside bomb hidden in a Muslims, whom they regard as In the latest operation, secu- garbage bin went off outside Al apostates. rity forces detained two wanted Salam mosque, a Sunni place Baquba, about 60 kilometres men and seized a rocket, dyna- of worship in the confessionally north of Baghdad, and the sur- mite used to build bombs, and 200 mixed city of Baquba, at around rounding province of Diyala are Libyans attend a funeral ceremony for rebels who allegedly died in their fight against the Muammar Gaddafi books on Islamic fundamentalism, midday as Sunnis and Shias left mostly populated by Sunni Arabs, regime in 1984, during Friday prayers at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, yesterday. The bodies of the rebels had security officials said. after a joint prayer session. although there are substan- been discovered in cold storage rooms at the Tripoli Central Hospital during the Libyan civil war in 2011. Authorities are also focused A second blast went off nearby tial Shia Muslim and Kurdish on Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood, a short time later, after onlook- minorities. which had held power for just over ers and emergency responders In 2012, Diyala had the highest a year when Mursi was ousted. arrived at the scene. per capita rate of violence in Iraq, Thousands of pro-Mursi pro- “When we finished the prayers, according to Britain-based NGO Iran for ‘new steps’ on N-issue testers marched after Friday we went out to leave, and the sud- Iraq Body Count. It remains one prayers in several areas of Cairo denly there were explosions,” said of Iraq’s least stable areas and is BISHKEK: Iran’s new centrist of a summit of the Shanghai offer for Russia to build a second after authorities boosted security Khaled Najim, a day labourer who regularly struck by deadly attacks. leader Hassan Rowhani yester- Cooperation Organisation held in nuclear reactor at Iran’s Bushehr in sites where crowds had gath- suffered wounds to his left leg. Three car bombs in and day urged Moscow to help solve Kyrgyzstan. nuclear power plant, according ered in the past. “Everything was thrown into around the city killed 10 people Tehran’s nuclear crisis as he Rowhani said the meeting was to a diplomatic source quoted by In Alexandria, one protester the air, people were shouting, I on Tuesday. met President Vladimir Putin an “opportunity to exchange opin- Kommersant daily on Wednesday. died from a gunshot wound and saw many victims.” Another bombing targeted for a key meeting at a security ions on sensitive regional prob- “We have always had a large four others were wounded, medi- Thirty people were killed and 24 Friday prayers at a mosque in summit in Kyrgzystan. lems, international topics and amount of cooperation, we have cal and security sources said. wounded in the twin explosions, the town of Khanaqin, also in “As far as the Iranian nuclear bilateral questions”. it now and most likely we will do Demonstrations were also said an army major and Ahmed Diyala, killing one person, and a problem is concerned, we would Putin in turn praised Moscow’s in the future,” Putin said. held in the cities of Fayoum, al-Azzawi, a doctor at the city’s car bomb at a market north of like this problem to be solved as long-standing regional ally as a Putin was also reportedly offer- Alexandria, Assiut and Qena. main hospital. Several nearby Baquba wounded five. soon as possible within the frame- close neighbour in Rowhani’s first ing the renewal of a contract to State television said clashes broke buildings were also damaged. In the restive northern prov- work of international norms,” meeting with a major world leader supply Iran with sophisticated out between Brotherhood sup- “I was praying when the ince of Nineveh, a shooting and Rowhani told Putin in televised since he won June elections. S-300 air defence missile systems, porters and residents of the Nile first explosion happened,” said a bombing killed a soldier and a remarks translated into Russian “We know how much in inter- after the deal was cancelled under Delta town of Mahala. 22-year-old Baraa Hamid, who municipal official. in Bishkek. national affairs is revolving around international pressure in 2010. “Down, down with military was wounded in the stomach. Iraq has seen a spike in vio- “In the past Russia undertook the Iranian nuclear problem, but The diplomatic source told rule!” shouted the demonstrators “I went out with my friends lence that has already left more important steps in this sphere, we in Russia know something else, Kommersant that Putin would in Cairo. to evacuate the victims and the than 4,000 people dead this year, and right now is the best oppor- too: that Iran is our neighbour, a make the offer in return for Iran’s Some walked to a military hos- wounded, and then, a second sparking fears it is slipping back tunity for new steps on your part,” good neighbour,” Putin said. withdrawing a $4bn lawsuit that pital and wrote graffiti on a wall explosion went off. I felt some- into the all-out sectarian war that he said. “We do not choose our neigh- it has lodged in Geneva over the reading: “The coup is terrorism thing hit me in my stomach, and plagued it in 2006 and 2007. The two leaders were meeting bours,” he added. scrapping of the deal. and Sisi is a killer.” then the police evacuated me.” AFP for the first time on the sidelines Putin was reportedly going to AFP REUTERS Yemen probing death of child bride Morocco unveils SANAA: Yemen is investigat- should complete its investigation disappeared shortly afterwards, Ashton said the reported death ing the reported death of an by Saturday. as did her family, according to was appalling, and urged Yemen eight-year-old girl from inju- But rights activist Ahmed Quraishi. to ban child marriage. ries suffered on the first night Al Quraishi, chairman of child Some locals said the girl was She called on Sanaa to “abide judicial reforms of her marriage to a man in rights’ organisation Siyaj, said married to the man who took her by its obligations” under UN con- his 40s, the government said activists who went to the north- to a hotel, and that she died on ventions protecting the rights of RABAT: Morocco’s Islamist- future, which goes beyond minis- yesterday. western Hajjah province had the very first night from bleed- the child. led government has unveiled ters and governments. It is a soci- The government has formed a collected information that prac- ing caused by sexual intercourse. She urged the government to a charter outlining a raft of etal reform, developed by judges committee “to verify the reports tically confirms the case. However, a security official in “immediately reinstate legisla- long-awaited judicial reforms and lawyers, as well as activists,” about the death of the girl, “We in Siyaj are nearly sure of the area told activists investi- tion setting a minimum age for including a strengthening of the Justice Minister Mustafa Ramid named Rawan, after being mar- the girl’s death, and that authori- gating the case that the girl and marriage, in line with interna- judiciary’s independence that said. ried to an older man,” spokesman ties are trying to cover up the her father were being held by tional norms, to prohibit such have been a priority of the rul- Prime Minister Abdelilah Rajeh Badi said. issue,” he said. police, without giving any details, abuse of children”. ing party. Benkirane, whose Islamist Party “The crime is not confirmed He said locals in the town of Quraishi said. Human Rights Watch said on The charter was presented late of Justice and Development (PJD) yet. The team’s job is to verify Meedi told activists that they Activists also discovered that Wednesday that 14 percent of on Thursday by the justice min- triumphed in 2011 legislative elec- whether this crime took place saw the girl some three weeks Rawan’s father had another girls in Yemen are married before istry, some two years after the tions, came to power vowing to or not,” he said, adding that ago carrying a mobile phone, and daughter aged 10, who is also the age of 15, and 52 percent are kingdom adopted a new constitu- prosecute corruption and make police had not reported such an saying that she was to wed to a married. married before 18, according to tion in the face of sweeping Arab judicial reform a hallmark of his incident. man in his 40s. On Friday, European Union Yemeni and UN 2006 data. Spring protests with key provi- government. He said that the commission Residents also said that she foreign policy chief Catherine AFP sions for judicial reforms. “The charter constitutes a The government has come plan of action and a roadmap under growing pressure to imple- for reforming the judiciary,” he ment those provisions, by modify- was quoted as saying by MAP at ing the penal code and improving Thursday’s meeting, vowing the judicial procedures. government would “deploy all Tunisian journalist detained over remarks As well as strengthening the the necessary tools to make this independence of judges, the project succeed.” TUNIS: A Tunisian journal- “I am going to present to the charter aims to bolster the pro- The justice minister said it ist was detained yesterday for judge two documents which prove tection of human rights, enhance would be “the responsibility of accusing the public prosecutor what I have declared about the effectiveness of the judiciary and the whole of society” to apply the of fabricating evidence impli- allegations of the public prosecu- expand its institutional capaci- reforms, while insisting that firm cating a cameraman in an egg- tor Tarek Chkioua,” he said on his ties, the official MAP news agency steps had already been taken to throwing attack on a minister, Facebook page. reported yesterday. do so. prompting a union call to strike. “Chkioua argued... that the Other planned measures “Let’s not forget that nine “The committal order was detention of my colleague Mourad include reviewing the salaries of judges were recently dismissed, given even before our statements Meherzi was decided on the basis judges and the process of recruit- and that was publicly announced and the questioning of Zied el- of confessions about his involve- ing officials within the judiciary. for the first time.” Ramid said. Heni... This detention is illegal,” ment in a plot to attack the min- “This is a platform for the AFP the journalist’s lawyer Moufida ister of culture,” Heni added. Belghrith said, after he was sum- “There is no proof. On the con- moned to the central courthouse trary, (Meherzi) has even refused in Tunis. to sign the statement (following Sahrawi group blasts Morocco Several dozen journalists and his interrogation)... I will ask that lawyers prevented police from Tarek Chkioua is tried for placing executing the order, by blocking someone in detention without any over ‘mass graves’ access to the judge’s office. legal basis.” RABAT: Sahrawi activists blasted Morocco yesterday for failing But the security forces finally Tunisian protesters clash with policemen during a demonstration outside a Heni was a fierce critic of Zine to probe the disappearance of relatives in Western Sahara, after managed to detain Heni, who was El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s Spanish experts reported finding the graves of eight civilians Tunis courthouse against the detention of a journalist, yesterday. led away in a police convoy, amid former strongman toppled executed decades ago. shouting from protesters. in Tunisia’s mass uprising in The team of researchers from Spain’s University of the Basque The national union of Tunisian television late last month, of hav- Shili, the film-maker who hurled January 2011 that unleashed the Country exhumed the remains of eight Sahrawis, including two journalists called a general strike, ing fabricated evidence against the egg, vouching for him. Arab Spring. But he was never children, conducted forensic tests, and interviewed relatives and only the second in its history, in cameraman Mourad Meherzi, The minister’s lawyer acknowl- imprisoned, despite constant witnesses, according to the report published this week. The eight protest at Heni’s detention and to who is on trial for complicity edged last week that Meherzi was police harassment. Sahrawis, who were individually identified by name, were arrested denounce pressure on the media in the egg attack on Culture only doing his job, being at the Since the revolution, he has in February 1976 by a Moroccan military patrol and executed on by the Islamist-led government. Minister Mehdi Mabrouk. scene of the incident, but the regularly accused the Islamist the spot before being buried in shallow graves, the report concluded. It also urged the country’s Meherzi, who spent three weeks cameraman is still on trial and party Ennahda, which heads the The researchers carried out their work after a shepherd discov- media to boycott “all the activi- in detention before being freed Shili remains in custody. coalition government, of manip- ered human remains last April in the Fadret Leguiaa area of the dis- ties of government”. on bail last week, insists he was Just hours after his arrest, ulating the courts and security puted territory controlled by the pro-independence Polisario Front. The journalist is charged with merely doing his job in record- Heni renewed his accusations, forces for political ends. AFP accusing the public prosecutor, on ing the incident, with Nasreddine despite the risk of being jailed. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

Salim Matramkot A glimpse into Gibran

Rest Upon the Wind, a play inspired by the life of Khalil Gibran, is being staged at Katara Drama Theatre. The story revolves around Gibran’s struggle to deliver a message of love and peace to his fellow human beings, as he did in ‘The Prophet’. The play also celebrates Arab family warmth and sense of humour through the relationship between Gibran and his sister Myrianna as they struggle to adapt to life in America. Gibran, a Lebanese American artist, poet and writer, is the third best- selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. The last show of the play will be staged today. SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Views

ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KHALID AL SAYED [email protected]

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR HUSSAIN AHMAD [email protected]

EDITORIAL TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR E-MAIL: [email protected]

ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected]

SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 E-MAIL: [email protected] SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ANNUAL QR 675 6 MONTHS QR 340 Editorial

Justice for women Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

NDIA reacted with huge relief yesterday after a judge in Delhi sentenced four men to death for the fatal gang rape of a student aboard a moving bus in New Delhi last Iyear in an attack that triggered global outrage and days The desperate search for of violent protests in India. The nation was waiting with bated breath for the verdict by the specially set up court, and finally when it came, there were cries of jubilation. The attack on the medical student in December last year had spurred weeks of online privacy is over nationwide protests. BY STEPHEN L CARTER Death sentences in India are restricted for ‘the rarest of researchers have unpeeled a few layers break most Internet encryption. (The the rare cases’ and the Delhi gang rape clearly fell in that of Tor’s celebrated onion of anonymity, problem may be even worse if, as some category. The judge Yogesh Khanna described the crime as T HAS been a rough couple of months releasing a tabulation of the most popu- experts speculate, NSA is developing having “been committed in an extremely brutal, grotesque, for the folks at the Tor Project. lar among Tor’s “hidden services” — that dedicated chips that will aid in crack- I Tor — it stands for “The Onion is, sites that can be accessed only via ing even the elliptical keys that not long diabolical, revolting and thus dastardly manner” that “shocked Router” — camouflages its users’ Web Tor itself. ago were said to carry the promise of a the collective conscience”. Even before the verdict came, communications with encryption and by The news wasn’t good. more secure online future.) Indian home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had said that bouncing signals around server nodes in For a site whose glory has long been Nor can we protect privacy online death penalty was assured. In television debates on the issue, different parts of the world so that it’s the image of the courageous freedom through laws and court orders. The there was an unusual unanimity that the culprits must be put all but impossible for either governments fighter in, say, Syria bravely sending NSA, we are now told by a federal judge, or advertisers to track them to their messages to the world, the results were for three years “frequently and system- to death. And the judgement received global coverage because origins. Its fans hail Tor as a vital tool depressing: “Of the top twenty most pop- atically” breached the limits placed of the importance of the case. for those who live under repressive gov- ular Tor addresses, eleven are command on database searches by the Foreign After the tragic incident last year, Delhi acquired global ernments. But Tor has suffered a series and control centres for botnets, includ- Intelligence Surveillance Court. Think notoriety as the rape capital of India. Tourists shunned the of public embarrassments — embar- ing all of the top five. Of the rest, five this isn’t about you? The database in city, and the police, roasted by the public for their apathy and rassments that teach important lessons carry adult content, one is for Bitcoin question includes “the phone records of inefficiency, became more vigilant, about the increasingly desperate search mining and one is the Silk Road mar- nearly all Americans.” for online privacy. ketplace. Two could not be classified.” It Privacy is best understood not so resulting in increased patrolling and Last month, we learned that the ano- gets even worse: “The FreedomHosting much as a collection of discrete constitu- arrests of hundreds of miscreants. nymity protocols address is only the 27th most popu- tional rights but as a shared sense that it India needs There is no doubt that the that are Tor’s rea- lar address,” according to Technology is possible for us to go about the business serious sentencing to death of rapists will son for existence Review. of daily life protected by a government plant fear in the hearts of those who had been hacked, In other words, the anonymity of Tor that neither knows nor cares how we reforms to would think of committing such apparently by the appeals principally to botnets, commonly spend the bulk of our time. The minutes If we don’t want FBI, which was used by spammers; those who peddle or of our lives are entirely our own. root out crimes in future. Also, it will renew those who are investigating an seek pornography; and those who use But in a world ruled by the Web, pri- sexual violence the debate about sexual violence in alleged purveyor a marketplace that has been called vacy in this traditional sense seems so … India, especially in Delhi. But even sworn to protect us of child pornog- “Amazon.com for illegal drugs.” 1990s. “There’s nothing you or I can do to against women. after all these, can women walk safely reading our e-mail raphy. Then, last As for Freedom Hosting: It was, for put the genie back in the bottle,” writes and fearlessly on the streets of Delhi? week, we were a while, one of the glories of the Tor security analyst Neil J. Rubenking. (The and listening to our reminded that universe. Although not sponsored by title of his post: “Privacy is Dead. The The answer is a big No. This is because some 60 percent Tor, Freedom Hosting promised free NSA Killed it. Now What?”) “The best the situation on the streets hasn’t calls, we’ll have to of the budget of accounts to anyone. But in August, we can hope for,” he writes, “is to keep changed yet. Sexual violence against women is widespread and meet our friends in the Tor Project the founder of Freedom Hosting was the government in check by electing deep-rooted in India and will require serious changes in public person. comes from the arrested, charged by the U.S. govern- sane, sensible candidates.” attitude and many institutional reforms for true change to federal govern- ment with being the world’s biggest That won’t be enough. The govern- happen. ment, including a purveyor of child pornography. He was ment’s appetite for information isn’t whopping 40 per- also said to have turned a blind eye to going to wane under either party. A Unfortunately, even after the conscience of the nation was cent from the Department of Defense. other people’s use of Freedom Hosting voracious security bureaucracy isn’t shaken after last year’s rape-murder, crimes against women (Tor responded in an email published for that purpose. going to go on a sudden diet. The bad continued unabated in Delhi. Women are still afraid to go out in the Washington Post that these are So what are the lessons of Tor’s guys will always be drawn to the shad- and rapists are on the prowl. research grants, and the US govern- long summer? Principally this: We are ows. Those who chase them will always What India needs to stop sexual violence against women ment does not control its research or unlikely ever to be able to ensure our find this an adequate reason to ban are a strict enforcement of its laws, a more women-friendly software.) privacy through technical means alone. darkness. So yes, as Tor users have lately Now, most unkindly of all, Technology Ever since the days of the Polybius learned, privacy in the traditional sense police and an efficient judiciary. The existing laws are enough Review is piling on. This week, the popu- square, the race between encryption is most certainly dead. But the killer to root out this social disease, but culprits are rarely punished lar technology site reported a study by and decryption has been won by the isn’t the NSA. It’s the Internet itself — and even if a case is brought to court, India’s notoriously slow the same researchers at the University decrypters. or, more to the point, our entire reliance judiciary takes years, even decades, to give a verdict. of Luxembourg who earlier in the year Just this week, we learned that the on it, our naive belief that we can spend It seems changes are coming. Yesterday’s judgement could found a major security flaw at Tor. (They National Security Agency may have hours each day sending signals into the informed Tor of the problem, and it has developed either decryption capabilities ether and nobody will pluck them out. be seen as a beginning• been repaired.) In their new study, the or secret backdoors that enabled it to WP-BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Twitter’s IPO filing won’t be as public as users’ tweets the day ATURALLY, when Twitter companies to work with regulators for of public scrutiny. One could argue that has amassed about 200 million users, announced its plans for an months to sort out their businesses this shouldn’t matter: If the Securities strode confidently into the mobile era, initial public offering, it issued without any public scrutiny. and Exchange Commission finds that introduced smoothly integrated and I believe that the Na statement of merely 135 Clearly, such secrecy could ben- the company has made a misleading well-targeted advertising, made some characters. Economy of language is efit Twitter. After notorious recent flops statement and Twitter rewrites its docu- ambitious acquisitions and (unlike some report will be an admirable by the logic of social-media from the likes of Facebook, Zynga and ments accordingly, who gets harmed? other social-media behemoths we could posts. Whether it will help the investing Groupon, the company may be hop- Yet surely such mistakes are indica- mention) mostly avoided antagonizing overwhelming, public is another matter. ing to avoid undue hype for its offer- tive of the way the company conducts its users. Even the pope is a fan. overwhelming Under the JOBS Act of 2012, com- ing or to reduce the chances that one business; at a minimum they suggest All of which seems to be paying off. panies that intend to go public can of its employees will make tone-deaf whether it’s getting good legal advice. Twitter was valued last month at about report that chemical keep their financials secret until 21 days public statements. (“You’ve got to stay And the back-and-forth itself is useful $10.5 billion by GSV Capital Corp., one weapons (were) used, before they begin their “roadshow” to focused on doing the right stuff,” Mark information. Groupon’s unusual pre-IPO of its investors. The consultant eMar- pitch investors, as long as they earn less Zuckerberg not so helpfully suggested accounting measures offer a relevant keter has estimated that the company even though I cannot than $1 billion in annual revenue. That recently, when asked what his advice exhibit. At the moment, no one outside will earn $583 million in advertising rev- publicly say at this weak threshold would have applied to would be for Twitter’s IPO.) of Twitter’s offices knows. enue this year and $950 million in 2014, about 90 percent of public offerings in Twitter may also be able to hash out What we do know about Twitter is up from $288 million last year. time before I receive Ban Ki-moon the past two decades, and it allows significant regulatory problems outside that in seven short years, the service The Washington Post this report. UN Secretary-General SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Justice awaits the people of Syria Syria’s unexpected agreement to place its chemical weapons under international control may seem to obviate the need for new policy options.

BY DIANE ORENTLICHER contribution, and the fragility of the one court potentially able to address emanding “accountability atrocities anywhere in the world — the for those who would use International Criminal Court. the world’s most heinous These lessons should shape our weapons against the world’s response to the monstrous crimes in most vulnerable people”, Syria. Not just the appalling use last Dthe Obama administration has force- month of chemical weapons, but also fully argued that Syria must be punished the monstrosities that have gone on for for gassing more than 1,400 civilians to more than two years. For our response death in a single day — an act President provides an opportunity to make Barack Obama called “a crime against much-needed course corrections in our humanity, and a violation of the laws of approach to global justice. war” in his speech on Tuesday night. What global justice can do for Syrians Leaders around the world have also — and what it cannot. Past experi- denounced Syria’s “war crimes” and its ence gives little reason to believe that “crime against civilisation.” But if they threatening prosecutions would have Syrian refugees gather for food aid at the Kawergost refugee camp in Irbil, 350km north of Baghdad, Iraq. seem to be making the case for prosecu- a direct, immediate impact in ending tions, that option has, in fact, received ongoing atrocities in Syria. Atrocities scant serious attention — despite French did not end in Bosnia when the United easing the way to democratic transi- Syrian atrocities, what model might be concluded a summit by accusing the and British efforts to press the issue. Nations Security Council established tions. It is difficult, however, to identify most effective? The obvious is the ICC, ICC of conducting “some kind of race Syria’s unexpected agreement to place the International Criminal Tribunal for a situation in which the initiation of an which was created to address “the most hunting” against Africans. This month, its chemical weapons under interna- the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in May international criminal process signifi- serious crimes of concern to the inter- Kenya’s parliament passed a motion urg- tional control may seem to obviate the 1993 — they ended when the US and its cantly altered the course of mass atroci- national community” — precisely the ing the government to withdraw from need for new policy options, assuming North American Treaty Organisation ties well underway. kind of outrage perpetrated in northern the ICC’s statute. If the government fol- the devilish details of this initiative allies took military action in the wake Yet criminal prosecutions can advance Damascus when hundreds of civilians lowed through, Kenya would be the first can be nailed down. But seeking justice of the Srebrenica genocide, more than important goals. Trials and other initia- died a tormenting death from chemical country to do this, dealing a major blow will become a key dimension of US and two years later. Nor did the ICTY’s exist- tives, such as reparations, would provide weapons. Because Syria is not a party to the court’s credibility. international policy responses to Syrian ence stop Serbian atrocities in Kosovo in some measure of justice to the Syrians to the ICC’s statute, however, the court A referral of Syria would also answer atrocities — not least because Syrians the 1990s. Another US-led Nato inter- haunted by the inhumanity they have could take up an investigation only if the a critique of the Security Council that will expect some measure of justice for vention did that. This is not to say that endured and recognition of the harm UN Security Council refers a “situation” has tarnished the ICC’s credibility — that the depredations they have endured. war crimes tribunals have no deterrent they suffered. Justice can also serve to in Syria to the court. Many countries the council acts selectively when refer- Though prosecutions wouldn’t deal effect. There is plenty of anecdotal evi- re-affirm victims’ humanity. and human-rights advocates had been ring situations to the court. To date, it an immediate blow to Syria’s chemical dence that the ICC and other tribunals If this sounds like a vague contribution, urging the Security Council to do this has referred only two — in Africa. The weapons capacity, they can help restore have made both senior officials and low- it may be invaluable to victims. Bosnians, long before last month’s use of chemical charge of selectivity is often framed as a global taboo that has been dangerously ranking soldiers think twice about com- like Syrians, have been haunted by the weapons. a rhetorical question — Why Libya but breached, while also honouring the suf- mitting atrocities. trauma of a years-long descent into the Though the court’s relationship not Syria? — that a Syria referral would fering of thousands of Syrian victims. For example, then-President of abyss, have stressed to me how crucial with the African Union (AU) has been answer. Notably, the International Criminal Senegal Abdoulaye Wade reportedly told justice has been for them — even as fraught for years, it has deteriorated The transitional government in Libya Court last year acquired explicit jurisdic- aides last year that he would not use they cite criticisms of the ICTY. As the markedly since March. That month, understandably wants to prosecute the tion over the war crime of using poison- violence to enforce what would have been ICTY has shown, international tribu- two men the ICC is prosecuting for two surviving suspects the ICC has ous gas in the kind of conflict underway a false claim of winning the presidential nals can also catalyse domestic courts alleged roles in violence after Kenya’s brought charges against. Even with an in Syria. Bringing this charge against election lest he face charges before the to step up their game in ending impu- 2007 presidential voting were elected ICC ruling that Libya must surrender Syrian perpetrators would bolster other ICC — which had happened to former nity for atrocious crimes. Unfortunately, as president and deputy president of one of them, Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, Libya efforts to restore the taboo against use Ivoirian president Laurent Gbagbo. the International Criminal Court has Kenya. Uganda’s president — who gave continues to insist it should be allowed to of weapons of mass destruction. Instead, Wade accepted electoral defeat. not seen its job as helping local courts the court its first set of cases when he bring him to justice itself. This standoff The reasons why the justice option International indictments of other lead- develop stronger capacity to provide self-referred the situation in his country is still resolved, but one thing is clear: has received little attention to date offer ers who were considered untouchable, justice — an approach that may be due to the ICC — used the Kenyans’ inaugu- Governments are more mindful now of important lessons from past experi- like former Liberian president Charles for mid-course correction. What kind ration to denounce the “arrogant actors” the extent to which ICC jurisdiction can ence about what war crimes tribunals Taylor and Serbian leader Slobodan of justice? from the court who carried out “careless constrain the choices of a post-dictator- can deliver; when they can make a real Milosevich, helped marginalise them, If justice is to play a role in addressing and shallow analysis.” The AU chairman ship society. WP-BLOOMBERG Clegg can feel more positive now West will gain by

any other party has to be endorsed by its Clegg made no MPs, the party’s executive and also a special calling Putin’s bluff conference of members. At the time, this was thought to be a brake on the leader’s freedom attempt to conceal his BY SHASHANK JOSHI to manoeuvre. But now its very existence works in Clegg’s disappointment that favour. For all the MPs, members of the execu- ussia’s proposal to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons has tive and activists voted overwhelmingly for been derided as cynical, unworkable or, at best, a stalling so many of his MPs the coalition in 2010. By unlocking Clegg they tactic. It may be all of these things. Still, the West should locked themselves in. Too shrewd to say he told Rcall Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bluff: Even a limited them so, Clegg’s subtext will be self-evident. inspection and disarmament program would do more damage to Syria’s declined to support You signed up to the coalition in the national capabilities than a handful of missiles. interest because of the economic crisis. As President Barack Obama outlined in an address on Tuesday night, a government motion At last, albeit slowly, we seem to be on the the proposed strikes are intended to inflict punishment on Syrian mili- way to resolving that crisis, just hold your tary units responsible for chemical warfare and to deter future massa- nerve. (And by the way Dr Cable, don’t be cres. They were never intended to change the military balance, to solve on Syria. quite so gloomy!) Those who challenge the the civil war or to eliminate chemical weapons. The war plans avoid glimmerings of economic recovery will be targeting the actual stockpiles, for fear of spreading toxic plumes or BY MENZIES CAMPBELL directed to unexpected corroboration from leaving sites open to plunder. In addition, huge risks are involved with Ed Balls and Miliband, who have accepted that moving chemical weapons across a war zone, and destroying them in oalition politics is not for the faint- there is growth in the economy and that a place will require building expensive, specialised facilities. hearted. Nor is leadership, as Nick Labour government would not reverse many Nevertheless, President Bashar Assad has shown over the past two Clegg will tell you. As he contem- of the welfare reforms that it has slavishly years that he can move and consolidate his stockpiles under difficult Nicholas William Peter ‘Nick’ Clegg Cplates his fourth party conference opposed in opposition. conditions. At the very least, more centralised storage sites under heavy as deputy PM, his thoughts, and his leader’s Attacks on Liberal Democrats have dimin- international monitoring would make it harder for the regime to prepare speech, need to be turning to the general elec- To cap it all, in his attempt to show his ished in recent weeks as Labour has faced further chemical weapons or use existing stockpiles. All of this assumes, tion, now less than two years away. He can do independence from the trade unions he has up to the reality that a welfare budget that of course, that Putin and Assad aren’t merely playing for time. To ensure so with more confidence than 12 months ago. picked a fight with the money men who keep exceeds expenditure on health, education and they are sincere, they must meet certain crucial conditions. Last year’s atrial flutterings over his leader- Labour afloat. defence cannot be immune when the objective First, Syria must sign and ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention, ship have died away. His policy of differen- Against that background, Clegg and his is to restore economic stability. as it has promised to do. And its tally of its chemical weapons holdings tiation between the Liberal Democrats and party can feel more positive even while the Those who are close to Clegg believe that must roughly match existing intelligence estimates. Any big discrepancies their Tory partners has become overt and party’s ratings in the opinion polls stagnate. one of his persistent anxieties is what he would be a deal breaker. Inspectors must be able to roam widely, looking even reciprocated. Sarah Teather’s carefully There are things by which to be comforted. perceives to be a drift towards isolationism. for undeclared stockpiles or sites, and be allowed to interview Syrian timed disloyalty does not help, but as Clegg Unsuccessful attempts to bring about consti- That drift may be overstated, but the party of scientists and officers. contemplates Glasgow he can afford some tutional change have faded into history, local Europe seems less European than it was even Second, any deal must set clear deadlines for every stage. The Chemical schadenfreude from what lies in front of David government by-election results have held up in the recent past. Weapons Convention gives Syria a month to declare its holdings and a Cameron and Ed Miliband. Both the other two and economic indicators are improving, albeit And Clegg made no attempt to conceal decade to eliminate its weapons. This timeline would have to be expedited, party leaders go to meet their faithful with haltingly. And, as Martin Kettle pointed out his disappointment that so many of his MPs and inspectors would have to enter Syria by Christmas. bruising to show from the past few weeks. yesterday, there is always Eastleigh as a dem- declined to support a government motion on Third, and most important, the United Nations Security Council must The prime minister, who was driven to con- onstration of what can be done. Syria that asserted the primacy of the UN and back any plan with a so-called Chapter VII resolution, permitting the cede a referendum on Europe to his recalci- Despite these apparent advantages it may promised a future vote before military action. use of force. The threat of military action is what compelled Syria to trant backbenchers a few months ago has had, not be an easy conference for the LibDem Beyond the economy, Clegg will point to allow in UN inspectors last month and to agree to Russia’s proposal this in the last fortnight, to endure the humiliation leadership, since this may be the last chance the raising of the tax threshold to benefit the week. To make the threat more credible, Obama should seek Congress’s of a nominal government defeat but, in truth, for activists to leave their mark on the party poorest taxpayers, the pupil premium for the authorization for strikes if Russia or Syria renege on the plan’s terms. a personal one on the issue of military action manifesto for 2015. But Clegg holds at least one children of less affluent families, increased Let’s consider the worst-case scenario: Putin and Assad aren’t sincere against the Assad regime, an issue which he ace. These are the same activists who, when childcare provision, spirited resistance to the and their offer is a ploy to forestall an imminent strike, with the hope had made his own. asked to endorse the five-year programme of communications data bill, continuing support of tying up the US in a frustrating game of cat-and-mouse, as Iraq did Am I the only one to see a curious symme- the coalition in the heady days of the rose for a reformed European arrest warrant and in the 1990s. try between the anti-Europeans and the new garden, did so by an overwhelming majority. other policy achievements that could not have That concern is easily dismissed: Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel told peaceniks of the Tory right? No one ever said it was going to be easy. been achieved from the benches of opposition. Congress this week that the earliest date for a strike would be mid- And what of Miliband? The Labour leader’s After the extent of Paddy Ashdown’s dal- His closing speech next Wednesday will not October. The military threat would remain intact. It could be enhanced August has been a wicked month. One by one liance with Tony Blair in 1997 was revealed, herald a general election, but it may seem like even. Congress, the American public and the international community Blairites and foot soldiers alike have queued the party adopted the so-called triple-lock. it. would be far more likely to back a strike if a good faith disarmament up to question his ability to win. Any arrangement between the LibDems and THE GUARDIAN effort has been tried and failed. WP-BLOOMBERG SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Oppn to pick Ban slams Assad; US, Russia in talks PM in push for Syrian regime scattering chemical weapons stocks; France to give more help to rebels credibility ISTANBUL: The Syrian oppo- GENEVA: UN chief Ban told reporters after meeting with sition coalition will appoint a Ki-moon yesterday accused Lavrov and the UN-Arab League provisional prime minister today Bashar Al Assad of crimes envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi. to raise its international cred- against humanity as Washington Lavrov said he also hoped a ibility as high-stakes diplomacy and Moscow held crucial talks “basically abandoned” peace plan plays out between Washington on dismantling Syria’s chemical first agreed in Geneva in June last and Moscow to resolve Syria’s weapons arsenal. year would be revived. two and a half year civil war, Though he did not blame the “We agreed to meet in New National Coalition officials said. regime directly, Ban said UN York in the margins of the (UN) After a week of intense inter- experts will confirm in a report General Assembly and see where national negotiations that threat- released next week that chemical we are, and what the Syrian par- ened to sideline the Western and weapons were used in an attack ties think about it and do about Arab backed coalition in the wake near Damascus that left hun- it,” Lavrov said. of a nerve gas attack on Damascus dreds dead. The French presidency said that killed hundreds of people, Assad has vowed to relinquish Kerry, French Foreign Minister coalition officials said they reached his chemical arms, after the Laurent Fabius and British consensus that Ahmad Tumeh, alleged attack prompted threats Foreign Secretary William Hague an independent Islamist, will be of a US-led military strikes. would hold further talks on Syria appointed to run rebel-held areas US Secretary of State John in Paris on Monday. where a decline into chaos threat- Kerry and his Russian counter- Assad confirmed for the first ens to undermine the opposition to part Sergei Lavrov were holding a time on Thursday that Syria President Bashar Al Assad. second day of talks in Geneva yes- planned to relinquish its chemi- “We will be appointing a new terday to hammer out the details cal arms, and Russian President prime minister tomorrow. It will of a Russian plan that emerged Vladimir Putin urged the global be the first item on the agenda,” this week. community to take him seriously. coalition spokesman Khaled Saleh The last-minute Russian initia- “This confirms the serious told reporters after the first day tive caused US President Barack intentions of our partners to go of a meeting of the 115-member Obama to back away from planned along this path,” Putin said at a coalition. military strikes in response security summit in Kyrgyzstan. The coalition has struggled to to the chemical attack, which A UN spokesman said yester- form a coherent response to a Washington blames on the regime day the organisation has asked Russian initiative that proposes Demonstrators hold a banner during a protest against Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in Kafranbel, near Idlib. and says killed about 1,400 people. Syria for more information about Assad hands over the country’s At the United Nations, Ban its application to join the interna- massive chemical weapons arsenal lashed out at Assad and said UN tional convention banning chemi- in return for averting a threat- inspectors will publish an “over- cal weapons. ened U.S.-led punitive strike. whelming report” that chemical Washington has warned the Govt forces deliberately target hospitals: UN “The Russian initiative is silent weapons were used. regime that further steps will on the very first issue on ensur- He said the Syrian leader had be needed before military action GENEVA: Syrian government forces are bombing and shelling hospitals in rebel-held areas to stop ing accountability. Providing and “carried out many crimes against would be off the table. sick and wounded people getting treatment, acts which constitute war crimes, UN investigators said reaching political solutions does humanity” and insisted there had France also said yesterday that yesterday. not absolve the regime from the to be “accountability” once Syria’s Syria had not yet not done enough, Fighters loyal to President Bashar Al Assad purposefully denied people medical care as a “weapon fact that it killed 1,466 innocent civil war is over. calling for a binding UN Security of war” and had also tortured people in their own medical centres, the independent investigators said. civilians,” Saleh said. In Geneva, Washington and Council resolution that would The U.N. team had details of a smaller number of incidents when rebel forces attacked hospitals. Coalition member Khaled Moscow said they hoped the authorise force if Assad does not “The pattern of attacks indicates that government forces deliberately targeted hospitals and medical Khoja said the opposition was chemical weapons talks would give up his arsenal. units to gain military advantage by depriving anti-government armed groups and their perceived sup- still willing to enter into talks open the door to wider efforts “The Syrian regime’s announce- porters of medical assistance,” the report said. with the Assad government if to end Syria’s conflict, which has ments are certainly very useful The attacks started as violence mounted in Syria’s conflict in early 2012 and were continuing, it added. the balance of military power claimed more than 110,000 lives but also certainly insufficient,” Neither Assad’s forces nor rebel groups immediately responded to the allegations. was redressed. since March 2011. French foreign ministry spokes- REUTERS “We are not against Geneva 2, Kerry said he would meet man Philippe Lalliot said. but not under these conditions. Lavrov again later this month — Fuelling concerns about details of its plan, but Russian Syria’s opposition National Saudi Arabia, the United Arab The balance of power is not right probably around September 28 Assad’s sincerity, reports media report that it calls for a Coalition also said it was “deeply Emirates and Jordan had agreed now. What would restore it is — to try to set a date for a long- emerged yesterday that Syria four-step process for the weapons sceptical” of the government’s to give more help to the Syrian either an air strike or weapons delayed peace conference. had scattered its stockpile of handover. move and urged a tough UN reso- opposition in its battle against for the Free Syrian Army,” Khoja He said Washington and chemical weapons to as many as Reports say the plan calls for lution to enforce the measure. Assad. said, referring to more sophisti- Moscow were “working hard to 50 sites in a bid to complicate US Damascus to join the Organisation “It is vital the threat of force After a meeting in Paris, French cated anti-tank and anti-aircraft find common ground” to get peace efforts to track them. for the Prohibition of Chemical stays on the table. For a (UN President Francois Hollande and weapons. talks going in Geneva that would A secret Syrian military unit Weapons (OPCW), declare the Security Council) resolution to foreign ministers from the three Selim Idris, the head of the bring together Assad’s regime and was given responsibility to shift locations of its chemical arms, be anything other than a get-out- countries “agreed on the need to Supreme Military Council, denied the opposition. the arsenal of poison gases and allow OPCW inspectors access of-jail-free card for the regime, strengthen international support media reports that the first ship- Much of the way forward “will munitions to different locations and finally arrange for destruc- it must be enforceable under for the democratic opposition to ment of US-supplied weapons obviously depend on the capacity across Syria, the Wall Street tion of the arsenal. Chapter 7,” allowing military allow it to face attacks by the arrived in the past few weeks. to have success here in the next Journal reported, citing US and A spokesman for the Hague- action, it said in a statement. regime,” Hollande’s office said in “We would like to know where day, hours, days, on the subject Middle Eastern officials. based OPCW said it will meet next The French presidency a statement. these weapons are,” Idris said. of the chemical weapons,” Kerry Russia has not revealed many week to examine Syria’s request. said, meanwhile, that France, AFP REUTERS

Turkish business Police use tear gas as dynasties accused of Turkey protests resurface ISTANBUL: Riot police used protests in Ankara and reports tear gas to disperse pockets of on social media of unrest in the backing 1997 coup anti-government demonstrators Mediterannean coastal cities of in several Turkish cities for a Antalya and Antakya. ISTANBUL: A lawyer within the military linked to third night and Prime Minister Protests intensified this week accused two of Turkey’s cor- the overthrow. Tayyip Erdogan vowed to stamp after a 22-year old man, Ahmet porate dynasties yesterday “The Ankara chief public out what he described as efforts Atakan, died during clashes with of backing the 1997 mili- prosecutor’s office will now to “create chaos”. police in Antakya, near the border tary overthrow of its first carry out the necessary legal Officers backed by armoured with Syria, early on Tuesday. Islamist-led government, investigation,” he said. vehicles and water cannon played “We are protesting the death of sending their shares tum- The complaint against cat and mouse into the early Ahmet. We won’t stop the resist- bling on fears of a deepening Koc and Dogan comes a day hours yesterday with groups of ance until there’s justice. The gov- vendetta against the coun- after Erdogan said he was youths in the streets of Kadikoy, ernment knows we won’t give up, try’s secular business elite. “surprised” that corporate on the Asian side of Istanbul, dis- that’s why the police are here,” Shares in family-run con- interests which he said had mantling their makeshift barri- said one protester in his early 20s glomerates Dogan Holding been supportive of past coup cades of garbage and rubble. in Kadikoy. and Koc Holding fell nearly attempts in Turkey had not There were similar REUTERS eight percent and more than been held to account. three percent respectively But the move came as a after lawyer Mustafa Polat surprise. filed a complaint against them “Remember the Koc group Bahrain protest in a trial of alleged plotters. is a huge industrial concern in The events of 1997 were Turkey, accounting for some- dubbed the “post-modern thing like 10 percent of GDP. coup” as the generals used The assumption was that the pressure behind the scenes AKP administration would to force Prime Minister not risk killing the golden Necmettin Erbakan from goose,” said Timothy Ash, head power, in contrast to the direct of emerging markets research intervention of three military at Standard Bank. coups in 1960, 1971 and 1980. Koc and Dogan have been in Polat said he had filed the the firing line before. complaint against Aydin The government launched Dogan and the holding com- a probe into the taxes of Koc pany of the Koc family, which energy firms in July, weeks owns five of Turkey’s 10 largest after criticising one of the companies and whose inter- family’s hotels for sheltering ests account for an estimated protesters during anti-govern- 10 percent of national output, ment unrest over the summer. because there was clear evi- The finance minister said dence of their opposition to there was no link to the Erbakan’s government. protests. “These are people and com- Erdogan’s government has panies whose names appear in the past levied heavy tax Bahraini protesters, defying a ban on protest marches, shout anti-gov- regularly in the indictment of fines and seized the assets of ernment slogans in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama, yesterday. the case,” Polat said, adding he media firms perceived to be Riot police fired tear gas to disperse the protest staged by close to a believed they had been in con- critical of his administration. hundred villagers. tact with a clandestine group REUTERS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

Colorado floods 37 die in Russian psychiatric home fire prompt more Nurse perishes while saving patients; Investigators open criminal probe into negligence evacuations;

LUKA, RUSSIA: Thirty- The fire in Luka, which broke rain seen easing seven people were killed when a out in the middle of the night, fire swept through an aged psy- reduced the decrepit wooden BOULDER, Colorado: The chiatric hospital in northwest building on the outskirts of a vil- National Guard yesterday evac- Russia in the early hours of lage beside a forest to smoulder- uated a Colorado town cut off by yesterday, the latest tragedy to ing wreckage. raging floodwaters, while fore- hit the country’s mental health Rescue teams were combing casters called for some let-up institutions. through the debris and taking in record rains that have killed The fire was apparently started away bodies in black plastic bags three people, washed out dams by a patient who was either smok- from the scene. and swamped roads across the ing or deliberately set fire to his Novgorod region governor state. bed at the hospital in the village Sergei Mitin said at the scene The unusually intense late- of Luka, 220km southeast of Saint that 23 people had been rescued summer storms drenched Petersburg, officials said. from the fire. Colorado’s biggest urban centres, The single-storey wood-and- Ilya Denisov, a representative stretching 210km along the east- concrete building housed around of the emergencies ministry, said ern slopes of the Rockies from 60 male patients including 15 who it was still possible that more sur- Fort Collins near the Wyoming were bed bound, and the institu- vivors could be found. border south through Boulder, tion had been previously warned He said the firefighters were Denver and Colorado Springs. by the authorities to improve its quick to react but that by the Kari Bowen, a meteorolo- fire safety. time they arrived the fire had gist with the National Weather Local residents said that one of consumed the entire building. Service, said the rains should the patients was believed to suffer Local authorities said the slow yesterday, but intermittent from pyromania. hospital housed patients with showers may bring up to an inch “During a fire in the Oksochi grave psychological disorders, of rain to hard-hit Boulder and psychiatric hospital 37 people making evacuation even more Larimer counties yesterday as the died,” regional investigators said complicated. bulk of the rainfall moved east. in a statement, adding that 30 Lydia Vasilyeva, 40, who lives “We’re still expecting some bodies had already been pulled near the hospital, said the fire Rescuers take away a body bag with a victim of a pre-dawn fire from the charred remains of the psychiatric hospital flooding to occur, but not quite from the wreckage. spread very quickly. in the village of Luka in the northwest Russian Novgorod region, yesterday. as bad as the last couple of days A nurse perished in the fire “Many of the patients were in terms of the amount of rain that broke out at 2.45am (2245 pushed out of the windows. Many “I looked out of the window in a statement. violations in fire safety by August that we’ve been getting,” she said. GMT) while saving patients. She didn’t want to come out or didn’t and there was fire everywhere, Investigative Committee head 1. National Guard troops were left behind a husband and four come out immediately. It was very the slates were cracking. I was Alexander Bastrykin personally The Kremlin’s human rights using trucks to evacuate the children, locals said. Authorities scary,” she said. crying, I was in shock,” said went to inspect the scene of the envoy, Vladimir Lukin, sounded remote town of Lyons, north of were planning to decorate her She said it was difficult to pin- Diana Akakiyeva. “It’s lucky that disaster. the alarm over the state of psy- Boulder, Mike Banuelos, a spokes- posthumously. point the cause of the blaze but it wasn’t windy, otherwise eve- Prime Minister Dmitry chiatric hospitals in the coun- man for the Boulder County The blaze was the latest trag- suggested a patient might have rything would have gone up in Medvedev also instructed the try, calling for a joint effort to Emergency Operations Center. edy to hit a psychiatric institution started the fire. flames.” labour and social development improve oversight. The town of 1,600 people was in Russia. “In the summer they brought Investigators said they had minister Maxim Topilin to travel “The entire society, the people virtually cut off when floodwaters In April, a fire ravaged a psy- a patient here who they say was opened a criminal probe into sus- to the village. should protect citizens who have washed out US Route 36, and res- chiatric hospital in the Moscow suffering from pyromania,” she pected negligence causing death. Officials said concerns had found themselves in a unique, dif- idents have been without water region, killing 38 people, most of said. “According to preliminary already been raised about the ficult situation when they cannot and power for 48 hours, he said. them patients who were engulfed Another local resident said she information, one of the patients state of the building and the protect themselves,” Lukin said “It’s a pretty dangerous situa- by flames as they slept behind was woken up by her cats and the set fire to himself and his bed,” administration had been told on radio station Moscow Echo. tion,” he said. barred windows. sound outside. the Investigative Committee said by the authorities to remedy AFP Governor John Hickenlooper said evacuations were the high- est priority and advised people to stay out of debris- and sand-filled floodwaters that were “almost like liquid cement.” “It’s got to be the largest storm that I can imagine New Jersey inferno lashes town damaged by Sandy in the state’s history,” he told a televised news conference. SEASIDE PARK, New spreading through the close- spots” in buildings were slow- had been affected. The cause of from Sandy, Matthies said, his President Barack Obama Jersey: A fast-moving fire that packed buildings. Firefighters ing containment, at which point the fire was unknown, and there T-shirt getting wet under the rain. approved a federal disaster assist- started in a custard shop raged using a 50-foot extension ladder flames were not likely to spread. were some minor injuries, he said. Seaside Park is less than 3.2km ance request, which will release through blocks of boardwalk poured a stream of water into a Seaside Park’s Town Mayor Bob Matthies told from the carnival rides and bet- funds to help with emergency and businesses in this New blazing pizza restaurant as flash- Administrator Robert Martucci told Reuters that the blaze had ter-known boardwalk of Seaside protection. Jersey beach town still rebuild- ers and spotlights from dozens CNN the fire had started in a frozen destroyed a total of six blocks Heights, where MTV’s reality In Boulder, the storms shattered ing from Superstorm Sandy. of fire trucks lit up the pillar of custard shop around 2.15pm EDT of businesses in Seaside Park show “Jersey Shore” is filmed. the rainfall record for September A late-night rainstorm brought smoke rising from the town. (1815 GMT) and then raced north and Seaside Heights, the town’s Seaside Heights’ partly sub- set in 1940, officials said, unleash- relief to some 400 firefighters “I talked to the fire coordinator, under winds of up to 65km per hour. northern neighbor, both of which merged Jet Star roller coaster ing surging floodwaters in Boulder struggling to contain the wind- and he said it would not be 100 Governor Chris Christie were badly damaged during Sandy became one of the most famous Canyon above the city that trig- driven flames. Part of the board- percent contained until tomorrow declared a state of emergency in October 2012. images of the damage from the gered the evacuation of some 4,000 walk was torn up and a 20-foot morning,” Police Chief Francis and said at a televised news con- “I realise there is another chal- giant storm. residents late on Thursday. trench dug to keep flames from Larkin said. He added that “hot ference that about 20 businesses lenge to this town” after rebuilding REUTERS REUTERS Obama to make Boston bomber’s friends plead not guilty rare Malaysia BOSTON: Two college friends of accused train delay that affected his lawyer. He has previ- stop on Asia tour Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ously pleaded not guilty to obstruction charges pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that and also could face 25 years in prison or deporta- WASHINGTON: Barack they helped cover his tracks when the FBI was tion. None of the men is charged with involve- Obama will pay the first visit by trying to find the people responsible for the ment in the bombing. a US president to Malaysia in April 15 attack. Kadyrbayev, who is being held in federal cus- a half-century on a four-nation The appearance in federal court in Boston of tody, was brought into the courtroom in shackles, Asia tour next month, the a third man charged in the same case was post- wearing an orange prison jumpsuit. Phillipos, White House said yesterday. poned until later yesterday. All three are charged who is under house arrest, appeared dressed in Obama will attend summits in with removing a laptop and a backpack contain- a suit and tie. Prosecutors said they planned to Indonesia and Brunei and also ing empty fireworks shells from Tsarnaev’s room present about 20 witnesses in a trial they esti- visit the Philippines, a longtime three days after receiving a text message from mated would take two weeks. US ally that supports greater him telling them to “go to my room and take After the hearing, Phillipos was surrounded military ties, during the October what’s there,” according to court papers. by a group of supporters and left court without 6-12 trip. Dias Kadyrbayev, of Kazakhstan, pleaded not speaking to the media. The last US president to visit guilty to the charge of obstruction of justice and Federal prosecutors said that Dzhokhar Malaysia was Lyndon Johnson could face 25 years in prison or deportation. Tsarnaev, now 20, and his older brother, in 1966. US relations with the Robel Phillipos, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tamerlan, killed three people and injured 264 Muslim-majority nation soured pleaded not guilty to charges of lying to inves- other with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker during the 1981-2003 tenure tigators and could face up to 16 years in prison. bombs at the crowded finish line of the marathon of Prime Minister Mahathir The third man, Azamat Tazhayakov, also of on April 15. Mohamad, a strident critic of Kazakhstan, was not present in court due to a REUTERS the West. The White House said that Obama will visit Malaysia to take part in the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, an initiative on job growth that the Briton acquitted of Kenya attack US leader designed as a way to reach out to the Islamic world. Obama will also meet Prime NAIROBI: A court in Kenya yesterday Prosecutors accused Grant, a 30 year-old Minister Najib Razak “to high- acquitted alleged British Islamist militant Muslim convert, of working with fellow Briton light our growing bilateral ties Jermaine Grant of robbery charges, but his Samantha Lewthwaite — the fugitive widow of with Malaysia,” a White House separate trial for possession of explosives con- British suicide bomber Germaine Lindsay, who statement said. tinues, magistrates said. blew himself up on a London Underground train The trip is “part of his ongo- Grant was tried on charges including robbery on July 7, 2005, killing 26 people. Lewthwaite, a ing commitment to increase US with violence and raiding a police station over an 29-year-old mother of three and daughter of a political, economic and secu- incident in 2008, when he was arrested trying to British soldier, is wanted by Kenyan police. rity engagement with the Asia enter war-torn Somalia dressed as a woman and Grant is charged along with his Kenyan wife, Pacific,” the statement said. later escaped custody in a shootout. Warda Breik Islam, and two other Kenyans. Obama will take part in the A court in the Kenyan capital Nairobi said He has denied the charges. However, in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation those charges had not been proved. December 2011 he pleaded guilty to charges of summit in Bali, Indonesia and then “The prosecution has failed to establish the being in the country illegally and lying about his head to the sultanate of Brunei for case against him beyond reasonable doubt,” mag- nationality, for which he was sentenced to two jail the East Asia Summit. istrate Kiarie Wa Kiarie told the court. terms of two years, to run concurrently. Russia traditionally partici- Grant, who is accused of ties to Somalia’s Al His trial in Mombasa, which has been beset by pates in the regional meetings, Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, was arrested delays, is due to resume on September 23. potentially giving Obama his lat- again in December 2011 in the Kenyan port city Grant is believed to have become radicalised as est opportunity to meet Russian of Mombasa with various chemicals, batteries a teenager in the same British prison where “shoe President Vladimir Putin. and switches, which prosecutors say he planned bomber” Richard Reid first turned to Islam. AFP to use to make explosives. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Asia Human Rights Watch presses for Lanka boycott UN endorses allegations that up to 40,000 civilians were killed in final months of battle against separatists

COLOMBO: Human Rights Watch “The Sri Lankan government should criticised the Commonwealth for to the island last month. She left the and maintains that its troops did not kill yesterday urged Commonwealth lead- be shunned, not rewarded, for failing to “accommodating evil” by allowing island noting that democracy had been a single civilian. Sri Lanka is a demo- ers to boycott an upcoming summit in hold anyone accountable for war crimes Colombo to host the biannual summit. undermined and rule of law eroded cratic republic and a unitary state which Sri Lanka to protest against the coun- during the country’s recent conflict,” HRW said Sri Lanka’s rights record in Sri Lanka four years after the end is governed by a semi-presidential sys- try’s failure to investigate abuses by its HRW’s Asia director Brad Adams said under President Mahinda Rajapakse of its bloody ethnic war which by UN tem, with a mixture of a presidential military during a decades-long fight in a statement. “remained poor” and his administration estimates claimed up to 100,000 lives system and a parliamentary system. It against separatists. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen had become increasingly authoritarian. between 1972 and 2009. constitutes a parliamentary system gov- The New York-based group has written Harper has already announced he will The HRW statement came after The UN has also said there were erned under the constitution. to the leaders of the 54-member bloc urg- boycott the meeting, but others including the UN human rights chief Navi Pillay “credible allegations” that up to 40,000 Most provisions of the constitution ing them to stay away from the November British Prime Minister David Cameron raised fresh concerns for the safety of civilians were killed in the final months can be amended by a two-thirds majority 15-17 summit hosted by Sri Lanka and are expected to attend. journalists and activists she met dur- of fighting which ended in May 2009. in parliament. send only a low-level delegation. Harper’s government has also ing a week-long fact-finding mission Sri Lanka has rejected the charges AFP

Anti-terror drill Blogger fined Taiwan speaker fights to for defamation KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here yesterday keep job after scandal ordered blogger Papagomo to pay RM500,000 in damages TAIPEI: Taiwan’s parliamen- heavyweight known for his in a defamation suit against tary speaker scored a victory grass-roots influence. him filed by a businessman. in the fight to keep his job His removal has sparked fears Papagomo who was identi- yesterday after a court ruled of a split within the party in a fied as Wan Muhammad Azri against his party’s decision deepening political scandal that Wan Deris was told to pay to expel him over claims of has already seen two top govern- RM200,000 in general dam- influence-peddling. ment officials resign. ages and RM300,000 in exem- The Taipei district court President Ma Ying-jeou, also plary damages by Judicial granted Wang Jin-pyng’s request chairman of the KMT, had said Commissioner Vazeer Alam for a provisional injunction Wang was “unfit” to head the Mydin Meer. Businessman against the Kuomintang (KMT) legislature after he was accused Abdul Razak Mohd Noor party, allowing him to retain his of influencing prosecutors not had filed a RM10m defama- party membership and therefore to appeal in a lawmaker’s court tion suit against the blogger, continue as speaker. case. claiming that Papagomo had “It would have caused Wang Ma described the incident implied he was a liar who significant and irreparable harm as “the most shameful day” in earned millions of Ringgit in if the provisional injunction were Taiwan’s democracy. the Commonwealth Games. not granted,” the court said. Ma’s spokesman Lo Chih- A lawyer for the KMT said the chiang resigned on Thursday due Japan luxury party would appeal. to criticism over the case. Wang, 72, was a KMT AFP Members of Australian Maritime Commando and Indonesian anti-terrorism squad show their skills during the train unveiled Counter Terrorism Exercise 2013 at the Indonesia Peace Security Center, Sentul West Java, yesterday. TOKYO: A Japanese railway operator yesterday unveiled a new super-luxury train it hopes will appeal to well- Abducted South Korean heeled travellers who don’t No open nominations for HK leader mind splashing out to have their every travelling need escapes after 41 years HONG KONG: Beijing’s top but every year on the anniversary that all candidates could only be fulfilled. Kyushu Railway’s representative in Hong Kong of the handover, thousands take nominated by a “broadly repre- “Nanatsuboshi” — Seven SEOUL: A South Korean man has escaped four decades after he has ruled out open nomina- to the streets demanding fully sentative nominating committee”. Stars — service has a lounge was kidnapped by North Korea while fishing near the disputed tions for candidates to become democratic elections amid mount- “There is no option,” Zhang car with a piano and a bar, Yellow Sea border, officials said yesterday. its next leader, the strongest ing fears of increased meddling said in the letter. That means top-end dining and 14 private The 68-year-old Jeon Wook-Pyo made it to Seoul after escaping in sign yet that China’s pledge by Beijing’s Communist Party the nominations will instead come suites. Each wood-panelled early August, a government official said. “He is under investigation of democracy for the former leaders. from a small election committee bedroom has plush beds and by security authorities.” British colony by 2017 comes Zhang Xiaoming, the head of stacked with Beijing loyalists who a desk along with an ensuite Jeon was among 25 fishermen aboard two boats seized by a North with conditions. Beijing’s Liaison Office in Hong would essentially veto any opposi- bathroom with a shower and Korean navy ship on December 28, 1972. Details about his fellow Hong Kong returned to Chinese Kong, said open nominations for tion candidates from running. toilet, equipped with a heated crewmen are unknown. An activist group said earlier that Jeon had rule in 1997 with the guarantee of the leader, or chief executive, The letter was published on seat. The train travels around stayed in an undisclosed third country -- most likely China -- after wide-ranging autonomy and an would not be allowed. the Liaison Office’s website amid the rural southern island fleeing the North on August 11. independent judiciary and press Zhang’s open letter to a major what observers say is an intensi- of Kyushu, with a four-day, He then sent a letter to South Korean President Park Geun-Hye under the formula of “one coun- pro-democracy group, the Civic fying propaganda push by Beijing three-night package costing seeking assistance, saying he wanted to spend his remaining days in try, two systems”. Party, quoted the city’s mini-con- to downplay expectations for up to 1.13m yen ($11,000) per his hometown, the group said. AFP It is the freest city in China, stitution, the Basic Law, as saying democratic polls. REUTERS couple. HK bans shark Fukushima inspection fin at feasts HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s German drug pusher government said yesterday it would stop serving shark fin at official functions as sentenced to death “a good example”, following years of lobbying by conser- KUALA LUMPUR: A a trafficker in the Muslim- vation groups. The southern Malaysian court yesterday sen- majority Southeast Asian country. Chinese city is one of the tenced a German businessman Two other Germans of Afghan world’s biggest markets for to death for drug trafficking, his descent were acquitted earlier shark fin, which is viewed by lawyer said. this year for drug smuggling in a many Asians as a delicacy and A high court outside the capi- separate case. They were arrested is often served as a soup at tal Kuala Lumpur found Bebou for smuggling more than 10 kilo- expensive Chinese banquets. Akpo Bouraima guilty of traffick- grammes of methamphetamine Along with shark fin, bluefin ing, which carries the mandatory into Malaysia in 2012. They remain tuna will also fall under the death penalty by hanging, his law- in jail pending appeal, said Karpal, ban, which was prompted by yer Karpal Singh said. who also defended them. what authorities called “con- The German, who is of Togolese On Monday, Malaysian authori- servation concerns”. descent and is reportedly 40 years ties re-arrested an Australian old, was found guilty of smuggling man, who was acquitted of drug Royal slur man 1.5 kilogrammes (3.3 pounds) of trafficking last week. methamphetamine at the Kuala His lawyers, seeking his release, acquitted Lumpur International Airport have argued detaining him pend- in 2011, he said. “She (the judge) ing appeal is unconstitutional. A BANGKOK: A court yes- didn’t believe his story... that his court is to rule on the case next terday acquitted a man bag was intended for his girl- Tuesday. Hundreds of people are held for nearly a year under friend,” Karpal said, adding the on death row in Malaysia, many royal defamation laws after defence would appeal the ruling. for drug-related offences, though his brother accused him of Anyone with at least 50 few have been put to death in insulting the king in their Members of a Fukushima prefecture panel inspect a contaminated water tank which leaked radioactive water at grammes of the drug is considered recent years. AFP home. The case raised con- H4 area of the storage tanks, at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power cerns among rights activ- plant in Fukushima yesterday. ists that a suspect could be held without bail for so long under the lese majeste rules, on the basis of one per- son’s allegations of remarks Bomb found in Cambodian capital ahead of protests made in private. Bangkok’s Criminal Court dismissed PHNOM PENH: A makeshift nearby buildings, military police opposition Cambodia National The opposition plans further The CNRP has rejected the the case against Yuthapoom bomb was discovered yester- spokesman Kheng Tito said. Rescue Party (CNRP), Yim mass protests on Sunday, Monday result, alleging widespread vote Martnok, 36, who was day near Cambodia’s parlia- Three M79 grenades were also Sovann, said that the explosive and Tuesday, although the inte- rigging, but so far its efforts to accused of defaming the king ment, police said, adding to found close to Democracy Park, devices were planted “by power- rior ministry said in a statement challenge the results have failed while watching television tensions in the capital ahead the location of opposition pro- ful and ill-intentioned people to late Thursday that only the first and it has few options left in its at home in 2009, his law- of fresh planned protests over tests against the results of hotly intimidate the voters, the people, day’s rally would be allowed to bid to overturn Hun Sen’s victory. yer Saovalux Pongam said. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s dis- disputed elections held in July. and especially demonstrators.” go ahead. In an attempt to end the dis- “The judge said the brother puted election win. No arrests have been made in Last Saturday about 20,000 According to final election pute, Cambodian King Norodom had serious conflicts with Bomb experts carried out connection with the incidents, demonstrators gathered in results released by the NEC on Sihamoni late Thursday invited the defendant, therefore the a controlled explosion of the which come against a backdrop Democracy Park to demand a Sunday, Hun Sen’s Cambodian Hun Sen and CNRP leader Sam court must treat the plain- device -- made from TNT pow- of political friction in Phnom probe into allegations that voter People’s Party (CPP) won 68 seats Rainsy to a rare meeting in the tiff’s testimony cautiously,” der in a 10-litre plastic container Penh. fraud denied the opposition vic- in the July polls against 55 for the royal palace today. Saovalux added. AGENCIES -- causing a blast that shook A spokesman for the tory in July’s election. opposition. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY Aquino warns militants as battle rages 24,000 people flee Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA: Philippine gunmen have surrendered or President Benigno Aquino been captured, military spokes- visited a southern city infil- man Lieutenant-Colonel Ramon trated by Muslim rebels yes- Zagala said. terday, vowing to end the Groups of at least 100 Muslim crisis and warning the gunmen gunmen also attacked nearby against harming civilian hos- Basilan island on Thursday and tages or resorting to flagrant yesterday, killing one person and destruction. wounding 11 others, Zagala said. Aquino urged the port city Three successive blasts from of Zamboanga to stand firm as either mortar shells or grenades Moro National Liberation Front later struck near a military (MNLF) fighters battled troops unit battling rebels in the Santa and set fire to homes for a fifth Catalina section of Zamboanga day in a bid to derail efforts to end on Friday afternoon, wounding a long Muslim rebellion. five Red Cross workers and two “Our forces and equipment on soldiers. the ground are overwhelming,” Nearby, a male hostage was Aquino told a news conference, shot in the back as he ran for while stressing there were no safety towards military lines. shortcuts to resolving the crisis At least 24,000 people have fled without risking heavy casualties. the fighting, and more residents Officials said nearly 200 are being ordered out of neigh- Zamboanga residents have been bourhoods where up to 180 gun- seized and are being used as men have been holed up since human shields by gunmen holding Monday, Social Welfare Secretary out in parts of six coastal districts Corazon Soliman said. of the city. “There are many houses on Soldiers arrive to reinforce their colleagues on the fourth day of a stand-off between the army and Muslim rebels in Zamboanga City yesterday. “We cannot rush this. We have fire. They (rebels) may be using to be deliberate in order to ensure these to divert attention and get yesterday, carrying hundreds of Brigadier General Domingo prevent any more atrocities.” Liberation Front. The Milf is no lives are lost unnecessarily,” everybody busy with these so that civilians, after the Zamboanga Tutaan, said: “We envision that The crisis began when govern- in the final stages of peace talks Aquino said. “We’re not setting they can, I guess, escape,” she told government passed an ordinance there will be a peaceful result to ment forces blocked armed fol- with Manila and is expected to a deadline but we have decisive ABS-CBN television. ordering all 160,000 residents this with the armed men laying lowers of MNLF founder Nur take over an expanded autono- points. If they harmed hostages, “They’re also probably running in these areas to leave. Police down their arms and releasing Misuari from marching on the mous Muslim region in the south resorted to arson and crossed out of food.” checked their identification the civilians.” Zamboanga city hall before dawn by 2016. The deal seeks to end a other lines that should not be Authorities were concerned they papers to make sure no rebels Aquino warned other groups Monday. Muslim insurgency that has killed crossed, our security forces have might use the remaining civilians slipped out. Chief Inspector Ariel could launch “opportunistic” or Misuari accuses the govern- some 150,000 people in the south instructions on what to do.” in the conflict areas as human Huesca, a police spokesman, said “sympathetic” attacks, but added: ment of violating the terms of since the 1970s. Misuari is not At least 22 people have shields to escape, Soliman said. the areas occupied by the gunmen “If they try elsewhere I am con- a 1996 peace treaty by negotiat- engaged in negotiations, but is been killed and 52 wounded A large convoy of vehicles was were “shrinking”. fident that our forces will be ing a separate peace deal with a open to the idea, his spokesman in Zamboanga, while 19 of the seen leaving the conflict zones A second military spokesman, ready to meet them head-on and rival faction, the Moro Islamic Absalom Cerveza said. AFP

Two held with Businesswoman faces court over rice smuggling $5.7m shabu MANILA: Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement MANILA: The Bureau of Customs of rice placed inside 96 units of 20-footer Belarma brings to 104 the total number of rice supply in the country and the role Agency (PDEA) seized at (BOC) filed yesterday smuggling charges container vans and declared the shipment cases filed by the BOC in Biazon’s two years and policies of the DA and NFA relative least 50kg of shabu in a buy- against a businesswoman for allegedly as granite slabs, granite tiles, stone slabs as Customs chief. to our goal of achieving rice sufficiency in bust operation in Las Piñas bringing in illegally P63m worth of rice and wall insulators. This also brings to 147 the total number the country.” City yesterday morning. Two from Vietnam. The shipment, amounting to P63,897,600, of smuggling cases filed by the BOC at She said rice prices have increased by P2 Chinese nationals, suspected Peter Manzano, BOC deputy commis- arrived at the Port of Cebu in March. the DOJ during the administration of to P5 a kilo last month. to be drug traffickers, were sioner for revenue collection and monitor- Under the law, all rice importations must President Aquino. An NFA spokesperson admitted last also arrested in the 10.30am ing and head of Run After the Smugglers be covered by permits from the National Meanwhile, two senators want separate week that typhoons, which hit major rice- bust. The arrested suspects (RATS), said the charges were filed with Food Authority (NFA). inquiries conducted over the high prices of producing provinces in Luzon, might have were identified as Jang Wei the Department of Justice (DOJ) against The shipment would be auctioned off as rice, onions and garlic in the market. caused rice prices to increase. Chung, 30, alias Airas Chen, Gemma Aida Belarma, owner of Melma part of the BOC’s effort to raise revenue, Senator Loren Legarda yesterday called As the agency responsible for ensur- of 236 Onpin St, Sta Cruz, Enterprises. Manzano said. the Department of Agriculture (DA) and ing the stability of rice prices, Legarda Manila and Yaya Zheng, Belarma allegedly violated section 3601 BOC Commissioner Rufino Biazon has NFA to task for their inability to keep said the NFA and the DA should antici- 26. They were arrested at of the Tariffs and Customs Code of the ordered all customs frontline operatives rice prices stable after the country was pate the adverse effects of these weather Pamplona II. Also seized Philippines for misdeclaring shipment in to be on the lookout for more smuggling hit by Typhoon Labuyo and Tropical Storm disturbances on rice supplies and take from them was a Mitsubishi an alleged attempt to smuggle rice into the attempts of food items in the coming weeks Maring recently. the necessary measures to prevent price Montero sports utility vehicle country. with the onset of the Christmas season. Legarda has filed Senate Resolution No. increases. (PQZ-991). PDEA said the She reportedly smuggled 49,920 sacks The filing of smuggling charges against 233 “to determine the actual state of the THE PHILIPPINE STAR shabu had a street value of at least P250m ($5.7m). Rally against congressional fund Agusan kidnap Protest over clean suspect nabbed DAVAO CITY: Police have arrested a suspect in the chit to army, police 2011 hostage-taking of over a dozen teachers and students in the southern in abduction case Philippines. Superintendent Martin Gamba, spokesper- MANILA: Members of rights group Karapatan and son for the police office of the Organisation of Victims of Enforced Disappearances Southern Philippine region trooped to the Department of Justice in Manila yes- of Caraga, said the suspect, terday to protest the dismissal of charges against Allan Brital Perez, 45, was current and former police and military officers in apprehended at Poblacion the abduction of activist Jonas Burgos. village, Prosperidad town, in Lorena Santos, daughter of a desaparecido and sec- Mindanao’s Agusan del Sur retary general of Families of Desaparecidos for Justice Province on Thursday. Perez questions why the accomplices can be charged but not is tagged as one of the leaders the mastermind. of some 20 tribal gunmen who Santos referred to DOJ’s September 3 resolution, swooped on a primary school clearing military officials, led by Brig Gen Eduardo in April and kidnapped more Año, from the list of respondents to the criminal than 10 teachers and school- charges of arbitrary detention, murder and obstruc- children over a dispute with a tion of justice on disappearance of Burgos. rival tribal clan. The resolution, reviewed and penned by Assistant Prosecutor Gerard Gaerlan, and approved by Bet collectors Prosecutor General Claro Arellano, only recommended for the filing of charges against Major Harry Baliaga Jr. arrested The other respondents dropped from charges are Brig Gen Eduardo Año, Lt Col Melquiades Feliciano, CAMP FLORENDO: The Lt Gen Romeo Tolentino, former Armed Forces chiefs Region 1 police arrested 26 of staff Gen Hermogenes Esperon, Lt Gen Alexander jueteng (numbers game) bet Yano; and ex-PNP chief Avelino Razon Jr. collectors in Pangasinan “It is a shame that after announcing that it will and Ilocos Sur yesterday. give priority to the Burgos case, the DOJ as the lead Police said 24 were arrested department of the Inter-Agency Committee, exon- in Barangay Paras, Candon erated the brains of the crime and the covered up City, Ilocos Sur and two in for Año’s responsibility and accountability,” Cristina S tudents take part in a rally in Manila, demanding that a multi-million dollar fund set aside for legislators be scrapped amid Pangasinan. Palabay, Karapatan secretary general, said. reports of corruption. AGENCIES THE PHILIPPINE STAR SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Taliban bomb US consulate in Afghanistan Five suicide bombers, Afghan guard killed, 18 injured

HERAT: Seven heavily armed June billed as a step towards talks claims of deaths and injuries. Taliban suicide attackers struck with the Americans on a possible The front gate of the US con- the US consulate in the Afghan prisoner swap. sulate was “extensively” damaged, city of Herat before dawn yes- “Today at around 5.30am, a US State Department deputy terday, setting off two car minivan suicide bomber detonated spokeswoman Marie Harf told bombs and sparking a shoot-out his car outside the US consulate reporters. with US forces. in Herat city,” Abdul Hameed She said the attack started The sophisticated attacks in Hameedi, the Deputy Security when the gunmen, dressed in sui- the western city, a key business Chief of Herat province said. cide vests, drove up to the front hub near the Iranian border, “Another suicide bomber driv- gate in a truck, opened fire and underscored how the Taliban are ing a four-wheel drive detonated then detonated the truck bomb. able to strike outside their main outside the first gate of the con- American and contracted centres in the south and east. sulate, damaging it. security personnel reacted to the Six people, including five suicide “After that five suicide bomb- attack before it came to an end, bombers and an Afghan guard, ers engaged in a gunbattle with Harf said. were killed and 18 wounded, but the Afghan security forces, and US Ambassador James US officials said there were no US after a while, all of the five suicide Cunningham condemned the casualties with all consulate staff bombers were killed in the attack,” attack and thanked Afghan safe and accounted for. Hameedi added. and Nato troops for their quick The US State Department He said an Afghan guard at the response in securing the building said the attackers appeared to be US consulate was killed and two and keeping consulate staff safe. wearing suicide vests and deto- other guards and two policemen “We are reminded again of the nated a truck bomb that “exten- wounded. A number of civilians very real human toll exacted by sively” damaged the front gate. were wounded because of the pow- terrorism. The perpetrators of Afghan security officials said six erful explosion, he said. this attack have shed Afghan attackers took part in the assault, Herat hospital spokesman blood on Afghan soil,” he said in detonating a minivan bomb and Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai said a statement. then a four-wheel drive vehicle, that 18 people were wounded, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Afghan security forces inspect a damaged car, which was used during suicide bomb attacks, outside the US before engaging in a gunbattle including four policemen and 14 Ahmadi said in a telephone call consulate in Herat province yesterday. with security forces. civilians. that the militia were responsible. The attack comes days after Abdul Raouf Ahmadi, a spokes- “Our mujahedeen, armed with Pakistan said it would soon man for Herat police, confirmed heavy and light weapons, attacked US-led Nato troops who have all troops from Afghanistan after several thousand non-American release its top Taliban prisoner, the same account and said that the US consulate in Herat. There supported the Afghan govern- next year. Aides to US President Nato forces” in 2015 and beyond. former military chief Abdul Ghani US and Italian forces were also are several casualties to Afghan ment against the Taliban are due Barack Obama earlier this year Roughly 100,000 foreign troops Baradar, in what Afghan officials called to the scene and cordoned and US forces,” he said. to end their combat mission next openly mulled the so-called “zero now serve in Afghanistan, two- hope can ignite peace talks. off the area. In the southeastern province of year, after Afghanistan holds key option” of a complete withdrawal thirds of them from the US. The Taliban publicly refuse to The Taliban claimed responsi- Paktika, a suicide truck bomber presidential elections. from Afghanistan once US troops Obama has pledged to the war- negotiate with the Afghan govern- bility for the attack, saying that wounded at least 14 Afghan secu- The US special envoy for end their combat role in 2014. weary US public to end the coun- ment, branding Afghan President there were several casualties on rity personnel outside the town Afghanistan and Pakistan on James Dobbins, the special try’s longest war, launched to fight Hamid Karzai a US puppet, but the Afghan and US side but the of Sharan when they stopped the Tuesday dismissed suggestions envoy, said he expected “several Al Qaeda and their Taliban allies opened a liaison office in Qatar in militia is known to exaggerate its vehicle, police said. that Washington would withdraw thousand American forces and after the 9/11 attacks. AGENCIES

Gunmen torch Nato tankers, 26pc PIA stake for sale Remittances surge 7 percent KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif plans to sell off a 26 percent stake in ailing national carrier PIA and hand over manage- KARACHI: Remittances by kill driver in Baluchistan ment control to stem haemorrhaging losses. overseas Pakistanis showed Pakistan International Airlines is one of the poorest perform- a modest growth during the QUETTA: Gunmen attacked insurgency-torn southwestern Muhammad Akbar confirmed ing state-run companies and businessmen welcomed the decision first two months of this fis- a convoy of Nato oil tankers in province of Baluchistan that bor- the attack. There was no claim announced late on Thursday. cal year. The State Bank southwest Pakistan overnight, ders Afghanistan and Iran. of responsibility but the Taliban Sharif, who has made repairing the weak economy his priority, of Pakistan said yesterday killing a driver and torching “The gunmen attacked the con- have in the past said they carry ordered PIA to slash losses to make it viable for sale. The company Pakistanis remitted $2.637bn eight vehicles, local officials said voy at a rest stop in Soorab town out such attacks to disrupt sup- has incurred heavy losses because of poor management, corruption and in the first two months (July- yesterday. of Kallat district. They fired rock- plies for US-led Nato troops inefficiencies. It lost $320m last year but the deficit would have been August) of the fiscal 2013-14 The attackers fired rockets ets and bullets on the convoy from fighting in Afghanistan. much larger if the state had not been pouring money to keep it afloat. — up 7.05pc compared with and bullets at the convoy of 15 oil both sides of the road,” police offi- The Nato combat mission is The airline has 18,000 employees for 42 planes, a ratio of more than $2.463bn during the same tankers travelling from Pakistan’s cial Yousaf Reiki said. due to end next year. Pakistan 400 staff per aircraft, a PIA spokesman said. period of last fiscal year. main Arabian sea port of Karachi “One Pakistani driver of a and the United States have “The government is committed to reforming and restructuring all to landlocked Afghanistan. tanker died in the attack while signed a deal allowing Nato ailing state enterprises, including PIA,” Sharif said. Kashmir to hold The attack happened around eight tankers were burnt,” he supply convoys to travel into Pakistan sold its state-run telecom company in mid-2000 by trans- 300 kilometres (190 miles) added. Afghanistan until the end of 2015. ferring 26 percent of its shares and management control. The govern- polls next year from Quetta, the capital of the Senior administration official AFP ment offloaded another 10 percent of PTC shares later on. AGENCIES ISLAMABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir govern- SCO participants ment yesterday said it would hold long due local bodies polls on party basis in April next year. However, the oppo- New Islamabad plan criticised sition and critics in the ruling People’s Party are sceptical ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister government would have to talk already asked the CDA to prepare about the seriousness of the Nawaz Sharif’s plan of cutting to the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf- the blueprints of the project. government, recalling a simi- through the Margalla Hills for led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa gov- Confirming conception of the lar proclamation two years the expansion of Islamabad city ernment as the area borders the project, the official spokesperson back. “The government has has drawn severe criticism and provincial boundary. of CDA, Aasia Gul, said it was still decided to hold local bodies has been termed an “environ- Second, a new international at a very early stage. elections after 22 years under mental disaster”. airport will be built in Rawat Even the board of governors of the previous system to trans- The project is currently at its which would be connected to the the Pakistan Avenue Development fer powers at the grassroots initial stage, but if the federal motorway. Company (which the CDA has set level and solidify democracy,” government decides to imple- Third, an 8 to 10 lane high- up for this scheme) is yet to meet an official said. ment it, Islamabad would be way would be constructed on the for the first time, she said. expanded beyond the Margalla lines of Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed She confirmed that the gov- Oil, gas firms to Hills. The new site will be con- Road, connecting Rawat airport ernment had tasked the CDA to nected through a tunnel. to the main city. Both sides of develop the project under which be privatised As per media reports, the pro- the road will be earmarked for the capital will be expanded posed project has three main high rise buildings. It is worth across the Margalla Hills and also ISLAMABAD: The gov- components. First, the land avail- mentioning that a known real towards Rawat. ernment is gearing up for able on the other side of Margalla estate developer of the coun- “Since the project is in its plan- privatisation of all oil and Hills will be used for new residen- try had, in the past, floated the ning stage, it’s difficult to explain gas companies after seek- tial sectors. idea of developing Islamabad its contours,” added Gul. On the ing consent of provinces in However, according to an offi- Expressway on the model of the other hand, opponents of the plan an upcoming meeting in line cial of the Capital Development Sheikh Zayed Road. have already started criticising with a programme agreed Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left) greets Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Authority (CDA), the federal Prime Minister Sharif has the project. INTERNEWS with the International Atambayev at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit in the Great Monetary Fund. Sources Hall of the People, in Bishkek, yesterday. said the decision has been conveyed to firms, including Oil and Gas Development Company, Pakistan Petroleum Limited, Sui Southern Gas Lahore becomes dumping ground for plastic scrap Company and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited. LAHORE: Several coun- cannot export hazardous product (parties and other states, which dry ports is clearance based on including those involved in han- tries that have ratified the to developing countries such as are members of the OECD) of all visual inspection by one of the dling, processing and utilising 150 suspects ban amendment to the Basel Pakistan who neither have proper trans-boundary movements to the pre-eminent inspection compa- this scrap as a finished prod- Convention are dumping plastic recycling facilities nor have strict states not included in Annex VII nies in Pakistan, which was only uct, at a tremendous risk. The held in Karachi scrap in Pakistan. government mechanism to control of hazardous wastes covered by conducting “eyewash testing” on sources demanded the Pakistan According to Customs data, in the menace of hazardous plas- the convention that are intended the basis of visual inspection and government to take up the issue ISLAMABAD: More than August, approximately 41 percent tic scrap. Till August, Pakistan for final disposal, ie, it prohibits Gama radiations. with the governments concerned 150 suspects were held in of the total scrap released by the imported approximately 18,200 trans-boundary movements of Both the techniques are com- since these are a ban amendment Manghopir and Khanabad in Lahore Dry Ports was from the metric tons of plastic scrap with hazardous wastes, which are des- pletely inadequate in assess- signatory. Karachi in a large cache of UK. more than 95 percent of the scrap tined for final disposal / recycling ing whether a product contains It is in contradiction to its own weapons and ammunition was The data also revealed that being released from various dry / recovery operations from OECD pathogens, drugs or toxic heavy commitment regarding waste man- seized, police said yesterday. 49 percent of scrap imported in ports in Lahore. to non-OECD states. metals, ie, components that the agement that it allows the export of The cabinet has approved a August is from OECD and EU Year to date, a staggering 5,000 However, despite this provision, Basel Convention warns against. scrap to an underdeveloped coun- “targeted operation” against countries, including the UK, tons of scrap has been imported export of such shipment continued In other words, a sheer lack of try such as Pakistan, which neither criminals identified by the Germany and Holland who have from the UK. unabated, sources said. Moreover, awareness and apathy to envi- has proper recycling facilities nor military and civilian agencies. ratified ban amendment, and as The ban amendment pro- the sources said that the reason ronmental risks is putting the any system pertaining to scrap/ AGENCIES per the Basel Convention, they vides prohibition by each party for release of hazardous waste at life of millions of Pakistanis, waste management. INTERNEWS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY

Curfew eased in Delhi gang-rapists given death penalty Muzaffarnagar, Victim’s mother satisfied with punishment; verdict applauded across the nation toll rises to 47 MUZAFFARNAGAR: NEW DELHI: A judge yester- prepared for a very long battle to Violence-hit Muzaffarnagar and day took just a few minutes to get justice,” said the mother of the neighbouring districts of west- sentence four men to death for physiotherapy intern. ern Uttar Pradesh remained the pitiless gang-rape of a young According to the victim’s peaceful yesterday as curfew woman in Delhi last December brother, the four accused “got was lifted for 12 hours under resulting in her death, a verdict what they deserved.” stern vigil of police and para- that was applauded across the Home Minister Sushilkumar military forces. The toll rose to nation. Shinde echoed the national senti- 47 with the discovery of more Additional Sessions Judge ments when he said: “Justice was bodies. Yogesh Khanna, who presided given to the girl and the family. The death toll has been high- over a fast-track court that fin- “It passes on the message that est in Muzaffarnagar (38) while ished the trial in seven months, if you commit this crime, this is the other deaths were reported said their “hair rising beastly and the punishment you will get,” he from Shamli (3), Saharanpr (1), unparalleled behaviour” definitely declared. Baghpat (3) and Meerut (2). qualified it as one of the “rarest Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Three bodies were recovered of rare cases”. leader Sushma Swaraj said the yesterday from the from Jaani “Hence, I award the follow- death penalty will act as a deter- canal in Meerut and Bhopa and ing punishment to each of the rent for such offences. Sikheda police station areas in convicts,” the judge said, sym- The court, in awarding the Muzaffaranagar but police said bolically breaking the nib of the death sentence, said the con- whether they were connected pen. Accordingly, “the convicts be vict’s “inhuman acts of torture” to the communal violence or not hanged by neck till they are dead.” before her (victim) death had will only be ascertained after However, their execution might not only “shocked the collective post-mortem. still be some time away. Defence conscience” but calls for the with- The district administration, lawyer V K Anand said he will drawal of the protective arm of with the help of police, have set up appeal to the high court against the community around them. 547 fixed pickets in the rural areas the sentencing. The convicts It also said when gruesome in addition of the 536 mobile par- have also a last recourse to the crimes against women have ties equipped with wireless sets so Supreme Court and if, that also become rampant, the courts can- Defence lawyer A P Singh (centre) speaks to the media outside the Saket Court complex following the sentencing that prompt action could be take fails, the president of India. not turn a blind eye to the need to of four men convicted of rape and murder in New Delhi yesterday, in case of rumour or violence. The four men — Mukesh (26), send a strong deterrent message Police and para-military forces Pawan Gupta (19), Vinay Sharma to its perpetrators. “The crime cheering outside District Court, the maximum under the juvenile “I can say my team worked meanwhile continued to conduct (20) and Akshay Thakur (28) — of such nature against a helpless Saket, where hundreds of people law. day in and day out in this case,” with flag marches Friday in sensi- were convicted Tuesday in the women, per se, require exemplary had gathered since noon in antici- Apart from its brutality, the said Gogia. Gogia said that during tive areas. Seven people have been case that jolted India and caught punishment,” he added. pation of the judgment. Delhi gang-rape will stand out the first 48 hours of the case his reported missing in Muzaffarnagar global attention. As soon as the judge read out The 23-year-old woman was from the investigation point of teams’ primary concern was to and two in Saharanpur and police The judge sentenced the four to the sentence, Vinay Sharma fell brutally gang raped on a moving view as it took the Delhi Police prevent loss of evidence. fear they may have been killed death for murdering the 23-year- down and started whimpering bus by six people, including a juve- only 17 days to file the charge- “In any case, the first challenge in the clashes and their bodies old trainee physiotherapist. On “Sir ji, Sir ji (please sir, please nile. The accused then threw her sheet after arresting the accused is to identify the accused and the dumped or disposed off in rivers Tuesday he had found the four sir)” addressing the judge. and her male companion out of against the maximum of 90 days crime scene. When we saw the crime and water bodies. guilty on 11 counts, including But soon the police took all the the vehicle — without clothes — allowed under the law. scene (the bus) first, it was washed So far 11,000 people have been murder, gang rape and dacoity. accused away. on the cold December night. “Filing the charge sheet was a and we were worried whether we placed under preventive deten- The mother of the 23-year-old Additional Public Prosecutor The woman died of grave intes- very important step in the Dec would be able to pick sufficient evi- tion, a home department official victim said she is “very satisfied” Dayan Krishnan said after the tinal injuries on December 29 16, 2012 gang rape case. Normally dence from it,” said Gogia. said, while 187 have been arrested with the judgement and finally at judgement was delivered: “All I at Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth police take 90 days to file a charge “But the persistence of our and 11 of them have cases of mur- peace. can say is that I have done my Hospital where she had been air- sheet in such cases, but here we team paid off when we removed der slapped against them. “I am satisfied now, and we are job. I have never seen brutality lifted for specialised treatment. found our moral as well as legal the aluminium floor of the bus As many as 2,023 arm licenses finally at peace. They have been like this.” One of the six accused was duty to put forward the evidences and got blood and other DNA have been cancelled and 1,200 given the punishment which they Mukesh’s lawyer Anand said: found dead in a cell in Delhi’s before the court as soon as pos- samples beneath it. So, when we arms deposited with police at dif- truly deserved,” she said as tears “We will appeal in the high Tihar Jail while a juvenile involved sible. Finally within 17 days, we got corroborative evidence, we ferent police stations. A total of welled up in her eyes. court. This did not deserve death in the crime was on August 31 produced a complete charge produced comprehensive proof 182 illegal weapons have also been “If they appeal to the high sentence.” After the judgment sent by the Juvenile Justice Board sheet,” said Vivek Gogia, joint before the court,” he said. recovered in door to door searches. court, we will fight back. We are was announced, there was loud to a reform home for three years, commissioner of police. IANS IANS BJP declares Modi PM candidate

NEW DELHI: Despite patri- speech after accepting sweets, non-traditional BJP supporters.” arch L K Advani’s opposition, bouquets and garlands from sen- Like in the case of the now ail- the BJP yesterday formally ior and junior colleagues. ing Atal Bihari Vajpayee and later declared Gujarat Chief Minister He said the country was pass- Advani, Modi’s personal popular- Narendra Modi its prime min- ing through a crisis. “I am sure ity far exceeded that of the party, isterial candidate, and he that people from Kashmir to Rao said. promptly vowed to lead the Kanyakumari will vote for the “While the BJP got just about party to victory in the 2014 Lok lotus symbol,” Modi said of the 18 percent of the votes in the last Sabha election. BJP’s election symbol. Lok Sabha election, Modi cur- There were joyous scenes at the But like in June, when Advani rently enjoys the support of more Bharatiya Janata Party headquar- had revolted against the BJP’s than 40 percent of voters. That ters here as Modi, 62, one of the decision to name Modi its elec- will make all the difference,” he youngest in the country’s political tion campaign chief, the former said. establishment, drove in to attend party leader stayed away from the “This means that there is a a meeting of the parliamentary parliamentary board meeting to huge mass which will vote for the board which decided to name him express his displeasure over the BJP only if Modi leads the party. as its general for the parliamen- decision to make Modi the prime This is particularly true in critical tary battle. ministerial candidate. states such as Uttar Pradesh and BJP president Rajnath Singh Even before the Gujarat chief Bihar.” Modi, who once sold tea in made the formal announcement minister flew into New Delhi, there a railway station in Gujarat, said at a media conference, and Modi were hectic parleys within the BJP it was a matter of pride that the pledged to do everything to ensure establishment, with Rajnath Singh BJP had catapulted him — despite that the BJP again got to rule the holding a string of meetings to con- his origin from “a humble fam- world’s largest democracy. vince everyone to fall in line. And ily” — as the prime ministerial “I promise that in the 2014 elec- everyone did — except Advani, for- candidate. tion, the BJP will emerge victori- merly Modi’s mentor. In his four-minute speech in ous,” a confident sounding Modi A political pundit aligned with Hindi, Modi made it a point to pay said flanked by a galaxy of senior the BJP hailed Friday’s decision. tributes to Vajpayee and Advani. colleagues, the notable absentee “This will make a huge differ- Modi also underlined that he had being his former mentor Advani. ence to the BJP,” GVL Narasimha the “blessings” of the BJP’s allies, “For this, the party will work Rao said. “Across the country, including the Akali Dal and Shiv hard and we will leave no stone there is a very, very strong wave Sena. unturned,” said Modi in a brief in support of Modi, even among IANS

Asaram moves high court for bail Curfew in Shopian, probe JAIPUR: Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, arrested for allegedly sex- ordered on CRPF firing ually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, yesterday moved Rajasthan SRINAGAR: Authorities con- towns. Jammu and Kashmir gov- High Court’s Jodhpur bench for tinued curfew in south Kashmir ernment on Thursday ordered the bail, a lawyer said. Shopian, Kulgam and some shifting of the CRPF camp from The 72-year-old Asaram is other towns of Jammu and Gagaran and its replacement by currently lodged in the Jodhpur Kashmir yesterday to maintain local armed police. Central Jail after the district law and order. A probe headed by the district and sessions judge (rural) Tension had gripped Shopian magistrate of Shopian has also remanded him to 14 days’ town on Wednesday, when a civil- been ordered in both firing inci- judicial custody in the sexual ian was killed allegedly in para- dents of September 7 and 11. assault case. The custody ends military Central Reserve Police State police has been directed on September 16. Force (CRPF) firing in Gagaran by the government to submit its The lower court had on village, adjacent to Shopian town. investigation report on the firing September 4 rejected Asaram’s Four people were killed incidents within 24 hours, so that bail application. “We have filed a on Saturday at the same the government is able to decide bail application in the Rajasthan place in CRPF firing. whether a judicial probe needs to High Court today (Friday) seek- Three of the slain were later found be undertaken into these incidents. ing bail for him in the case,” to be unarmed civilians. Separatist leader Syed Ali said Pradeep Chaudhary, one of Curfew was imposed in Shopian Geelani has appealed to the peo- the spiritual guru’s advocates in town on Wednesday. It has also ple to protest the Gagaran firing Jodhpur. been imposed in south Kashmir incidents after Friday prayers. IANS Kulgam, Kakapora and Khudwani IANS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business

Serbia seeks London defence exhibition to borrow $3bn from UAE Strauss-Kahn hired as economic adviser

BELGRADE: A top Serbian offi- “We would use a billion from that cial said yesterday he had asked (the UAE’s) money to repay the most the United Arab Emirates for a difficult debts, we would therefore low-interest, long-term loan to lighten our public debt and I believe repay some of the country’s debts the IMF would support that, while and invest in its ailing economy. the rest will be invested in our econ- Serbia’s economy is expected to omy,” he said. grow about 2.5 percent this year, but Vucic also said Serbia has hired is weighed down by a rising deficit former IMF chief Dominique of 4.7 percent of GDP and debt at Strauss-Kahn to join in an advisory 65 percent. role about country’s debt. Serbia also Belgrade is planning to tap mar- hired former Austrian Chancellor kets with a $1bn Eurobond this Alfred Gusenbauer, he said. year and borrowing on the domestic “We have already spoken, he market. It has also sought sovereign (Strauss-Kahn) was not happy when creditors including China, Russia and after seeing what awaits him, but he the United Arab Emirates. already proposed several solutions,” An Unmanned Aerial Systems at the Defence Security Equipment International arms fair at ExCel in London. The market for remote control- “I have recently ... asked my friend, Vucic said. led vehicles is evolving from the sometimes multi-tonne craft that patrol the skies over Afghanistan or Yemen, carrying out reconnaissance Sheikh bin Zayed, for $2bn or $3bn, Strauss-Kahn’s career at the IMF and targeted strikes, to tiny robots that police and even film companies can use. at the lowest interest rate, for 20 to and French presidential hopes disin- 30 years,” Deputy Prime Minister tegrated in 2011 when he was accused Aleksandar Vucic said in a TV broad- of sexually assaulting a chambermaid cast, referring to the UAE’s Crown in a New York hotel. The charges Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed. were later dropped. Egypt plans anti-dumping duty on Turkish steel Vucic, also head of the Serbian Separately, a French court said Progressive Party, the senior member last month it would try Strauss- in the nationalist-socialist coalition, Kahn on charges of pimping. Strauss- LONDON: Egypt is considering impos- have cut production. July output, at 500,000 used to reinforce buildings, was on offer for did not say whether Bin Zayed had Kahn’s lawyers said there were no ing anti-dumping duty on Turkish steel tonnes, was down 8.1 percent from the same about $640 a tonne, Turkish rebar was avail- agreed to a loan. legal grounds to try him. imports, a government source said this month last year and 12.6 percent lower than able in Egypt at $600 and Chinese steel as Serbia secured a ¤400m loan from Asked whether he was concerned week, to protect a domestic industry in July 2011, data from the World Steel low as $520. the UAE earlier this year to invest about Strauss-Kahn’s public image, struggling with weaker demand due to Association showed. Imports from Turkey “In the long run, a duty should be benefi- in agriculture and last month the Vucic said that the private life of political and social unrest. were more than 30,000 tonnes in July this cial for the country but on the other hand wealthy Gulf state’s Etihad airline former IMF head was not some- As well as the duty on Turkish imports, year, data from the International Bureau of it causes a price increase for consumers, but purchased a 49 percent stake in thing that would question his Egyptian steelmakers want all foreign Steel Statistics showed. they usually adjust to that,” said Metwally Serbia’s indebted Jat Airways. expertise. steelmakers to pay import duties. A tem- “They are thinking of putting anti-dump- Abu-Hamd, professor of steel structures To lure investors, Serbia must “For example, the grand (painter porary import tax on steel, brought in last ing duty on Turkish steel. We say that’s at Cairo University and chairman of the seek a new loan deal with the IMF. Pablo) Picasso, treated women and December, expired in June. okay, but we want import fees for all for- Egyptian Society of Steel Structures. The lender froze a previous ¤1bn children badly, but some other peo- “We haven’t decided yet to open a case eign steel, particularly the Chinese,” said Poor security in the country since the ($1.33bn) deal early last year over ple like Hitler loved women,” he said but we are studying that,” the source said Mohamed Hanafy, executive manager of the army forced the Brotherhood’s Mohamed broken spending promises. adding: “If you want to judge Strauss- on Thursday, referring to the possibility of Chamber of Metallurgical Industries in the Mursi from the presidency in July, has Vucic said Serbia planned to limit Kahn by that, than you may have a introducing anti-dumping duty on Turkish Federation of Egyptian Industries. slowed construction of infrastructure and its borrowing in the future “to halt bad judgement.” steel. “We see a Chinese steel invasion and we buildings, where most steel demand comes its debt at the level of between 70 and REUTERS To adjust to lower demand steel mills in want protection.” from. 75 percent of GDP”. Egypt, North Africa’s largest steel producer, Hanafy said while domestic steel rebar, REUTERS Spain public debt hits record high in Oil down as Syria tensions ease second quarter NEW YORK: Brent crude oil fell yesterday, The Brent crude futures contract for October, putting it on track for its steepest weekly which expired yesterday, fell 56 cents to $112.07 a MADRID: Spain’s accumu- decline since June, as investors grew less wor- barrel by 1.32pm EDT (1732 GMT), after earlier lated public debt soared to a ried about a military strike on Syria as Russia touching a session low of $111.60. record high at the end of June, and the United States agreed on a new push US crude shed 67 cents to $107.92 a barrel, the Bank of Spain said yester- to negotiate an end to that country’s civil war. after hitting a session low of $107.23. day, shattering government US crude also fell after weak consumer confi- Brent was on course for its first weekly decline targets despite a relentless aus- dence and retail sales data pointed toward slower in a month, its steepest since the week ending terity squeeze. growth during the third quarter in the world’s June 21. Spain, which boasts the euro- largest oil consumer. Investors are focused on the US Federal zone’s fourth largest economy, had Brent was down about 3.5 percent since last Reserve’s policy meeting next week. The US racked up an unprecedented pub- Friday. The international benchmark has slid central bank is expected to begin tapering, or lic debt of ¤942.8bn ($1.3 trillion) about $5 a barrel since the end of August, when reducing monthly bond purchases. Weak U.S. by mid year, the bank said. it jumped above $117 amid worries that a possible data has analysts expecting less of a reduction The figure was equal to 92.2 US attack on Syria could lead to more violence than once thought. percent of the nation’s total in a region that pumps around a third of the “I think the market’s going to languish here, annual economic output — up 14.7 world’s oil. until we start to get some insight into what percentage points from the same Tensions have eased this week, with US the Fed’s intentions are going to be,” said Gene period last year. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian McGillian, an analyst at Tradition Energy in With just half of the year gone, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov working to chart Stamford, Connecticut. Spain had already missed its tar- out a Moscow plan to dispose of Syrian President “Right now everything seems to be up in the get of limiting the public debt Bashar Al Assad’s chemical weapons. air, and the market’s just wavering back and to 91.4 percent of gross domes- “The Syrian talks are at a stalemate so that’s forth until it finds its signal to go on a new tic product in 2013, the figures helping pull down prices, because there’s no drive.” showed. imminence of an attack,” said John Kilduff, part- Although global oil markets remain tight, Prime Minister Mariano ner at Again Capital LLC in New York. with more than 1 million barrels per day (bpd) Rajoy’s conservative government “And we’ve had some questionable data points. of Libyan crude oil exports unavailable due to civil is battling to rein in the soaring There’s a view that we’re going to get the taper- unrest and strikes, investors expect supplies to public debt by curbing spending. ing announcement next week from the Fed,” he improve over the next few months. AFP said. REUTERS

Gold falls, heads for weakest week since June

LONDON: Gold fell to a five-week low should now provide a floor, but a consistent talks and expectations that the central yesterday, heading for its worst week in fall through that level would trigger further bank will start, albeit slowly, as soon as this more than two months on prospects the losses to August’s lows of $1,273. month.” United States would soon curb its stim- US gold futures for December also The US Federal Reserve may announce a ulus and as fears of a US-led military touched their lowest since August 9 at cut in its $85bn monthly bond purchases at attack on Syria receded. $1,304.60 an ounce and stood at $1317.14, the end of its two-day meeting on September Gold hit its weakest since August 8 at still down $13.20. 18. Gold lost 19 percent this year after $1,304.56 earlier and is on track to record “Gold’s drop at the beginning of the week the Fed signalled it would start reining in its biggest weekly drop since June 21 at 5.3 was mostly due to the waning safe-haven nearly five years of quantitative easing that percent so far. It was quoted at $1,317.30 an buying after the diplomatic action in Syria,” weighed the dollar down and encouraged ounce, down 0.2 by 1455 GMT. As technical MKS SA Senior Vice-President Bernard investors to buy hard and non-interest rate support at 100- and 50-day moving averages Sin said. bearing assets like gold. (MA) has been broken, traders said $1,307 “But now it’s all about the Fed tapering REUTERS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY

Euro ministers Vietnam rice exports could fall warn against complacency ‘Bailout countries must stick to target’

VILNIUS: Eurozone finance new regulatory regime meant to ministers warned against com- prevent a repeat of the crisis. placency yesterday as the econ- A key step was taken on omy recovers from a record Thursday when the European recession, insisting the return Parliament approved set- to growth does not mean that ting up the Single Supervisory painful reforms can be relaxed. Mechanism, the first pillar of the The bailed-out countries espe- new system which will be followed cially must stick to their targets, by a Single Resolution Mechanism with no compromise, even though to wind up failed banks. it is expected some such as Greece After that will come a Deposit need further help. “The economic Guarantee System to reassure outlook is improving,” said Jeroen depositors their money is safe, Dijsselbloem, head of the group of even at times of stress. “Work on 17 euro finance ministers after a all the legs of the Banking Union meeting in Vilnius. are on track,” Dijsselbloem said. A return to growth after an European Central Bank 18-month recession is welcome, executive board member Joerg Dijsselbloem told a press confer- Asmussen backed those com- ence, but unemployment stuck at ments, saying a “Banking Union 12 percent “is still too high”. is the biggest integration step in A rice seller carries a weighing scale as she waits for customers at a market in Hanoi yesterday. Rice exports from Vietnam could fall to between “We need to carry on with all Europe” since the launch of the 7.1 million and 7.2 million tonnes this year, down by about 10 percent from 2012, due to thin buying demand and high supply. our policies with strong resolve,” euro itself in 1999. he said, citing controversial Among the larger member reforms which allow Brussels states, France has struggled for to vet national budgets before growth and going into the meet- approval to ensure they meet EU ing Rehn had called on Paris to do Iraq’s southern oil exports slow in September rules on the public deficit and debt. more to get back on track, espe- “Complacency ... is simply a cially on its high labour costs. luxury we cannot afford,” EU French Finance Minister LONDON: Iraq’s oil exports data tracked by Reuters. That is movement of the tankers.” programmes often change. Iraq Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici insisted the from its southern ports have down from August’s average of The work is partly designed exports the bulk of its oil from Olli Rehn commented. government was pushing through slowed so far in September 2.31 million bpd, but higher than to increase export capacity and its southern ports. Shipments of Dijsselbloem said the Eurogroup “impressive reforms” and was at and may fall further until mid- the 1.8 million bpd initially sched- help Iraq maintain its position as Kirkuk crude from northern Iraq of finance ministers would hold an the forefront of the recovery with October due to maintenance, uled in September. the second-largest oil producer in remain far below their potential, additional meeting on November growth of 0.5 percent in the sec- according to shipping data and The loading rate is expected the Organisation of the Petroleum constrained by bomb attacks on 22 to review the draft budg- ond quarter. For the bailed-out industry sources, tightening to fall further in the rest of this Exporting Countries. the pipeline to Turkey and a dis- ets submitted to the European eurozone states — Greece, Ireland, supply from Opec’s second-larg- month and the first two weeks of Iraq has sent mixed messages pute with the Kurdistan Regional Commission, the EU’s executive Portugal, Cyprus — Disjsselbloem est producer. October, as two of the berths at about the impact of the mainte- Government over oil and land arm which will police the system. said they had to stick the course Traders, investors and oil com- the Basra Oil Terminal need to be nance on supplies. An official from rights. Nearly all member states have after the progress made so far. panies are watching the level of closed in the early stages of the Iraq’s South Oil Co said it would Iraq’s oil revival, which got breached EU deficit and debt On Cyprus, the eurozone minis- Iraq’s exports closely as supply work, an Iraqi oil official said. cut shipments by up to 500,000bpd, under way in 2010, has slowed rules by a wide margin, made ters separately approved payment disruptions in Libya have tight- “Exports will be constrained although other sources have said this year due to infrastructure worse by the costs of the debt cri- of its next ¤1.5bn aid tranche ened the market, helping to sup- for about a month - from the the drop would be less. and security problems, keeping sis, especially the rescue of failed under a controversial bailout port oil prices near $112 a barrel. middle of September to the mid- So far, the drop in supplies output below three million bpd in banks, a major talking point at agreed in June which roped in Exports from Iraq’s southern dle of October,” said the official is not as steep as 500,000bpd July, although supply is expected the meeting. Dijsselbloem said the large depositors to pay to wind up terminals have averaged 1.96 who declined to be identified. and oil traders say there is a to start rising again later in the eurozone was making progress one of the island’s biggest banks. million bpd in the first 12 days of “The work will go on until next chance September’s exports year. toward a ‘Banking Union,’ the AFP September, according to shipping year, but it will not affect the could be revised up, as loading REUTERS

QATARI MARKET Top adviser cuts India growth to 5.3pc Japan LCD Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 102.63 0.44 % Aa2 AA screen giant Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 104.13 1.85 % Aa2 AA NEW DELHI: India’s top eco- policymakers struggle to stabilise put on the backburner. That’s no Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.00 2.84 % Aa2 AA nomic adviser cut yesterday his the Indian currency, which has longer true. Much important leg- plans $2bn Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 111.13 3.29 % Aa2 AA growth forecast for this year fallen some 14 percent against islation has been passed,” he told to 5.3 percent, just above last the dollar this year, hit by weak a news conference. Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 104.38 3.88 % Aa2 AA year’s decade-low expansion, growth and a record current Standard & Poor’s, which listing: Reports Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 153.75 4.98 % Aa2 AA but insisted global ratings agen- account deficit — the broadest has maintained a negative rat- Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 112.50 5.50 % Aa2 AA TOKYO: cies had no reason to down- measure of trade. ings outlook for India, has said Japan Display, the Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 104.50 5.44 % Aa2 AA grade the country. Rangarajan said it was impera- there is a one-third chance of a world’s biggest maker of LCD Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 1.29 % Aa2 AA The new forecast, while down tive the central bank maintain its downgrade. screens for smartphones and from a previous 6.4 percent pro- tight monetary policy until the Rangarajan said he believed the tablet computers, plans to raise Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 108.63 3.57 % Aa2 AA jection, is broadly in line with rupee stabilises. The rupee now government would meet its fis- $2bn in an initial public offer- Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 104.25 1.32 % A1 A- central bank expectations but still is off historic lows hit last month, cal deficit target of 4.8 percent of ing, reports said yesterday. Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 102.88 2.53 % A1 A- higher than some private econo- lifted by a spate of measures to gross domestic product this year, The IPO would be the biggest QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.75 % NR NR mists who say growth could be as support the currency. although it would be a “challenge”. on the Tokyo Stock Exchange so QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.48 % Aa3 A+ low as 3.7 percent. He said the Congress-led gov- He added the current account far this year after drinks giant The projected growth for the ernment, accused of policy paral- deficit could be brought below the Suntory’s food-and-beverage unit QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.50 2.31 % Aa3 A+ financial year 2013-14 is “still ysis during most of its second targeted $70bn this year or 3.7 raised $3.9bn. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.25 2.52 % A2 A- a very respectable” level in the term, had undertaken a string of percent of GDP from last year’s The Japanese liquid crystal dis- Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 103.88 2.07 % A2 A current global context, said C reforms in the past year, open- record $88.2bn or 4.8 percent of play maker, whose clients include Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 121.13 3.75 % A2 A Rangarajan, chairman of the ing up India to wider foreign GDP, helped by government curbs Apple and Sony, would raise as much Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 103.25 4.23 % A2 A Prime Minister’s Economic investment. on gold imports — a leading com- as 200bn yen ($20bn) from a share Advisory Council. “The rating agencies have been ponent of the shortfall. sale that would give it a market Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 98.88 5.12 % A2 A The forecast comes as talking about the reforms being AFP value of 700-800bn yen, Dow Jones Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 104.25 1.34 % Aa3 A Newswires quoted a source with Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.50 3.56 % Aa3 A knowledge of the deal as saying. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 106.38 4.24 % Aa3 A The IPO is expected during the Rhoen-Klinikum hospitals for sale fiscal year to March 2014, Dow SOVEREIGNS Jones and the leading Nikkei busi- Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P ness daily reported. Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 102.88 0.32 % Aa2 AA Japan Display — set up last year Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 120.13 2.82 % Aa2 AA through the merger of Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony’s money-losing Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.00 2.66 % NR NR LCD units — plans to use the funds Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.00 3.42 % NR NR to boost production of small and Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 114.50 5.26 % NR NR medium-sized screens as it faces Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 106.25 5.53 % NR NR tough competition from South Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.13 0.89 % Aa2 AA Korean and Taiwanese rivals. The government-backed Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 110.75 3.96 % NR BBB Innovation Network Corp of Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 98.75 5.73 % NR BBB Japan holds about 70 percent of Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 89.00 7.91 % Caa1 CCC+ the firm with the three electron- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 100.75 4.37 % NR BBB- ics giants each claiming a roughly *Periodic Distribution Amount 10 percent stake. IMPORTANT NOTE: The merger was aimed at help- Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which ing Japanese firms better compete is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services in high resolution display technol- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data ogy, which has become the stand- and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of ard for smartphones, tablets and the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into other electronic gadgets. account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity Japan Display, which declined or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable to comment on the IPO report, indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your remains the global leader in the financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. production of small and mid- sized LCD displays, with nearly A view of the headquarters of German healthcare company Rhoen-Klinikum AG in Bad Neustadt near Fulda. 17 percent of the worldwide mar- The company is to sell most of its hospitals to rival Fresenius SE for $4.1bn in an attempt by Rhoen’s founder ket, according to US-based NPD to outflank opponents to an outright sale of the company. DisplaySearch. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Views

Regulatory arbitrage Gas isn’t the bogeyman BY GREG BARKER will encourage the existing independents, of a rising cost of living, ensure that energy as well as potential new players, to scale up bills are affordable, then over the medium endemic in insurance s we approach conference season, and challenge the big six; but this is also not term. Unabated coal should be the commit- with the cost of living at the top the whole answer. ted environmentalist’s number one target, BY FELIX SALMON of the political agenda and green To complement EMR, we need an explo- not gas, the cleanest and most efficient of policies under attack for their sion in consumer choice. I want companies, fossil fuels. ell done to Benjamin Lawsky, who is getting serious cost, energy policy is guaranteed communities, public sector and third sec- I have stated that my personal ambition about the regulatory arbitrage which is endemic in Ato stay in the political spotlight. Although tor organisations to grab the opportunity is to see over 20GW of solar deployed in the the insurance industry. there is a broad consensus on the measures in to generate their own energy and start to UK by the next decade. We could achieve W The topic here is decidedly gnarly, but also coalition’s latest energy bill, the dividing lines export their excess on a competitive, com- that huge figure by covering just 14 percent extremely important. Insurance companies, just like banks, have at the next election are starting to emerge. mercial basis. Not just a few eco-exemplars. of our industrial and commercial roof spaces both assets and liabilities. Their assets are generally financial Labour are advancing towards ever tighter This is a vision that happily unites the drive with increasingly efficient solar photovoltaic investments. Their liabilities, on the other hand, are fuzzier: At regulation of the “big six” suppliers, taking to get a better deal for hard pressed consum- panels. But solar is not the only technology some unknown point in the future, they’re going to have to pay out greater political control of the sector but also ers with ambitions for a greener, more local we need to deploy with greater ambition. some unknown sum of money to an unknown number of insureds creating huge barriers to entry. Under Labour energy sector. To achieve this we need a new The UK is bursting with innovation claiming on an unknown number of events. we could expect the six to shrink even further. generation of energy entrepreneurs and dis- across a range of energy technologies. Take life insurance, as an example: everybody dies. But that On the other hand, Conservatives are ruptive, local new entrants. We need compa- Combined heat and power (CHP) plants, doesn’t mean all life insurance policies pay out: many of them forging an agenda to encourage competition, nies not just meeting their own energy needs particularly in larger industrial, commercial expire before their holders do. And in general, the longer that innovation and greater consumer choice by but supplying their neighbours too. and retail premises could also help super- you live, the more money that your life insurer will be able to attracting new entrants into the market, Back in 2006, I published a pamphlet, size our local energy economies. If CHP can make before having to pay out on your policy. And as with most banking on more competition, diversity and Power to the People, which called for a work in Slough business park, at British other forms of insurance, life insurance is prone to black-swan choice to deliver a better deal for consumers. radical new approach to usher in an age Sugar in Norfolk, at Waitrose in Bracknell events. US life insurers, for instance, dodged a bullet during the When the UK electricity sector was priva- of popular decentralised energy. In govern- or in the heart of Sheffield, Birmingham and Aids crisis: they were incredibly lucky that the disease hit popu- tised in the 1990s, one vast state-run monop- ment the coalition has made great progress: even in Whitehall, it can work anywhere. lations — intravenous drug users, gay men — who tended not to oly became a teeming market of new firms, the number of decentralised energy instal- And experience of the last three years has hold much if any life insurance. If Aids had hit young professionals competing for the business of the British con- lations in homes and businesses has leapt shown that installing a decentralised energy with families instead, then it’s entirely possible we would have sumer. Thirteen years of Labour government from a few thousand under Labour to over system is a terrific spur for people to slash seen a mass of insurers going bust. put a stop to that. By 2010, just six energy half a million and is continuing to grow all their unnecessary energy use and become A money manager once told me that all insurers go bankrupt companies controlled over 90 percent of the the time. But we must go further. more efficient. eventually; it’s just a question of when. If you insure property UK sector. So where do we go from here? We In Denmark, distributed energy meets Thanks to falling costs and innovation, if then a hurricane or earthquake will come along; if you insure certainly need big, successful national energy around 30 percent of the nation’s heating approached with sufficient financial rigour, cars then they’ll get hit by a freak hailstorm. And of course all players, with balance sheets capable of sup- and electricity needs and in the industrial affordable big expansion of small energy insurers are exposed to market risk: if the value of their invest- porting huge investment in new UK energy Netherlands nearly 40 percent of energy is is achievable. We can build the big 60,000. ments plunges sharply, then they’re suddenly much less able to projects, as well as of helping us compete in met from decentralised sources. The largest Success will require the government as an meet their obligations going forwards. He might have been exag- the global race for jobs and growth. Indeed, share is met by gas fired combined heat and active partner in growth. But the prize is gerating a little for effect, but his point is well taken — and helps Britain can lead the world in offshore wind power plants. There is a lesson here for the growth, jobs, economic resilience, a better deal to underscore why it is crucial that the insurance industry be and new nuclear. But technologies such as environmental lobby. Gas is not a bogey- for the consumer, a cleaner, greener, safer closely and independently regulated. these are an important part of a diverse man. If used to the highest environmental environment and energy security. Doesn’t Which, needless to say, it isn’t. Mary Williams Walsh has the energy mix, not the entire recipe. standards, gas can be our ally. If we are to that sound like a Conservative agenda? background to the latest war of words, which is taking place Our electricity market reforms (EMR) scale up distributed energy and, at a time THE GUARDIAN between Lawsky, who is New York State’s top financial services regulator, and his counterparts in other states. In a sense, you don’t even need to know the substance: all you need to know is that if you live in a country which has 50 different insurance regula- tors, and no real federal oversight of what they’re doing, then it’s inevitable that some states will have laxer regulation than others. Which is exactly what has happened. An insurer in New York, or Connecticut, can set up what’s known as a “captive”: it can reinsure its own risks. Naturally, these captive reinsurers are all located in jurisdictions with lackadaisical regulatory oversight. As Lawsky points out in his letter, this is just like the SIV night- mare we all went through five years ago: financial institutions are nominally moving risk off their own books, even though, when push comes to shove, they’re still ultimately responsible for it. The parallels don’t end there. There were two main types of regulatory arbitrage which helped to cause the financial crisis. One was the SIVs; the other was Basel II, which allowed banks to basi- cally determine for themselves how much capital they should hold. In the wake of Basel II, you’d think that such outsourced regula- tory regimes were a thing of the past. The insurance-industry version of Basel II is called “principles-based reserving“, or PBR. In practice, it has done exactly what Basel II did: it has allowed insurers to reduce the amount of capital they need. Lawsky is fed up with all this, and is withdrawing from all attempts to implement PBR; good for him. But so long as the fractured regula- tory regime remains in place, Lawsky’s actions will not have much effect on the insurance industry more generally. We desperately need a national insurance regulator, and we need one with some spine. Otherwise, we’ll continue to live in a world with the unedifying spectacle of companies like MetLife saying with a perfectly straight face that they need to set up captive reinsurance companies, rather than simply hold more capital, because “using equity could reduce returns to levels below those required by investors”. If life insurers dodged a bullet during the Aids crisis, then all of America dodged a bullet during the financial crisis, when any mark-to-market analysis of insurers’ balance sheets would have showed them to be mostly insolvent. Luckily for all of us, the markets rebounded, and the insurers are now, financially, much healthier than they were. The problem is that their financial health will inevitably leach away into their shareholders’ pockets, unless strong regulators prevent that from happening. Lawsky is leading the way, here. If we ever do get a national insurance regulator then he’d be a good person to lead it. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Fate of $30bn L’Oreal stake points to Nestle’s future BY ASTRID WENDLANDT “If investors want to invest in months after Bettencourt dies. over the last eight days in shares potentially increase its own earn- Europe’s first condensed milk fac- and SILKE KOLTROWITZ L’Oreal, they can invest directly Bettencourt and Nestle also of L’Oreal, the third most valuable ings per share by more than 10 tory 147 years ago before growing in L’Oreal,” said a consumer promised not to sell their stake company in France, while slightly percent, and lift its underper- into a global food and beverages arriage, divorce or industry banker who spoke on without first offering it to the pressuring those of Sanofi, the forming shares. giant, selling everything from continued cohabi- condition of anonymity. “They other until April 29, 2014, 40 years second biggest. In the year to date, Nestle baby formula to bottled water, tation? Nestle, the don’t need Nestle for that.” after the initial deal was signed. Nestle might prefer to keep shares have risen 3.4 percent, has been independently pursuing Mworld’s biggest food The Swiss food group has The Bettencourts have said the market guessing, but L’Oreal while L’Oreal shares are up 20 its health ambitions by developing company, is under pressure to been a major shareholder in the they had no plans to sell will want a decision soon, because percent, and the Stoxx European foods that help prevent chronic make its intentions clear towards French cosmetics firm since 1974, Last month, Brabeck said keeping cash in place to buy the personal and household goods diseases. L’Oreal, its partner of 40 years, when L’Oreal heiress Liliane Nestle did not plan to renew its stake curbs its firepower for index is up 11.6 percent. Brabeck, 68, will be keen to when the ties that bind them Bettencourt, now the world’s right of first refusal with the other big deals. Last month, Nestle declined to comment cement his legacy by giving more loosen next year. richest woman, entrusted nearly Bettencourts, arguing that the L’Oreal offered to buy Chinese beyond pointing to a statement clarity on Nestle’s strategy before The decision is the preserve half her stake to Nestle for fear it lock-up depresses the value of the facial mask maker Magic Holding on its website that says the board he retires in 2016. of long-serving Chairman Peter would be nationalised if Socialists stake. He said Nestle wanted to International for HK$6.54bn is addressing the future of the Nestle has no urgent need to Brabeck, who is trying to reposi- came to power. keep options open, which include ($840m). stake “with great attention in the sell its L’Oreal stake, which con- tion Nestle away from reliance on It turned out to be a great maintaining the status quo. Formerly best-in-class Nestle, framework of the group’s global tributes roughly 10 percent of its processed foods toward higher- investment for Nestle, as L’Oreal That prompted speculation which is grappling with disap- nutrition, health and wellness earnings per share. margin products with a “nutri- shares have yielded a total return that the maker of Nescafe coffee, pointing results for the first time strategy”. It does not need the cash; it had tion, health and wellness” profile. of 15 percent on an annualised Kit Kat chocolate bars and Purina in years, will be grilled on the Although a merger to create 3.9bn Swiss francs as of end-June One can argue that L’Oreal’s basis since then. Nestle’s own dog food might be preparing to issue at an investor seminar at its a giant food and cosmetics con- and generates earnings before cosmetics and shampoos are com- shares yielded 11.6 percent. part company from the world’s Vevey headquarters on September glomerate could be seen to fit interest, depreciation and amor- patible with that mission, but Nestle owns 29.5 percent and biggest beauty firm, which makes 30 and October 1. Brabeck’s “health and wellness” tisation of around 18bn francs. eight of the nine analysts that Bettencourt owns 30.5 percent Lancome skin cream, Garnier Were Nestle to decide to sell strategy, no Nestle executive has Nestle is also still integrating spoke to Reuters thought Nestle of L’Oreal, the firm her father shampoo and Maybelline mascara. out, L’Oreal could buy back its expressed any interest in a takeo- its $11.9bn acquisition of Pfizer’s was likely to sell down its hold- founded as a maker of hair dye. L’Oreal was quick to say it shares and cancel them, a move ver in recent years, and the com- baby food business, which it ings in L’Oreal, once restrictions The heiress is now 90 and under would be able to buy back the that analysts gauge would lift panies share little operationally funded with the Alcon proceeds. on doing so end in April. They the guardianship of family mem- stake from Nestle, thanks to a net earnings per share for remain- apart from two dermatology joint JP Morgan Cazenove says one think the company can sell the bers since a court fight ended cash position of 572m euros that ing shareholders by around 20 ventures. scenario could be that L’Oreal stake, worth 23bn euros ($30bn), with a 2011 ruling that she was frees it to raise debt, and a 9 per- percent. Any attempt would likely face buys the Nestle stake in three in tranches and use the cash on incapable of looking after her for- cent stake in drugmaker Sanofi Depending on how a deal were resistance from the French gov- tranches over four years, which something central to its own tune. According to a shareholder worth 9bn euros. structured, if Nestle returns ernment, hostile to foreign takeo- it estimates would lift L’Oreal’s business or return the cash to pact agreed in 2004, Nestle can- The speculation has contrib- proceeds to shareholders from ver attempts in the past. 2018 earnings by 23 percent. shareholders. not increase its stake until six uted to a nearly 2 percent decline selling its L’Oreal stake it could Nestle, which started as REUTERS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

SERVICES

ACCOUNTING SOFTWARES BICYCLES & WATER SPORTS CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE HOME CONTROL SYSTEM ARTECH SKATE SHACK Sage Accounting, Peachtree, QuickBooks, Dynacom, Al Ain # 3, Salwa Road, For Direction call: Tel: 446-92532 CAPITAL CLEANING COMPANY W.L.L. DacEasy, Tally, POS, Bar Code, Fixed Assets Software’s. GSM: 552-47885/779-36152 - www.skate-shack.com Complete General Cleaning Services for Old and New Villas 44582257 33189899/ 55565328/77609026 Tel: +974 44375654 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: Mobile: BLINDS E-mail: [email protected] ADVERTISING OVERSEAS NEWSPAPER AL SHARK EXHIBITION CURTAINS Vertical-Venitian Blinds. Bin Mehmoud. Tel./Fax: 44422906 GEM ADVERTISING & PUBLICATIONS AL SHARK EXHIBITION (Overseas Newspaper Advertisements) AL JAWHAR CURTAINS & FURNITURE Bin Mehmoud - Tel./Fax: 44422906 Tel: 44442001 - GSM: 55783303 Vertical-Venitian Blinds. Salwa Road, Qatar Decoration R/A. Tel: 44689897 AL JAWHAR CURTAINS & FURNITURE ATTESTATION Salwa Road, Qatar Decoration Roundabout. Tel: 44689897 COMPUTER TRAINING CENTRE CARPET FAMILY COMPUTER CENTRE Al Rayyan Complex, Rayyan Road. KASHMIR HANDICRAFT EMPORIUM Tel: 44435361/44370779 - Fax: 44449130 Handmade Cartpets, Handicrafts & Furniture. IMMIGRATION SERVICES Al Mirgab Street, Al Naser. Tel: 44432761 GSM: 55553407

COMPUTERS & NETWORKING DENTAL NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER Desktops, Laptops, Printers, Scanners, UPS, Softwares, ERP, Accessories, AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX Networking & Cabling - Tel: 44351200 Fax: 44315058 - [email protected] DR. Saeed Mohammed Abdelkhalek, MS, Prosthodontics. Opposite Villagio. Tel: 44513289 Fax: 44693086 CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX DR. Sami Khalil Elmorsi Elsharoud, MS, Restorative Dentisty & Endodontics. Opposite Villagio. Tel: 44513289 Fax: 44693086 AL MASA DENTAL COMPLEX DR. Mohammed Naveed Yawar GB, General Scope Dentist (Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences). Opposite Villagio. Tel: 44513289 Fax: 44693086 ENTERPRISE TELEPHONY AND SECURITY SOLUTIONS

INTN’L TRDG. & TECHNICAL SVCS. CO. (INTER-TECH) Planning, Design, Engineering, Supply, Installation, Testing, Commissioning, Multi System Integration, Maintenance in Telecommunication, Electronics, Power, Security & Cabling. Tel: 44416556 Fax: 44416410 - [email protected]

EDUCATION

PEARL SCHOOL Indian CBSE Curriculum based in Al Rowdah. Admission open from KG1 till Class 5. Call: 66250332/44442555 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.pearlschool.sch.qa NEW INDIA ATTESTATION Toll Free: 8001516, Express Attestation in days, Document Insured. Affordable Rate. Payment after delivery. FURNITURE Free collection & delivery. Track your document. From India/UK/USA/GCC. We arrange Pancard. T: 44430824 M: 66166884/30092444 Powered by Ametek www.newindiaattestation.com APOLLO FURNITURE Salwa Road. Tel: 44689522 (3 Lines) ‘WE GET THE JOB DONE’ HELPLINE GROUP OF COMPANIES www.apollofurnitureonline.com Certificate attestation from India, UK, USA, Australia, Gulf Countries and Specialised in Governmental work, Work Visa, Family Visa, Canada. We have 15 years experience & approved Agency. Resident Permits and many more. Email: [email protected] GSM: 77711129 Tel: 44351974/44919213 - www.helplinegroups.com FLORIST Tel: 44675502, Fax: 4467-5503 Website: deltaqatar.com QATAR INTERNATIONAL NURSERY MISSION SERVICES A/C MAINTENANCE & Specialised in govermental services processess: establishing new companies, immigration SERVICES Garden Services, Irrigation Systems, Soft & Hard Landscaping, Indoor & Outdoor Plants, Water Fountains, Fresh Cut Flowers & Garden Maintenance. Tel: 44212630 services, traffic and labor departments and other authorities. Our mission is to get your job done. COOOOL/BARAD Fax: 44213619 www.qinagriqatar.com E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 44131358 Fax: 44131359 E-mail: [email protected] All kinds of A/C Maintenance & Services. A/C Tech. from Philippines. Waranty after maintenance. Something different IT SOLUTION at moderate prices. Tel: 33202138 / 77619899 FIRE AND SAFETY IMPRESS TRADING & CONTRACTING W.L.L. Software Lab Qatar All kinds of A/C Maintenance & Services. Fax: 44517658 P.O. Box : 31400, Doha, Qatar GSM:55920406/33261128/77269612 Tel: 44517659 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Software Labs Tel: +974 44622703, 44622705 GSM: 66836037 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.softlabqatar.com SAMA COOL Installation, Maintenance (AMC & On Call) and Servicing of all kinds HR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM of Split, Package Units, FCU, AHU, VRV unit and Chilliers. (DEVELOPED SPECIFICALLY FOR QATAR) “a SAMA GROUP initiative”. Tel: 4411 2249 Mob: 66797555 • Document Management System • Inventory Management System • Plant Management System Fax: 4444 7709 - E-mail: [email protected] Expertise and capability to develop any kind of Software to suit your specific business needs!!! BEAUTY SALON

GLASS COATING

APOLLO ENTERPRISES Crystal Bond Glass Coating Against The Sun’s Harmful Rays, INTN’L TRDG. & TECHNICAL SVCS. CO. (INTER-TECH) Heat Resistance. Salwa Road. Tel: 44426664 Hardware, Software, Networking, ERP, Cabling, Servers, UPS, GSM: 55830870/33599574 E-mail: [email protected] Network Operation, Maintenance, etc. Tel: 44416556 Fax: 44416410 - [email protected] HEALTH CARE INVEST IN QATAR

LEADER MIDDLE EAST W.L.L. For fast & reliable BUSINESS SET-UP, LOCAL SPONSORS, Trade Licences, Joint Ventures, Public Relations, Visas & Real Estate Services. Tel: +974 55745147 E-mail: [email protected] HELPLINE GROUP OF COMPANIES We provide A to Z support for the Company Formation, Commercial Registration, PRO Services & Real Estate Services. Call Now: 77711129/44351974/44919213 - www.helplinegroups.com

INSTRUMENTATION

AL MUTWASSIT CLEANING & PEST CONTROL BLASTING AND PAINTING Kharaba Street, Behind White Mosque, Tel: 44367555 Fax: 44367999 GSM: 55875920/55860432 M. PALLONJI QATAR P.O. BOX: 23933. E-mail: [email protected] PRESTIGE GENERAL SERVICES Tel: 44606822 Fax: 44606977 GSM:55879234 General Cleaning for Villas, Flats, Sofa, Carpets, Floor Tiles, Marble Polish. Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Yearly Contracts. GSM: 66752291 Tel: 44323040 Fax: 44131012 BATTERY E-mail: [email protected] - www.prestigegeneralservices.com AL SADEQ TRAD. & MAINTENANCE CO. AUTOMOBILE BATTERY General Cleaning for Villa, Flat, Building, Carpet Shampooing, Sofa Sets, Marble Polish, Manpower Supply & Made in Korea with One Year Warranty. Special Price for Pest Control - Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Yearly Contracts (24 Hours Service). GSM: 33020107/33020108 Special Quantity. Contact: 66557122/70777406 Tel: 4436068 Fax: 44353336 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds

SERVICES SITUATIONS VACANT

INSTRUMENTATION MANPOWER SUPPLY RENT A CAR REQUIRED Driver with Qatar licence and experience in Doha areas. Can speak Arabic and English. Send your CV at: [email protected] or call: 33047637

FOR RENT

APOLLO REAL ESTATE BASE RENT A CAR Doha’s leading Real Estate Agency can offer you a wide selection of available JEWELLERY Cars that fits your Needs & Budget. We Deliver & Pickup. Call for a quote 24 Hours @ 55206569 properties. Apartment to compounds and office space. Give us your requirements and let us find CANARA JEWELLERY you a place that fits. With over 30 years experience in Doha, we know the market. Al Mansoura, Bin Dirham Street. OASiS RENT A CAR AND TRANSPORTATION Tel: 44422071, 44357283 E-mail: [email protected] YOU RENT MORE THAN A CAR WITH OASiS. Fax: 44130033 Qatar’s first Real Estate Company under British Management [email protected] - www.4422071.com Tel: 44130011/44130022 GSM: 55157587 (Rental)/ 55129615 Call: Office: 44689522, Maureen 55864352 (Transportation) [email protected] - OasisCars.com Abubakar 55850815, Peter 55506803, Dexter 55872145 MOVERS NICE RENT A CAR www.apollopropertiesonline.com Solution for Transport & Leasing all types of vehicle & Heavy Equiment. Tel: 44413392 GSM: 55514223 Fax: 44317896 Website: niceqatar.com E-mail: [email protected]/ [email protected] FOR RENT JABRCO RENT A CAR We have many vehicles like 2009, 2010 & 2011 models for rent with a comfortable New Labour Accommodation MASSAGE price on daily/weekly and monthly. Main office: 44663933 GSM: 33131241 - Branch with utilities + stores for big and small Barwa Village: 44152020 GSM: 33640652 E-mail: [email protected] THAI LADY MASSAGE & BEAUTY SALON THE OWNERS RENT A CAR + LIMOUSINE SERVICE companies in Sailiya For Ladies. Thai Massage, Oil Massage, Steam Bath. Home

Visit. Villa No.4, Al Kinana St., Al Sadd Road. Tel: 44350143 24 Hrs Service! Tel: 44515515 GSM: 55149555 Fax: 44515155 Contact Mr. Anjum Malik E-mail: [email protected] Call: 55859772 KOTTAKKAL AYURVEDIC MASSAGE CENTRE REGENCY FLEETS (A Regency Group Co.) Oil Massage, Hotel & Home Visit. Opposite Hamad Hospital. Special Corporate leasing and Rental rates. Price includes Comprehensive Insurance, Al Rayyan Street. Tel.: 44360061 GSM: 33453697 Maintenance, Replacement Vehicle etc. Driven by Values. E-mail: info@regencyfleets. ANNOUNCEMENTS INTERNATIONAL MASSAGE CENTER (AYURVEDIC) com Tel: 44433822/44554046 Fax: 44554047 Branches: Airport - Tel.: 44153086 GOLDEN-WING & LOGISTIC W.L.L. Indian & Thailand Rejuvanation, Back & Joints Pain, Beverly Hills - Tel.: 44122131 Movenpick Tower & Suites: Tel.: 44966107/30122300 For International/Local Relocation of Domestic and Office Paralysis, Rheumatic Diseases. Home Services. Opposite: AVIS RENT A CAR Shifting & Industrial Packing. Worldwide Door to Door. Al Jazeera TV, Bin Omran. Tel.: 44218166 GSM: 77702421 Main Office at Al Sharif Trading & Contracting Co. Bldg., at the junction of Airport BUYING Air Cargo. Call: 33991967/55418573/44179579 iRest Massage Chair Street and Suhar Street. Road. Tel: 44667744 / 44622180 Fax: 44657626 We buy all kinds of used household HOMEPAC INTERNATIONAL REMOVALS Buy Online www.qbuy.qa BUDGET RENT A CAR 2nd Floor, Quality Hyper Market - GSM: 55684777 items. Office Furniture, Electric and Local & International Relocation. Professional Packing. 24 Hrs Service. The Best Car Rental Service in Qatar. Qatar - Tel: 44181800/30082345, Dubai - 042399883, Bahrain - MEDIHERB Head Office - 44310411 Airport Arrival - 44153048 electronics items.. Fridge, A/Cs, 17710250, Dammam- 038330044 E-mail- [email protected] Separate Section for Gents & Ladies. Back, Neck & Joint Care, Indian Airport Departure - 44622678/55808638 (24 Hrs) Freezer, TV & Computers. Ayurvedic Massage, Holistic Rejuvenating Massage. Fareej Al Nasar, Near E2E GLOBAL PACKERS & MOVERS W.L.L. Midmac R/A.Tel.: 44690363 GSM: 66167700 www.mediherbqatar.com NATIONAL CAR RENTAL Professional’s in Int’l & Domestic Relocations & Removals Cars - 4WDs - Pickups - Buses - Chauffeur Drive Call: 55505773 Office Shifting & Industrial Packing. E: [email protected] Call: 5547 8150/5547 8151 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 4451 6688, Mobile: 5599 0644, Fax: 4468 8631 NURSERY SUPER LINK INT. CARGO SERVICES (AIR, SEA & LAND) AL SULAIMAN RENT A CAR THE LITTLE HANDS NURSERY Main Office D’ Ring Road. Tel: 44911711/44911710 Fax: 44911699. NOTICE All Arab Countries (Egypt, Morocco, GCC..) & Asian Countries (India - Pak - Philippine) Age group 2 months to 4 years. Separate classes for babies, toddlers & students E-mail: [email protected] Musherib: 44355477/44440702/44315616 Packing & Removal - Custom Clearance - Transportation - Car Transit with spacious play area. British Management & Camera Protection. Location: New Fax: 44355466. Al Wakra: 44646775/44649153 Fax: 44646773 Call: 44445456/55014212/33283616 E-mail: [email protected] Salata, 137 Al Maahed Street, (at the back of Birla Public School) GSM: 55312803 Al Khor: 44796677/44725378 Fax: 44796633 MR. GERARD BERTRAM SANTIAGO XINGULAR SOLUTIONS (BEST CHOICE INTERNATIONAL MOVERS) OFFICE INTERIORS/FIT-OUT AL MUFTAH RENT A CAR WLL SRI LANKAN NATIONAL, PASSPORT NO. N0311907 For International/Local Relocation, Office, Villa Shifting with Trained Staff. CONTRACTOR Main Office: D’ Ring Road, T: 44634444/44010700 - Branch: Airport: 44634433/ QATAR ID NO. 27914410659 Also we do Computer Installation & Networking. 70634433 Grand Hamad: 44442003/70442003; Aziziya: 44440300/55525639; Call: 77606860 E-mail: [email protected] OFFICE EXPERTS Ras Laffan: 44748840/55574138; Al Khor: 44113344/55523594 The above said person is leaving Qatar for Designing and Implementing Cost Effective, Modern Office Interiors E Mail: [email protected] Website: www.rentacardoha.com good. Anybody who has any claim against him MOBILE PHONES & with maximum space utilization - “a SAMA GROUP initiative”. ENHANCEMENTS Tel: 4411 2248 - Fax: 4444 7709 Email: [email protected] EUROPCAR should contact us on the following numbers You rent A lot more than a car. within 3 days from the date of this advertise- PARTY ITEMS & Airport: 44621188 - Tel: 44660677 Fax: 44662677 BALLOON DECORATION ment. We will not be responsible for any claim GO RENT A CAR PARTY KINGDOM Competitive Rates for Car Rental & Leasing. whatsoever after the above said date. Near Jaidah Flyover, Nasrallah Centre. Tel: 44353501/ Tel: +974 44325500 Fax: +974 44375753 GSM: 33697075/ 44366431 - E-mail: [email protected] 66971703/55241629 E-mail: [email protected]. Tel: 44366001 Fax: 44366004 PORTABLE/CHEMICAL TOILETS AL DAR CAR RENTAL 24 Hours. Bin Omran, Ahmed Bin Ali St., PO Box 24816 SERVICES Tel: 44877789 GSM: 55599972/55732070, Fax: 44866637 BEAM CONSTRUCTION [email protected] Near Al Saliya Sports Stadium. Tel: 44901760 Fax: 44901566 GSM: 33138018 E-mail: [email protected] COUNTRY RENT A CAR - BARWA AL WAKRA A car has a choice of vehicles to suit your needs. Special cost provide nice service to our customer. SAFETY TRAINING What’s more? Comprehensive, Maintenances & Replacement Vehicle. Come to you at affordable PEST CONTROL & CLEANING rates, etc. Tel.: 44154467 GSM: 55440424 E-mail: [email protected] GULF GHAZAL RENT A CAR Available - Saloon Cars, 15, 30, 66 Seaters & Pickups. Salwa Road, Ain Khalid, Near United Bank, Upstairs Kamlco Trading & Cont. Tel: 44272619 E-mail: [email protected] - Mob: 55212784/55492705/55634924

SCAFFOLDING

APOLLO ENTERPRISES SCAFFOLDING DIVISION Contract/Hire/Sale - Salwa Road. Tel: 44693334 Fax: 44416274 GSM: 55521089/55560246/55536285 MEDICAL SERVICES www.apollo-qatar.net - E-mail: [email protected]

COSMOS TOOLS & INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES CO. W.L.L Scaffolding & Ladders. Tel: 44151824, 44315500 Fax: 44151825/ 44214809 GSM: 66537470 E-mail: [email protected] REAL ESTATE Showroom: Beside Doha Stadium, near to Clock R/A.

MALZAMAT QATAR W.L.L. Steel & Aluminium Scaffolding Sale, Hire & Contracting Tel: 44504266 Fax: 44502489 GSM: 66715063 www.malzamatqatar.com E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

SARVIKA & CO. QATAR W.L.L. Tel: 44514689/90/91 Fax: 44514688 Website: www.srimalshqatar.com E-mail: [email protected] STATIONERY & OFFICE SUPPLIES OFFICE EXPERTS AL MUFTAH SERVICES & RENT A CAR WLL Regular Supplier of Office Stationery & Supplies, IT Products C Ring Road Main Office Tel: 44328100/44442003, and Consumables and other General Consumables. We do Fax: 44414339 - Musherib Branch Office: Tel: 44326840/ 44426649, fast deliveries - “a SAMA GROUP initiative”. Fax: 44312899 E Mail: [email protected] Website: www.racqatar.com Tel: 4411 2248 - Fax: 4444 7709 - Email: [email protected] ADAM REAL ESTATE COMPANY Al Kuwari Blgd., 8th Floor, Al Sadd, Near Sebstain Rest. WATER TANK CLEANING Tel: 44366932 Fax: 44366931 GSM: 55500789 / 55803731 AL MUTWASSIT CLEANING & PEST CONTROL APOLLO REAL ESTATE Kharaba st, Behind white Mosque. Salwa Road. GSM: 55864352/55506803/ 55872145 Fax: 443679 99 - GSM. 55875920/55860432 METAL REPAIRS Tel: 44689522 www.apollopropertiesonline.com TRANPORTATION E-mail: [email protected] CAPITAL CLEANING COMPANY APOLLO ENTERPRISES COREO Cleaning Water Tanks & Pest Control. YALLA TRANSPORTATION Belzona Polymerics - Tel: 44426664 GSM: 55871914/55524897 Rent, Buy & Sell Real Estate. Property Photos, Prices, and more can GSM: 55565328/33189899/77609026 Tel: 44582257 Comprehensive transport services affording rental of busses and E-mail: [email protected] - [email protected] be found online. Tel: 446.99950 Web: www.mycoreo.com E-mail: [email protected] vans with drivers. Tel: 777.92552 Web: www.yallatransportation.com SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 ON SATURDAY

Patriots hold Snedeker leads in Illinois on to beat Jets 13-10 BMW Championship: World number one Woods three shots behind FOXBOROUGH, United States: New England’s defence LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS: forced four turnovers and Brandt Snedeker wielded a red- BMW Championship sacked quarterback Geno Smith hot putter to pile up a PGA four times as the Patriots held Tour season-best seven con- scores on for a 13-10 victory over the secutive birdies on the way to New York Jets yesterday. a one-shot lead in yesterday’s CHICAGO: Leading first- Patriots’ quarterback Tom opening round of the BMW round scores yesterday in the Brady was a modest 19-for-39 for Championship. $8m BMW Championship, just 185 yards and an interception The fast-talking American third event in the US PGA as New England won their sec- fired a flawless eight-under-par Tour playoffs (USA unless ond of the season and posted their 63 despite tricky, gusting con- noted, par-71) fifth straight National Football ditions at Conway Farms Golf 63 Brandt Snedeker League victory over the Jets. Club to seize control of the third 64 Zach Johnson “I am glad we started the sea- of the PGA Tour’s four lucrative 66 Charl Schwartzel (RSA), Steve Stricker, son off 2-0 and two wins in our FedExCup play-off events. Tiger Woods, Kevin Streelman division. We just need to do it bet- Helped by a 40-foot putt which ter,” Brady said. “That is a good 67 John Merrick, Adam Scott (AUS), Ryan he sank from the back fringe of the Moore, Nick Watney defence and they really challenge green at the par-three 17th, his you.” 68 Roberto Castro, Gary Woodland, Hunter eighth hole of the day, Snedeker Julian Edelman provided the Mahan reeled off seven consecutive bird- lion’s share of the offense as he ies from the 13th to rocket to the 69 Nicholas Thompson, Rory Sabbatini caught 13 passes for 78 yards top of the leaderboard. (RSA), Kevin Stadler, Matt Jones (AUS) and Aaron Dobson grabbed the Compatriot Zach Johnson 70 Brian Gay, Graeme McDowell (NIR), lone touchdown of the game for opened with a seven-birdie 64 and Harris English, Michael Thompson, the Patriots, who have won 14 world number one Tiger Woods Jason Kokrak, Chris Stroud, Sergio straight contests against AFC shot a 66 to end the day level with Garcia (ESP), Graham DeLaet (CAN), East opponents. fellow Americans Steve Stricker Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald (ENG), Bae “You learn from every game,” and Kevin Streelman, and South Sang-Moon (KOR) Brady said. “These games aren’t African Charl Schwartzel, 71 Brendon de Jonge (ZIM), D.A. Points, easy. Our defence played great and but Snedeker commanded the Tiger Woods waits to putt on the sixth green during the First Round of the BMW Championship at Conway Justin Rose (ENG), Jason Dufner, Bubba got us the ball. We kept fighting.” Watson, Charles Howell, Jordan Spieth, spotlight. Farms Golf Club in Lake Forest, Illinois, yesterday. RIGHT: Brandt Snedeker holds the ball after a putt on the The Patriots played without Jason Day (AUS), Angel Cabrera (ARG), “It was one of those days ninth green. Danny Amendola (groin injury) where everything seemed to go Ernie Els (RSA) and Rob Gronkowski, who is right in the middle of the round,” recovering from offseason back Snedeker, the reigning FedExCup that. But I’m in a great frame of surgery. champion, told reporters after mind, looking forward to the rest Smith completed 15-of-35 totalling only 22 putts in an eight- of the week. Opening round of 66 not passes for 214 yards in the loss. birdie display. “Excited I got my one low one He led the Jets to a win last week “Got off to kind of a slow start in me out of the way early and with a game-winning drive against and made a great birdie from off now I can go out and play some Tampa Bay, but was picked off the green on 13 that got every- solid golf the rest of the week.” good for frustrated Tiger three times in the fourth quarter thing moving in the right direc- PGA Tour veteran Stricker, with his team trailing by three. tion. To roll off seven birdies in a long known as one of the best Bilal Powell’s touchdown run row kind of came out of nowhere. putters on the US circuit, played LAKE FOREST: Tiger Woods was a frustrated the PGA Tour, felt the scoring overall was a lit- in the third quarter was the only I wasn’t expecting it. in the same group as Snedeker figure at the BMW Championship yesterday, tle better than he had expected, given the blustery time the Jets got into the end “When I get going good, I and was mightily impressed with despite draining a 22-foot birdie putt on his final conditions. zone. AFP realise it doesn’t happen all the his form. hole to end the opening round just three shots off “It’s a little bit lower considering the wind,” said time, so I instantly become more “Watching Snedeker pouring the lead. the 14-times major winner, who mixed seven bird- aggressive. I think being a good it in from all over the place is The American world number one missed three ies with two bogeys to end the day level with fellow Baseball Results putter helps, too, because I don’t always fun,” said Stricker, who putts from inside five feet and failed to birdie any of Americans Steve Stricker and Kevin Streelman, and Atlanta 6 Miami 1 really have to hit it (to) three feet moved into contention with a the three par-fives as he carded a five-under-par 66 South African Charl Schwartzel. eight times in a row.” round that included six birdies on a breezy day at Conway Farms Golf Club. “The guys really took advantage of it today. The Oakland 8 Minnesota 2 Snedeker, a six-times winner and a lone bogey. “Well, I certainly wasted a lot of shots out there greens weren’t as fast as they were yesterday, and Washington 7 NY Mets 2 on the PGA Tour who has tri- “He’s probably the best putter today,” a disgruntled Woods told reporters after fin- you certainly could be a lot more aggressive ... you NY Yankees 6 Baltimore 5 umphed twice this season, was a I’ve ever seen. The guy makes it, ishing three strokes behind pacesetting American could be really, really aggressive.” Philadelphia 10 San Diego 5 little disappointed he did not end or looks like he’s going to make it, Brandt Snedeker. “I missed three short ones and Woods has an impressive track record in the up with a lower score. from just about anywhere. He hit played the par-fives stupendously. Chicago area, twice clinching the PGA Championship Pittsburgh 3 Chicago Cubs 1 “I made that putt on one (for it great, gave himself a lot of putts “One of those days. I’m not exactly real happy. I at nearby Medinah and visiting the winner’s circle on LA Angels 4 Toronto 3 seven straight birdies) and really and made a lot of putts.” played well, and I just didn’t get much out of that five occasions at Cog Hill, which previously hosted Tampa Bay 4 Boston 3 felt like 61 or 60 was very doa- Seventy players have qualified round. As I said, I missed three little short ones in the BMW Championship. Cleveland 14 Chicago White Sox 3 ble,” he said. “I had a really good for the elite BMW Championship, there and then played the par-fives even par. That’s Though this is the first time he has competed Milwaukee 5 St Louis 3 chance of doing it, and just didn’t the PGA Tour’s penultimate play- just not very good.” on the par-71 layout at Conway Farms, he felt the make any putts coming in after off event. REUTERS Woods, who has won a season-high five times on biggest test was adjusting to the greens. REUTERS LA Dodgers 3 San Francisco 2

Makau pulls Armstrong returns out of Berlin marathon

Sydney Olympic medal NAIROBI: Marathon world record holder NEW YORK: Disgraced Patrick Makau has been retired cyclist Lance forced to pull out of a new Armstrong has returned his attempt over the distance 2000 Olympic medal to the US later this month in Berlin Olympic Committee (USOC) due to a knee injury. Then Radioshack team nine months after he was “I intended to attack my rider Lance Armstrong stripped of it, USOC officials own world record in Berlin said yesterday. of the US reacts during but now the first thing on “I can confirm that the United the lap of honour with his my mind is to fully recover States Olympic Committee team after the 20th and from this injury so I can has received the bronze medal final stage of the 97th Tour return to training,” the awarded to Lance Armstrong de France cycling race, in Kenyan said. at the 2000 Olympic Games Paris, France in this July 25 Organisers of the in Sydney,” USOC spokesman 2010 file photo. Armstrong September 29 Berlin Patrick Sandusky said in a has returned his Olympic Marathon said Makau was statement. medal that he won at the suffering from swelling in “The International Olympic Sydney Games in 2000. the knee and had been Committee and the USOC had ordered by doctors to stop previously requested that the running while it recovers. medal be returned. The USOC Makau, 28, set the cur- has made arrangements to rent official world mark return the medal to the IOC.” of 2hr 03min 38sec on the The confirmation came shortly fast and flat Berlin course after Armstrong had tweeted: organisation was still seeking is battling to hang on to what two years ago. “The 2000 Bronze is back in pos- the medal. remains of his reputation and Still lining up for a session of @usolympics and will “We will continue to work his earnings and is fighting sev- record attempt though is be in Switzerland asap.” with the United States Olympic eral lawsuits, including one from Wilson Kipsang, who set The American lost his seven Committee to get this medal the US Justice Department.In the official second best Tour de France titles last year back as requested in our deci- February, the Justice Department time of 2:03.42 -- just four and in January admitted to years sion,” Bach, previously an IOC said it was joining a fraud suit seconds off the record -- in of performance-enhancing sub- vice president and head of its filed in 2010 by Floyd Landis, a Frankfurt in 2011. stance use in the most spectacu- juridical commission, told an IOC former Armstrong team-mate. Kipsang skipped last lar drugs case in recent years. session in Buenos Aires. Landis filed the suit under month’s world athletics Following his public confes- “This (the IOC’s January) a federal law that allows whis- championships in Moscow sion, the IOC ordered the return decision has been communi- tle-blowers to report fraud in to prepare himself for of the bronze medal he won in cated to Mr Armstrong and the exchange for a reward. Berlin. the time-trial at the Sydney 2000 USOC. This decision has not The US Postal Service paid Other Kenyans rac- Games and declared the race been appealed neither by Mr $40m from 1998 to 2004 to have ing Berlin include former results void. Armstrong, nor by the USOC Armstrong and his team-mates junior cross-country Thomas Bach, who was elected and what we are lacking, sadly, from Tailwind Sports wear its world champion Geoffrey president of the International is getting back the medal. Legally logo during record-breaking Kipsang and Eliud Olympic Committee on Tuesday, the case for the IOC is closed.” wins. At least $17.9m of these fees Kipchoge, who will be run- had said the previous day the The once-revered athlete went to Armstrong. REUTERS ning only his second mara- thon. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

India bans Sreesanth Misbah stands firm as for life for spot-fixing

NEW DELHI: Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (pic- tured) has been banned from cricket for life after being found guilty of spot-fixing during the Indian Premier League, authorities said edgy Pakistan stumble yesterday. Ankeet Chavan, a teammate of Sreesanth’s in the Rajasthan Royals team, was also handed a life ban following a probe by the Board of Chasing 264 for victory, visitors are 158 for five Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) anti-corruption chief Ravi Sawani. HARARE: Pakistan captain two for 29 from 13 overs, while “Sreesanth and Chavan have Misbah-ul-Haq stood firm as Utseya had two for 40 from 13 been banned for life from play- his side lost five wickets chasing overs. ing any representative cricket, victory on the fourth day of the Earlier, left-arm opening or in any way being associated second Test against Zimbabwe bowler Rahat Ali took five for with the activities of the BCCI or at the Harare Sports Club 52 as Zimbabwe were bowled out its affiliates,” the board said in a yesterday. after adding only 78 runs to their statement. Set 264 to win, Pakistan were overnight 121 for four. The BCCI’s three-member dis- 158 for five at the close of play, Pakistan won the first Test at ciplinary committee, taking action setting up a tense last day with the same venue by 221 runs. on Sawani’s report, handed a five- Zimbabwe having a realistic Zimbabwe have only won year suspension to Amit Singh, chance of sharing the series and 10 of their previous 93 Test who played in the IPL till last year, earning a rare victory against one matches, with six of the wins for his involvement in spot-fixing. of cricket’s major nations. coming against fellow minnows Rajasthan Royals’ Siddharth Misbah was unbeaten on 26 and Bangladesh. Trivedi was suspended for one will resume batting today with But they have beaten Pakistan year after being found guilty of wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal (17 on two occasions, in 1994/95 and the lesser charge of not informing not out), with Pakistan needing 1998/99. They have also beaten officials about approaches made by another 106 runs to win. Pakistan India twice, most recently in bookmakers. made an aggressive start to the 2000/01. REUTERS The case against Harmeet chase after bowling out Zimbabwe Singh, a 21-year-old spinner, who for 199, breaking a trend of slow Strauss backs Pakistani batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Azhar Ali (right) walk off after had also been suspected of hiding a scoring on a wearing, cracked being dismissed by Zimbabwe on day four of the second and final Test bookmaker’s approach, was “closed pitch. But they were forced to Pietersen as in Harare yesterday. in the absence of evidence against him”, the BCCI statement said. become more cautious as the The BCCI did not announce any action against another Rajasthan Zimbabwe bowlers struck at regu- England ‘mentor’ Royals player, Ajit Chandila, who was also accused of spot-fixing by lar intervals. the anti-corruption officer. First-change bowler Tendai BIRMINGHAM: Andrew Scoreboard The BCCI have not released Sawani’s report but the Indian Express Chatara made a crucial break- Strauss believes Kevin Pietersen Zimbabwe (I innings): ...... 294 Bowling: Junaid Khan 19-6-37-1 (1w); Rahat newspaper said that Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan were found guilty through when he dismissed can act as a “mentor” to an inex- Pakistan (I innings): ...... 230 Ali 24.5-5-52-5; Saeed Ajmal 22-7-56-2; Ab- on multiple accounts, including conceding a “pre-determined number Mohammad Hafeez and Azhar perienced England one-day side Zimbabwe (II innings): dur Rehman 24-5-40-2. of runs per over in exchange for bribes”. Ali in quick succession to reduce despite his own sometimes dif- T M K Mawoyo lbw A Rehman ...... 58 Pakistan (II innings): Sreesanth, Chandila, Chavan and Singh are among 39 people who Pakistan to 46 for two in the 12th ficult relationship with the star P Utseya c A Shafiq b Rahat Ali ...... 5 K Manzoor c Waller b Utseya ...... 54 have also been charged separately in court by Delhi Police in the cor- over. batsman. H Masakadza lbw Rahat Ali ...... 44 M Hafeez c Vitori b Chatara ...... 16 ruption scandal that rocked this year’s IPL. Opening batsman Manzoor England are 1-0 down in a five- T Panyangara c Azhar Ali b A Rehman ...... 0 Azhar Ali b Chatara ...... 0 Sreesanth, 30, is the only one to have played for India, having taken Ahmed stroked his way to his match series, with their convinc- B R M Taylor c Azhar Ali b Rahat Ali ...... 27 Younis Khan b Vitori ...... 29 part in 27 Tests, 53 one-day internationals and 10 Twenty20 matches. second half-century of the match, ing 88-run loss at Old Trafford V Sibanda c A Akmal b Rahat Ali ...... 10 Misbah (batting) ...... 26 He was a member of India’s victorious teams in the World Twenty20 hitting 11 fours in an innings of separating rain-ruined no results M N Waller c K Manzoor b S Ajmal ...... 3 Asad Shafiq c Mutumbami b Utseya ...... 14 in 2007 and the World Cup in 2011. 54 before he was caught at short at Headingley and again at E Chigumbura c A Akmal b Junaid Khan ...... 3 Adnan Akmal (batting) ...... 17 The Indian Express quoted Sawani as saying in his report that he leg off off-spinner Prosper Utseya. Edgbaston on Wednesday. R Mutumbami c Abdur Rehman b S Ajmal ..29 Extras (W-1, NB-1) ...... 2 hoped the BCCI will “impose such sanctions as considered appropriate That brought Misbah in to join But whatever the outcome of T L Chatara c A Akmal b Rahat Ali ...... 1 Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 158 to send out a strong signal indicating the zero tolerance policy of the fellow veteran Younis Khan but the series, which continues in B V Vitori (not out) ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-46, 3-90, 4-100, BCCI to any corruption in the sport.” Pakistan suffered a huge blow Cardiff today, Strauss believes Extras (B-3, LB-11, W-5) ...... 19 5-133. “Obviously, the anti-corruption education given to the players had when Younis was bowled for 29, the experience of playing along- Total (all out) ...... 199 Bowling: T Panyangara 10-2-32-0; B V Vitori no impact on the conduct. Therefore, the players deserve no leniency shaping to play left-armer Brian side Pietersen can only benefit the Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-117, 3-121, 4-121, 12-2-55-1 (1w); T L Chatara 13-2-29-2 (1nb); whatsoever,” he said in his report. Vitori to leg and losing his leg likes of 22-year-old all-rounder 5-136, 6-149, 7-156, 8-177, 9-199, 10-199. P Utseya 13-2-40-2; H Masakadza 1-0-2-0. The players were arrested in May along with scores of bookies as stump. Ben Stokes. part of a police investigation into the spot-fixing scandal, which had Misbah might have given a “He can be really good with caused outrage among fans in the cricket-mad nation. difficult chance when he was on young players, actually,” Strauss him to have a good run of cricket. “You want to see him do that, BCCI chief Narayanaswami Srinivasan had voluntarily stepped aside 14, with wicketkeeper Richmond told reporters at Edgbaston. “I “I hope he is playing that men- because he’s at the stage of his from his post in June after his son-in-law was arrested, and later Mutumbami diving far to his think it’s good that he’s playing toring role and playing it well,” career now where he’s got a lot to released on bail, over alleged links to illegal bookmakers. right but unable to hold on to a this one-day series, and him open- Strauss saud. offer those young players coming Son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan is one of the owners of IPL franchise low deflection. But Mutumbami ing the batting in one-day cricket “I suppose Kevin is a compli- through -- and they all look up to Chennai Super Kings, a team bought by Srinivasan’s India Cements made no mistake when Asad is an interesting and potentially cated character. But he can be him as well,” the former Enland conglomerate when the popular Twenty20 league was launched in 2008. Shafiq tried to cut Utseya and quite explosive option for England fantastic, really good and engaged skipper added. Gambling is mostly illegal in India, but betting on cricket matches top-edged the ball into the wick- to use. in the dressing room and really go “So it’s good to hear that he’s thrives through networks of underground bookies. etkeeper’s gloves. “Given that he’s had injuries, out of his way to help other people doing that,” Strauss said. Spot-fixing -- in which a specific part of a game, but not the result, Chatara finished the day with and whatever, it’s quite nice for at times. REUTERS is fixed -- is also illegal. REUTERS

Formula One: Injury-free Lorenzo Ferrari pairing ‘explosive’: Schumacher ready for title tilt BERLIN: Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher MISANO, ITALY: Defending champion Jorge a little later than usual as I will use the time is pleased to see Kimi Raikkonen Lorenzo (pictured) said he was back to full to have more physiotherapy on my shoulder,” link up with Fernando Alonso health going into this weekend’s San Marino added Marquez, who has finished on the podium at Ferrari for next season but MotoGP, as the Spaniard prepares himself for at every race bar June’s Italian MotoGP, where believes it will be a volatile another run at the title. he crashed out while running in second. pairing. Lorenzo, who suffered a broken collarbone at Meanwhile Pedrosa, who is second overall and “Ferrari with Fernando and Assen in June, twice underwent surgery following trails Honda teammate Marquez by 30 points, Kimi, that sounds like an explosive his initial heavy crash in the Netherlands and a is eager to cut the gap at the top after finishing mixture,” Germany’s Schumacher, subsequent accident in Germany a frustrating third at the British who won five of his seven Formula two weeks later. MotoGP. One world titles with Ferrari, told However, the two-time world “I was slightly disappointed German daily Bild. champion said his injuries had after Silverstone, as we knew “For motor sport fans, it will finally healed and that he was we had the speed and race pace certainly mean fireworks and for back in proper physical shape. to challenge for victory,” said their rivals, a tough pairing to “I feel strong again like I was Pedrosa. overcome. at Montmelo and Mugello before “Anyway, we must learn from “It will be exciting to watch.” the crash,” said Lorenzo, referring the mistakes and move on. Misano On Wednesday, Finland’s to consecutive wins in Italy and is quite a tricky track and the grip Raikkonen was presented as the Catalonia before his fall in the level is always a challenge, but I team-mate of Spain’s Alonso for Netherlands. enjoy riding there. next season and will return to “Misano is a track I enjoy a lot “I’ve had good results in the Ferrari having driven for Lotus and also the Yamaha is comfort- past, even if last year we expe- for the last two seasons. able there. rienced a nightmare on race day. Raikkonen, who is reported to “My next goal is to fight for the This year we arrive confident and earn around 20m euros ($26.6m) victory once more and think race looking to reduce the points to under his Ferrari contract, will by race, improving our pace step Marc in the championship.” replace Brazil’s Felipe Massa, who by step,” added the Spaniard, who Seven-time champion Valentino is leaving Ferrari at the end of the has won the last two races at Misano. Rossi’s return to his home circuit will be greeted current season. Lorenzo halted leader Marc Marquez’s four- with the usual fanfare, as the Italian seeks to go The 33-year-old Finn won his race winning streak when he triumphed at one better than last year’s runner-up finish at only world title with Ferrari in Silverstone a fortnight ago, but he is still 39 the World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, renamed in 2007 during three seasons with points adrift of his rookie compatriot in the rid- honour of Rossi’s close friend who died following the Italian team, while Alonso, the ers’ standings with six races remaining. a crash at the 2011 Malaysian MotoGP. 2005 and 2006 world champion, Having seen title rivals Lorenzo and Dani “Misano is next and it is my home Grand Prix joined the Italian outfit in 2010. Pedrosa both struck down by injuries this sea- and an important weekend. I like the track, I Raikkonen is currently fourth in son, Marquez himself dislocated his shoulder at always go fast there, especially with the Yamaha the world drivers’ championships Silverstone but the 20-year-old was confident it and last year also I was able to do a very good behind second-placed Alonso and would not hamper him at Misano. race.” leader Sebastian Vettel “I’m already feeling much better since my acci- A winner at Misano in 2008 and 2009, Rossi is Schumacher, 44, won the last of dent in Silverstone, so hopefully I’ll be almost fourth overall in this year’s standings, 38 points his world titles back in 2004 and 100 per cent by this weekend,” said Marquez, in arrears of third-placed Lorenzo. retired last year after spending who finished a commendable second in Britain “In the past I was always on the podium with the last three years of his career despite the setback. Yamaha. We will arrive very strong and we will with German team Mercedes. “I will arrive in Italy for the race weekend try to do our best,” said the Italian. REUTERS REUTERS SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Football Fixtures All times in GMT English Premier League Bale set for Real debut Today Manchester United vs Crystal Palace (1145) Aston Villa vs Newcastle United (1400) The world’s most expensive player to play on the right side of attack Fulham vs West Bromwich Albion (1400) Hull City vs Cardiff City (1400) MADRID: Real Madrid coach injured while on international Stoke City vs Manchester City (1400) Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed duty. that Gareth Bale will make his Ancelotti confirmed though Eto’o eyes second stint under a Sunderland vs Arsenal (1400) long awaited debut for the club that he will instead opt for Tottenham Hotspur vs Norwich City (1400) against Villarreal tonight. Nacho at left-back and that both There had been some doubt as Cristiano Ronaldo and Isco were Everton vs Chelsea (1630) to whether the Welshman would fit after recovering from the manager he never wanted Tomorrow feature having only played half an knocks they picked up on their Southampton vs West Ham United (1500) hour of competitive football so far travels with their national teams. LONDON: Striker Samuel sincere and straightforward.” this season in his country’s 3-0 However, the former AC Milan Eto’o (pictured) will make Mourinho is counting on Eto’o Monday defeat to Serbia on Tuesday. boss still wants more communica- his Chelsea debut in today’s to add experience in front of a Kaka raring Swansea City vs Liverpool (1900) However, Ancelotti insisted tion with national team manag- Premier League match against young midfield and also provide La Liga he will get some playing time ers to avoid more injuries in the Everton when he embarks competition for Fernando Torres to go, says in the clash between two of the future. on a second stint under Jose and Demba Ba. Today four sides still with a 100 percent “We have not had luck with the Mourinho, a manager he once “I think he is adapted to the Atletico Madrid vs Almeria (1400) record in the league this season. national teams. We have recov- vowed he would never play for. style of play we want in our team, Milan coach And the Italian also ended ered Isco, but Arbeloa, Marcelo Mourinho, who signed Eto’o last which is a bit contradictory to the Levante vs Real Sociedad (1600) speculation about where Bale will and Coentrao are injured. month from Russian club Anzhi general style and philosophy in MILAN: Brazilian forward Barcelona vs Sevilla (1800) fit into the Real side by saying he “Cristiano is fine. He has recov- Makhachkala having previously the Premier League,” he added. Kaka will make his debut for Villarreal vs Real Madrid (2000) sees him playing from the right ered and will play in Villarreal. worked with the Cameroonian “We are not a physical, direct AC Milan today when the side of the attack. “We need more communication at Inter Milan, suggested the team. We are a team that want Rossoneri visit Torino hoping Tomorrow “Bale arrived without doing a with the national teams to pre- 32-year-old would see some action to use the qualities of our attack- to make amends after losing Granada CF vs Espanyol (1000) normal pre-season, but his phys- vent injuries. I am open to talk at Goodison Park. ing players in a different way and their first game of the season. Getafe vs Osasuna (1500) ical condition isn’t bad. He will with them.” “He will be selected,” Mourinho, Samuel is adapted to it. Kaka spent six highly suc- travel with the team and he will Asier Illarramendi could also whose side are unbeaten in their “Technically he is very good, his cessful seasons with Milan Malaga vs Rayo Vallecano (1700) play,” Ancelotti told a press con- make his debut today follow- opening three league games, told movement is very intelligent, he from 2003-2009, winning the Real Betis vs Valencia (1900) ference yesterday. ing his 39m euro ($51m, £34m) a news conference knows exactly the kind Champions League and Ballon Monday “I need to decide if it is from move from Real Sociedad in July yesterday. of movement he has to d’Or trophy for the world’s best the start or in the second half. after overcoming an injury that “When you are do to give continuity player before signing for Real Elche vs Real Valladolid (1800) He doesn’t have any problem with has kept him out of the first few selected and you’re to the attacking game, Madrid. Athletic Club vs Celta Vigo (2000) injuries, he is excited and is very weeks of the season. a striker, normally and he has this natural But, unsettled at the motivated. And Ancelotti also clarified his you play. You start or appetite for goals.” Santiago Bernabeu and with Bundesliga “He will almost certainly play selection between Iker Casillas you finish the game. With the arrival one eye on next year’s World Today on the right.” and Diego Lopez in goal by say- My attacking players, of Eto’o, Mourinho Cup, he returned to the San Bayer Leverkusen vs VfL Wolfsburg (1330) There had been suggestions in ing that Casillas, who has been when I select them, allowed forward Siro amid much fanfare two the Spanish press that Bale could benched in recent weeks, would normally they play, Romelu Lukaku to weeks ago, when he signed a Bayern Munich vs Hanover 96 (1330) even make his debut at left-back start on Tuesday when Real begin because it’s an area join Everton on a sea- two-year deal following a free FC Augsburg vs Freiburg (1330) after Marcelo, Fabio Coentrao their Champions League cam- where I make more son-long loan but the transfer from Real. Mainz vs Schalke 04 (1330) and Alvaro Arbeloa were all paign away to Galatasaray. AFP changes during the match.” Belgian will not feature against Despite lacking full A few years ago, having the Chelsea because of league rules on match fitness, Milan coach Werder Bremen vs Eintracht Frankfurt (1330) Portuguese as his boss was incon- players facing their parent clubs. Massimiliano Allegri con- Borussia Dortmund vs Hamburg SV (1630) ceivable for Eto’o, who then went He said having Eto’o with the firmed that Kaka can’t wait to on to play in the 2010 Champions other two senior strikers in the take to the field in what should Tomorrow League final when Mourinho’s squad was key to his plans. be an emotional return for the Hoffenheim vs Borussia Inter beat Bayern Munich. “Normally I start with one 31-year-old. Moenchengladbach (1330) “Before meeting at Inter, we striker,” Mourinho said. “A “Kaka is in good shape phys- Eintracht Braunschweig vs Nuremberg (1530) didn’t know each other per- few times I can start with two. ically and has trained well and sonally, so our relationship was Normally I start with one but enthusiastically,” said Allegri Ligue 1 tense. I even said one time that I’d many times I finish with two. yesterday. Today never play for a club where Jose “I chase results. Sometimes if I “I think he’ll be a bit emo- Toulouse vs Olympique Marseille (1500) was coach,” Eto’o told the British have to risk one point to get three, tional ahead of his debut newspaper The Sun in comments I do it almost every time. tomorrow and that’s normal Ajaccio vs Evian Thonon Gaillard FC (1800) published yesterday. “Against (Manchester) United as he’s lacking a bit of match En Avant Guingamp vs Bastia (1800) “But God knows best. He (in a 0-0 draw last month) I fitness. That will come with wanted to show me that I was didn’t, because I felt it was an time.” Nantes vs Sochaux (1800) Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale (left) wrong and today Jose is a friend. important point, but normally I Milan are the only expected Montpellier HSC vs Stade de Reims (1800) and Cristiano Ronaldo challenge Now he’s my coach again. risk one point to go for three. title contenders in Serie A to Valenciennes vs St Etienne (1800) for the ball during their training “It’s a real pleasure to team up “I like to have strikers on the have dropped points in their session at Valdebebas sports with him once more and join a bench and I like to finish matches opening two league games, fol- Tomorrow grounds in Madrid yesterday. Real great team. with two of them. That’s why this lowing an opening day reverse Monaco vs FC Lorient (1200) “Jose has a real clear idea. group of three is fundamental. It’s away to promoted Verona. play Villarreal today. Lille vs Nice (1500) He talks straight and it’s really very rare I don’t make changes.” AFP important in this business. He’s REUTERS Olympique Lyon vs Stade Rennes (1900)

Henry backs Springboks feel confident under-fire Wallabies for ‘ultimate challenge’ coach

AUCKLAND: The Springboks PERTH, Australia: New are bristling with confi- Zealand’s World Cup- dence that they can break winning coach Graham open fortress New Zealand Henry yesterday urged when they face the All Blacks the Wallabies to stick to today in a top-of-table Rugby expansive rugby and gave All Blacks’ Kieran Championship clash. his surprise backing to Read and his two South African coach Heyneke their beleaguered new Meyer said beating the world year old daugther boss Ewen McKenzie. champions on their home turf is Elle attend the Three losses in three the “ultimate challenge” while the teams captains Tests have piled the pres- hosts see the game as their tough- run at Eden Park in sure on McKenzie, who est since winning the World Cup Auckland yesterday. took over from New two years ago on the same Eden New Zealand will Zealand’s Robbie Deans Park ground. play South Africa in July, but Henry said The All Blacks’ incredible today in the Rugby Australia were “trying to home record is there to be bro- Championship play the game the right ken, Springbok skipper Jean de match. way”. Villiers said as he rated his side’s “When they were the preparation for the Test between best team in the world at the world’s top two sides as their the turn of the century, “best ever”. they played an expansive History is stacked against the game,” the consultant with South Africans, with the All Argentina, told reporters. Blacks on a 30-match winning “It’s the way they should streak at Eden Park, a venue “The team that executes their to overhaul as their last two play because that’s their where the Springboks last won game with the greatest effective- matches, against the Wallabies mentality and that’s their 76 years ago. ness, clarity and intensity will be and All Blacks, are at home in skill-level. The All Blacks have not lost in the one that comes out on top,” South Africa. “I don’t think you are New Zealand since 2009 when the said coach Steve Hansen. New Zealand play Argentina going to win games by Springboks beat them 32-29 in Although the All Blacks have away in their penultimate fixture playing chess-board rugby Hamilton, and that result, said de won all six Tests they have in the four-nation southern hemi- and kicking the balls in the Villiers, has proved a huge moti- played this year, stand-in captain sphere championship. air and chasing it. vating factor. Kieran Read acknowledged they The robust Springboks com- “That’s not the way He added: “It just shows noth- are yet to produce a complete mand a 30-kilogram advantage in Australians play, and they ing is impossible. It’s first of all performance. the forwards, suggesting the All haven’t got the forward a massive challenge but secondly “But we’re confident in our Blacks will look for quick turno- pack that can give you that one that we can really look for- abilities and know that we can ver ball at the breakdown, which sort of dominance. ward to.” play a lot better than we have should suit McCaw’s replacement “I think they’re trying While the Springboks are done,” he said. Sam Cane. to play the game the right buoyant, the All Blacks, who will The visitors go into the Test This will be the biggest Test of way. They’re struggling at be without injured skipper Richie with a one bonus point advan- 21-year-old Cane’s brief career, the moment, but I think a McCaw, have toned down their tage over the All Blacks and a win but Hansen believes he has the couple of wins under Ewen pre-match rhetoric. today would make them difficult required mental toughness. AFP will put them right.” AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

A B C

D

A) The World Pool-Billiards Association (WPA) President Ian Anderson (fifth left), Qatar Billiards and Snooker Federation (QBSF) President Mohammed Mubarak Al Ramzani (sixth left), QBSF Secretary General Mohammad Al Nuaimi (third left), QBSF Players Affairs Committee Head Mubarak Hamad Al Khayareen (right) and other officials pose with winner Thorsten Hohmann (back row in black) from Germany and runner-up Antonio Gabica from the Philippines during the annual World 9-Ball Pool Championship final at Al Arabi Indoor Stadium in Doha, yesterday. B and C) Hohmann celebrates after winning the final. D) Gabica is seen during the prize ceremony. PICTURES BY: KAMMUTTY VP Hohmann lifts World 9-Ball title World 9-Ball Pool Championship: The German rallies to defeat Antonio Gabica

BY ARMSTRONG VAS pool win. I flew directly to Qatar after my victory in the US last DOHA: Thorsten Hohmann of week. The win in the US gave me Germany rallied from behind enormous confidence,” said the to defeat Antonio Gabica of the German. Philippines 13-7 to win the 2013 “I was never in doubt, I always World 9-Ball Pool Championship believed I could win this,” he at Al Arabi Indoor Stadium here added. Hohmann lifts yesterday. Hoff explained after his victory: the World 9-Ball The 33-year-old German, who “Although I lost my first match, I title during the was behind 3-1 in the initial knew that I could do it, I lost the prize ceremony. stages of the final, stormed back first match as I could not practise RIGHT: Hohmann to equalise the scores at 4-all here and I suffered on account of is presented and thereafter took full control the jet lag but with each match with the winning over the proceeding, winning 12 I got better and better. It feels cheque of racks in a row to complete a much proud to win the title and the vic- $36,000 by deserved win. tory in Qatar means a lot to me.” QBSF President Although Gabica, an assistant The German had a dream run Al Ramzani. coach with the Qatar Billiards after his first loss and he stayed Yesterday’s and Snooker (QBSF) for the last focused and won some close four years, won two racks in the matches against former world victory was the middle and one the fag end, it did champions Denis Orcollo and 33-year-old’s not help the Filipino’s cause. Francisco Busmante. second title in this For Hohmann this was his sec- Gabica, for whom this was his competition. ond world title in the 9-Ball cat- first final of a world championship, egory. His last world title came 10 admitted that he lost focus after a years back in England. mistake in the fourth game, which The winner collected a purse affected his concentration. of $36,000 while Gabica became “My preparation for the game richer by $18,000. was not good, I slept for only four Hohmann said winning a hours. I could not get any sleep as straight-pool tournament in the the thought of playing was play- United States last week gave him ing on my minds. I committed a could not come back,” admitted Gabica, who spent four years Gabica defeated Karl Boyes of In the other semi-final, the confidence in Qatar. mistake in the initial stages which Gabica, who was backed by QBSF with Hohmann from 1996 to England with a masterful per- Hohmann came up with a clini- “If you look at my career took my focus from the final and for the championship. 2000 playing and practising pool formance, winning seven straight cal finish to beat Carlo Biado of records I have always won a therafter I committed three ille- “Hohmann played a great in Germany. racks, to win 11-6 to advance to the Philippines, 11-4 . big tournament after a straight gal breaks and lost focus and I game and he deserved it,” said Earlier, in the semi-finals, the final. THE PENINSULA Al Sadd edge Al Rayyan 1-0; Nadal puts Spain on brink of victory

Lekhwiya held by Al Sailiyah PARIS: Rafael Nadal showed Murray, who thumped 16-year- n o h i nt of a US O p e n h a n go v e r a s old Borna Coric 6-3, 6-0, 6-3 as DOHA: Al Sadd began the he crushed Sergiy Stakhovsky Croatia and Britain finished the defence of their Qatar Stars QSL Results and 6-0, 6-0, 6-4 to put Spain 2-0 up day tied at 1-1 in Umag. League (QSL) title with a 1-0 Fixtures on Ukraine in their Davis Cup The US Open junior champion derby win over Al Rayyan. World Group play-off in Madrid initially caused Britain’s world The league champions ground Yesterday yesterday. number three problems but from out a hard fought win over their Al Sadd 1 Al Rayyan 0 The world number two and new 3-3 in the first set, Murray won rivals thanks to a stunning strike US Open champion returned to nine games in a row to take com- from left-back Nadir Belhadj. Umm Salal 1 Muaither 2 action less than four days after plete control. Elsewhere, Lekhwiya were held Al Khor 1 Qatar SC 1 securing a second success at The Scot was broken by the to a thrilling 3-3 draw against Al Flushing Meadows, and a 13th 525th ranked teenager at the Sailiyah. Al Sailiyah 3 Lekhwiya 3 Grand Slam in total. start of the third set but he put It was the perfect start for Today’s Fixtures Yet he showed no signs of together another run of five Hussein Amute’s side who were fatigue as he mastered his favour- straight games to seal victory. Al Ahli vs Al Gharafa desperate for the perfect start to ite clay surface and in so doing However, his British team- the new season. At Al Arabi Stadium 6.15pm inflicted a humiliating defeat on mate Daniel Evans was then well Despite winning the three Al Arabi vs Eljaish the world 92nd ranked player beaten 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 by Ivan Dodig points, Al Rayyan made Al who dumped Roger Federer out as Croatia drew level. Sadd sweat for their win as they Al Sadd’s Nadir Belhadj (middle) controls the ball during the QSL match At Al Arabi Stadium, 8.30pm of Wimbledon in July. In other play-off ties showed encouraging signs for the against Al Rayyan at Al Sadd Stadium in Doha yesterday. Al Sadd won Al Kharaitiyat vs Al Wakra Nadal reeled off the first 12 Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka, campaign ahead. 1-0. straight games before Stakhovsky fresh from his semi-final run at Despite their best efforts, Diego At Al Khor Stadium, 8.30pm finally held serve, and celebrated the US Open, made a flying start Aguirre’s side simply couldn’t find as if he’d won a Grand Slam final. to his country’s meeting against a cutting edge to take something After 10 minutes, Abdulkareem but could only drag his Al Rayyan looked to new signing Leandro Da But his reprieve was brief as lowly Ecuador in Neuchatel. from a frustrating league opener. Al Enazi crossed for Cho Yong- were taking control of the game, Silva to try and break the dead- Nadal romped home for the loss World number 10 Wawrinka Amute said: “I think we worked Hyung, but his header cannoned pushing Sadd deeper into their lock, but his flicked header sailed of only four games. beat Emilio Gomez, ranked 340th, hard in the game. We made some off the bar with Nilmar nodding own half and right before the half aimlessly over the bar. Earlier, Fernando Verdasco had 6-3, 6-0, 6-3. mistakes in the first half but we the rebound over. With 18 min- hour mark they should have gone Al Sadd just four minutes to battled back from a set down to Long overshadowed by Swiss had many opportunities to score. utes gone Al Sadd should have ahead. open the scoring after the break. beat world number 40 Alexandr Grand Slam winner icon Roger “When you play against Rayyan taken the lead. Raul released Ten minutes before half-time Nadir Belhadj gathered the Dolgopolov 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 to put Federer, who is four years his sen- if you make more than one or two Abdulkarim Hassan with a great Jung Soo Lee was booked for a ball 25 yards out and smashed an Spain firmly in command. ior, Wawrinka is now squarely in mistakes then you will pay the sweeping ball. wild lunge on Daniel Gomou. unstoppable shot past Al Rayyan Another player to dish out a the limelight thanks to a run of price.” The left back had plenty time As the break approached, Sadd keeper Omar Barry. AGENCIES tennis lesson was Britain’s Andy solid performances. AFP SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY

The Colony (2D/Action) – 2.30pm SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER QF RADIO 91.7 FM ENGLISH TEL: 444933989 444517001 PROGRAMME BRIEF TV 1 Planes (3D/Animation) – 5.00 & 7.00pm LISTINGS LIVE SHOWS Airing Programme Briefs Getaway (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.00pm Time

Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum SPIRITUAL 6:00- A time of reflection, a deeper (Malayalam) – 2.30 & 10.30pm HOUR 7:00 AM understanding of the teachings of Islam. John Day (2D/Hindi) – 5.30pm 12:05 Mighty Ships 10:30 Science with 2 FASHION NEWS 12:00 Is a lighthearted 10-minute fashion bulletin 13:00 Engineered Brain Café Noon from red carpets and popular brands around Getaway (2D/Action) – 8.00pm the world. 13:50 Food Factory 11:00 LOL (Hungama) MALL 14:20 The Gadget 14:00 DID SuperMoms Planes (3D/Animation) INTERNATIO- 1:00 PM The latest news and events from around – 2.15pm NAL NEWS the world. 14:45 How Tech (Clubbed 2 Guns (2D/Action) – 4.00pm Works Repeat) DECADES 4:00PM A journey through time. The show 16:00 Prototype This 17:00 Fear Files Riddick 2 (2D/Action) – 5.45pm reminisces at the music, the inventions, 16:55 Scrapheap 17:30 Fear Files 3 and the events that ensued during that era Challenge 18:00 Teenovation The Colony (2D/Action) – 7.45pm and defined modern history. Hosted by Ms. Laura Finnerty and Scotty Boyes. 17:45 Alien Mysteries 18:30 Soul Music 18:35 How Stuff’s 19:00 Zee Connect.. Piercy Jackson: Sea of Monster TOUR OF 6:00PM The show takes you on a weekly trip to Made Are You QATAR different locations in Qatar (3D/Adventure) – 9.30 & 11.30pm 19:05 How Stuff’s Connected LEGENDARY 8:00PM The show tells the story of a celebrity Made Season 3 John Day (2D/Hindi) – 3.00pm ARTISTS artist that has reached unprecedented fame. Throughout the episode, the artists’ 19:30 James May’s 19:30 DID SuperMoms Piercy Jackson: Sea of Monster memorable performances/songs will be Man Lab 20:30 DID SuperMoms (3D/Adventure) – 5.30pm played to put listeners in the mood. 20:20 Storm Chasers 21:00 Qubool Hai THINK ABOUT 10:30 Is a show about ‘Spoken Word.’ Every 1 Getaway (2D/Action) – 8.00pm IT PM week the audience is introduced to a new artistic piece. Created by our very own Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum Nabil Al Nashar. (Malayalam) – 10.30pm MUSIC & Listen in the whole day as we offer a wide INFORMATION array of music from Pop, to Classical, The Colony (2D/Action) – 2.30pm Reggae, Jazz, Funk, World/Ethnic and loads of information through QF Radio’s 06:00 The Great Bear 12:35 Good Luck Planes (3D/Animation) – 5.00 & 7.00pm Factoid Series. Stay tuned in to learn more 10:00 Titan A.E. Charlie LANDMARK 2 about our upcoming new season which will 11:45 Wreck-It Ralph 13:00 A.N.T. Farm start 1st of September. Getaway (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.00pm 13:30 The Adventures 13:25 Jessie Planes (3D/Animation) – 2.15pm Of Don Quixote 16:10 Dog With A Blog 15:00 The Marilyn 16:35 A.N.T. Farm 2 Guns (2D/Action) – 4.00pm Bell Story 17:00 Gravity Falls 16:30 Robots 18:10 My Babysitter’s Riddick 2 (2D/Action) – 5.45pm 18:00 Titan A.E. A Vampire 3 The Colony (2D/Action) – 7.45pm 3:30 Inside Story 10:00 Belarus vs France 20:00 Beverly Hills 19:20 Good Luck Chihuahua 3: Charlie 4:00 Black France (R) World Cup 2014 Piercy Jackson: Sea of Monster Viva LA Fiesta! 19:40 Dog With A Blog 5:00 NEWSHOUR Qualifiers (3D/Adventure) 6:00 News 22:00 The Marilyn 20:05 Shake It Up – 9.30 & 11.30pm 11:45 Italy vs Czech 6:30 101 East Bell Story 20:30 Austin And Ally Planes (3D/Animation) 7:00 News Republic (R) World 23:30 Alex & Alexis 20:50 A.N.T. Farm 1 – 3.00, 5.00 & 7.00pm 7:30 Talk To Al Jazeera Cup 2014 Qualifiers 21:15 That’s So Raven Getaway (2D/Action) – 9.00 & 11.00pm 8:00 News 14:15 BURNLEY vs 10:30 Inside Story BLACKBURN John Day (2D/Hindi) – 2.30 & 11.00pm 11:00 News (L) English League - 11:30 Listening Post Pullipulikalum Aattinkuttiyum League One 12:00 News 10:00 Johnny English 09:10 Austin 2 (Malayalam) – 5.00pm 16:30 Football Asia 12:30 Counting the Cost Reborn-PG15 Stevens: Most 17:00 NOTTINGHAM ROYAL Moodar Koodam (2D/Tamil) – 8.00pm 13:00 NEWSHOUR 12:00 Love Birds-PG15 Dangerous... 14:00 News FOREST vs 14:00 Lemony 10:05 Escape To PLAZA The Colony (2D/Action) – 2.15pm 14:30 Inside Story BARNSLEY (L) Snicket’s A 13:45 The Magic Of 15:00 The Frost Interview English League - Series Of The Big Blue 2 Guns (2D/Action) – 4.00pm 16:00 NEWSHOUR 19:00 Trans World Sport Unfortunate-PG 18:20 Wild Things 17:00 News Riddick 2 (2D/Action) – 5.45pm 20:30 Barcelona vs Sevilla 16:00 Johnny English With Dominic 17:30 South2North Reborn Monaghan 3 (L) Spanish League - The Colony (2D/Action) – 7.45pm 18:00 NEWSHOUR 18:00 Larry Crowne- 19:15 Buggin’ With 19:00 News Primera División Piercy Jackson: Sea of Monster 20:00 Analyze This- Ruud 19:30 Fault Lines 23:00 Villareal vs Real 22:00 Grabbers-PG15 20:10 O’shea’s Big (3D/Adventure) – 9.30 & 11.30pm 20:00 News Madrid Adventure

HYPER C RSO S W O RD

123456 78910111213 7 “Fantabulous!” 38 Draft-ready 8 Take up, as a 39 Hard on the 14 15 16 cause eyes 9 Zeros, in soccer 41 “Goodbye, ___ 17 18 19 10 Wrap around Jean …” 11 Tucker who 42 Grab onto 20 21 22 sang “Delta 47 Australian city Dawn” named after a 23 24 25 26 12 Pertinent, in law naturalist 13 Conductor Seiji 49 Hospital 27 28 29 30 18 It may be condition embarrassing if 50 Antipasto bit 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 it’s open 51 What fishermen 22 Rose Parade hope for 40 41 42 entry 52 Member of an Yesterday’s answer 24 Bassoon part in empire ruled by 43 44 45 How to play Hyper Sudoku: two pieces the Mexica A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper 27 Isle of exile 53 Cousin of a Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all 46 47 48 49 28 Lacking value daisy regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like 29 Singer of 54 Name in kitchen a normal Sudoku. 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 1976’s “You’ll foil Never Find 55 Villain’s chuckle How to play Kakuro: 57 58 59 60 61 62 Another Love 58 Lover of Aeneas The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any Like Mine” 59 Peter ___, size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells 63 64 65 30 Church general like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, recesses manager of the some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some 66 67 68 Met cells will contain two numbers. 33 The Great However, in a crossword the numbers reference Lakes’ ___ 61 Aleph follower clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! 69 70 71 Locks 62 Police jacket They denote the total of the digits in the row or 34 Suffix with letters column referenced by the number. ACROSS 45 French seasoning ranch 65 College Within each 35 Stalling-for-time women’s grp. collection of cells 1 Quick wit 46 GPS display features: Abbr. syllables - called a run - any 7 Billy of “Titanic” 48 Strut one’s stuff, say of the numbers 1 11 “Eternally nameless” Chinese 50 Illinois senator who became 37 Seat of a to 9 may be used principle president Catholic official but, like sudoku, 14 In harm’s way 53 Jacuzzi sigh each number may RAWLS AMAT CARR 15 Ruler of Asgard 56 Muscle car in a 1964 song only be used once. 16 Tool with a curved head 57 64-Across ingredient ABO I L LOCH OGEE Yesterday’s 17 64-Across ingredient 60 Some calls to smokeys DERBY ADUE NALA answer 19 “From my cold, dead hands!” 63 Cousin ___ of ’60s TV STERNUMS MAST IC sloganeer 64 “Macbeth” recipe AERO BESEECH 20 “Elephant Boy” boy 66 Flock formation ODESSA EATER 21 64-Across ingredient 67 Prefix with -logical Baby Blues By Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman 23 Bireme or trireme tool 68 Banned book of 1955 B I V SNORT AVAST 25 “On the other hand …” 69 PC key ICEE ORION ELOI 26 Andean wool source 70 “A Doll’s House” wife SENNA STREP EMO 27 Eve who wrote “The Vagina 71 Playwright Bertolt ANJOU HOAXES Monologues” FACT ION CROC 30 Commotion DOWN ONRUSH FOURTEEN 31 Capt. Jean-___ Picard 1 Snacks on 32 Relax 2 Greek colonnade CZAR AWAY L INDA 36 “___ Ben Adhem” 3 Notable nose AIWA NOTE AVOIR 40 64-Across ingredient 4 Fraternity initiation, e.g. LOLL NEER WELTY 43 “Wait! There’s more …” 5 Roughly: Suffix ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 44 Relax 6 Some referee calls, for short SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 ON SATURDAY 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Morning Break

PRAYER TIME On the line

Fajr (Dawn) 4:02 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:19 Zuhr (Noon) 11:30 Asr (Afternoon) 2:58 Maghrib (Sunset) 5:41 Isha (Night) 7:11

WEATHER

Today Sunday Weather Monday Conditions: Clear Clear Clear Hazy to misty at places at first High: 38° High: 37° High: 38° becomes hot Low: 30° Low: 30° Low: 30° with slight dust.

DOHA - SUN & SEA

SUN TIDE SEA

SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND 05:22 17:36 12:45 & 23:45 04:30 & 20:30 05-12/15 KT

THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW

HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER A participant balancing on a wire during the International Highline Meeting on Monte Piana, near Misurina, Italy. The second edition of the slack line festival ends today. MUSCAT 31/27 Partly cloudy 32/27 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 43/30 Clear 43/29 Clear BAHRAIN 37/29 Clear 37/29 Clear SANAA 27/14 Partly cloudy 26/14 Partly cloudy RIYADH 43/27 Clear 44/28 Clear Amazon accused DUBAI 37/28 Partly cloudy 38/30 Clear Voyager first spacecraft BAGHDAD 41/24 Clear 42/24 Clear of destroying

THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW literary culture LONDON: HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER to exit solar system Acclaimed US novelist Jonathan Franzen ATHENS 27/21 Clear 27/21 Clear WASHINGTON: Never before outer limits of the Sun’s influence. scientists to be extra cautious has likened Amazon’s WASHINGTON 23/13 Clear 25/18 Clear has a human-built spacecraft The precise position of Voyager about declaring whether or not founder, Jeff Bezos, to one SYDNEY 27/12 Chance of rain 24/13 Mostly cloudy travelled so far. Nasa’s Voyager has been fiercely debated in the the spacecraft had left the solar of the four horsemen of the LONDON 16/10 Chance of rain 16/10 Cloudy 1 probe has left the solar system past year, because scientists have system. apocalypse and claimed that PARIS 18/12 Rain 19/16 Partly cloudy and is wandering the galaxy, US not known exactly what it would However, an analysis of data the online retailer-publisher ISTANBUL 23/17 Rain 24/17 Clear scientists have said. look like when the spacecraft from Voyager’s plasma wave sci- is decimating literary culture MANILA 30/25 Chance of storm 29/25 Chance of storm The spacecraft, which looks like crossed the boundary of the solar ence instrument between April 9 in favour of the “yakkers and DHAKA 34/26 T-storm 33/26 Chance of storm DELHI 35/25 Clear 37/26 Clear a combination of a satellite dish system — and the tool on board and May 22 this year showed the tweeters and braggers”. ISLAMABAD 31/21 T-storm 30/19 Chance of storm and an old television set with rab- that was meant to detect the spacecraft was in a region with an Bezos, one of the world’s bit ear antennas, was launched in change broke long ago. electron density of about 0.08 per richest men, has steered 1977 on a mission to explore plan- However, US space agency sci- cubic centimetre. Amazon from an innocuous ets in our solar system. entists now agree that Voyager is Astrophysicists have projected online bookseller to a global Against all odds, Voyager kept officially outside the protective that the density of electrons corporation. Franzen, hailed Ig Nobel prizes show on moving and now is about 19 bil- bubble known as the heliosphere in interstellar space would be by Time magazine as one of lion kilometres from our Sun in that extends beyond all the planets between 0.05 and 0.22 per cubic the great American novelists a cold, dark part of space that is in our solar system. centimetre, placing Voyager of his generation, became the between the stars, said Ed Stone, Their findings — which describe squarely in that range. first living novelist in a decade funny side of science Voyager project scientist. the conditions that show Voyager “This historic step is even more to grace its cover in 2010. “We are indeed in interstel- actually left the solar system in exciting because it marks the In an article for Guardian NEW YORK CITY: The lar space for the first time,” August 2012 — are published in beginning of a new era of explo- Review before the publication tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel said Stone, who is based at the the US journal Science. ration for Voyager, the exploration of his new book, The Kraus awards were handed on California Institute of Technology Nasa said Voyager 1 “is in a of the space between the stars,” Project, he writes: “In my own Thursday to dozens of in Pasadena. transitional region immediately said Stone. little corner of the world, scientists, including those “We got there. This is something outside the solar bubble, where The spacecraft is expected to which is to say American fic- who confirmed drunk peo- we all hoped when we started on some effects from our Sun are keep cruising, though the radio- tion, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may ple think they are more this 40 years ago,” Stone said. still evident.” isotope thermo-electric generators not be the antichrist, but he attractive and studied the “None of us knew anything could Voyager 1 — with Voyager 2 that power it are beginning to run surely looks like one of the onion enzyme that makes last as long as the two Voyager a few years behind in its travels down. four horsemen. Amazon wants us cry. spacecraft.” — sent back data to scientists Voyager’s instruments will have a world in which books are The Nobel prize spoof The twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 on Earth on August 25 last year, to shut down permanently in 2025, either self-published or pub- honours achievements “that and Voyager 2, were sent off 36 showing an abrupt drop in ener- Science reported. However, experts lished by Amazon itself, with first make people laugh and years ago on a primary mission to getic charged particles, or cosmic say the spacecraft may keep trav- readers dependent on Amazon then make them think,” explore Jupiter and Saturn. rays, that are produced inside the elling indefinitely. reviews in choosing books, and according to a press release. They discovered new details heliosphere. Nasa said the total cost of the with authors responsible for The Ig Nobels invite real about the nature of Saturn’s rings Scientists expected that the twin Voyager missions has been their own promotion.” Nobel laureates to confer and found volcanoes on Jupiter’s direction of the magnetic field in $988m, including launch, mission Franzen has hit out at honours on serious scien- moon Io. space would reverse at the barrier operations and the spacecraft’s new media culture before, tists for work that is gen- Voyager 2 travelled on to Uranus known as the heliopause. nuclear batteries. denigrating ebooks for their erally only unintentionally and Neptune, before the duo’s mis- The Voyager 1 magnetometer AFP impermanence and branding funny. sion was extended to explore the did not show this change, leading Twitter the “ultimate irre- Laurent Begue, director of the inter-university There is also a peace sponsible medium”. This time psychology laboratory in Grenoble, France. prize, which this year was he fingers Bezos specifically The lab won an Ig Nobel for demonstrating jointly awarded to the presi- as the culprit, for steering his that “drunk people think they are more dent of Belarus Alexander Sheep Station business in ways that Franzen attractive”. Lukashenko, for making it believes undermine serious illegal to applaud in public, writers and do a disservice to and to the Belarus police “for arresting a one-armed man for applauding.” readers. The safety engineering prize went to late American researcher He writes: “The work of Gustano Pizzo, who invented a system to trap aircraft hijackers, seal yakkers and tweeters and them into a package and parachute them into the hands of police. braggers, and of people with A team from Britain, Netherlands and Canada were awarded the the money to pay somebody probability prize for determining that the longer a cow has been lying to churn out hundreds of five- down, the more likely it is it will soon stand up. star reviews for them, will They also discovered that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily flourish. But what happens predict how soon it will lie down again. to the people who became The physics prize went to researchers who discovered that some people writers because yakking and would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond — if tweeting and bragging felt to those people and that pond were on the moon. them like intolerably shallow A joint award in biology and astronomy was given to a team from forms of social engagement? Sweden, Australia, Germany, Australia and the UK , who uncovered the What happens to the people fact that when dung beetles get lost, they can navigate their way home who want to communicate in by looking at the Milky Way. depth, individual to individual, The study by researchers who confirmed drunk people really do think in the quiet and permanence of they are more attractive won the Psychology Prize. the printed word?” A team from Japan and Germany tackled the age-old question of why Amazon has expanded onions make us cry and discovered merely that the biochemical process through acquisitions of tra- is “even more complicated than scientists previously realized.” ditional publishing houses, The archaeology prize went to a US-Canada team who parboiled a the introduction of its Kindle dead shrew, swallowed it without chewing, and then carefully examined Singles short-form digital their excretions to see which bones dissolve series, and its online plat- inside the human digestive system. form enabling writers to pub- It was the 23rd edition of the Ig Nobels, lish their own work in digital awarded at the Harvard University in form. All of its book publishing Boston. activities have been wrapped The prize-winners, who travel to the cer- around with online promo- emony at their own expense, were given 60 tions, reader review content seconds for an acceptance speech, a time and constantly updating best- limit enforced by an implacable eight-year- The inaugural exhibition of Michael Shvo’s new public art programme located at a former Getty gas station titled seller lists. old girl. “Sheep Station,” featuring 25 of late French artist Francois-Xavier Lalanne’s sheep sculptures, in New York . THE GUARDIAN AFP