SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2017 SHABAN 6, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net US-backed ‘Baghdaddy’: New Celtics defeat fighters corner York turns Iraq Wizards as Jazz Islamic State war into musical eliminate 7 40 Clippers20 Opposition MP queries govt Min 29 º Max 40º over FIFA’s corruption case High Tide 04:55 & 15:18 Low Tide Lawmaker inquires if Iran is involved in Istanbul assassination 10:05 & 23:01 40 PAGES NO: 17215 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: Opposition MP Riyadh Al-Adasani yesterday inquired about government measures with regard to Our precious sea corruption allegations in world football FIFA involving Kuwait. The issue unraveled after the head of Guam Football Federation Richard Lai confessed to US inter- rogators that he received graft worth $850,000 between 2009 and 2014 from a senior member of Kuwait Football Association. The allegations led Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, a leading figure in world sports and By Badrya Darwish in FIFA, to resign from FIFA and also dropped out of the election to the FIFA council scheduled for next week. Sheikh Ahmad however categorically denied any involvement in the issue and said he will defend himself [email protected] at any level. In a question to State Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, MP Adasani asked about the measures taken by the Kuwaiti ur sea is polluted. Thousands of fish are government and if it has succeeded in establishing dying on the shore. The air also is polluted. whether the news is authentic. He asked about the OSandstorms and humidity and no rain. Our expected legal measures the government intends to streets are polluted. Our systems are corrupt. Our take in case the allegations are correct against those soul is polluted. Everything around us is polluted. who might have squandered public funds, distorted the People are polluted with greed and discrimination country’s image and misused their posts to achieve per- and apartheid. Our society is polluted. sonal benefits at the expense of public interests. This is not the first time that fish are dying on Adasani asked what would the government do if the the shores of Kuwait in their thousands. It hap- allegations were proven to be false and what is the nor- pened before - a few years ago and was explained mal procedure taken against those who distort the as ‘red tide’, something that suffocates the fish. But KUWAIT: Kuwaiti students listen as National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem addresses the students during image of the country. now it’s happening again in Kuwait and we didn’t the opening of the fourth edition of the Student Parliament yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat ( See page 2) Continued on Page 13 hear a proper explanation from the government. Just rumors here and there about warning against eating fish as they might be poisoned and other rumors saying no, fish are safe, eat them. Then Germany seeks end to Yemen war rumors about what caused the flood of dead fish. Is it heat or pollution or fishermen bombing the seas? DUBAI: Germany has offered diplomatic help to try to end the war in But the truth stays a secret. Where is KISR, our Yemen, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday as she ended a two- scientific research center? Where are the millions nation Gulf tour taking in the Arab world’s largest economies with a stop spent in KISR? Can’t someone from KISR explain to in the United Arab Emirates. Merkel arrived in the seven-state federation us what is happening in the sea? There is sewage following a visit to neighboring Saudi Arabia, where she held talks with actually pumping into the sea in Kuwait City. Where King Salman and other senior leaders that touched on regional conflicts is the Public Authority for Agricultural and Fish as well as women’s inequality and other human rights issues. Resources? Why aren’t they offering us any expla- She said Berlin is offering diplomatic support aimed at resolving the nation? Aren’t they qualified? And what about the Yemen conflict and has been in contact with UN Secretary-General EPA? - Kuwait’s Environmental Protection Agency. Antonio Guterres about its proposal, according to a transcript of her All of these government bodies mandated to remarks provided by her office. “Germany has offered to support this UN protect our natural flora and fauna and not a peep. process with its own diplomatic possibilities,” she was quoted as saying. Where is the parliament? Where is the shouting and “That has met with the approval of Saudi Arabia. We will now move screaming notorious MPs who typically raise a ahead with the necessary coordination with the UN secretary-general.” A ruckus over every little thing? The sea doesn’t con- Saudi-led coalition backed by significant Emirati support has been cern them? The life of Kuwait is the sea. Our ances- bombing and battling Yemeni rebels for more than two years in support tors lived and died by the sea. So the sea now is an of the impoverished country’s internationally recognized government. extra thing that we don’t give a damn about as we Shiite powerhouse Iran supports the rebels, known as Houthis, and have oil, money and tenders? I’m fed up. Just the Sunni-ruled Gulf states view the fight as a way to limit Iran’s involve- ABU DHABI: Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (center right) Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and depressed beyond belief. This is our country, our ment in their backyard. While in Saudi Arabia, Merkel had said she does Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel land, our sea. How did we fall so far? not believe there can be a military solution to the war, which has killed (center left) pose for a photograph with students from the German International School in Abu Continued on Page 13 Dhabi. Merkel met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince for talks on economic and security issues. — AFP Step back for Sheikh Ahmad, Asia’s sporting power broker HONG KONG: After almost a decade as positions he held in football to avoid “dis- one of the game’s main power brokers, tractions” for the Asian Football News Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Ahmed Al- Confederation (AFC) as well as global gov- in brief Sabah stepped away from his involvement erning body FIFA. in world football on Sunday as the US Whether it will end for good the fabu- Department of Justice probe into FIFA’s lously wealthy Kuwaiti’s involvement in Iran, Israel ‘benefit’ affairs claimed another victim. His decision football’s power games is open to ques- As Arab World burns came after US Court documents made ref- tion. A high-ranking member of Kuwait’s DUBAI: Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit warned erence to a Kuwaiti Olympic official as royal family and former Secretary General yesterday that Iran and Israel were the main beneficiar- being involved in the bribery case of FIFA’s of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting ies of turmoil across the Arab world, which he described audit and compliance committee mem- Countries (OPEC), Sheikh Ahmad has been as the worst he has ever seen. “I have never seen any- ber, Richard Lai. involved in power games of one sort or thing worse than what we are now seeing,” Abul Gheit Sheikh Ahmad has “strongly” denied other for most of his adult life. PARIS: French CRS anti-riot police officers are engulfed in flames as they face protesters dur- said at the Arab Media Forum in Dubai. “Iran is enjoying any wrongdoing and said he resigned the Continued on Page 13 ing a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris yesterday. — AFP (See Page 10) what the Arab world is going through. There are those in Iran who are watching and waiting for us to destroy our- selves.” Ties between Iran and Arab states have grown increasingly tense in recent years, with Tehran backing Anonymous app ‘Yik Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Yemen’s Shiite Houthi Yak’ shuts down rebels and armed Shiite groups in Iraq. WASHINGTON: Yik Yak, a mobile applica- our technology, and ourselves.” Two Muslims killed by tion which gained popularity for allowing The statement offered no reason for Indian mob over cow users to make anonymous comments the shutdown, but its rapid rise and fall GAUHATI: Two Muslim men were beaten to death and which sparked debate on cyber bul- highlights the fast-moving nature of by a mob in northeastern India over allegations of lying, has shut down. The app launched social media applications. In 2015, cow theft, the latest in a series of similar attacks in 2013 and gained a following among another anonymous app called Secret across the country, police officials said yesterday. high school and college students, push- was shuttered after reaching an estimat- Senior Assam state police official Mukesh ing its valuation by investors to an esti- ed $100 million value, while drawing Aggarwal said police have filed a criminal com- mated $400 million at one point, accord- complaints about its use for harassment. plaint and are trying to identify the members of ing to some reports. The company, which The mobile payments startup Square, led the mob, but no arrests have been made so far. had raised $73 million, said in a state- by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, indi- The attack took place Sunday in a village in Nagon ment over the weekend that “we’ll begin cated in a regulatory filing that it would district, 130 kilometers east of the state capital, winding down the Yik Yak app over the pay $1 million for “certain intellectual Gauhati, when a mob accused the two men of try- coming week as we start tinkering property of Yik Yak.” ing to steal cows and began beating them with around with what’s ahead for our brand, Continued on Page 13 sticks and rocks.