SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 THULQADA 24, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait’s $15m Egypt minister Palestinian Prince Ali donation saved arrested after leader’s almost certain school year for quitting in retirement to stand for Palestinians2 graft probe8 claim14 doubted FIFA19 president Foreign ministry replies to Min 29º Iranian embassy statement Max 42º High Tide 07:00 & 21:30 MPs, ICM slam Tehran over ‘Abdaly cell’ Low Tide 00:45 & 14:20 40 PAGES NO: 16634 150 FILS By A Saleh Temasek joins KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Suleiman Al- Jarallah yesterday handed Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Savola in $5bn Ali Reza Enayati a reply over an Iranian Embassy state- ment on the Abdaly cell. In a press statement, the for- eign ministry said that the reply included clarifications Americana bid about Kuwait’s stance on the issue. The meeting was attended by Kuwait Assistant Foreign Minister for NEW YORK: Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte has Protocols Ambassador Dhari Al-Ajran and Deputy teamed up with Saudi Arabia’s Savola Group to bid for Assistant of the Foreign Minister for Asia Affairs Mesaad Middle Eastern fast-food operator Kuwait Food Co in a Al-Thuwaikh. deal that could be valued at between $4 billion to $5 An Al-Qabas newspaper report published yesterday billion, reported Bloomberg yesterday. Talks between had quoted an official source at the foreign ministry as the three companies are ongoing and a deal could be saying that the Iranian ambassador to Kuwait will be reached before the end of the year, according to two summoned if it is proven that Iranian diplomats are people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not involved in the Abdaly cell case. The source added some to be identified as the information is private. JPMorgan people want to harm the country and Gulf relations and Chase & Co is advising Savola, which has a market val- that everyone should realize the danger of this situation. ue of about $8.5 billion, on the talks, the people said. He said security systems are protecting the country and Savola had bid on its own to acquire Americana, as all procedures are being taken to maintain stability. Kuwait Food Co is known, at the end of last year, peo- Kuwaiti lawmakers have strongly deplored Iran after ple with knowledge of the matter said in December. the public prosecution accused 25 Kuwaitis and an Americana was founded in 1964 and is the franchise Iranian of being members of the cell linked to Iran and operator of restaurants such as KFC, TGI Friday’s Inc and Hezbollah and plotting attacks against Kuwait. Several Pizza Hut in the Middle East and North Africa region. It MPs called on Kuwait to take diplomatic actions against also manufactures produce including California Garden Iran including cutting off ties and declaring Hezbollah a beans and Farm Frites frozen vegetables. terrorist group. The reactions against Iran intensified on The Al-Kharafi family, which has interests in the Thursday when the Iranian embassy issued the state- construction, telecommunications and financial sec- ment in which it criticized the public prosecution for tors, owns 66.8 percent of Americana, according to KUWAIT: Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Suleiman Al-Jarallah (right) meets Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Ali Reza involving Iran in the cell. data compiled by Bloomberg. — Agencies Enayati to hand him a reply to a statement issued by the Iranian Embassy last week on the Abdaly cell. — KUNA Continued on Page 13 Qatar sends 1,000 troops to Yemen Gulf stiffens determination in wake of deaths SANAA: Qatar has sent 1,000 ground positions in Sanaa. A regional Yemeni offi- troops to Yemen, Doha-based Al Jazeera cial in oil-producing Marib province east of Cecil’s killer television said, escalating Gulf Arab inter- Sanaa said the Qatari contingent had vention in Yemen’s war ahead of a planned already “crossed the Al-Wadia border post” offensive against Iranian-backed Houthis between Saudi Arabia and Yemen and was breaks silence holding the capital Sanaa. Qatari pilots heading to Marib - where Hadi loyalists had already joined months of Saudi-led air have been preparing for the thrust MINNEAPOLIS: The Minnesota dentist whose strikes on the Houthi militia, which seized towards Sanaa. Saudi-owned al Arabiya killing of Cecil the lion sparked a global backlash Sanaa a year ago and then advanced satellite network also said Qatari and Saudi emerged for an interview in which he disputed across much of the country, forcing reinforcements had crossed the frontier. some accounts of the hunt, expressed agitation at President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi into The first reported involvement of Qatari the animosity directed at those close to him and exile in March. ground forces in Yemen coincided with an said he would be back at work within days. Walter Military sources told Reuters that Qatari intensification of the conflict a few days Palmer, who has spent more than a month out of troops were on their way to Yemen and after a rocket strike in Marib that killed sight after becoming the target of protests and preparing to join a new push on Houthi Continued on Page 13 threats, intends to return to his suburban DUMA: Palestinian mourners carry the body of Riham Dawabsha, the mother of Minneapolis dental practice today. a Palestinian child killed in the July firebombing of the family’s home, during In an interview Sunday evening conducted joint- her funeral in the cemetery in this West Bank village yesterday. — AFP ly by AP and the Minneapolis Star Tribune that advisers said would be the only one granted, Palmer said again that he believes he acted legally and that Mother of Palestinian boy he was stunned to find out his hunting party had killed one of Zimbabwe’s treasured animals. “If I had killed in settler attack dies known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn’t have tak- DUMA: The mother of a Palestinian child They began at a school renamed after en it,” Palmer said. “Nobody in our hunting party killed when their family home was fire- her son and continued to a nearby ceme- knew before or after the name of this lion.” bombed was buried yesterday after dying tery. Palestinian authorities called for Cecil was a fixture in the vast Hwange National of her wounds, amid renewed calls for three days of mourning and ordered flags Park and had been fitted with a GPS collar as part of Israel to crack down on Jewish extremism. to be flown at half-mast. The attack by Oxford University lion research. Palmer said he shot Teacher Riham Dawabsha, who turned 27 Jewish extremists also killed Riham’s 18- the big cat with the black mane using an arrow from on Sunday, died overnight at a Tel Aviv month-old son, Ali Saad Dawabsha, who his compound bow outside the park’s borders but it hospital where she was being treated for died on the night of the attack. Her hus- didn’t die immediately. He disputed conservationist severe burns sustained in the July 31 band, Saad, succumbed to his injuries in accounts that the wounded lion wandered for 40 attack in the West Bank village of Duma. early August. Their four-year-old son hours and was finished off with a gun, saying it was Palestinians marched alongside her body Ahmed is now the sole survivor of the tracked down the next day and killed with an arrow. during the funeral in the village yesterday, immediate family and he is still in hospital. Continued on Page 13 ABU DHABI: Wounded Emirati soldier Mohammed Ali shows a victory sign as he some chanting “Israel - terrorist state”. Continued on Page 13 rests on his bed at the Zayed Military Hospital yesterday. — AP Algerians let hair down at mall ALGIERS: Young people don’t have many places to In a country where three-quarters of the population socialize in conservative Algeria. But now the North is under 35, new malls are sprouting up for youths like African’s country’s youth are discovering something Rym and Meriem who don’t have many other places to their counterparts in the West embraced a generation hang out. Attracted by Algeria’s economic growth and ago: the shopping centre. And away from family pres- rising income levels, investors have recently opened sures, against this new backdrop of massive car parks, shopping centres in the capital, second city Oran and shiny floors, benches and fountains, they are letting the northeastern city of Setif, with others planned or their hair down. The enormous Bab Ezzouar mall, under construction. opened in 2010 in a new business district near the “They’re not just somewhere to shop but also Algiers airport, was Algeria’s first major shopping centre. somewhere to socialize,” explains Tahar Drici, a sociolo- For the last five years, its cinemas, bowling alley and gist at the University of Algiers. At the end of the coffee shops have provided a venue for those seeking 1990s, Algerians started to emerge from a devastating to escape the prying eyes of relatives and neighbors. decade of civil war between the army and Islamists. With its dimmed lights and thumping music, the bowl- “The end of terrorism has made people want to enjoy ing alley feels like a night club. Young men and women life and go out, and these centres have made it possi- - many of them without the traditional Islamic veil - ble, as young men and women can meet there to flirt play billiards.