SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015 SHAWWAL 12, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ‘Blood money’ Obama slams Houston’s Mexico lift raised to free tone of 2016 daughter 7th Gold Cup long-serving presidential Bobbi Kristina with 3-1 win Filipino3 inmate debate9 dead40 at 22 20over Jamaica US security board hears Min 31º Max 46º case of Gitmo Kuwaiti High Tide 07:25 & 21:21 Kuwaiti envoy hopeful Kandari will be freed soon Low Tide 00:31 & 14:37 40 PAGES NO: 16592 150 FILS ARLINGTON, Virginia: A suspected Al-Qaeda recruiter held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for 13 years ‘Missile Man’, faced a US national security board yesterday to deter- mine if he is eligible to be transferred. Fayez former Indian Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari, a 38-year-old Kuwaiti, is suspected of being an Al-Qaeda propagandist and may have served as “spiritual adviser” to slain Al-Qaeda president dies leader Osama bin Laden, according to a US Department of Defense profile. GAUHATI, India: Former Indian President APJ Abdul The hearing came as President Kalam, who was known as the father of the country’s mili- Barack Obama’s administration tary missile program, died yesterday after collapsing while drafts a plan to close the prison at delivering a lecture, a top state official said. He was 83. The a naval base in Cuba. The proposal president from 2002 until 2007, he was a scientist and sci- calls for transferring to US prisons ence administrator for four decades before that, mainly at inmates who are deemed too dan- the state-run Defense Research and Development gerous to release. The hearing Organization and the Indian Space Research Organization. before the parole-style Periodic He played a key organizational and technical role in India’s Review Board was to weigh nuclear program. Kalam fell sick yesterday while addressing the students whether Kandari posed a threat to of the Indian Institute of Management in the Meghalaya the United States. The Pentagon state capital, Shillong, said B Warjri, chief secretary of the profile said Kandari had complied state. He was rushed to the hospital, but was declared dead with officials at Guantanamo Bay Fayez Al-Kandari after doctors could not revive him, Warjri said. The federal since his last review in 2014, which government would declare national was marked by an outburst by him during the hearing. mourning for seven days for him, Twenty-five minutes of yesterday’s hearing were said federal Home Secretary L C shown on a closed-circuit television link from Goyal. “He was an inspiration to an Guantanamo Bay to a viewing site near the Pentagon. entire generation,” Home Minister “For the first time since his detention began ... he’s excit- Rajnath Singh tweeted. Finance DINANAGAR, India: Indian police SWAT personnel gesture after an operation against militants who ed about seeing his family again,” Kandari’s personal Minister Arun Jaitley also expressed attacked a police station yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 his condolences on Twitter: “We have lost an ideal citizen. May his soul rest in peace.” Born on Oct 15, 1931 in the south- 10 dead in assault on Abdul Kalam ern state of Tamil Nadu, Kalam grad- uated from the prestigious Madras Institute of Technology in aeronautical engineering. Indian police station Popularly known as “Missile Man”, Kalam led the scientific team that developed missiles able to carry India’s nuclear warheads. He became a national folk hero after helping over- GURDASPUR, India: Ten people including three civil- special forces team that entered the building. The see nuclear tests in 1998 that solidified India’s status as a ians were killed yesterday when gunmen wearing army assault only ended at around 5 pm when security forces nuclear weapons state. India’s first atomic test was in 1974. uniforms stormed a police station in northern India near finally entered the police station where the unidentified Kalam, who wrote a book called “Ignited Minds”, the border with Pakistan, sparking a shootout lasting gunmen had been holed up. became best known as a tireless campaigner for unleash- almost 11 hours. Police said three attackers had been Local television stations showed scores of special ing India’s technological muscle and discouraging expen- sive imports from the West. After his presidential term end- killed in the battle with security forces that began in the forces personnel flashing victory signs and chanting slo- ed, Kalam traveled to remote schools and colleges, speak- early hours of yesterday and terrified local residents. gans as they celebrated outside the partially damaged ing to students and inspiring them to follow their dreams. Four police officers including the local superintend- building. One civilian was killed when the attackers Even after he left office, he received hundreds of emails ent also died in the operation in the usually calm north- opened fire at a bus station while the other two died at each day from high-schoolers and young people seeking ern state of Punjab. “The police superintendent fought the police station, said Sumedh Singh Saini, director his advice. He would reply to most of the children who them bravely but unfortunately he was shot in the head general of police for Punjab. wrote to him. — Agencies and he died on the spot,” said Anand Kumar, part of the Continued on Page 13 News Retail tycoon seals $171m in brief Scotland Yard hotel deal Dubai top cop files first anti-discrimination case LONDON: Indian tycoon Yusuffali M A DUBAI: A high-ranking UAE police officer has filed a dis- has agreed a £110 million ($171 million) crimination case against a Saudi writer, The National deal to develop a luxury hotel on the site 35 Cosby accusers reported yesterday, the first time the UAE’s new anti-dis- of the original Scotland Yard Police crimination law has been used. Lt Gen Dhahi Khalfan, Station in London, as foreign buyers bet on NY mag cover Deputy Chief of Police and Public on the resilience of Britain’s prime prop- erty market. Ali, one of India’s wealthiest Security in Dubai, said Dr entrepreneurs and head of Abu Dhabi- Mohammed Al-Hadif should be based retail and hospitality conglomer- Victims speak out prosecuted for discriminating ate Lulu Group International, has signed against the UAE by spreading hate up Galliard Homes to complete the proj- NEW YORK: Thirty-five women who allege they were sexu- on social media. The law criminal- ect at the former home of the ally assaulted by US comedy legend Bill Cosby were united izing all forms of discrimination on yesterday on a magazine cover to tell startlingly similar the grounds of religion, caste, SEE PAGE 26 stories of abuse. They include mod- creed, doctrine, race, color or eth- els, waitresses, Playboy bunnies nic origin was enacted on July 20. Metropolitan Police Force in London’s and women who used to work in Dhahi Khalfan “Al-Hadeef should be arrested Whitehall. “London undoubtedly is one show business. One says he raped because his name is on the list of of the most happening locations in the her while she was grief stricken those who perpetuate hate,” said Khalfan via his Twitter world especially from the tourism point over the recent death of her six- account. It is still unclear how the UAE will summon Hadeef of view and we have been actively evalu- year-old son. The New York maga- to prosecution. Hadeef has been a vocal critic of the UAE’s ating investment opportunities that zine cover story is the largest involvement in the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen to defeat both grow our footprint and contribute expose yet of alleged abuse from Houthi rebels and the UAE’s relations with Iran. to the further development of London,” nearly 50 women who have pub- Yusuffali M A said in an emailed state- licly accused Cosby of assault from ment yesterday. LONDON: The original Scotland Yard building. Twenty14 Holdings is the newly India. The Kerala-born businessman is real estate. The asset class, particularly the 1960s to 1996 across the Google delinks YouTube United States. Cosby, a pioneering from Google+ in big shift launched hospitality arm of LuLu, focus- the latest in a slew of foreign buyers who London trophy property, is widely seen Bill Cosby ing on acquisition and management of have shaken off mounting fears of a as recession-proof, thanks to consistent- African-American comedian who LOS ANGELES: Google took a first step towards a assets around the globe. The entity has ‘Brexit’ from the European Union and ly rising values and robust rents that played a beloved family doctor on the hit 1980s sitcom major shift in its social strategy yesterday by separat- more than 1 billion dirhams ($272 mil- possible economic contagion from the appear to defy domestic and global eco- “The Cosby Show”, has become a pariah in the wake of the ing YouTube from Google+. The changes were lion) of assets in the Middle East, UK and stricken euro zone, to invest in prime UK nomic shocks. — Reuters Continued on Page 13 announced on both the official YouTube and Google+ blogs, with the latter putting it this way: “In the com- ing months, a Google Account will be all you’ll need to share content, communicate with contacts, create a US, Turkey to create ‘IS-free zone’ YouTube channel and more, all across Google. YouTube will be one of the first products to make this change.” This is a remarkable turnabout for the com- Ankara could ‘tip Syria balance’ • Syrian Kurds hit pany, which long envisioned Google+ as a social layer across all of its products.