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SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2015 RAJJAB 16, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ‘Obedient About 100 Winners of Goalless draw Son’ award bodies found Kuwait Times with Qadsiya winners in Nepal photo contest crushes Arabi honored4 trekking7 village awarded38 title20 hopes US police kill gunmen Min 26º Max 40º in new cartoon attack High Tide 00:59 & 12:06 Low Tide FBI raids home of assailant Anti-Muslim hate group defiant 06:02 & 18:53 40 PAGES NO: 16511 150 FILS • GARLAND, United States: A Texas traffic policeman MP Turaiji blasts shot dead two suspected Islamist gunmen with his pis- tol after they opened fire with assault rifles and tried to former chiefs of storm an event staged by an anti-Muslim group, police said yesterday. There was no confirmed claim of respon- ports authority sibility for Sunday’s failed assault, but an FBI official told US media that one of the attackers had been previously investigated as an alleged would-be jihadist militant. By B Izzak ABC News, citing an FBI official, said yesterday that agents had raided an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s public thought to belong to Elton Simpson, allegedly one of funds committee MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji strongly the slain gunmen. Court documents seen by AFP show lashed out at the former management of Kuwait Simpson was sentenced to three years probation in Ports Authority, calling it a “gang” and alleging 2011 for lying to federal agents investigating him on wide-ranging corruption. The statements were suspicion of planning to travel to Somalia to fight with made after the committee met the new director of jihadists. The second shooter was identified as Nadir the Ports Authority Sheikh Youssef Al-Sabah, who Soofi, a roommate of Simpson, according to two was appointed to the post a few months ago. Turaiji sources close to the investigation. ABC News said offi- said the panel asked the director that all those who cials believed Simpson sent out tweets ahead of the have a hand in corruption must be referred to the attack, with the last one using the hashtag #texasattack. public prosecution for criminal investigations. The White House said President Barack Obama had The lawmaker also said that the panel has given been briefed on the investigation, which Texas police the ports authority and the Audit Bureau one said was ongoing. “There is no form of expression that month to report back with the measures taken justifies an act of violence,” White House spokesman against those responsible for “big thefts” in the Josh Earnest said. Commentators were quick to draw authority. “It was proved to the panel that the ports parallels to a January shooting at the French satirical authority was run by a gang who illegally seized weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris that killed 12 people and state land and funds,” Turaiji said. He said the ports wounded 11 more. The American Freedom Defense authority is required to refer employees involved in Initiative, a group listed by civil rights watchdog the Continued on Page 13 GARLAND, Texas: FBI crime scene investigators document the area around two dead gunmen and their vehi- cle outside the Curtis Culwell Center yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 13 News Hollande seeks to boost Gulf ties in brief France, Qatar ink Rafale deal • Saudis mull Yemen ceasefire Royal baby named Charlotte LONDON: Prince William and his wife Kate have named RIYADH: French President Francois Hollande sought to their two-day-old baby Charlotte Elizabeth Diana and she boost ties in the Gulf yesterday as he oversaw the signing will be known as Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, their of a warplanes deal with Qatar and arrived in Saudi Arabia Kensington Palace residence announced yesterday. The for a summit. Hollande will be the first Western head of names will be seen as a triple homage to her grandfather state to attend a Gulf Cooperation Council annual gather- Prince Charles, great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and ing when it meets in Riyadh today. The summit comes at a William’s late mother Diana, whose death in 1997 prompted crucial time for the six-nation GCC, with a Saudi-led coali- a global outpouring of grief. The name Charlotte was one of tion bombing rebels in Yemen, concern over the rise of the favorites for bookmakers and it has historic royal stand- Islamist militants and regional worries over a potential final ing. King George III’s wife Queen Charlotte (1761-1818) was nuclear deal with Iran. an amateur botanist who used her middle name instead of With Hollande in attendance, the CEO of French aero- her first name Sophie. George IV also named his only child space firm Dassault, Eric Trappier, signed the Ä6.3-billion ($7- Charlotte but she died in childbirth at the age of 21 in 1817. billion) deal with Qatari defence officials in Doha. The agree- ment includes an order for 24 Rafale fighter jets, with an Iran bans ‘Satanic’ haircuts option on a further 12. “Good choice,” Hollande said as the TEHRAN: Hairstyles of a spiky and unorthodox nature deal was signed. “If we are present here in Qatar... it is have reportedly been banned in Iran because they imply because there has been a long tradition, and because France devil-worship, while tattoos and other male bodily adorn- is seen as a reliable country which a partner country can ments are also being outlawed. Jagged haircuts have have confidence in.” Having struggled for years to sell any become fashionable among all strata of Iran’s youthful Rafales abroad, Dassault has recently scored several lucrative (Left) French President Francois Hollande is greeted by Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at population in recent years, but have divided opinion and high-profile contracts with Egypt, India, and now Qatar. the Diwan Palace in Doha yesterday. (Right) Hollande is greeted by Saudi King Salman upon his arrival at been deemed by the authorities as western and un- Continued on Page 13 Riyadh airport yesterday. — AP Islamic. “Devil worshipping hairstyles are now forbidden,” said Mostafa Govahi, the head of Iran’s Barbers Union, cit- ed by the ISNA news agency. “Any shop that cuts hair in Ethiopian protests shine Qatar hopes to abolish the devil worshipping style will be harshly dealt with and their licence revoked,” he said, noting that if a business cut hair in such a style this will “violate the Islamic sys- light on racism in Israel ‘kafala’ system in 2015 tem’s regulations”. As well as tattoos being banned, solari- DOHA: Qatar’s labor minister said of Qatar’s labor market. Doha says it um treatments and the plucking of eyebrows - another JERUSALEM: Images of Israeli police firing stun struggle to integrate newcomers into broader society, yesterday he hopes the country’s will replace the system with one rising trend among young Iranian males - will not be tol- grenades are usually set in the West Bank and involve whether Jews or non-Jews. Yesterday, Prime Minister controversial “kafala” system, which based instead on employment con- erated, the report said. Palestinian protesters. But on Sunday the situation Benjamin Netanyahu met the soldier, Damas Fikadeh, critics have likened to modern-day tracts. These contracts would last a was quite different - riot police battling thousands of at his Jerusalem office and hugged him. “I was slavery, will be abolished before the maximum of five years and the cur- Ethiopian Jews in the centre of Tel Aviv. The spark was shocked by the (video) footage,” he said on Twitter. end of this year. Dr Abdullah bin rent exit permit system would be Plane diverted to UAE airbase a week-old video showing two Israeli policemen “We cannot accept it, and we will change it.” Saleh Al-Khulaifi, the minister of replaced with one where workers DUBAI: An Air Arabia airliner flying from Kuwait to the United punching, beating and trying to arrest an Israeli sol- Some commentators have highlighted latent labour and social give the authorities a Arab Emirates was diverted to a UAE military airbase on dier of Ethiopian descent in what appeared to be an racism in a country that has absorbed millions of affairs, said he was “90 maximum of 72 hours’ Sunday after a passenger warned the plane was about to unprovoked attack. migrants over the past 60 years but still agonizes over percent” certain the notice that they want explode, the UAE state news agency WAM reported. The air- The two-minute video is the latest in a string of differences between East European and Middle system would be to leave the country. craft was boarded after landing at the Al-Minhad airbase by incidents that have raised uncomfortable questions Eastern Jews, relations with its large Arab minority, replaced within the Khulaifi also said Qatar the authorities who resolved the situation using “appropriate about Israel’s treatment of ethnic minorities and its Continued on Page 13 next seven months. “I would fully implement standard procedures”, the agency reported, without elaborat- hope it will be prior to another major labor ing. The UAE-based budget carrier said in a statement that Air the year end,” said reform - an electronic Arabia flight G9128 from Kuwait to the UAE emirate of Sharjah Khulaifi. “We discussed payment system for was diverted following instructions from air traffic control due it, our stakeholders thousands of migrant to an unruly passenger onboard. The “flight landed safely and have looked at it... laborers - by mid- the authorities are currently holding the necessary investiga- Now it is on track. Do I August. This would tion”, the statement said.