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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 5 November 2012 20 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5509 Price: QR2 Qatar banking Raikkonen sector to grow wins Abu stronger Dhabi GP Business | 18 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM in Ethiopia Media Expo Qatar Syrian rebels 2012 opens today DOHA: The second Media, Advertising and Printing Technology Exhibition (Media Expo Qatar 2012) opens today in bid to form at the Doha Exhibition Center. The three-day expo gathers a big number of people represent- ing media organisations world- wide under one roof including satellite channels, print media, govt-in-exile radio and technology provid- ers who share latest advances in media-related technology Doha meet to continue till Thursday worldwide. DOHA: Syria’s splintered yesterday’s meet expect that their Bahrain extends opposition factions that kicked conclave would continue for three off their historic meeting here more days until Thursday and custody of activist yesterday hope to expand that the membership base of the and restructure the Syrian SNC would be expanded from the DUBAI: Bahrain has extended National Council (SNC) with a present 300 to 400 to include all the detention of a leading view to forming a provisional opposition factions. human rights activist arrested government-in-exile. SNC is to be the largest coali- last week for taking part in The SNC, though, faces an tion of the Syrian opposition out- a demonstration in the coun- uphill task in ensuring fair rep- side their country and the Council try by seven days, his lawyer resentation to all Syrian opposi- will be discussing a proposal put said yesterday. The Interior tion groups and many of those forward by a former parliamen- Ministry issued no statement present at the meet said they tarian, Riyadh Said, to find a about the case. His lawyer said expected their conclave to be new leadership for the Council The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani being presented Sayed Yousif Al Muhafda was marathon and could continue that represents all local councils a memento by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa yesterday. The Prime Minister being investigated. until Thursday when a follow-up in Syria as well as military and is on a two-day visit to the country. meeting has been convened by the Islamic clerics’ bodies. Arab League and Qatar — which It is hoped that the new and heads a key intra-League panel expanded structure of the SNC on Syria. would be able to adopt the pro- A Syrian opposition group, the posal of forming a provisional Families shocked by firm’s marketing tactics National Coordination Committee Syrian government-in-exile for Democratic Change, has whose priority will be to elbow out meanwhile boycotted the Doha Bashar Al Assad’s regime. DOHA: Some families in Qatar method to woo potential custom- attended to by well-dressed and embarrassing solicitation to sell meet saying enough preparations Said said in remarks to say they felt harassed by what ers (families) to its office located well-mannered young men and timeshare. “We have never been have not been made to hold this Aljazeera.net that perceptions they claim is an aggressive on the sixth floor of Arab Bank women speaking their languages, subjected to such hard sell in the conclave and that they were not that the SNC is in touch with marketing campaign by an building at Grand Hamad Street. who escort them to a table in a past. It was really embarrassing. invited to take part in the pre- the Assad government on the sly India-based timeshare holiday Its representatives distribute hall. No one in this company has First of all, we went there hop- paratory process. and has the tendency to hold tacit company called Country Club. forms at shopping complexes a business card and even if they ing to collect our gift voucher However, a follow-up meet- negotiations with it are baseless. The families accuse the com- and then call them saying they have, they don’t share them with we were promised but what we ing scheduled to be held here on “The revolutionaries don’t need pany’s well-dressed sales person- have won prizes in a draw, which their potential customers. Also, were exposed to really took us Thursday’s is likely to take up any direct external intervention nel of ‘emotionally bullying’ them includes free accommodation they refuse to give in a writ- aback,” said an Indian whose wife the crucial issue of the expansion in their fight against the Assad into buying timeshare in holiday for a week at its properties at ten form the schemes they are had filled up a form at the Safari of the SNC and its success holds regime,” he said rather emphati- resorts in a number of places a dozen holiday destinations in offering. Hypermarket and went with his the key to installing a provisional cally. “What they need is qual- around the world for 30 years for India or in Sri Lanka, Thailand A soft, melodious music is family to collect the gift following Syrian government-in-exile. ity weapons to tilt the balance in around QR20,000. and Indonesia. played in the hall, and as more a phone call. Thursday’s meeting will be con- their favour.” Timeshare is a form of holi- The family, which arrives at vulnerable families walk in, a The company officials were so sultative and it is expected that Meanwhile, wire agencies said day ownership purchased either the company’s office to collect the presentation is made highlight- “shamelessly insistent”, accord- all opposition and army groups that the Doha meet is the first directly or through a club, enti- prize, is then subjected to an hour ing the concept of timeshare and ing to the potential customer, will be fairly represented in it so concerted attempt to meld oppo- tling the buyer to use for a week of lecture by the sales staff about the picturesque properties that that they wouldn’t let him and his that the expansion and restruc- sition groups based abroad and or longer an apartment, a studio the schemes which the company are on offer by ‘Country Club’ wife go despite their repeated and turing of the SNC could become align them with rebels fighting flat or a villa in a resort for a is offering and the customers are around the globe, which lasts an honest confession that they were a reality, Aljazeera.net reported in Syria. number of years or in perpetuity. asked to give a yes or no by the hour. The families are thereafter not interested in the scheme. yesterday. The news website THE PENINSULA It is also called pre-paid holiday. end of the session. subjected to what they describe THE PENINSULA said Syrian politicians attending See also page 8 The company uses a unique The visiting families are as the most aggressive and Continued on page 3 Obama, Romney Iran sets up new naval sprint to campaign finish base near Gulf islands CONCORD: US President TEHRAN: Iran’s powerful Assembly, it said Iran’s “occupa- Barack Obama and Republican Revolutionary Guards inau- tion” violates international law. challenger Mitt Romney gurated a new naval base yes- In April, a visit by President sprinted to an unpredictable terday to reinforce Tehran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the finish in the last 48 hours of a authority over three Gulf islands inflamed the dispute over close White House race yester- islands claimed by the United the territories and prompted day, trying to turn out support- Arab Emirates (UAE), Iranian an outcry by UAE and its Arab ers and woo undecided voters in state TV reported. allies. a handful of toss-up states. The base near the Iranian Tehran later vowed to develop The two rivals crisscrossed the mainland’s southern port of the islands through tourism country on the next-to-last day Bandar-e Lengeh, some 1,100 kil- and other industries, though of a campaign that polls show is ometers south of Tehran is the little has been reported on deadlocked nationally, although Guards’ fifth in the Gulf. that since the visit. During the president appeared to have The Guards’ navy chief Gen Ali the inauguration of the base, a slight edge in the swing states Fadavi said missile and marine Guards chief Gen Mohammad that will decide who captures the units have been deployed there. Ali Jafari expressed the hope 270 electoral votes needed to win It lies north of the Iranian- that new base could support tomorrow. Hundreds of Kuwaitis protest against the new voting rules ahead of the parliamentary elections, near Kuwait City, controlled islands of Abu Musa, economic development of After months of sometimes bit- yesterday. Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb the islands. ter attacks and saturation adver- that dominate the approach to Tehran says the islands have tising in pivotal states, Obama and the strategic Strait of Hormuz, been part of states that existed Romney pressed their arguments a key waterway through which on the Iranian mainland from that they offer the best solution to about one-fifth of the world’s oil antiquity until the British occu- weak economic growth and parti- Kuwait forces teargas protesters supply passes. pied them in the early 20th san gridlock in Washington. The Revolutionary Guard and century. The two also made direct KUWAIT: Kuwaiti security Arab countries since last year, but February. That parliament was the US Navy both patrol the The UAE insists they belonged appeals for votes in a race that forces fired tear gas to disperse tension has mounted this year in effectively dissolved by a court narrow waterway, which Iran to the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah may come down to which side an unauthorised demonstration a long-running power struggle ruling in June that reinstated a had threatened to choke off in until Iran captured them by force does the best job of getting its yesterday by thousands of oppo- between parliament and the gov- more pro-government assembly, retaliation for tougher Western days before the UAE statehood supporters to the polls.

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