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Shooting spree in Schools to get Washington DC leaves 13 dead shorter summer WASHINGTON: A 34-year- old man opened fire at the US Navy Yard yesterday in a shoot- ing that left 13 people dead, including the gunman, not far break next year from the US Capitol and the White House, officials said. The suspect was identified SEC releases academic calendar by the FBI as Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, Texas. Washington DC police chief Cathy Lanier DOHA: Next years’ sum- to unify the school holidays. Next told reporters that Alexis “was mer break for Independent year’s summer break for schools engaged in shooting with police schools in Qatar will begin on will be starting about two weeks officers” when he died. July 13 and end on September late, compared to this year, when “We have no indication of 7, according to the 2013-2014 they were closed by the end of motive at this time,” Lanier said. academic calendar released by June. Valerie Parlave, assistant direc- the Supreme Education Council The reopening date has also tor in charge of the Washington (SEC) yesterday. been advanced by three days, field office of the FBI, asked the Private schools may also have thus reducing the duration of the public for help with information to follow a similar schedule, fol- summer break. This year, schools about Alexis. Authorities said lowing SEC’s decision to unify the in Qatar had one of the longest they were searching for another annual holidays of all the schools summer holidays, stretching more possible gunman. REUTERS in the country. As per the new than 80 days. See also page 10 academic calender, schools will Most private schools have also have a shorter-than-usual sum- been following more or less a mer break next year, spanning similar academic schedule, espe- Syrians enter Turkey from the Turkish Cilvegozu border gate, located opposite the Syrian commercial crossing Saudi ranks fourth less than two months. cially in the case of summer holi- point of Bab Al Hawa in Reyhanli, Hatay province, yesterday. If the schools should start the days. All the Independent schools in expat workers summer vacation on July 13, they and most private schools started will be working for about two their new academic session on RIYADH: Saudi Arabia ranks weeks during the holy month of September 10, with the exception fourth in hosting the largest Ramadan, that will begin early of some community schools which UN confirms sarin use in Syria number of foreign manpower July, next year. This year all the resumed classes one or two days worldwide, according to a study schools were closed before the earlier. UNITED NATIONS: The UN their own supporters to provoke said: “This is the most significant published by the Population start of Ramadan. The 2013-2014 academic year has confirmed that the worst foreign intervention “should not confirmed use of chemical weap- Division of the United Nations. The Minister of Education for Independent schools will chemical weapons attack in be shrugged off”. ons against civilians since Saddam There are 9.1 million foreign and Higher Education H E see the introduction of a break 25 years took place in eastern There was also sharp disagree- Hussein used them in Halabja in workers in the Kingdom. Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali at the second semester, for the Damascus last month, involving ment about what kind of UN res- 1988. The international commu- The report pointed out that Al Hammadi, who is also the first time. The first semester will specially designed rockets that olution was needed to implement nity has pledged to prevent any most of the expat workers have Secretary-General of the SEC end on January 26, followed by a spread sarin nerve agent over the agreement struck by the US such horror from recurring, yet been living outside their home approved the annual calendar 10-day break, and the schools will rebel-held suburbs of the Syrian and Russia on Saturday in Geneva it has happened again.” countries for an extended period for Independent schools for the resume classes on February 6. capital. on dismantling the Assad regime’s However, Ban did not say who of time. The US ranked first as 2013/2014 academic year. There will be another break The report did not assign blame chemical weapons programme. was responsible for the attack, the most popular destination An SEC statement issued yes- during the second semester from for the attack but the US, Britain The differences — on whether noting that was not in the man- for expatriates with 45.8 mil- terday explaining the examina- April 13 to April 17. and France said the details on an initial resolution should date of the UN investigation. lion; followed by Russia, 11 mil- tion and vacation schedules of the Teaching and administrative the sarin, the rockets used and include the threat of punitive “It is for others to pursue this lion; Germany, 9.8 million; Saudi Independent schools didn’t specify staff of schools would return to their trajectories all proved that measures for Syrian non-com- matter further to determine Arabia, 9.1 million; and the UAE, whether they apply to the private duty on August 28. As for stu- Bashar Al Assad’s regime was pliance — were a reminder that responsibility. We will all have 7.8 million. According to the schools. dents, the 2014-2015 academic responsible. However, Russia the Geneva agreement could still our own thoughts on this,” the report, Asia has experienced the This year and last year, only year will begin on September 7, argued that the western powers unravel before it is put into force. secretary general said. largest increase in the number of a few community schools were after the summer break. had “jumped to conclusions” and Presenting the report, the UN THE GUARDIAN international migrants since 2000. exempted from the SEC decision THE PENINSULA said claims of rebel use against secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, See also pages 7 & 9 QNA

LifeFlight New victim Court ruling stirs British identified 12 debate on Muslim veils LONDON: A British judge yesterday ruled that a Muslim woman years after could not give evidence at her trial wearing a full-face veil, sparking debate about whether Britain should follow other European coun- 9/11 attacks tries and ban Islamic veils in schools and public places. Senior politicians played down the likelihood of a ban after one NEW YORK CITY: A man minister said the coalition government should consider forbidding killed in the September 11, full-face veils, or niqabs, in schools, a measure that is gaining support 2001, attacks in New York has from some members of parliament. become the 1,638th victim to “My own view, very strongly held, is that we shouldn’t end up like be identified, the city’s medical other countries issuing edicts or laws from parliament telling people authorities said yesterday. what they should or should not wear,” said Deputy Prime Minister The 49-year-old’s name was not Nick Clegg, leader of the coalition’s junior centrist party, the Liberal released at the request of his fam- Democrats. “This is a free country and people going about their own ily, the chief medical examiner’s business should be free to wear what they wish.” office said. His identification was The case comes as the government considers how to better integrate made possible through the re- One of the Augusta Westland 139 helicopters which was commissioned for rescue operations by the Hamad Britain’s 2.7 million Muslims without restricting the right to freedom testing of remains. Medical Corporation yesterday. Dubbed LifeFlight, these helicopters will be used in emergency cases. of religious expression. REUTERS A total of 2,753 people lost their Report on page 4 lives in the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center, when Al Qaeda hijackers flew two airlin- ers into the Twin Towers. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon, while a fourth crashed Qatar used as transit point by drug traffickers: Expert in a Pennsylvania field after its passengers tried to overpower the BY AZMAT HAROON here from South America. “It’s a the sidelines of the Homeland In two weeks, six cases were interested in expanding their hijackers. very small amount that they have Security Summit organised by reported in which criminal businesses here due to the wealth To this day, just 59 percent of DOHA: Although the amount seized in Qatar but we can see Fleming Gulf. groups attempted to smuggle associated with the region. the victims have been identified, of illicit drugs seized in Qatar is from recent activity that Qatar The activity of criminal organ- deadly contraband on Qatar “If you mention Dubai and mostly through DNA. No trace relatively low so far, drug car- is a new route for drug traffick- isations from Latin American Airways flights from Ezeiza Kuwait to anyone in the under- has been found of the remain- tels from Brazil and Argentina ers from Brazil and Argentina, countries is rapidly increasing in International Airport near world, people say it’s money. And ing 41 percent, or 1,115 people, are now using Qatar as a tran- among other countries, who are the region, according to Obdola, Buenos Aires to Doha. where there is money, there is according to the medical exam- sit point to take their deadly using the route to expand their who also said that ‘narco-terror- In Qatar, authorities also opportunity for criminal activ- iner’s office. contrabands to other countries illicit trade in the Gulf region,” ism’ was becoming a major secu- caught an Argentinian trying to ity. We know there is a small Over the years, authorities have in the Gulf region, according to Johan Obdola, president of the rity challenge for Gulf countries. smuggle a dangerous consign- Mexican criminal cell operating recovered 21,906 human remains an expert. Vancouver-based International Last September, officials in ment of cocaine last year. in Dubai.” He said that drug car- of which 63 percent have been Reports show that Qatar Organisation for Security and Argentina identified Ezeiza-Doha Obdola, the former chief tels had one of the most effective identified, it said. Tests are ongo- most recently seized nearly 75 Intelligence (IOSI), told The as an emerging drug trafficking of Latin American bureau of business structures in the world. ing in an effort to identify the percent of narcotics that traf- Peninsula yesterday. route, South American daily La InterPort Police in Canada, said THE PENINSULA remaining 37 percent. AFP fickers were trying to smuggle He was speaking in Doha on Nacion reported. that most drug cartels were Continued on page 5 TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir, PM send A smart way to fight fake goods condolences to Sharjah ruler

DOHA: The Emir H H Consumer Protection Department hires software firm to quickly identify counterfeits Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of con- BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB dolences to the Member of the UAE Supreme Council DOHA: Officials and inspec- and Ruler of Sharjah, Dr tors of the Anti-commercial Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed Fraud Section of Consumer Al Qassemi, following the Protection Department (CPD) death of Sheikha Alyaa at the Ministry of Economy bint Mohamed bin Saqr Al and Commerce will now be Qassemi. The Prime Minister able to use their smartphones and Interior Minister H E as an additional tool to combat Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser counterfeiting. bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a As part of its efforts to prevent similar cable to Dr Sheikh entry and sale of fake goods in Sultan. Qatar, the CPD has hired serv- ices of a software company to help FM attends identify and seize such products quickly. Somalia meet The interactive technology will enable inspectors to upload Officials at the workshop. (Inset) Gareth Davies. SALIM MATRAMKOT BRUSSELS: The Foreign pictures of counterfeit products Minister H E Dr Khalid in ‘TrAC’ database to be verified smartphone users with assigned Smartphones’, organised by the performance of our inspectors,” bin Mohammad Al Attiyah by brand owners far away. The passwords and usernames. Dubai-based Bayet Al Hikma said Al Suwaidi. attended a meeting on Transnational Anti-counterfeit The Director of the section, Consultancy, under the ministry’s The workshop trained inspec- Somalia here yesterday. It (TrAC) database is the mobile Yousef Al Suwaidi, the Supervisor patronage. tors how to use the technology discussed developments in version of the ‘ipwhiz’ website, of inspectors, Sultan Marzooqui “The software designed to iden- and upload pictures of doubtful Somalia and stressed the developed by the Dubai-based Al Nasr, and 20 inspectors yes- tify counterfeit products quickly products for verification. importance of political dia- company and can be accessed terday attended a workshop on will help us implement CPD laws With the use of the technology, logue between all parties to by iPhone and Android-based ‘Combating Counterfeiting Using more effectively and enhance the the process of verifying a coun- maintain security and build terfeit that usually takes days or sound institutions. QNA weeks can be done within hours. origin in China.” “Over the past five years we With the expansion of Qatari have been developing this sys- market, foreign businesses are tem, which we started with the increasing their presence here, Ministry cancels Saudi Customs and have per- which has led to a surge in the fected it recently. Officers can number of cases of commercial promotion licence use it to verify any product they fraud being heard by local courts. think is counterfeit. The uploaded Legal circles say illegal prac- of Villaggio outlet data can be viewed by the brand tices being resorted to by some owner sitting on the other side of retailers for profiteering, like DOHA: The Consumer the planet very quickly,” Gareth replacing product labels and not Protection Department (CPD) Davies, Managing Director of complying with Qatari standards at the Ministry of Economy ipwhiz, told The Peninsula on the and specifications, are among and Commerce has cancelled sidelines of the workshop. common violations. the licence of a retail outlet Asked if the company had plans According to reports, in the in Villaggio to offer special to make the application ‘free to first quarter of 2013, the CPD promotions. use’ by consumers to make the received about 900 consumer The shop selling products of fight against counterfeits more complaints and conducted 3,000 an international brand was found pervasive, Davies, said: “That raids on retail outlets to check misleading customers regarding wouldn’t be practical as it will their compliance with the con- prices. It was selling products require many employees and sumer protection law. In May, it at prices higher than what was resources. Currently, we are detected 101 violations. It recently approved in the licence, Qatar catering to Saudi, the UAE and announced the seizure of 15,000 News Agency reported yesterday. Qatar, and intend to introduce counterfeit building materials The violation was detected dur- it to Chinese authorities as a lot that had labels of Stanley, an ing inspections by CPD officials. Some of fake branded items displayed at the workshop at the Crown Plaza hotel in Doha yesterday. of counterfeit products find their Italian brand. THE PENINSULA QNA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Ashghal alert to Soaring rents, medicare fees push up cost of living contractors over DOHA: Higher rents, coupled with at the overall level. percent. Food, beverages and tobacco The month-on-month data shows costly medical care and entertainment, Increases were recorded in all groups became costlier by 1.6 percent as the “rent, increases in the prices of miscellaneous new guidelines are putting pressure on the cost of liv- with the exception of “Miscellaneous goods fuel and energy group climbed 6.9 percent goods & services (0.70 percent), furniture, ing in the country, consumer price index & services”, where prices declined by 2.5 caused by the rising trend in the rentals of textiles and home appliance (0.5 percent) DOHA: Road contractors who (CPI) figures released yesterday show. percent. residential buildings. and rent, fuel and energy (0.3 percent), fail to meet requirements of the CPI data for August 2013 show rents Major increases were recorded in the The monthly inflation stayed at the level which were offset by decreases in the prices Work Zone Traffic Management surged 6.9 percent year-on-year in the ‘entertainment, recreation and culture’ of 114.5 showing no change compared to of transport and communications (0.5 per- Guide launched by Public Works month, from 6.5 percent in July. group where prices increased by 9.2 the CPI of July 2013, data released by the cent) and food, beverages and tobacco (0.3 Authority (Ashghal) would face The CPI compared with that of August percent. Ministry of Development Planning and percent). the risk of loosing any projects 2012 and shows an increase of 3.1 percent Medical care and services grew 2.5 Statistics suggest. THE PENINSULA in future, a senior official warned yesterday. Developed by Ashghal to replace the Traffic Control and Road Works Guide, new guide- lines were introduced in March and are mandated in all Ashghal contracts. Existing projects are Qatar eyes safe transport network given six months to comply with new requirements. The guide- lines make it compulsory for Second ITS and Road Safety Forum opens with focus on best practices in other countries contractors to ensure that there is enough visibility for motorists to see warning signs: Improved road signs in yellow should be displayed; speed limits will be enforced strictly and monitored by radar and surveillance cameras and they should also ensure safety of pedestrians at work zones “We launched Work Zone Traffic Management and now it’s being implemented. All our contractors are gradually imple- menting it and it will improve road safety,” Jalal Yousef Salhi, Director of Infrastructure Affairs at Ashghal, told The Peninsula on Salhi and Nassereddine addressing the opening of the ITS and Road Safety the sidelines of second Annual Forum 2013 yesterday and (Right) a section of the exhibition. ABDUL BASIT Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Road Safety Forum Qatar 2013. DOHA: Qatar aims to over- challenges and deliver a world- “If a contractor is not follow- come challenges it faces in leading, safe, fully integrated, ing the manual, they will not get implementing safe transport multi-model transportation net- anymore projects,” he said. networks by learning best prac- work in the region,” he told the tices in other countries, says an forum at St Regis Hotel. HGH to host surgeon expert. The forum is organised by The three-day second Annual Ashghal in partnership with plan will provide a framework to initiatives and ‘Keep Doha industry,” Nassereddine added. DOHA: Hamad General Intelligent Transport Systems the Ministry of Interior and adopt ITS technologies and serv- Moving’ is one of the important Sessions over the next two Hospital’s Orthopaedic (ITS) and Road Safety Forum the National Traffic Safety ices that safely and efficiently projects. days will focus on integrating ITS Department will host paedi- Qatar 2013 which began yesterday Committee. serve Qatar’s citizens and com- “This includes managing traffic solutions to improve road safety, atric orthopaedic surgeon Dr in Doha would help learn about Salhi said Qatar aims to imple- munities,” he added. along the Corniche by implement- reduce fatalities and monitor Hakan Senaran on September proven practices, said Jalal Yousef ment ITS all over the country in The annual event will see ing an effective ITS strategy as progress, understanding driver 22-26. He will see patients at Salhi, Director of Infrastructure line with Qatar National Vision discussions between ITS and quickly as possible. behaviour and the most common Outpatients Department Annex Affairs, Qatar Public Works 2030 and that Qatar has started road safety engineers, manag- “We have issued our pre-qual- distractions. clinics on September 22, 23 and Authority (Ashghal). implementing initiatives. ers, consultants, contractors and ification document for procure- It will also focus on actions that 26 from 8am to 3pm and conduct “Qatar is facing challenges as it “This will without doubt enable suppliers. ment of ITS equipment, available can be taken, including education surgeries on September 24 and develops safe and efficient trans- Qatar to be fully prepared to host Imad Nassereddine, Adviser, to download from the Ashghal and technology, and obtaining 25. Patients seeking appoint- port networks. I’m confident the world-class international events Roads Operations and website. stakeholder outreach and partici- ment can call the Orthopaedic forum will help Qatar and neigh- in the next few years. The stra- Maintenance Department, “We’re looking forward to pation when implementing ITS. Department on 4438 4798 or bouring countries to overcome tegic and integrated ITS master Ashghal, said there are 15 key a high participation from the THE PENINSULA 4438 4803. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME HMC choppers begin rescue operations HMC commissions three new helicopters

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) new LifeFlight helicopters started their lifesaving rescue opera- tions yesterday. As part of partnership with the Qatar Emiri Air Force, three new Augusta Westland 139 helicopters were commissioned for operation yesterday and were involved in Ambassador Poolthup (centre) with Dr Lux and Saadi A Al Said at the QNL Heritage Collection Building. transporting patients in emer- gency situations. The helicopters will be flown by highly trained pilots from the Emiri Air Force. Rare Quran copy for library “LifeFlight is used for fast transit from emergency scenes DOHA: Qatar National Library (QNL) has relationship between Thailand and Qatar,” Dr Lux, to our hospitals,” said Brendon received a precious and valuable 200-year-old Project Director of QNL, said. “It also supports our Morris, Chief Operations Officer copy of Holy Quran as a gift from Thailand. vision of bridging Qatar’s heritage and future with at the Ambulance Service. Panyarak Poolthup, the Ambassador of Thailand, knowledge. This donation will not only enrich the “Each of the new helicopters visited QNL’s Heritage Collection Building and library’s collection, it will also enhance researchers’ can carry two patients at once donated the holy book on behalf of his country opportunities and provide library members with and LifeFlight will be in opera- One of the helicopters during a rescue operation. as part of the Thai embassy’s efforts to promote access to valuable, rare and historical materials.” tion 24-hour. cultural relations with Qatar. “HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn “All of our helicopters are The expansion of the remote locations,” said Morris. The copy of Holy Quran was previously owned by of Thailand visited QNL’s Heritage Collection equipped with latest advanced Ambulance Service’s capacity For the Ambulance Service to Ustaz Yusuf bin Harun from the Southern Pattani Building in January 2012 and was shown ancient life-support medical equipment comes after 100 additional ambu- provide the best possible service Province of Thailand. copies of the Holy Quran. She deemed it appropri- and carry two medical crew and lances were added to the fleet it needs continued public help and It was hand written in Makkah by Al Sheik Al ate to link the past to the present by donating a two pilots. The efficiency of the over the last 12 months. support and people are advised to Khatib Hud bin Mahmoud in 1236 of the Islamic copy of the holy book to the vast collection; bridging Ambulance Service is an impor- “The enhanced services will be follow five steps: Dial 999 immedi- Hijriyah calendar. cultural and academic ties between the Arab and tant element in providing critical especially in need as the coun- ately, know your location, answer “We deeply appreciate this generous donation, as Islamic world,” said Poolthup. care to patients, especially those try heads into the busy camping all questions, follow all instruc- it symbolises the important historical and cultural THE PENINSULA who are not in the vicinity of the season, which often necessitates tions and give way to ambulances. city.” responding to emergencies in THE PENINSULA Mandela Day marked with donations to Qatar Charity DOHA: The South African and across the globe in honour embassy in Qatar and Sasol, the of the legendary South African international integrated energy peace and anti-apartheid icon. and chemical company, marked Mandela Day aims to inspire Mandela Day by collecting people to take action to help donations that were presented change the world for the better, to Qatar Charity during a cer- and in doing so build a global emony yesterday. movement for good. Employees of the embassy and Saad Cachalia, Ambassador Sasol Qatar donated items such of South Africa, and Jack Saba, as new and used clothing, toys, Corporate Affairs Manager at electronic gadgets and other non- Sasol Qatar, presented the dona- perishable goods for the needy. tions to Abdullah Hadi Al Dosari, The items were collected in a Director of In-Kind Donations at dedicated ‘Tayf’ container placed Qatar Charity in a ceremony. in front of ‘The Gate’ mall, pro- “Mandela Day is a time to give vided by Qatar Charity. back to society we live in, by com- The donation drive is in the mitting a selfless act, however spirit of the inspiring work of small it might be. Nelson Mandela. “Through his actions, Mandela While ‘Mandela Day’ is cel- has shown us that to make a dif- ebrated on July 18, the drive ference in the world all that’s Employees of Sasol Qatar and South African embassy with Qatar Charity officials at the donations handover ceremony. represents the spirit of doing required is fierce determination good beyond just one day and and patience,” Cachalia said. the donation drive will last until “Madiba, as he is respectfully person who contributed to the “Nelson Mandela’s values of Qatar and abroad, and aid them Sasol employees in South September 22. referred to in South Africa, is and donation drive in Qatar.” community service and volunteer- in the wonderful work they are Africa mark Mandela Day by Officially declared by the will forever be remembered for “Sasol strives to promote peo- ism are universal. doing to benefit those in need. volunteering at schools, old age UN in 2009, Nelson Mandela his humility, empathy and strug- ple-centred sustainable develop- “It was natural for us to partner “We are inspired by the gen- homes, orphanages and youth International Day has been cel- gle for freedom. ment of the communities in which with Qatar Charity which works erous philanthropic spirit of the care centres. ebrated annually in South Africa “We thank each and every we operate. for the betterment of society in Qatari leadership,” Saba said. THE PENINSULA WCMC-Q to begin biomedical research training programme

DOHA: Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar’s (WCMC-Q) Biomedical Research Training Programme for Nationals will recommence in January 2014. The research training programme is a unique opportunity for Qatari college graduates with an inter- est in biomedical research to gain hands on experience in world-class research laboratories at WCMC-Q. Although the programme is aimed at recent graduates who are interested in pursuing a career as a bench or clinical researcher, applications will be welcomed from nationals with a variety of degrees, for example computer science, business management or communication. The training programme is a full-time, six-month employment commitment with trainees receiving a grad- uation certificate upon completion. The programme is fully funded by WCMC-Q, and is organised in partner- ship with the Qatar Science Leadership Programme at Qatar Foundation. Applications can be submitted online until October 21 at http://researchtraining.qatar-weill. cornell.edu/pages/application.aspx. An information session will be held at WCMC-Q on September 30. For further details contact Yassir Hussain, programme coordinator, at [email protected]. THE PENINSULA

UCQ launches online application DOHA: The University of Calgary-Qatar (UCQ) has launched an online student application. Anyone con- sidering a career in nursing can apply online, effec- tive immediately. The application will allow students to provide UCQ with their admission details in a con- venient manner and upload their support documenta- tion. The use of an online tool for admission will help decrease processing time and allow Student Services to provide a better level of service for our prospective and our current students. In some cases students will be able to use paper appli- cation. Prospective nursing students can apply online to UCQ for the Winter 2014 semester at www.ucalgary.edu. qa/prospective. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Sheikha Moza visits schools School fails to solve in Rio’s Rocinha shantytown crisis; parents upset RIO DE JANEIRO: H H Sheikha Moza mobilisation programme in poor areas of Rio and bint Nasser, the Founder and Chairperson Sao Paulo. of the Education Above All Foundation (the It will also engage the government education Foundation), yesterday visited two schools in the department, municipalities and communities to Drivers’ strike remains unresolved; some exams put off Rocinha district of Rio de Janeiro, which is the develop sustainable solutions together to enrol out- largest favela — or shantytown — in Brazil. of-school children. BY FAZEENA SALEEM from the school saying buses will solution to the crisis. Sheikha Moza first spoke with teachers and Later, Sheikha Moza visited the Andre Urani not be available today. “We don’t think this problem pupils at the Francisco de Paulo Brito school, where school in the Rocinha district. This school is part DOHA: The transportation cri- The school has also postponed will be solved soon if the manage- she toured classrooms, the library and the com- of Project GENTE, a recent initiative taken by the sis in three private schools on some examinations following the ment does not take a firm deci- puter room. The school is part of the Schools of Municipal Board of Education in Rio de Janeiro Sunday after bus drivers went incident. “Due to unforeseen sion,” said the mother of a Grade Tomorrow Project supported by the Foundation’s in partnership with Unesco to drastically improve on a flash strike demanding pay transport issues, the SA1 exam 7 student of Cambridge School Educate A Child (EAC) programme in Rio de some of the poorest performing schools in the hike remained unresolved until for grades 6 to 10 and weekly Doha. Another parent said her Janeiro. Sheikha Moza also spoke with the school’s favelas. late evening yesterday, leaving test for grades 1 to 5 have been son had stopped using the school Director on how EAC support is benefiting the Sheikha Moza spoke to children and staff on the many parents angry and upset. temporarily postponed. A two- transport even before the new school. school’s innovative approach to teaching. Hundreds of students of the day notice will be given before incident because “the services EAC, a global programme launched last year by The GENTE project aims to transform educa- Doha Modern Indian School the revised exam/test dates,” the were very poor.” Sheikha Moza, aims to help the world’s hardest tional facilities and approaches to learning by using (DMIS), Cambridge School Doha school said in a notice to parents “The drivers are very care- to reach out-of-school children (OOSC) to get a today’s most up-to-date technology. and the Cambridge International published on its website. less and their driving is hopeless. quality primary education, and is supporting two The curriculum is designed to stimulate stu- School for Girls were stranded for Contacted yesterday, several Kids even get hurt sometimes,” projects in Brazil: Schools of Tomorrow and Nation dent autonomy and classrooms are far from typical. hours on Sunday afternoon, fol- protesting drivers said they had she said. Some parents said they Wide Advocacy for the support of out of OOSC. Each student has his or her individual laptop with lowing the strike. been asked by their company to were planning to take up the issue Schools of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro will map online lessons built in each week. The school management sent quit or resume work under the with the Supreme Education out of schoolchildren. It will create community Online lessons are individualised to match the text messages to parents last existing terms and conditions. Council (SEC). “We want to bring task forces to enrol children in schools and student level of the student and pupils are evaluated at the evening asking them to make The drivers were employed by a this issue and several other prob- communication group for peer-to-peer advocacy for end of each week. alternative transport arrange- subsidiary firm of the group run- lems in the school to the notice of education. The project will also train school staff to After the visits, Sheikha Moza said: “It is truly ments for their children since the ning the three schools. SEC,” said a father of two chil- enrol 21,000 children in schools over three years. inspiring to see the determination of these children school buses will not be operat- “The company has made it dren studying at DMIS. Rio’s favelas have traditionally lower education to learn, and of their teachers and communities ing today. “Our management is clear that there will not be any A parent identified as levels, rates of illiteracy, age-grade disparity, OOSC to provide them with quality primary schooling working on the issue and we are increase in salaries. We are con- ‘Cambridge parent’ expressing and higher dropout rates. in Rocinha. expecting a solution any time. fused what to do,” said an Asian views on The Peninsula website The Municipal Department of Education devel- “Brazil has made great strides over recent years We will inform parents as soon a driver. “We are not sure if we yesterday said: “I call upon the oped the Schools of Tomorrow Programme, and to provide the vast majority of its children with decision has been taken,” DMIS will work today (Tuesday) or not. Supreme Education Council to has made progress in reaching OOSC in the last access to education. Principal Jaigopal Jindal told The Some drivers say they would go to take immediate notice of this three years. The Educate A Child programme and Brazil are Peninsula at around 6.30pm yes- work,” he added. incident and the total lack of The nationwide advocacy programme will be developing a flourishing partnership, where we can terday. At around 10pm, several Most parents are, however, management at the Cambridge implemented through Todos Pela Educacao and learn from Brazil’s successes and share best prac- parents received text messages doubtful about an immediate school.” THE PENINSULA will launch a targeted community and school tices.” QNA Al Kuwari stresses Qatar’s commitment to UN DOHA: The Minister of agencies as part of its obliga- comprehensive development UNCTAD XIII in Doha last year, pointing out that he attended Culture, Arts and Heritage and tions towards best effort to process based on modernisation calling for strengthening links several sessions of UNCTAD and President of the United Nations ensure the success of UNCTAD and cooperation with the inter- between UNCTAD and its mem- witnessed systematic implemen- Conference on Trade and XIII and achieve the objectives national community to achieve ber states . tation of Doha recommendations. Development XIII (UNCTAD) adopted during a meeting in a world of peace, prosperity and Dr Al Kuwari said Qatar pays He stressed that countries have H E Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Doha last year. mutual respect. special attention to UNCTAD not a unique opportunity over the Al Kuwari has confirmed con- Addressing the opening ses- He called on the new Secretary- just because it hosted the 13 ses- next few years to work on radical tinued support of Qatar, under sion of the 60th session of the General of UNCTAD, Mukhisa sion but also for Qatar’s faith that change of the global development the leadership of the Emir H Trade and Development Council Kituyi, to dedicate his vision this institution represents in the approach to secure a brighter H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad yesterday in Geneva, Dr Al and spirit of leadership to imple- best way aspirations of developing future the humanity deserves.. Al Thani, to the UN and its Kuwari said Qatar will continue ment recommendations made at countries for a brighter future, QNA Dr Al Kuwari addressing the session.

Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker held talks with the Mayor of Chengdu Municipality, Ge Honglin, as the airline launched its newest direct route to Chengdu on September 3. Al Baker said the airline was pleased to add Chengdu as its sixth destination in China helping to bring the number of QA flights to China up to 41 a week.

Al Sharq holds QR700,000 raffle DOHA: Al Sharq held a raffle draw offering prizes worth QR700,000 for its readers who took part in competitions during Ramadan. Prizes included four cars, laptops, electronic Holy Quran and DVDs for the winners of competitions organized by the daily. Prizes were sponsored by top organisations and companies including Qatar Islamic Bank, Katara, Barwa Real Estate Group, RAF and Eid Charity Organisation, Qatar Charity and Al Aween. The event was attended by the Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq, Jaber Al Harami, and other senior staff. THE PENINSULA Drug worth over $350bn traded every year Continued from page 1 America, although it has Some of them were so never been confirmed by ahead in their trade and the government. I don’t were manufacturing their think they are there for ‘narcotics-submarines’. terrorist attacks but “They are business- because of business,” men, just like we have Obdola said, adding the in any other trade. They situation can potentially come from all sorts of get out of control. nationalities and back- Obdola and his team grounds and speak dif- are trying to set up a ferent languages.” new office to look into Many criminal groups drug-trafficking in the go around the world to Gulf. The initiative aims hire lawyers, economists to bring experts from the and experts from univer- private and government sities. Before bringing a sectors to work together drug into a new country, to help law enforcement drug cartels supply small agencies here tackle the amounts of substances issue before it escalates. to gauge the reaction “It will break the of locals and the law bureaucracy that some- enforcement agencies. times stops the informa- According to some tion coming through. The estimates, the illicit trade security forces here need of drugs amounts to to know the latest modus more than $350bn every operandi of drug cartels year. “We have infor- in different parts of the mation about Al Qaeda world.” operations in Latin THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Egypt army Rowhani tells recaptures Guards to stay town held by Islamists

CAIRO: Troops yesterday out of politics stormed a town in central Egypt held for the past month by hardline Islamists, arrest- Iranian president praises IRGC ing dozens accused of burning churches and terrorising resi- DUBAI: Iranian President of Iran’s reformist president dents, officials said. Hassan Rowhani told the pow- Mohammad Khatami, who served Soldiers and police entered erful Revolutionary Guards from 1997 to 2005, and helped to Delga in Minya province just after yesterday that they should not scuttle his boldest initiatives. The dawn, firing tear gas and search- get involved in politics, in a 100,000-strong IRGC and its vol- ing homes for suspects, a secu- carefully worded speech that unteer paramilitary branch, the rity official said. By afternoon, 56 sought to avoid antagonising Basij, were instrumental in sup- arrests had been made and weap- the elite military force. pressing the huge street protests ons seized, the official said. The Islamic Revolutionary that followed the disputed 2009 “The situation was brought Guard Corps (IRGC), which re-election of hardline president under control in half an hour and, answers directly to Supreme Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. thank God, there were no casual- Leader Ali Khamenei rather than Both opposition activists and Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation President Ali Akbar Salehi and Vice-President of Iran, giving a speech during ties,” Minya governor Salah Ziada to the president, has become more some establishment figures have the 57th General Conference at the UN atomic agency headquarters in Vienna yesterday. said. All 32 roads into the town of assertive in politics in recent accused the Guards of crossing a 120,000 people were sealed off and a years, with increasing numbers line into political action. Prior to daytime curfew imposed as author- of veterans in parliament. the June elections, Guard com- ities regained Delga, held for 31 Rowhani’s speech, which manders made clear they would Iran signals desire to end N-row days by loyalists of ousted Islamist included praise for the IRGC’s not tolerate protests similar to president Mohammed Mursi, state increasing economic might, could those held in 2009. VIENNA: Iran said yesterday “This time we are coming with Salehi stressed that Iran would news agency Mena said. be an attempt to maintain its sup- Outside Iran, the IRGC’s Quds that it wanted to settle a dec- a more full-fledged ... desire for never “compromise” over what Rights groups had slammed port, something that might be Force plays an important role ade-old nuclear dispute with the this,” he said. Iran’s President it sees as its inalienable right to the security forces’ slow response in doubt if the Guards see their enacting Iranian policies in Syria, West that has raised fears of a Hassan Rowhani has pledged a civilian nuclear energy pro- in dealing with the crisis. But interests threatened by the new Lebanon, and Iraq, foreign diplo- new Middle East war, but the to smooth relations with world gramme. Iran says it is enriching the governor said authorities president who has pledged more mats and analysts say. United States said it must back powers to help ease stringent uranium only for civilian energy had wanted to avoid a bloody moderation in Iran’s foreign and Rowhani used yesterday’s words with action. sanctions imposed on the Islamic and medicine. standoff. “We were late because domestic policies. speech to praise the economic New Iranian atomic energy chief Republic over its atomic activities. Salehi declined to say whether we were worried for people’s Rowhani told an assembly of prowess of the IRGC which has Ali Akbar Salehi pledged greater Salehi said Rowhani’s election Iran would be willing to halt its lives,” Ziada said in a phone-in IRGC commanders and officials built a vast economic empire that cooperation with the UN nuclear and his appointments in nuclear higher-grade uranium enrichment, on state television. that the founder of the Islamic includes civilian infrastructure watchdog, delivering a conciliatory diplomacy had created a “like- the part of its nuclear work that Since the Islamists’ takeover, Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah and engineering — something message before talks this month minded group” that would “facili- most worries the West. “These are three churches were torched, doz- Khomeini, had recommended the that worries some private sector about activities that the West sus- tate the resolution” of the dispute if issues that will be discussed during ens of Christian homes burned military stay out of politics. “The business people who complain pects are aimed at developing a the other side was willing to do so. the negotiations,” he said. and two Copts killed, according IRGC is above and beyond political of having to compete with an nuclear weapons capability. The United States and Israel In Moscow, Russia’s foreign min- to Ishak Ibrahim, a researcher currents, not beside them or within over-mighty pseudo-state giant. Iran was also optimistic that have not ruled out military action ister said Iran was ready to dis- with the Egyptian Initiative for them,” Rowhani said, according to “Today, in conditions in which our broader negotiations with major if diplomacy fails to curb Tehran’s cuss this higher-level enrichment, Personal Rights. At least 100 fam- the ISNA news agency. “The IRGC economy is a target (of sanctions), powers could achieve a deal if the activities. Salehi’s comments, in a to a fissile purity of 20 percent, in ilies also fled the town fearing for has a higher status, which is that the IRGC must enter into action parties came with good intentions, speech at the IAEA and to report- talks with the six world powers — their lives, Ibrahim said. of the whole nation.” and take on three or four large Salehi told the annual meeting ers, were in line with other signals Russia, the United States, China, The raid on the town comes amid The Guards’ conservative national projects,” Rowhani said. of the 159-nation International coming from Iran. France, Britain and Germany. a massive crackdown on Islamists leadership opposed many policies REUTERS Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). But, like other Iranian officials, REUTERS following the military’s ouster of Mursi on July 3 that plunged the country deeper into turmoil. In mid-August, police and sol- Tunisian scribe freed diers broke up two massive pro- Mursi protest camps in Cairo in Bahrain files lawsuit to shut Protesters, an operation that killed hundreds of people and further polarised the country. A transition plan ‘illegal’ Shia clerics council police clash drawn up by the army-backed interim government calls for DUBAI: Bahraini authorities have filed a lawsuit to close a Shia clerics’ coun- in Istanbul fresh parliamentary elections and cil, accusing it of operating illegally and being involved in politics, the justice a presidential vote by mid-2014. ministry said yesterday. The ministry said it wanted the office of the Olamaa ISTANBUL: Riot police AFP Islamic Council to be closed and its assets liquidated for “functioning outside used tear gas and water the law”. The council, which is led by prominent cleric Issa Qassem, “violates cannon to disperse anti- Nine policemen the constitution and the laws of the kingdom”, the ministry said, accusing its government protesters members of “using it to practise politics under a confessional cover”. in several Turkish cities hurt in Sinai blast The council also “adopted the call for the so-called revolution”, the ministry overnight yesterday, as charged, referring to the Shia-led protests against the government. AFP demonstrations against CAIRO: Nine Egyptian police- the Islamic-rooted cabi- men were injured yesterday net simmered across the when a bomb detonated on a country, media reported. road in North Sinai, near the In Istanbul’s Kadikoy border with the Gaza Strip. district hundreds of pro- The blast hit a police bus as it testers set up barricades, travelled from Rafah, a town on the which they then set on fire, Gaza border, to El Arish. Attacks according to NTV televi- on army and police have intensi- sion. Earlier, several thou- fied since the military deposed sand people had gathered Islamist president, Mohammed in Kadikoy for open-air Mursi. Since then, more than 100 concerts, the Dogan press members of the security forces agency reported, adding have been killed in Sinai. that police detained around Last week, the army stepped a dozen people. Tunisian journalist Zied El-Heni answers journalists’ questions after up a campaign to restore control One of those detained his release as he is surrounded by protesters who were demonstrating in the area. An army spokesman was a journalist with the in his support, on the Kasbah Square in Tunis, yesterday. El-Heni has said on Sunday that the heavy IMC opposition television weapons seized from militants in been freed after spending three days in custody for having accused channel. Clashes also took recent operations included anti- a public prosecutor of fabricating evidence implicating a cameraman place in an outlying area aircraft missiles. REUTERS of the capital Ankara and in an egg-throwing attack on a minister last month. in the southern town of Antakya, where the death of a demonstrator, Ahmet Atakan, a week ago in clashes with police had Donors pledge $2.4bn for Somalia sparked the resurgence of unrest throughout Turkey. AFP BRUSSELS: International other large pledges were made by Remittances from Somalis living donors promised Somalia ¤1.8bn Denmark, Germany, Sweden and abroad are Somalia’s biggest for- Saudi cleric ($2.4bn) in reconstruction aid Norway. eign currency earner and many yesterday to back a three-year Somalia plunged into two dec- of its 10 million people rely on the flays attacks on plan aimed at strengthening the ades of civil war and lawlessness $1.2bn or so sent to the nation country’s economy and building after the overthrow of President every year. non-Muslims up its fragile security. Siad Barre in 1991 while interna- But British bank Barclays said in Somali leaders and about 50 tional navies are fighting piracy June it was stopping offering bank- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s international delegations met in off its coasts. But donors have ing services to some Somali trans- top cleric Sheikh Brussels to endorse the plan, which seen signs of stabilisation since fer firms due to fears funds might Abdulaziz Al Sheikh yes- includes steps to build a justice sys- the African Union’s peacekeep- end up in the hands of “terrorists”. terday condemned vio- tem, foster political dialogue and ing troops helped drive Islamists Some other banks have taken simi- lence against non-Muslims improve day-to-day security after out of the capital Mogadishu and lar steps. “This will strengthen the living in Islamic countries decades of debilitating civil war. many other strongholds in central evil forces of Al Shabaab and pira- and attacks on Muslims The 28-nation European Union, and southern Somalia. cies to recruit many more (peo- on the pretext of apostasy. already the largest donor to the The country of 10 million peo- ple),” Mohamud said. “Given the danger- horn of Africa country, led the ple is one of the poorest in the Although the conference tried ous developments in the financial pledges, committing world, with per capita income of to send an upbeat message about Muslim world, I would like ¤650m. “I am glad to note that just $600 a year. Somali President Somalia’s prospects, medical char- to warn against the danger pledges today reached ¤1.8bn, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said ity Medecins Sans Frontieres only of attacking Muslims and backing with financial means the ¤1.8bn in pledges was a “very last month announced it was those (non-Muslims) under these new priorities and frame- clear indication that our inter- pulling out of Somalia, saying Muslim protection,” he said. work,” European Commission national partners are serious in the threat of deadly violence had He condemned calls President Jose Manuel Barroso sustaining the current progress become intolerable. And rights which lead to the “shedding told the closing session of the and development in Somalia.” group Amnesty International of the blood of Muslims and conference. However, he warned that moves urged the EU to use its discus- of those living in their coun- Britain separately announced by banks to stop money transfers sions with Somalia on Monday to tries in peace,” in a state- a new £50m ($79.33m) aid pack- to Somalia risked strengthening highlight continuing human rights ment carried by SPA. AFP age for Somalia. EU officials said Islamist Al Shabaab militants. abuses in the country. REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Yemen dialogue Turkey downs delegates near deal on south

Syrian copter: SANA’A: Yemeni delegates yes- terday were close to agreement on the shape of a future federal state to settle a long-standing dispute over the south’s status, Deputy PM sources close to a national dia- logue said. But the sealing of a deal was postponed after ousted presi- No information on fate of crew dent Ali Abdullah Saleh’s two representatives walked out of a ANKARA: Turkey said it had to start negotiations this week 16-member committee handling downed a Syrian military heli- on a resolution to back a plan the north-south issue, refusing to copter yesterday, accusing the agreed at the weekend by Russia’s sign an agreed document. neighbouring nation of violating Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Committee members were to its airspace in the tense border and US Secretary of State John sign the accord to achieve a “just region, amid a new interna- Kerry to destroy Syria’s chemical solution that would preserve the tional diplomatic push to end stockpile. security and stability of a united Syria’s civil war. A cautious Turkey welcomed Yemen on a federal and demo- The Syrian MI-17 helicopter the US-Russian accord but cratic basis,” according to the was detected 2km inside Turkish warned that Damascus could be text of the document. “We were airspace and shot down five min- seeking to buy more time for its supposed to sign the agreement utes later after failing to heed deadly military campaign. Members of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria (from left) Swiss Carla del Ponte, US Karen Koning today (Monday) but that has been warnings, Deputy Prime Minister The Turkish-Syrian border, Abuzayd, chairman of the commission Paulo Sergio Pinheiro of Brazil and Vitit Muntarbhorn of Thailand at a press postponed,” committee spokes- Bulent Arinc told reporters. which is more than 805km-long, conference following the presentation of the commission’s report before the Human Rights Council’s members man Mohammed Qahtan said. “It was continuously warned by has become increasingly tense. in Geneva yesterday. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Al our air defence but as the viola- More than 500,000 refugees have Kurbi said last week that partici- tion continued, it fell on Syrian fled the fighting in Syria. Half of pants in the reconciliation talks soil at 2:25pm (1125 GMT), hav- them took up residence in camps Nobel laureates, doctors urge end had agreed on the principle of ing been hit by missiles from our while the remainder were spread changing the Arab republic into planes,” which took off from their throughout the country. a federal state. But differences base in the eastern province of The Turkish military has remain on the number of regions. Malatya, he added. repeatedly struck back in to attacks on hospitals in Syria Southern delegates to the dia- Arinc said there was no infor- response to shelling and mortar logue have been demanding a mation about the fate of its crew rounds that landed on its terri- PARIS: Fifty leaders in world ambulances, medical facilities federal state consisting of north because the helicopter fell on tory since a deadly shelling hit medicine, including three win- and supplies, health profession- and south Yemen, while northern- Syrian soil. The downing of the a Turkish border region last ners of the Nobel prize, yes- Saudi calls for als and patients; allow access to ers are proposing more than two helicopter comes at a time of October, killing five people. terday urged all combatants in treatment for any patient; and entities, according to the sources heightened diplomatic activity to Relations have deteriorated Syria to spare hospitals, doctors world action hold perpetrators of such viola- close to the talks. In yesterday’s resolve the Syrian crisis, which between Damascus and Ankara, and nurses, warning that the RIYADH: International tions accountable according to document, the regions would have has spillover effects across the who were once close allies, since country’s medical infrastruc- intervention in Syria must internationally recognised legal broad administrative, executive, region. the outbreak of an uprising ture was being deliberately tar- go beyond dismantling the standards,” it said. legislative and economic powers. Turkey has changed its military against Syrian President Bashar geted and was now on the brink regime’s chemical arsenal, “We call on all armed parties AFP rules of engagement in response Al Assad and the unleashing by of collapse. Saudi Arabia said yester- to respect the proper functions of to repeated gunfire from the the regime of a brutal crackdown “Systematic assaults on medi- day, in veiled criticism of a medical professionals and medi- Syrian side towards the border against dissent in March 2011. cal professionals, facilities and US-Russian deal that pre- cal neutrality by allowing medi- 11 killed in Iraq areas, Arinc added. Turkey has since then consist- patients are breaking Syria’s vented Western military cal professionals to treat anyone BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq In a statement posted on its ently lobbied for Assad to step health-care system and making strikes against Damascus. in need of medical care and not killed 11 people yesterday and website, the Turkish military down and has deployed Nato it nearly impossible for civilians The Saudi cabinet renewed interfering with the proper opera- an army official escaped an said the Syrian helicopter was Patriot missiles along its border to receive essential medical serv- “calls for the international tion of health-care facilities.” assassination attempt. detected when it was 26 nauti- with Syria. The country also has ices,” they said in an open letter community to take effective Signatories included former A roadside bombing targeting cal miles away from its airspace become a base for Syrian rebels published by The Lancet. decisions to immediately end WHO chief Gro Harlem an army patrol in Mosul killed and was warned until it was five seeking to overthrow Assad. A “According to the WHO (World the fighting in Syria” that has Brundtland; Unni Karunakara, four soldiers. Also in Mosul, a sui- nautical miles away. major Syrian opposition umbrella Health Organisation), 37 percent cost thousands of lives since international president of Medecins cide bomber blew himself up at an “Despite that, the Syrian heli- group, the Syrian National of Syrian hospitals have been 2011, said the cabinet state- Sans Frontières (Doctors Without army checkpoint, killing a soldier copter kept on approaching the Council, has its base in Istanbul. destroyed and a further 20 per- ment published on SPA news Borders); Michel Kazatchkine; and wounding 10 others, among Turkish airspace,” the army said, Earlier on Monday, the Syrian cent severely damaged. Makeshift agency. AFP UN special envoy for AIDS in them the provincial army intel- adding that it violated the air- Observatory for Human Rights clinics have become fully fledged Eastern Europe; Mohammed Al ligence chief Brigadier General space in the vicinity of the Guvecci monitoring group reported that trauma centres, struggling to cope Maadheed; President of the Qatar Ismail Al Juburi, officials said. border post, while it was flying at a Syrian military helicopter had with the injured and sick. before the conflict started, only 36 Red Crescent and Vice-President Separate shootings in the city an approximate altitude of 14,200 crashed near the Turkish border. “According to the Violations remain.” The letter described the of the International Federation left two others dead. And in feet. One of the two patrolling Observatory director Rami Documentation Centre, an esti- attacks as “deliberate and sys- of Red Cross and Red Crescent; Muqdadiyah, militants stormed a Turkish F-16 jets shot down the Abdel Rahman said the helicopter mated 469 health workers are tematic.... (and) an unconscion- Sir Michael Rawlins, president of Shia shrine and captured a fam- helicopter which fell almost 1km had landed on the Syrian side of currently imprisoned, and about able betrayal of the principle of Britain’s Royal Society of Medicine; ily inside. They separated two of inside Syrian territory, according the border and that rebel fight- 15,000 doctors have been forced medical neutrality”. and Nobel winners Jules Hoffmann, them, a father and a son, and killed to the army. ers had captured one of its two to flee abroad, according to the “We call on the Syrian govern- Peter Agre and Harald zu Hausen them before bombing the shrine. In The incident occurred as the pilots. The second pilot’s fate is Council on Foreign Relations. Of ment and all armed parties to from France, the United States and Basra, gunmen killed two Sunnis in UN Security Council is expected unknown, he said. AFP the 5,000 physicians in Aleppo refrain from attacking hospitals, Germany, respectively. AFP separate attacks. AFP

Palestinians rally Nour party walks out of Egypt’s constitution talks

CAIRO: Egypt’s second biggest Islamist party yesterday walked out of a committee amend- ing the constitution, to protest against moves to curb the influ- ence of Islam in state affairs. The Salafist Al Nour party, which backed the army’s over- throw of the more moderate Islamist Mohammed Mursi from the presidency in July, said it was not quitting the committee but wanted to show its anger. Bassam Al Zarka, deputy head of Nour, left yesterday’s meeting but had not quit the 50-member committee, Shabaan Abel Alem, Palestinians wave a national flag and an Egyptian flag as they take part in a rally calling on Egyptian a party official and former par- authorities to open the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday. Cairo completely closed liamentarian, said. “Dr Bassam the Rafah crossing last week after assailants crashed two explosive-laden cars into a security building had suggestions about the arti- cles related to Islamic identity but adjacent to the border zone, killing six Egyptian soldiers. was surprised to find his opinion not even written in the session’s minutes and completely ignored.” Nour remained on the commit- tee, he said, and would continue Former settlement to return to Palestinian hands to press its point of view. “We had reservations about the committee JERUSALEM: Land confis- prompting Burka residents to Burka residents’ petition, said and its improper representation cated by Israel 35 years ago to petition the Israeli Supreme that settlers were still there. of the state’s powers from the build a Jewish settlement in Court in December 2011. “Thirty-five years have start, yet we decided to join as we the West Bank will finally be “The decree that established passed since the land was taken are pro-negotiations as a way to returned to its Palestinians Homesh... was nullified several from its lawful owners and now implement our goals.” owners, the Israeli military months ago as a result of an we have been informed that A draft containing possible said yesterday. appeal brought to the Supreme they can lawfully return to amendments for the new con- In 1978, Israel confis- Court,” an IDF spokesman their land,” it said in a state- stitution, leaked to the media cated land belonging to the wrote yesterday in response to a ment yesterday. last month, showed a desire to Palestinian village of Burka in query. “In addition, the closure “To our regret, we are well decrease the influence of Islamic the northern West Bank. It was order that restricted the access aware of the permanent and laws and ease rules banning offi- used to set up the Homesh set- of Palestinians to the land was illegal presence of Israelis at the cials from the Mubarak era from tlement which was shut down lifted, and the representatives site,” it went on. “We hope...that running for office. It also suggested with three others in the area of the petitioners were notified,” the law will be enforced and restoring a voting system which alongside Israel’s withdrawal he added. the Israelis staying there will favoured individuals over par- from the Gaza Strip in 2005. He went on to say that by be removed and the Palestinian ties and which would hamper the The order requisitioning military order Israelis were now owners can return safely to chances of organised groups like the land from the Palestinians barred from the site, but Israeli their lands.” the Brotherhood from winning. remained in force however, NGO Yesh Din, a party to the AFP REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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APAN’S only operating nuclear reactor went offline on Monday for refueling and maintenance, but there was no definite timetable for a restart. The closure is Europe, waiting for Germany, Jthe latest episode in Tokyo’s struggle with the nuclear power. The government of Shinzo Abe has moved cautiously and judiciously on the nuclear power issue. The country’s could be disappointed network of nuclear plants, which once used to provide up to 30 percent of the national grid’s power, has been shut down for BY PAUL TAYLOR thorough safety checks since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. chemical weapons in Syria. a European strategy and solidarity. It’s believed that the Reactor 4 at Ohi in western Japan will Steinbrueck accused Merkel of bun- The British and Americans talk about remain offline until December at the earliest, leaving Japan uropean policymakers have gling the euro zone crisis by going slow rebalancing the economy and want ‘Big with no nuclear electricity for the longest period since the higher hopes than expectations of and inflicting a poisonous dose of aus- Bazooka’ solutions,” Guerot said. Echange in German policies after terity on Greece and other bailed out Though its clout as Europe’s biggest 1960s. a general election next Sunday that has countries. He kept silent about SPD economy has grown in four years of cri- Public opinion in Japan has turned against nuclear power kept much European business on hold support for pooling some euro zone sis, giving it effective veto power over since the Fukushima meltdown, the largest nuclear disaster for months. From Athens to Lisbon and debts, sensing a vote-loser. any European solution Berlin remains since a fire at the Chernobyl plant in Ukraine in 1986. The Paris to Rome, governments want Berlin The chancellor noted the SPD had reluctant to exert leadership, especially catastrophe had also triggered a global fear and debate about to move forward fast with a European voted for all her euro zone bailout if that means taking on any more risk. Union banking union and adopt a more but she offered no personal vision of Prickly about efforts to impose more the safety of nuclear reactors, with people in many countries expansion economic policy that would Europe’s future. European discipline on national budg- calling for the phasing out of this power generation method help drive growth and fight unemploy- With the survival of the single cur- ets and economic reforms, the French and governments have found themselves under huge pressure ment in a stagnant euro zone. rency no longer under threat and finan- want a re-elected Merkel to move fast to tighten safety standards and even close down plants. For EU partners expect conservative cial markets calm for now, experts on practical steps such as EU funds to example, in Germany, Angela Merkel, who is both a scientist Chancellor Angela Merkel to win a expect Merkel to stick to her “small fight youth unemployment, to head off and politician, promised to phase third term, and many hope she will steps” approach to euro zone integra- a feared Euro sceptic tidal wave in next have to form a grand coalition with the tion unless acute crisis flares again. year’s European Parliament elections. out nuclear power by 2022. centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), The need for further financial sup- Most Germans share Merkel’s view The global Japan acted expeditiously on seen as more port for Greece, Portugal and perhaps that other Europeans just need to emu- its nuclear plants after winning pro-European Ireland will cause much grumpy debate late the German model of public and dilemma about the bid to host the 2020 Olympic and pro-stimulus in Berlin. Frustration at chronic Italian private thrift at home and competi- nuclear power Games. The Fukushima tragedy than her current political instability and French aversion tiveness abroad to solve their economic wasn’t a factor in the selection With the survival of centre-right Free to liberal economic reforms will smoul- woes. There is little, if any, inclination will continue as Democratic allies der. Perhaps as important for German to acknowledge that Germany’s export- vote, but those who voted for the single currency in government. policy as the election result may be a driven economic model, excess savings Japan goes for Japan were confident that the no longer under The potential ruling by the constitutional court next and suppressed domestic demand might government of Abe will resolve the for disappoint- month on the European Central Bank’s be part of the problem. stringent safety issue much before the games date. threat and financial ment is large. bond-buying policy, which calmed the Nevertheless, some policymakers and checks. And the government has lived up markets calm “Whoever is crisis when ECB chief Mario Draghi analysts in Brussels and Berlin expect a elected, the con- announced it last year. The court is shift in economic policy, especially if the to those expectations. for now, experts straints that not expected to declare it illegal, but it Social Democrats or the Greens take a As Japan continues to act in expect Merkel to Merkel has faced may set conditions that could make the role in coalition. its own way, the global debate on nuclear power will continue will remain the policy hard to implement. “What may well happen is a rethink- and remain a conundrum, with strong arguments for and stick to her small same for any “Germany will build Europe at its own ing of national economic policy, not against. This is an issue that will take time before a definitive steps approach German govern- pace and on its own terms. The others for Europe’s sake but for Germany solution is found. The public opinion all over the world so far ment,” said Sylvie need to swallow and understand this,” itself,” said Daniela Schwarzer, head to euro zone Goulard, a French said Ulrike Guerot of the European of European research at the German has been mixed: its supporters argue that nuclear power still integration unless liberal member Council on Foreign Relations. “If they Institute for International and Security offers affordable low-carbon electricity and is a powerful tool of the European try to rush us, it will take longer.” Affairs (SWP). in the fight against climate change. Its opponents maintain acute crisis flares Parliament. Berlin would continue to demand “We have under invested in infra- benefits of nuclear power are too insignificant compared to the again. The triple lock binding European control over national structure, education and research,” she dangers it poses. Human life takes precedence over everything of parliamentary budgets and parliamentary accountabil- said. That would raise wages and domes- else, they argue, and environmental costs are said to be too sovereignty, hos- ity for euro zone funds as a condition for tic demand and could attract more tile public opinion and a vigilant con- accepting any greater backstop ping of workers from poorer European states. high. The public indecision is illustrated by opinion polls. A stitutional court will continue to limit other countries’ debts or banks, she said. For most euro zone partners, the top recent poll in Britain showed that almost half the population Germany’s willingness to share more Progress is likely to be slow not least priority is to create a single European were in favour of government investment in nuclear power, European liabilities. because perceptions of the causes and resolution system to wind down failed while the rest were either opposed or didn’t know. Merkel and her SPD challenger remedies of the euro zone’s crisis still banks after giving the ECB the role of However, governments everywhere need to go for stringent Peer Steinbrueck barely mentioned diverge widely between Germany and supervisor for some 6,000 banks. They European and foreign policy in their the rest of the world. want it underpinned by a common back- safety standards and leave no room for mistake. The problem only television debate, except to agree “We Germans talk about respect stop fund until enough money is raised with nuclear power is that one mistake that spins out of that Germany should have no part in for rules and constitutional legality. from banks’ own contributions. control is enough to undo all the gains of this technology • any military response to the use of The French talk about the need for REUTERS The other side Quote of The Geneva success the day HE AMERICANS and the Chapter VII of the UN charter to use be on the ground by November, to weapons is no mean achievement. Russians have reached a deal force against the Assad regime, if it make room for the dismantling and A cursory look at the flow of things Ton Syria’s toxic stockpiles. Their refused to comply. moping up procedures, the million- from Kremlin to the White House sug- brainstorming in Geneva concluded It was a moment of truth for Kerry, dollar unanswered question is how gests that there was conformity of If for someone it is on a positive note, as US Secretary who had repeatedly reminded the effective they would be in a country, thoughts, and for the first time in his- more important to of State John Kerry and his Russian world of Munich moment, and warned which remains in the grip of civil war? tory the US wasn’t interested in opt- counterpart Sergei Lavrov proudly against appeasing a deadly regime It goes without saying that the Geneva ing for showing off its military muscles. constantly threaten, announced the salient features of a bent upon gassing its own people. blueprint failed to address the riddles The dismantling of Syria’s chemical to scare, to seek for six-point agreement, which would The deal in Geneva is a shot in the of restoring peace in Syria by bringing weapons under the Russian aegis will, provide UN inspectors’ unbridled arm for the global movement of the regime and the rebels together for however, pose questions of intent and an excuse for strikes... access to chemical weapons sites disarmament. a broad-based political understanding. credibility for the US, which could have that is another and Damascus dismantling the same Hours before Kerry and Lavrov The credit inevitably goes to the walked a similar path in dealing with by mid-2014.To come as a source took to the podium; the US came out United Nations Secretary-General Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. It is, nonethe- path to wrecking of consolation for the US is the point with a statement, saying it will drop Ban Ki-moon who kept his cool and less, a tribute to Obama that he chose completely the that Damascus will provide all neces- its insistence that a UN resolution on personally put his weight behind a dip- to step back from the brink for giving sary details within a week’s time, and Syria must be backed by military force. lomatic solution to the dispute. The diplomacy a chance. chances of calling the Sergei Lavrov Moscow promised to move under Now with the weapons inspectors to timeframe for destroying chemical Khaleej Times Geneva-2 conference. Russian Foreign Minister TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Syria strike in the name of peace The civil war in Syria has killed more than 100,000 people, which is an abomination, but it is not defined as a crime against humanity.

BY SEBASTIAN JUNGER “antiwar” that includes simply ignoring the slaughter of civilians overseas. have worked as a war reporter Of course, even the most ardent paci- since 1993, when I sent myself to fist can’t deny that the credible threat of Bosnia with a backpack, a sleep- US force is what made the Syrian regime ing bag and a stack of notebooks. at all receptive to a Russian proposal that The first dead body I saw in a war it relinquish control of its stockpiles of Izone was a teenage girl who was sprawled nerve agents. If the deal falls apart or naked outside the Kosovar town of Suha proves to be a stalling tactic, military Reka, having been gang-raped by Serbian strikes, or at least the threat of them, paramilitaries towards the end of the war will again be needed. Already, Syrian in 1999. After they finished with her, they President Bashar Assad’s denials have cut her throat and left her in a field to been troubling. His suggestion that the die; when I saw her, the only way to know rebels turned nerve gas on themselves she was female — or indeed human — was to garner the world’s sympathy reminds the red nail polish on her hands. me of the Serb authorities who said the I grew up in an extremely liberal family people of Sarajevo were mortaring them- during the Vietnam War, and yet I found selves; it was just as unconvincing then Syrian pro-government troops on the streets of the Christian town of Maalula. it hard not to be cheered by the thought as it is now. that the men who raped and killed that The most common objection to strikes girl might have died during the 78-day is that the US is not the world’s police- world, and that leads many people to ended by a contingent of US Marines that but it is not defined as a crime against Nato bombardment that eventually man; we have poured our resources and espouse a broad American exceptionalism came ashore after every single faction humanity. The mass use of nerve agents brought independence to Kosovo. blood into two long wars over the past in foreign affairs. Even if they’re correct, — the rebels, the government and the against civilians is a crime against Every war I have ever covered — decade, and it’s time for someone else to those extra rights invariably come with civilians — begged for intervention. Not humanity, however. As such, it is a crime Kosovo, Bosnia, Sierra Leone and Liberia take care of those duties. extra obligations. Precisely because we a shot was fired. against every single person on this planet. — withstood all diplomatic efforts to end That is a very tempting position, but claim such a privileged position, it falls The civilian casualties where there President Barack Obama is not argu- it until Western military action finally it does not hold water. The reality is that to us to uphold the international laws were strikes were terribly unfortunate, ing for an action that decimates the forced a resolution. Even Afghanistan, we have staked our military and eco- that benefit humanity in general and our but they constituted a small fraction of Assad regime and allows rebel forces to where Nato troops stepped into a civil nomic security on making sure that no nation in particular. casualties in the wars themselves. take over. He is not saying that we are war that had been raging for a decade, other country — including our longtime Iraq hangs heavy over the US psyche Finally, there is the problem — the going to put our troops at risk on the is experiencing its lowest level of civil- allies — has anywhere close to the mili- and contributes to war-weariness, but the pacifist problem — of having no effec- ground in Syria, or that it will be a long ian casualties in more than a genera- tary capabilities that we do. We are safe 2003 invasion was not an intervention to tive response to the use of nerve gas by and costly endeavour, or even that it will tion. That track record should force even in our borders because we are the only stop a conflict. It was an unpopular intru- a government against its citizens. To one be particularly effective. He is saying that peace advocates to consider that military country that can park a ship in inter- sion into the affairs of a country that was degree or another, every person has an he does not want us to live in a world action is required to bring some wars to national waters and rain cruise missiles troubled but at peace. In that sense, it obligation to uphold human dignity in where nerve gas can be used against civil- an end. down on specific street addresses in a for- was fundamentally different from other whatever small way he or she can. It is ians without consequences of any kind. If Yet there’s been little evidence of that eign city for weeks on end. And we enjoy Western military interventions. this concept of dignity that has given rise killing 1,400 people with nerve gas is okay, sentiment in US opposition to missile extraordinary wealth because our foreign The ethnic slaughter in Bosnia was to international laws protecting human then killing 14,000 becomes imaginable. strikes against military targets in Syria. trade and oil imports are protected by stopped by a two-week Nato bombard- rights, to campaigns for prison reform, When we have gotten used to that, killing Even after 1,400 civilians, including the world’s most powerful navy. I find it ment after well over 100,000 civilians to boycotts against apartheid. In this 14 million may be next. 400 children, were killed in a nerve gas almost offensive that anyone in this coun- died. Not a single Nato soldier was killed. context, doing nothing in the face of evil At some point, pacifism becomes part attack that was in all likelihood carried try could imagine they are truly pacifist After Kosovo came Sierra Leone, where a becomes the equivalent of actively sup- of the machinery of death, and isolation- out by government forces, the prospect of while accepting the protection and ben- grotesquely brutal civil war was ended by porting evil; morally speaking, there is ism becomes a form of genocide. It’s not a American military intervention has been efit of all that armament. If you have a several hundred British SAS troops in a no middle ground. matter of how we’re going to explain this met with a combination of short-sighted bumper sticker that says “No Blood For two-week ground operation in the jungles The civil war in Syria has killed more to the Syrians. It’s a matter of how we’re isolationism and reflex pacifism — though Oil,” it had better be on your bike. outside Freetown. They lost one man. In than 100,000 people, essentially one per- going to explain this to our kids. I cannot think of any moral definition of The US is in a special position in the 2003, the Liberian civil war was easily son at a time, which is an abomination, WP-BLOOMBERG What Clegg can learn from Mitterrand Don’t credit Chile’s

free tuition fees for state school students Activists should who win three As at A-level. rise to Pinochet For all that, my guess is that there will be remember that the a large constituency who recognise that we BY HERALDO MUNOZ needed a stable government, faced with the crisis of 2010, and that not everyone could get orty years after Chile’s dreadful 9/11, when General Augusto real damage to what they promised. One person’s betrayal Pinochet overthrew democratically elected President Salvador is another person’s reasonable compromise. Allende, Americans still ask me: Wasn’t Pinochet responsible Clegg’s trust and Reality in politics depends on how the issue Ffor the economic miracle that made Chile a success story? is framed, a lesson I first learned when cover- After the coup in Egypt in July, a Wall Street Journal editorial argued ing the 1981 French presidential elections for that “Egyptians would be lucky if their new ruling generals turn out leadership ratings the Guardian. I was mystified as to how the to be in the mold of Chile’s Augusto Pinochet,” who, it said, “hired Socialists could seriously think that François free-market reformers and midwifed a transition to democracy.” Some was done during Mitterrand might win when his ratings were years ago, Jonah Goldberg made a similar argument in a Los Angeles so dire. Times column headlined “Iraq needs a Pinochet.” I went to see Jacques Séguéla, who was As an established Pinochet opponent, I can affirm that he personi- the alternative vote Mitterrand’s key strategist. He took out fied a disturbing contradiction. He won praise for transforming the a blank piece of paper to explain how the economy, operated by the “Chicago Boys” (Chilean students of Milton referendum. Socialists intended to turn around the appall- Friedman at the University of Chicago), into the most prosperous in ing perceptions of Mitterrand. On one side of Latin America. He encouraged export growth, removed trade barriers, BY CHRIS HUHNE the paper, he wrote down the negatives. On established an independent central bank able to control interest and the other he put down the counter-narratives. exchange rates, and privatised social security and state companies. hen parties get into trouble, Old became wise. Ministerial careerist Chile became the Washington Consensus model for countries seeking the thoughts of activists natu- UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg under the Fourth Republic became experi- to put their house in order. rally turn to a change of leader. enced. Two-time presidential loser became The main problem for Pinochet’s apologists was his brutality and cor- WWith the Liberal Democrats, a persistent fighter for justice. Séguéla said ruption. This is why, although the US government intervened to desta- this is still one of those rarely mentioned Paddy Ashdown’s reminder that the party Mitterrand escaped from his Nazi prisoner of bilise Allende before and after he came to power and initially backed subjects. Apart from Lord (Matthew) could do another deal with the Tories was war camp on the third attempt, he would win Pinochet, the dictator never found lasting friendship in Washington. If Oakeshott, Liberal Democrats are gener- corrected by Clegg saying that it could be his third attempt at the presidency. He did. only he had modernised Chile’s economy without assassinating, tortur- ally too polite to mention the leader’s poor Labour, too. Equidistance matters: As soon Worried party faithful should also remem- ing and exiling tens of thousands of dissidents and getting caught hid- ratings, which are indeed well below the as the party is seen as a junior appendage ber that the mid-term polls have tradition- ing offshore bank accounts. What seems to matter for some Pinochet territory that fashioned an ejector seat for of either large party, it will lose its central ally underestimated the Liberal Democrats’ defenders is that, much like Mussolini, he made the trains run on time. William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Sir appeal and bargaining power in any coalition. general election performance. In every parlia- It should be noted, however, that the groundwork for Pinochet’s Menzies Campbell. Activists should remember that the real ment, the midterm polls show, as they did this economic modernisation of Chile was laid by his predecessors under Nick Clegg is probably safe until the gen- damage to Clegg’s trust and leadership rat- weekend, that the party was losing a shocking democratic rule. Land reform in the 1960s and early ‘70s broke up inef- eral election, and until after next May’s local ings was done during the alternative vote proportion of previous support. Yet on aver- ficient semi-feudal estates, allowing the military regime to stimulate an and European elections. Crucially, his rat- referendum, when Cameron and George age in each parliament since 1987, Liberal export-oriented economy driven by large-scale agricultural production. ings are not much worse than Ed Miliband’s Osborne sanctioned vituperative personal Democrat support rose by 8.5 percentage Some aspects of Chile’s modernisation began around 1920. By the 1973 and there is the added consolation for him, attacks on him for breaking promises, even points between the low point as measured by coup, most Chileans enjoyed a high level of education (the illiteracy though not for the voters, that all three main though those compromises were demanded polls and the general election. This bounce- rate was less than 10 percent in 1970), and malnutrition and infant party leaders are unpopular. This is unprec- by the Tories as the price of coalition. back was sometimes big and sometimes small, mortality had been declining for decades. edented. Maybe, the first party to dump its That hypocrisy may have been tactically but it has been inexorable. A Pinochet-type regime is not a necessary evil. No nation needs a leader will reap the advantages of the pio- clever for the Tories, but it was a blunder. This bounce may be because the Liberal tyrant to modernise and attain well-being. As Nobel laureate Mario neer, but such changes are often messy and Anyone who has run an organisation knows Democrats fell out of the spotlight between Vargas Llosa has written, reforms imposed by dictatorships always divisive. Regicide should not be undertaken that alienating your team is not a great moti- elections, which is not the case today. But result in “atrocities that leave civic and ethical sequels infinitely cost- lightly. For a warning, look at the Kevin vational plan. It put steel into Clegg’s heart. when people are asked about polls, they lier than the status quo.” In the end, economic liberty seldom thrives Rudd and Julia Gillard saga in Australia. Any Liberal Democrat who went through think nationally about their preferences. In in the absence of political freedom. Clegg has earned loyalty. He warned his that campaign was reminded that the first elections, they usually face not a three-way Chile’s social miracle is yet to come. To reduce social and economic party about the consequences of govern- Tory option is to destroy their party. That contest but a two-way fight. Most Liberal inequalities, efforts need to be made toward affordable, quality educa- ment, and ensured that he had every part experience in turn meant that the 1930s sce- Democrat MPs face one other serious con- tion and tax reform. Recent street demonstrations in Chile and else- of it approving the decision (unlike David nario — in which the Conservatives increas- tender, not two or three. The result is that the where in the region are being led by the new middle classes. Highly Cameron, who must regret his high-hand- ingly co-opted Liberals in the national Liberal Democrats can put the same squeeze indebted and frustrated by lingering inequalities, they feel vulnerable edness). It was inevitable that half of the government — was less likely to occur. on the third party that the two big parties and are demanding efficient public services and decent treatment. party’s supporters (who were split between Clegg’s apology on tuition fees started put on Liberal Democrat voters in numer- Ultimately, however, Pinochet should be remembered more as a noto- wanting a Labour or Tory deal) would be dis- some reputational repair. He has reinforced ous Labour-Conservative marginals. It is not rious symbol of repression than an economic reformer. One symbol of a affected with the outcome. Clegg’s strategy the party’s policy safeguards against over- a pretty consequence of our winner-takes- new era came two months ago when the name of Santiago’s September has been to shape the party as a liberal check promising. But a third step remains: Clegg all election system, but it is inevitable. If the 11 Avenue, designated to celebrate the date of Pinochet’s 1973 coup, on Labour or the Tories, a position that will now needs to make amends to the students Liberal Democrats hold their nerve, they will was finally changed, thanks to the initiative of a mayor new to politics. never win a majority of voters but can win and their families who looked to the Liberal do better at the next election and maybe in Although his long shadow remains, the Pinochet days are over. enough for the party to prosper. Democrats for help. One solution would be the next government. THE GUARDIAN WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL At least 12 dead in Washington shooting Gunman killed as authorities search for two more possible assailants; schools locked down as a precaution

WASHINGTON: At least 12 it happened at another mili- condition, and was expecting people were killed in a shoot- tary installation, in our nation’s more to arrive but it was not clear ing yesterday at the US Navy capital,” said President Barack how many. At George Washington Yard in Washington, where one Obama, who vowed to enact “sen- University, a man in his 60s died suspected gunman was among sible” gun control measures after of a single gunshot wound to his the dead and authorities were a gunman shot dead 20 school head, said Babak Sarani, head of searching for two other possi- children and six adults at an ele- trauma surgery. ble assailants wearing military- mentary school in Connecticut The man was shot in his left style clothing, officials said. last December. temple and the injury “was not The exact number of dead and “They know the dangers of survivable by any stretch,” Sarani wounded fluctuated in the hours serving abroad, but today they told reporters, adding he was following the shooting, which took face the unimaginable violence unsure what type of weapon was place about 5km from the White that they wouldn’t have expected used or whether the bullet had House, starting about 8:30am. here at home,” said Obama, who exited the victim’s body. The Washington DC Mayor and spoke at the start of a speech on The other two possible sus- the police chief said there were 12 the US economy. pects were described as black fatalities in the shooting at the Patricia Ward, who works at man, about 50, with a long gun a Naval Sea Systems Command, the Navy Yard, said she hear three drab olive military uniform, and a one of five such commands where shots “pow, pow, pow” and then white man with a pistol, a Navy- civilians, military personnel and four more shots after a pause. style short-sleeved khaki uniform contractors build, buys and main- “Everybody was panicking and and a beret. tain Navy ships and submarines. trying to decide which way to get The shooting hit the military About 3,000 people work there. out,” Ward told reporters. establishment less than three “We have no indication Security guards told people to weeks after US Army psychiatrist of motive at this time,” said “run, run, run,” Ward said. Major Nidal Hasan was sentenced Washington DC police chief Cathy Washington police declined to to death for murdering 13 peo- Lanier. give a number of fatalities, say- ple in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, Police described the two other ing there were “multiple victims where he gunned down unarmed possible suspects as a white man deceased inside.” soldiers in what he later called Emergency vehicles respond to a group of shootings at the Naval Yard in Washington, DC yesterday. and a black man, each wearing Among the injured was a retaliation for US wars in Muslim military style clothing, although District of Columbia police countries. other law enforcement officials officer, who was in stable condi- Dozens of police and emergency headquarters with some touch- of Columbia Public Schools have US Navy. A former shipyard and cautioned that it was still unclear tion in surgery, and one other law vehicles surrounded the complex ing down on the building’s roof. put six schools and an adminis- ordinance plant, the facility in whether more than one gunman enforcement officer, officials said. in southeast Washington, which The Federal Aviation tration building on lockdown as southeast Washington is currently was involved. Washington Hospital Center is about 1.6km south of the US Administration said it briefly a precaution. home to the Naval Sea Systems “We are confronting yet said it was treating three gun- Capitol. suspended departures at Reagan The Washington Navy Yard Command, Navy museum and another mass shooting, and today shot victims, who were in critical Helicopters circled the National Airport. The District is the oldest shore facility of the other facilities. REUTERS

NSA accused as Belgian telecom Thirty-four killed as rare double whammy storms slam Mexico reports snooping ACAPULCO: Authorities the remnants of Tropical Storm at the same time. “More than state of Oaxaca. Guerrero state 100 people stranded on the termi- scrambled to rescue people Manuel, which dissipated after two-thirds of the national terri- officials reported six deaths in a nal’s second floor. BRUSSELS: Belgium stranded in flooded homes in striking on Sunday. tory has been affected,” Interior road accident, but Puente did not With waters rising as high as denounced yesterday the Mexico’s resort of Acapulco Thousands of people were evac- Minister Miguel Angel Osorio include them in his account. three feet in some neighbour- “substantial and invasive” yesterday after twin storms uated on both sides of the country Chong told a news conference. Around 50 towns were affected hoods, soldiers used boats to pluck hacking of its biggest tel- slammed opposite coasts in a as the two storms set off land- At least 15 of the 22 deaths in Guerrero, with some 238,000 around 100 people who took ref- ecommunications company, rare one-two punch that has slides and floods that damaged occurred in the southwestern people enduring various levels of uge on upper floors or the roofs saying a foreign state may killed 34 people.. bridges, roads and homes. state of Guerrero, where Acapulco damage in their homes, Puente of homes. The flooding brought have been responsible, as Hurricane Ingrid weakened The last time the country was lies, said national civil protection said. out crocodiles, complicating the media pointed the finger at to tropical storm strength as it hit by two tropical storms in the chief Luis Felipe Puente. The highway linking Acapulco rescue work, officials said. Those the scandal-hit NSA. made landfall on the northeast- span of 24 hours was in 1958, Six more people died in the to Mexico City was closed due to rescued were taken to an audito- Two months after the ern coast in the morning while officials said. It was never hit by central states of Hidalgo and landslides while the tourist town’s rium that was converted into a blockbuster revelations of the the Pacific coast was reeling from a hurricane and another storm Puebla and one in the southern airport was shut down, with some shelter. AFP US National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, state- owned Belgacom said its com- puters had been hacked and a formal complaint filed to Belgian prosecutors. 9/11 suspect expelled from Prosecutors said the hack- ing could have only been done by an entity “with significant Guantanamo courtroom financial and logistical means” and that suspicions were cir- FORT MEADE: One of five men accused of plotting the September cling on an act of “interna- 11, 2001 attacks was expelled from a Guantanamo courtroom yes- tional state espionage”. terday after trying to speak without permission. The incident involving Yemeni Ramzi Binalshibh happened shortly after the start of a new round of preliminary hearings at the US mili- Rwandans vote in tary facility in Cuba. “I have the right to talk,” Binalshibh said in English after the pre- parliamentary polls siding military judge, Colonel James Pohl, asked the suspects if they KIGALI: Rwandans vote understood their rights to waive their right to be present at the start yesterday in parliamentary of the proceedings broadcast to Fort Meade near the US capital. polls seen as a shoo-in for “No you don’t have the right to talk,” Pohl countered before deciding President Paul Kagame’s to temporarily expel the detainee. “He was warned not to be disrup- Rwandan Patriotic Front, the tive,” Pohl said, adding that Binalshibh’s “disruptive conduct” justified party that has held sway over his exclusion. Self-declared 9/11 kingpin Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the central African state donning camouflage and sporting a red-tinted beard, also tried to speak since ending the genocide 20 about his incarceration at Guantanamo’s secretive Camp 7. Camp 7 is years ago. the most secure part of Guantanamo. Some six million people will “We are never allowed to get any paper from our lawyers,” he said be eligible to cast their ballots in Arabic comments that were translated into English. He was subse- when polling stations open quently also interrupted by the judge in the same manner. at 7:00am (0500 GMT), with But Mohammed, the translation of whose comments became inaudi- turnout expected to be enthu- ble, was not expelled. The hearing was then suspended for the morning siastic despite a low-key cam- German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks at her picture displayed on an election campaign bus in Berlin, yesterday. because a defence lawyer became ill. The five accused face the death paign and the absence of any penalty if convicted of plotting the attacks 12 years ago on New York serious opposition to the RPF. and Washington. AFP The only incident to upset the calm pre-vote atmosphere was the explosion of two gre- Doubts over Merkel coalition nades over the weekend in a market in the capital Kigali, a city reputed to be among Arrested prelate reveals Africa’s safest. grow despite Bavaria victory BERLIN: Chancellor Angela of securing another centre-right The German election is being secret accounts in Vatican Public sector goes Merkel’s chances of preserving majority. While she will most closely watched by Berlin’s part- her centre-right coalition were likely remain chancellor, her ners in Europe, with some hop- ROME: The Vatican department in charge of paying salaries and on strike in Greece in doubt less than a week before conservatives would be forced to ing a “grand coalition” between managing real estate acted improperly as a parallel bank, providing ATHENS: Greece was hit by a federal election, with a new enter difficult coalition negotia- Merkel and the SPD would lead accounts to outsiders, an arrested prelate who worked there for 22 a new wave of strikes begin- anti-euro party rising in the tions with the Social Democrats to pro-growth policies and a more years has told Italian prosecutors. ning with teachers yesterday polls and her current partner (SPD), in which they would have conciliatory approach towards The latest allegations of misdoings come as Pope Francis struggles as public employees protested reeling from a regional setback to cede key ministerial posts to struggling southern euro nations. to tackle years of financial scandals involving the Vatican bank, which a massive redeployment plan in Bavaria. their centre-left rival and accept The latest poll from Emnid has long been in the spotlight for failing to meet international stand- ordered by its creditors in An emphatic victory in Bavaria SPD demands on tax and wage over the weekend showed support ards against tax evasion and the disguising of illegal sources of income. exchange for loans. on Sunday for the Christian policy. for Merkel’s conservative bloc of The allegations concerning the Administration of the Patrimony of Around 7,000 public sector Social Union (CSU), sister party “The big uncertainty now is CDU and CSU at 39 percent and the Apostolic See, known as APSA, will present another headache for workers gathered from midday to Merkel’s Christian Democrats the AfD,” said Thomas Jaeger, the business-friendly FDP, her the pope, who has appointed two commissions to advise him on how in Athens, according to police, (CDU), was overshadowed a political scientist at Cologne current partner in Berlin, on 5 to clean up Vatican finances. grouping outside government by recent poll gains for the University. “They weren’t on the percent, short of a combined A key suspect in a widening investigation by Italian magistrates ministries as riot squads kept Alternative fuer Deutschland ballot in Bavaria but could get 5 majority. looking into alleged money laundering through the Vatican bank told a watchful eye on the crowds. (AfD) and the collapse of the percent nationally on Sunday.” In Bavaria, the FDP crashed them that officials at APSA allowed the office to be used by outsiders Isolated clashes broke out Free Democrats (FDP) in the rich The AfD staged a mock burn- out of the state assembly with even though it was against its regulations, according to a transcript early in front of the ministry southern state. ing of euro banknotes on Monday a score of just 3.3 percent. That of his questioning. of administrative reform, the Should the AfD clear the five in front of Berlin’s most famous took some of the shine off a romp- The prelate, Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, 61, is under investigation department coordinating many percent threshold needed to enter landmark, the Brandenburg Gate, ing win for the CSU, whose leader by magistrates in his home city of Salerno, where he is suspected of of the changes, with tear gas the national parliament in the in a stunt designed to draw atten- Horst Seehofer won an absolute using his close ties with the Vatican bank to launder money. He is fired by police. federal vote on Sunday, or if the tion to costly bailouts of heavily majority in the regional parlia- under arrest in a hospital in Salerno. Scarano’s lawyers say he did not AGENCIES FDP fails to clear that mark, then indebted euro zone members such ment with 47.7 percent of the launder money. Scarano was arrested in Rome on June 28 along with Merkel has virtually no chance as Greece. vote. REUTERS an Italian secret service agent. REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 ASIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Thai protesters reject govt rubber subsidy Activists throw petrol bombs, acid bottles at police

BANGKOK: Protesters hurled hit by slumping global prices for distanced itself from the violence. petrol bombs and bottles of acid the commodity. “We don’t know who they at Thai police, who fired tear Rubber farmers appeared to are,” said union leader Boonchot gas in return, in fresh clashes have been appeased last week Romyen. yesterday over a government by a government offer of 2,520 “We are checking who they rubber subsidy in southern baht ($80) per rai (0.4 acres, 0.16 are. Some Rubber farmers may Thailand, officials said. hectares) of plantation to help not be happy with the govern- Several police officers suffered with production costs -- double ment’s proposals... but I don’t cuts or acid burns as they were its previous offer. think these are local people.” forced to retreat by around 1,000 But after several days of Rubber farmers have accused protesters blockading a key road near calm, yesterday’s protest the government of ignoring their in Nakhon Si Thammarat prov- threatened to re-open the dis- plight while spending billions of ince, local police said. pute, which has been most fierce dollars on a rice price guarantee “They outnumbered the in southern regions loyal to scheme seen as mainly benefiting police... we had to step back, the opposition Democrat Party. ruling party supporters. A police vehicle set on fire by protesters during clashes in southern Thailand. we don’t want any violence,” Protesters blocked the road into The government had previ- said Police Colonel Piyawat the late afternoon as police with- ous said another generous price rubber farmers over their fall- of Yingluck’s brother -- fugi- military crackdown under a pre- Supanapong, adding a change drew. Piyawat said the protest- guarantee scheme was something ing incomes had posed a grow- tive former premier Thaksin vious government. of wind direction sent tear gas ers -- who also torched several it could not afford, but days of ing challenge to Prime Minister Shinawatra -- taking to the More than 90 people, mostly back into police lines. In recent police cars and fired marbles protest appear to have forced a Yingluck Shinawatra’s two-year- streets. In 2010 two-month civilians, were killed during the weeks angry rubber farmers have from slingshots -- were teenag- climbdown. old government. demonstrations in Bangkok by demonstrations and nearly 1,900 protested across Thailand’s south ers and had no leader with whom Thailand is the world’s top The kingdom has been beset the pro-Thaksin “Red Shirts” were injured in Thailand’s worst calling for government support as they could negotiate. exporter of natural rubber and by protests in recent years, with drew 100,000 protesters at their political bloodshed in decades. the local economy has been hard The local rubber union also anger among the kingdom’s both supporters and opponents peak before being crushed in a AFP Chinese ship Myanmar to grant awaits release Inter-Korean industrial zone reopens SEOUL: A Chinese cruise UN nuke watchdog boat impounded in South SEOUL: Hundreds of South strikes, saw North Korea with- the plants aren’t going to be back planned to cross the border into Korea over a commercial dis- greater access Korean factory owners and draw its 53,000-strong workforce at full capacity for a while,” said Kaesong yesterday. In an effort pute with another Chinese VIENNA: The UN nuclear supervisors crossed into North from the joint industrial zone. the supervisor of one textile plant to prevent any future closures, firm was awaiting release watchdog will gain wider inspec- Korea yesterday to restart pro- The situation has eased sig- when he crossed back into South the North and South have cre- and clearance for departure tion powers in Myanmar under duction lines at a joint indus- nificantly since then, although Korea later in the day. ated a joint committee to oversee yesterday, an official on the an agreement to be signed this trial park closed five months underlying historical tensions “But at some companies more Kaesong and deal with any prob- South Korean island of Jeju week, in a further sign of the ago by threats of war. and concerns about the North’s than 90 percent of the workers lems related to its operations. said. The vessel, the Henna, formerly army-ruled Asian state Trucks and cars started roll- nuclear ambitions remain. turned out. The South Korean co-chairman had been due to leave mid- opening up to the outside world. ing across the border shortly after Analysis of recent satellite “The overall mood was upbeat. Kim Ki-Woong said future talks afternoon after its owner put Myanmar will sign the so-called 8:30am (2330 GMT Sunday)-- images suggests the North has There was no fuss, no animosity,” would focus on ensuring that up a 3bn won ($2.76m) bond Additional Protocol - which allows the result of weeks of often spiky restarted the plutonium reactor he said, adding that most of the Kaesong becomes internationally and it was unclear what was unannounced inspections outside negotiations aimed at easing ten- that provided the fissile mate- day was taken up with cleaning, competitive. delaying the departure. But of declared nuclear sites - with sions and reopening the Kaesong rial for at least two of its three maintenance and repair. Yesterday’s re-opening of the South Korean judge over- the UN’s International Atomic complex. nuclear tests. Kaesong, born out of the Kaesong is still officially on a seeing the case in Jeju had Energy Agency today, the Vienna- “I hope we can work well And in a highly unusual inci- “sunshine” reconciliation policy “trial basis” as both sides continue yet to give the go-ahead, an based IAEA said. together again, just like before,” dent Monday not far from the initiated in the late 1990s by then- to discuss operational issues. official said. The move will help to ease said the 50-year-old head of Kaesong border crossing, South South Korean president Kim An association representing any lingering concern about a Seoul textile company who Korean troops shot dead a man Dae-Jung, was established in 2004 the South Korean businesses in Suu Kyi meets Myanmar’s nuclear ambitions. declined to be named. trying to swim across a border as a rare symbol of inter-Korean Kaesong welcomed the restart Myanmar has denied allega- The optimistic mood at the bor- river to the North. cooperation. It provided an impor- but urged the new joint commit- Dalai Lama tions made by an exile group der checkpoint contrasted sharply The most immediate task for tant hard currency source for tee to approve “firm measures” to three years ago that it was trying with the sense of impending dis- the South Korean managers was the impoverished North through prevent another closure. PRAGUE: Myanmar oppo- to develop nuclear weapons, and aster that had loomed over the to inspect the state of production taxes, other revenues and its cut The companies say the suspen- sition leader Aung San Suu most experts say its technologi- closure of Kaesong back in April. lines out of operation for nearly of workers’ wages. sion of operations cost them a col- Kyi has risked prompting cal expertise is still far short of Months of heightened military five months. The South’s Unification lective one trillion won ($920m) Chinese anger after it was that level. tensions, with Pyongyang issuing “Not all the North Korean Ministry said 820 South Korean in lost production. confirmed she had a private But in early 2011, diplomatic apocalyptic threats of nuclear workers showed up, partly because managers and workers had AFP meeting with the Dalai Lama sources in Vienna said the IAEA on the sidelines of a Prague had written to Myanmar seek- rights conference, its spokes- ing information about its activi- man said yesterday. Beijing ties, suggesting it wanted to send CNRP demonstration has for decades opposed for- inspectors there. eign dignitaries meeting Western countries have lifted Ex-Malaysia communist Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, or suspended sanctions imposed who fled his homeland for during nearly half a century India in 1959 after a failed of repressive military rule in uprising against Chinese rule. Myanmar. But human rights fighter dies in exile Beijing, a powerful Myanmar activists and ethnic minority ally and major investor has groups remain wary about the BANGKOK: Malaysia’s governments before and after branded the Dalai Lama an government of President Thein renowned former communist independence in 1957. anti-China “separatist” who Sein, a former general now head- fighter Chin Peng, who led a In 2009, Malaysia’s highest encourages violence. ing a quasi-civilian government. guerrilla campaign against court rejected a bid for him to In 2010, a UN report suggested British colonial rule, died in return. Typhoon Man-yi that North Korea, which has left exile in Thailand yesterday, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the nuclear Non-Proliferation according to his military liaison. Malaysia’s home affairs minister hits Japan treaty (NPT) and tested three The 89-year-old, who left in charge of internal security, said nuclear devices, might have sup- Malaysia around five decades ago, that Chin Peng’s remains would TOKYO: Typhoon Man-yi plied Myanmar as well as Iran had been hospitalised in Bangkok not be returned to the country. hit central Japan yesterday and Syria with banned atomic for several years. The government “will not allow as officials issued a “special technology. “He died this morning of his body or his ashes to be brought warning” of heavy rain, amid A Norwegian-based exile group cancer,” said General Pisarn back to be buried in Malaysia,” he fears the storm could go on to said the same year that Myanmar Wattanawongkiri, a former Thai said. hit the crippled Fukushima had a secret programme to military commander and point of “Chin Peng is not a freedom nuclear plant. The typhoon develop the means to make contact between Chin Peng and fighter as described by some activ- made landfall in Toyohashi, nuclear weapons. the authorities. ists. He was the communist party Aichi prefecture, shortly The IAEA said in yesterday’s Born Ong Boon Hua in leader who cannot be accepted in before 8am, packing gusts statement that the Additional Malaysia’s north, Chin Peng was this country.” of up to 162kmph, the Japan Protocol equipped the agency with made an officer of the Order of Many servicemen, civilians Meteorological Agency said. “important additional measures the British Empire (OBE) and and British planters were killed Public broadcaster NHK that provide for broader access won two medals for helping the by the communists. In one of the said a woman in her 70s was to information about the state’s British fight the Japanese in worst incidents, 25 people were missing following a landslide nuclear programme, increased Malaya during World War II. murdered -- including women in Shiga prefecture, while six physical access by IAEA inspec- He later led the communist and children -- when communists people were injured in other tors and improved administrative party, backed by China, in a rebels attacked a police station in areas due to strong wind. arrangements”. guerrilla campaign against the southern Johor state in 1950. Almost 300,000 households REUTERS Supporters of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) British colonial and Malaysian AFP were told to evacuate. shout slogans during a demonstration against election fraud, at the Democracy Park in Phnom Penh, yesterday. China rejects HK remarks HONG KONG: China said French milk firm to investigate China’s corruption claim yesterday it would not tol- erate outside interference BEIJING: French baby for- The payments, of up to 10,000 the promotion of products in hos- 172m yuan. British pharmaceu- markets in poorer countries in in the affairs of Hong Kong, mula manufacturer Dumex yuan ($1,600) each, were made pitals in Tianjin. We will launch tical giant GlaxoSmithKline has recent years. Campaigners have rejecting as “thoughtless” promised yesterday to inves- so that staff would provide new- an investigation into this matter been hit by a corruption investi- dogged Nestle for decades, claim- a call from British Foreign tigate allegations that its staff born babies with Dumex milk, immediately,” the statement said. gation which has seen 20 people ing the company markets its Office Minister Hugo Swire bribed Chinese hospital offi- CCTV said, claiming they would The CCTV allegations come arrested since the beginning of products to women who would for people in the former UK cials to provide its products to become dependent on the com- after Chinese authorities July. be better off breastfeeding. territory to have a genuine newborns. pany’s products. launched sweeping probes into China has one of the world’s Both Unicef and the World political choice. Hong Kong Dumex made payments to Dumex, a subsidiary of Paris- multinational companies in lowest breastfeeding rates, which Health Organisation recommend returned to Chinese rule in doctors and nurses at a hospital based conglomerate Danone, recent months. experts say is due to misconcep- breastfeeding from birth to six 1997 with the guarantee of in the northeast city of Tianjin, said in a statement that it was Dumex was one of six milk tions about health and aggressive months of age, and continued autonomy and an independ- state-run broadcaster CCTV said, “extremely shocked” at the allega- formula manufacturers handed marketing that “brainwashes” breastfeeding plus nutritious ent judiciary and media under citing a former employee of the tions and would investigate. heavy fines by Chinese authori- mothers. complementary foods thereafter, a “one country, two systems” firm and invoices obtained by the “Dumex China pays great ties for price-fixing in August, Increasingly competitive for- up to two years or beyond. formula. AGENCIES broadcaster. attention to the CCTV report on when it was ordered to pay mula companies have targeted AFP TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES Manila launches air assault on rebels 70,000 civilians flee, extremists’ number drops to 100 as gunfire rings out across Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA: Philippine of danger for civilians in the area,” troops aboard helicopters fired Carlos Conde, the Philippine rep- rockets yesterday at Muslim resentative for the New York- rebels occupying parts of a based watchdog, said. major city, intensifying efforts “These are residential areas, to end an eight-day stand-off how would they (soldiers) know that has left dozens dead. which house or area to target? I The military said it was close don’t think they would have that to defeating the Moro National precise information.” Liberation Front (MNLF) forces, Fifty-one MNLF fighters and who invaded southern Zamboanga six security forces, as well as the city in a bid to derail a rival rebel four civilians, have died during group’s planned peace pact with the stand-off, according to Zagala. the government. One of the civilians who died “We know for a fact that the was a two-year-old baby who had end is near and they are try- been taken hostage and was shot ing to flee,” military spokesman in the head, Zamboanga mayor Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Zagala Maria Isabelle Climaco Salazar said shortly before the helicopter told reporters, without identify- assault was launched. ing who fired the bullet. Two air force helicopters fired Nearly 70,000 other civilians rockets towards the MNLF rebels have fled the fighting, however held up in and around two coastal many other people are believed villages, the first air strikes since to be trapped inside the conflict the military began its offensive on zones. Friday. As many as 300 civilians in one About 200 rebels initially took village had sought shelter in an dozens of hostages and burned ice-making plant building after hundreds of homes, forcing a abandoning their homes, while shut down of Zamboanga, a city others had stayed behind to pro- of about one million that is a key tect their belongings, according commercial hub in the region. to Human Rights Watch. Zagala said there were only Zagala said yesterday morn- about 100 MNLF forces left, after ing the remaining MNLF rebels dozens were caught and others were engaged in ground battles fled, while key rebel-held areas with troops around two coastal had been over-run. villages, and had proved defiant in But the remaining gunmen the face of the military advance. Military bomb squads look for evidence next to a destroyed car after a suspected car bomb explosion amid heavy fighting between troops and Muslim were hiding among civilians and “They still have ammunition Zagala acknowledged the rebels and they continue to fire at us,” rebels on the eighth day of a stand-off in Zamboanga City on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday. were believed to still be holding he said. some locals as human shields. Zagala said MNLF rebels yes- Muslim rebels have been fight- country’s political process rather established under the 1996 pact Zamboanga, about 850 kilome- Asked about the potential for terday torched a section of Santa ing since the 1970s for an inde- than foment violence. as a “failed experiment”, largely tres (530 miles) south of the capi- the civilians to be caught up in the Barbara, one of the neighbour- pendent or autonomous homeland But 71-year-old MNLF founder because the southern Philippines tal Manila, is a major industrial helicopter assaults, Zagala empha- hoods they had occupied, to slow in the south of the mainly Catholic Nur Misauri has been angered by has continued to endure dire pov- and trading hub. One of its most sised they were “precision” strikes. down the military advance. Philippines. An estimated 150,000 a planned peace deal between the erty and corruption. important economic sectors is a Human Rights Watch Volleys of gunfire were heard people have died in the fighting. Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a Under the envisaged new sardine-producing industry. expressed concern about the ringing out across Santa Barbara The MNLF signed a peace rival group with 12,000 gunmen, peace deal, a new autonomous Because of the conflict schools growing dangers for civilians, four before the helicopter assault, while treaty in 1996 that granted as he believes it would sideline his region would replace the MNLF- in Zamboanga were shut and ferry of whom had been killed in earlier sniper fire from the rebels pre- limited self-rule to the south’s organisation. brokered one. The rival Milf and air services were suspended for stages of the conflict. vented firemen from approaching Muslim minority, and has since President Benigno Aquino has would have most control of the an eighth consecutive day. “This definitely raises the level the burning community. largely participated in the described the autonomous region new autonomous region. AFP

Ex-forest ranger Indonesia assured of all efforts to resolve stand-off shot dead LA TRINIDAD: A former MANILA: The Philippines (MNLF) chairman Nur Misuari government is concerned with conflict and stand by the 1996 tension and resume the peace forest ranger was killed by assured Indonesia yesterday that have taken civilians as hostages recent developments in the peace agreement. process,” the OIC said in a state- assassins on Sunday night in the government is doing all it and used them as human shields. on-going armed conflict in “The 1996 final peace agreement ment yesterday. “This, to avoid San Juan, Abra. can to end the week-long stand- “We very well know the com- Zamboanga City. is a comprehensive agreement as further bloodshed and to allow Guillermo dela Cuadra, 63, off between security forces and plication (on the ground). This is “As neighbours and as facilita- the foundation for solving problems peaceful resolution to these inci- of Barangay Guimba, was play- Muslim rebels who have tried why the operations of our security tor of the achievement of the final in the southern Philippines for a dents,” the OIC said. ing cards with other villagers to take over Zamboanga City in forces are very calibrated, if only peace agreement in 1996 between just, comprehensive and sustaina- “The OIC, the biggest group of at a friend’s house in Barangay Mindanao since last week. to ensure that there will be no the Philippines and the MNLF, ble peace,” he said. Natalegawa said Muslim countries, brokered the Supi-il when still unidentified “Rest assured that we are more hostages and casualties as Indonesia urged all parties con- Indonesia is always ready, at the signing of the final peace agree- men shot him with assault rifles. doing all we can at this point to a result of the stand-off,” she said. cerned to exercise restraint and request of stakeholders, to contrib- ment between the government The wounded Cuaded died solve the situation there,” deputy Over the weekend, the ensure the safety and security of ute to the restoration of normalcy and the MNLF in 1996,” it said. while being transferred from presidential spokesperson Abigail Indonesian government urged civilians,” he said. in southern Philippines. The offer of the OIC to help the St Therese Wellness Centre Valte said in a radio interview Manila to reach a peaceful reso- “Peaceful solution is the only The Organisation of Islamic resolve the ongoing siege in to the Abra Provincial Hospital over dzRB. lution of the continuing conflict option that should be taken by Conference (OIC) offered to help Zamboanga City came in the in Bangued town. Police inves- She said the only problem between Misuari’s men and mem- both parties,” he said in a state- resolve the on-going standoff midst of the cancellation of the tigators found 12 cartridges for that has complicated the situ- bers of the Armed Forces and the ment sent by the Indonesian between government and MNLF 5th Phl-MNLF-OIC tripartite cal 7.62mm firearm, two car- ation was the fact that forces Philippine National Police. embassy in Manila. forces in Zamboanga City. meeting on the review of the pro- tridges of cal 5.56mm, and a cal loyal to the faction of former Indonesian Foreign Minister Natalegawa urged both parties “The OIC stands ready to offer visions of the 1996 peace pact. 7.62mm bullet. Moro National Liberation Front Marty Natalegawa said their to find a peaceful solution to the all possible assistance to ease the THE PHILIPPINE STAR Hostage taker US ship arrives for drill arrested MANILA: Police arrested a Expert calls for suspension drug-crazed man after tak- ing hostage a man inside a house in Makati City yester- of senators in $240m scam day morning. Senior Superintendent MANILA: Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago said yesterday that Manuel Lukban, Makati City senators charged with plunder over the P10bn ($240m) congres- police chief, said he received sional fund scam should be automatically suspended. a call around 7:40am about a Santiago, a constitutional law expert, said that under the 1991 Anti- man who barged into a house Plunder Act, the accused shall be automatically suspended from office along Durango Street that was when the Ombudsman files plunder charges in court. being used as an office by the “This means that the senators and representatives implicated as Sta Ana Builders Inc, an elec- persons of interest shall be suspended from Congress while trial is trical contracting company. pending,” Santiago said in a news release. Lukban said the suspect, She cited Section 5 of the Anti-Plunder Act, which states that “Any identified as Ariel Ruelo, 31, public officer against whom any criminal prosecution under a valid of San Joaquin, Mandaluyong information under this Act in whatever stage of execution and mode City, intended to rob the office of participation, is pending in court, shall be suspended from office.” when he was discovered by its Santiago added that there is no constitutional provision that sena- caretaker, Jomar Villanueva. tors can be suspended only by the upper chamber. “That provision is not found in the Constitution, but only in the Senate Army deployed Rules. While under the Anti-Plunder Act, suspension is mandatory as The USS Boxer, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the US Navy, is guided by tug boats during docking indicated by the word ‘shall’ in the Senate Rules suspension is merely in rebel areas at the Subic Bay Freeport. The ship will take part in the annual US Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX 14) permissive, as indicated by the use of the word ‘may,’” Santiago said. which officially begins tomorrow. JONAS REYES The Department of Justice filed before the Office of the Ombudsman BACOLOD CITY: The plunder complaints against Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Army’s 303rd Infantry Estrada, and Ramon Revilla Jr, who have been accused of coursing Brigade has deployed 300 of their funds to bogus non-government organizations set up by business- its men to help fight poverty woman Janet Lim-Napoles. in 11 conflict-torn communi- Luzon folk cautioned against flash floods Senate President Franklin Drilon said the senators charged with ties in the northern part of plunder before the Office of the Ombudsman won’t be suspended from Negros Occidental. MANILA: Residents in Luzon Geophysical and Astronomical Batangas, Bataan, Zambales and office just yet. Col Jon Aying, commander should brace for possible flash Services Administration Metro Manila. At 2.55pm yester- In an interview on ANC Headstart, Drilon said the senators tagged in of the 303rd IB based in floods and landslides as the (PAGASA), said central and day, the yellow rainfall warning the scam who are now facing plunder charges will not be automatically Murcia town, said the 300 sol- southwest monsoon will con- southern Luzon would still expe- advisory was raised over Metro suspended since the Ombudsman will have to evaluate the evidence diers, augmented by policemen, tinue to dump rains on some rience moderate to occasionally Manila, Rizal, Laguna, Cavite, gathered by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). will comprise 20 “Bayanihan” parts of Luzon including Metro heavy rains this week due to the Bulacan, Pampanga, Bataan, Drilon said if the Ombudsman finds the evidence of the NBI sufficient, teams deployed in these hin- Manila this week, the state southwest monsoon enhanced by Zambales, Occidental Mindoro, the charged senators will be required to file their counter-affidavit. terland barangays, as part of weather bureau said yesterday. Tropical Storm Man-yi. Tarlac and portions of Batangas, “Usually, under the rules, they are given 10 days,” Drilon said in the the military’s “Win the Peace” Robert Sawi, weather division He warned that heavy rains are Quezon, and Nueva Ecija. ANC interview, a transcript of which was uploaded to the Senate website. campaign. AGENCIES chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, likely to affect Mindoro, Cavite, THE PHILIPPINE STAR THE PHILIPPINE STAR TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Taliban must Afghan poll not set talk terms: Army

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military will not let Taliban rebels set conditions for race begins peace talks as the govern- ment seeks dialogue to end the insurgency, the army chief said yesterday. Tehreek- ‘Inclusive, transparent elections an i-Taliban Pakistan on Sunday announced preconditions important element of transition’ for any peace talks, saying troops must be withdrawn KABUL: Nominations opened campaign yesterday. from the tribal areas and yesterday for Afghanistan’s Presidential hopefuls must be its prisoners released. “It is presidential election, with a aged at least 40, have a clean understandable to give peace large field expected to register criminal record, provide 100,000 a chance through a political in the race to succeed Hamid voter cards to prove they have a process but no one should Karzai as the US-led war network of supporters and lodge have any misgivings that we winds down. a deposit of one million Afghanis would let terrorists coerce us The election on April 5 will ($18,000). The tough new crite- into accepting their terms,” mark Afghanistan’s first-ever ria were designed “to limit the Kayani said. Politicians last democratic transfer of power as number of runners”, Noor said, week gave backed Prime Karzai steps aside after leading after around 40 candidates stood Minister Nawaz Sharif’s the country since the hardline in the chaotic 2009 election that calls to begin talks with the Taliban regime was ousted in was marred by massive fraud. Afghan Independent Election Commission officials wait for candidates for registration in Kabul yesterday. Taliban. But Kayani warned 2001. The presidential race, from Karzai, a charismatic and that militants “will not be which Karzai is barred after mercurial figure, has dominated foreign UN representatives, and participation in the elections by Rassoul as a technocrat candidate allowed to take advantage of serving two terms, is seen as the Afghan politics as the country has many observers fear it has lost its men and women from all seg- from within Karzai’s camp. it (talks offer)”. The army, he key test of the effectiveness of 13 struggled to develop amid a fierce independence and determination ments of Afghan society” after Rassoul could put together said, “has the ability and the years of bloody international mili- Taliban insurgency, and there are to root out ballot-rigging. low participation by women and a broad-based ticket by sign- will to take the fight to the tary intervention and billions of no obvious front-runners to suc- “Most of the members of the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ing up strongman of the north terrorists”. dollars of aid. ceed him. He has vowed to oversee commission are allies of the presi- ethnic group, in the 2009 vote. Atta Mohammad Noor and “Around 28 people received the a free and fair election and said dent or his associates,” Thomas Many fear a surge in violence Mohammad Mohaqiq, a leader of Sharif leaves information package for presi- he will not endorse any candidate, Ruttig, of the Afghan Analysts during campaigning and on poll- the ethnic Hazara minority, as his dential elections,” Independent but international donor nations Network, said. ing day, but the government has vice-presidential candidates. for Turkey Election Commission (IEC) have expressed repeated concerns “Credible, inclusive, and trans- said its security forces will ensure Other potential runners include spokesman Noor Mohammad over the vote. parent presidential and provin- safety. Karzai recently said former Qayum Karzai, the president’s ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Noor told reporters as the office Karzai also named a new five- cial elections in 2014 are now warlord Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, 2009 brother, and former interior min- Prime Minister Nawaz opened. All potential runners member Electoral Complaints the most important element of runner-up Abdullah Abdullah and ister Ali Ahmad Jalali. Sharif left for Turkey yes- must register with the IEC before Commission which will investi- Afghanistan’s transition,” US former finance minister Ashraf The election coincides with the terday on a three-day visit at October 6, and a final list of veri- gate allegations of fraud. Ambassador James Cunningham Ghani were possible candidates. withdrawal of 87,000 Nato com- the invitation of his Turkish fied candidates will be published The commission has been wrote in an article in the local With political manoeuvring bat troops as Afghan soldiers and counterpart. He will meet on November 16. No candidate reshaped since 2009, when it was media last week. under way, attention is on low- police take charge of the battle President Abdullah Gul and was expected to launch their made up of three Afghans and two He called for “broad profile Foreign Minister Zalmai against the Taliban. AFP Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Officials said the two countries will sign agree- ments and MoUs to enhance cooperation in all fields, espe- cially in the economic and Top policewoman dies after commercial spheres. Judges agree to prosecute 25 rebels killed gun assault in Kandahar in Afghanistan terrorists under new law KANDAHAR: The top police- successive women’s affairs direc- woman in Afghanistan’s res- tors in Laghman province within KABUL: Afghan police tive south died yesterday after months last year. backed by the national army ISLAMABAD: Veiled wit- Kabiru Umar aka Kabiru Sokoto, or witness who may be in danger being shot by assassins, just And earlier this month, masked have killed 25 Taliban fight- nesses will appear in trial before a Federal High Court. or at risk until such a person is months after her predecessor gunmen in the eastern province of ers in the past 24 hours, the courts to depose against hard- Sokoto, who allegedly master- brought under the protection of was gunned down, in the latest Paktika shot dead Indian author Interior Ministry said in a ened criminals, arrested during minded the 2011 Christmas Day the Tribunal. This is the first time attack to highlight the threat to Sushmita Banerjee, whose book statement yesterday. “Units the ongoing targeted operation bombing of St. that covered witnesses are being women in public life. about her escape from Islamist of national police backed by in Karachi, and the detention Theresa’s Catholic Church in introduced in Pakistan in view of Nigar, who only used one name, militants in the 1990s became a the national army and the period of such offenders is being Madalla, Niger State was being several instances in which they was shot on the street in Lashkar Bollywood film. Nato-led coalition force have enhanced to ninety days as pro- prosecuted by the State Security were gunned down in Karachi, Gah, the capital of Helmand prov- Nigar, 38, was at first expected killed 25 rebels and arrested vided in the Constitution, under Service (SSS) before Justice resulting in the acquittal of the ince, on Sunday and died of her to survive her injuries after she 43,” it said. the sweeping amendments pro- Adeniyi Ademola. dangerous criminals by courts, wounds in hospital. was shot on Sunday morning as posed to the Anti-Terrorism The two witnesses, who he said. “I can confirm that Nigar died she walked near the police head- Push for bill Act (ATA). mounted the witness box, wore However, hooded accused, who in the emergency unit of the hos- quarters in Lashkar Gah. Her The Anti-Terrorism Courts mask on their faces in order to are considered very dreadful, are pital this morning,” provincial killers were riding a motorbike awareness (ATCs) will try the target killers, hide their identities. They told the already being presented in courts government spokesman Omar and escaped the scene. She had extortionists, kidnappers for ran- court how Sokoto was arrested with masks on their faces. Even Zawak said. “She died from a bad worked for seven years in the PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s som and mafia members, a cabinet and interrogated. In many such during questioning, their faces are injury to her neck.” police crime branch in Helmand, northwestern province source, who has seen the recom- cases in other countries, judges covered to hide the identity of the Her predecessor as the most a hotbed of the Islamist insur- of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa mended changes in the ATA. sit behind a curtain to hide their investigators. senior woman police officer in gency that erupted against the plans to run a campaign to “The witnesses will be masked identity from criminals and their At present, the law provides Helmand, Lieutenant Bibi Islam, US-backed Kabul government increase awareness about to hide their identity in order to gangs. for thirty-day detention, a period, was seen as a high-profile symbol of after the fall of the Taliban. the recently-promulgated save them from being targeted In its fervent desire to protect which has been suggested to be how opportunities have improved She was the mother of a son Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right by the patrons or cohorts of the the victims and witnesses of war raised to 90 days in case of the in Afghanistan since the repressive and a daughter and was based to Information Ordinance under-trial criminals,” he said. crimes in the former Yugoslavia arrested criminals in Karachi. Taliban regime was ousted in 2001. at Lashkar Gah airport after 2013, touted to be third best However, the source said from the [Serbian] devil, the The source said the govern- But before her murder in July, reaching the rank of investiga- in the world. The ordinance the judges would be able to see makers of the Rules of Procedure ment would be satisfied if a Islam admitted receiving regular tor. Before Helmand, she had been makes its obligatory for all deponents unveiled and the and Evidence similarly undertook superior court takes up the case death threats from people who dis- posted in the capital Kabul. After 32 government departments defence lawyers would be allowed to disguise the identity of these of such a detained criminal just approved of her career -- including Islam was killed, Nigar told local to provide information to any to cross-examine them as permit- victims and witnesses. a few days before the expiration from her own brother. media that she was not scared citizen and hands punish- ted by the law. Thus, according to Rule 69 in of the 90-day detention period. The deaths in Helmand fol- of being a policewoman in ultra- ments to officials obstruct- In Abuja (Nigeria) on May exceptional circumstances, the This will provide sufficient time low the murder of female police conservative Helmand and that ing the right to records or 10 this year, two prosecution Prosecutor may apply to a Trial to the investigators to question Lieutenant Colonel Malalai Kakar she was determined to continue destroying information. witnesses testified under mask Chamber to order the non-dis- the accused. in neighbouring Kandahar prov- doing a job she loved. AGENCIES against a suspected terrorist, closure of the identity of a victim INTERNEWS ince in 2008, and the killing of two AFP

Nato tankers attacked Three women shot British Council to adopt dead over ‘honour’ in Peshawar public schools in Punjab PESHAWAR: Relatives have shot dead three women in a LAHORE: The British Council will adopt 72 public schools in 12 dif- lawless tribal area of north- ferent districts of Punjab namely Khushab, Sargodha, Gujranwala, west Pakistan after one of them Gujrat, Sheikhupura, Okara, Sahiwal, Vehari, Khanewal, Lodhran, left her husband, officials said Muzaffargarh and DG Khan, from the next year. yesterday. Under the project, 72 public schools would be granted the status of The “honour” killings happened “British Council Schools.”The British Council will adopt six schools each in in Jawaki village in the Darra selected districts. British Council Punjab Director Richard Wayers stated Adam Khel district, between the this during a meeting with Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood cities of Peshawar and Kohat. at his office yesterday, a handout said. A 22-year-old woman from Giving the details of the programme, Wayers said teachers training Karachi who married a Jawaki workshops had already begun while 26 teachers from Bahawalpur, 17 shopkeeper about two years from Multan, 12 from Faisalabad, 20 from Sialkot, 26 from Jhelum and ago was accused of fleeing her 24 from schools of Chakwal, besides 250 teachers of 125 public sector husband’s house and marrying schools, had been developed as master trainers through various online another man in the northwestern courses, adding that 500 other teachers would be given training in Swat valley with the help of her professional development and global citizenship, etc. aunt and cousin, a local adminis- Social workers from five NGOs, attached with the British Council, tration official said. would remain in constant contact with the school administration and The local tribal council or the students’ parents so that the students might not drop out. jirga intervened in the matter The meeting was told that the social workers belonging to Awaz and decided on Sunday that the Foundation (Muzaffargarh), Women Rights Association (Multan), women should be killed. Participatory Welfare Services (Layyah), Sudhar Society (Sialkot and Relatives shot the three dead Narowal) and Anwar Jannat Memorial Foundation (Jhang) shall vol- at their house late Sunday and untarily contribute in this project. Director Youth and Society Project buried them yesterday morning, Residents gather near damaged tankers of a Nato convoy after an attack in Hub, about 25km from Karachi, yesterday. British Council Punjab Saadia Rehman, English language consult- he added. Fifteen tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan were set on fire by militants. ant Daniel Sooper Bhatt and Project Director Saad Bajwa were also AFP present. INTERNEWS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA After rift, Advani sings Modi praise Leader also lauds other BJP chief ministers KORBA: BJP patriarch masses and I feel proud to see L K Advani yesterday lauded their achievement and suc- Gujarat Chief Minister cess,” said Advani while refer- Narendra Modi who was ring to Modi as well as Madhya anointed the party’s prime Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj ministerial candidate despite Singh Chouhan and Raman his opposition. Singh. Advani, a former deputy Advani lavished praise on prime minister, showered Raman Singh and said the new praise on Modi in Chhattisgarh state Chhattisgarh has seen and said he has taken develop- tremendous development. He ment to the rural hinterland advised the BJP government to of Gujarat. focus on education and health “My colleague Narendra sectors and appealed to stu- Modi, who has been declared as dents to always keep updated PM candidate of the party, was with changes in IT sector to the first leader who had taken match pace with development. development in rural areas of “Raman Singh always thinks Gujarat. He ensured 24-hour for his people and the youth and power supply in each and every their welfare. I thank him and village in Gujarat from where I his cabinet colleagues for mak- too belong as a member of par- ing Chhattisgarh a power sur- liament,” Advani, 85, said amid plus state,” said Advani in the applause in Chhattisgarh’s presence of the Chhattisgarh Korba town where he dedicated chief minister and his few cabi- A mahout tightens a rope as a caparison is draped onto an elephant’s head during festivities marking the annual harvest a 500 MW Hasdeo Thermal net colleagues. festival of Onam at a temple, on the outskirts of Kochi, yesterday. Power Expansion Project. Raman Singh said Though Advani opposed it, Chhattisgarh has put in Rs17bn Modi was made the Bharatiya investment for power genera- Janata Party’s prime ministe- Advani, top, and Modi tion, transmission and distribu- rial candidate on September tion system and electricity was High demand for traditional Onam feast 13. An unhappy Advani did available in the state round- not attend the BJP parlia- on Chhattisgarh Chief Minister the-clock at the cheapest rate KOCHI: Kerala yesterday cel- we would be unable to meet the as their salary for September was mentary board meeting where Raman Singh and said he was in the country. ebrated Onam with the tradi- demand,” said Vinod Kumar, who paid in advance. Across the state, Modi’s name was decided upon also doing the same job in “Even in the period when tional ‘Onam Sadhya’, a rich and runs a catering business here. people have been shopping — like and wrote a scathing letter to Chhattisgarh that Modi has several states faced blackout delicious platter of 26 food items. With prices of vegetables and every year. party president Rajnath Singh done for infrastructure and due to Northern Grid’s failure, Yesterday also marked Thiru other essentials rising like never “Sales are not bad. One reason expressing his displeasure and power in Gujarat. Chhattisgarh remained totally Onam, the most important day in before, hotels and caterers are why people thought Onam festivities disappointment. He also talked “An honest leadership in unaffected and even supplied the Onam week. charging a minimum of Rs220 for would be affected was the price rise about “anguish in my heart” in Chhattisgarh has brought power to other states,” Raman The practise of making the tra- an Onam Sadhya — packed in good because of the weakening rupee,” the letter. good governance to the state,” Singh said. The plant, which ditional Onam Sadhya has virtually quality plastic containers. said Kumar Nath, who owns a home Three days later, Advani, Advani said while referring was built by Chhattisgarh State vanished in many homes. Many pre- Onam, primarily a Hindu festival, appliances shop in Kochi city. one of the founders of both the to Raman Singh who is head- Power Generation Company ferred to enjoy the holiday visiting is celebrated across communities in “With Kerala’s economy propped Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ing the BJP government in Ltd at Rs3.67bn, has taken the places. Hotels and catering estab- Kerala. The harvest festival marks up by the diaspora remittances, the and the earlier Bharatiya the mineral-rich state since total power generation capacity lishments had a roaring business, the homecoming of the mythical price rise to a certain extent has not Jana Sangh, spoke up in December 2003. Chhattisgarh of the 13-year-old state to 2,424 and said they were finding it difficult king Mahabali. Unfortunately, rains been felt because practically every Chhattisgarh. goes to the assembly polls by MW. The demand in the state to meet orders for Onam Sadhya. have dented the festivities this time. Kerala household has at least one Advani, who lauded Modi, the year-end. “They are tak- even at the peak hour is about “By Saturday itself we stopped Kerala government employees person working abroad,” he said. was also quick to heap praise ing the development to rural 2,000 MW. IANS taking orders because we knew have an extra reason to celebrate IANS Inspired by movie, gang of four kills security guard, steals Rs1m

NEW DELHI: Inspired by the the warehouse. The guard on cash collection of the company Hindi movie Bombay to Goa, a the roof, Mukti Paswan, resisted was kept in the locker on the sec- former employee of a warehouse and was killed,” said Additional ond floor of the warehouse. and three associates, including Commissioner of Police Ravindra He shared the idea of loot- a woman, murdered a security Yadav. ing this cash with his neighbour guard and robbed Rs1m from a In accordance with their plan, Rajbeer. Subsequently, Rajbeer, Delhi warehouse, police said. the four got into the warehouse, his wife Sangeeta, and Dinesh All four were arrested, but broke open its locker, and took hatched the conspiracy to loot police were only able to recover away Rs1m, the police officer this cash. about Rs1,000 from them. said. For getting adequate manpower Dinesh, a former employee of Police said that the four to accomplish their plan, Rajbeer’s the warehouse at Gokalpuri in got their idea from the 1972 brother-in-law Purshotam was east Delhi, was joined by three adventure-comedy film featur- included in the plan, since he had friends — Rajbir, Dinesh and ing Amitabh Bachchan and links with criminals operating in Sangeeta — in the crime. All four Shatrughan Sinha, Bombay to Uttar Pradesh, police said. were arrested yesterday morning Goa. They had watched the movie Asked what in the film inspired from the Sonia Vihar, northeast just before planning their robbery the four, the police officer said he Delhi, police said. attempt. had not himself watched it, but “They scaled the high walls on Dinesh had earlier worked in was only recounting what the four September 6 night, and reached the logistics wing of the ware- said during interrogation. the roof over the third floor of house. He was aware that the IANS

Vishwakarma Puja Dilip Kumar stable in hospital after heart attack

MUMBAI: The condition of veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who suffered a heart attack on Sunday, is stable in Lilavati Hospital, a hospital spokesper- son said yesterday. “He suffered a myocardial inf- arction (heart attack) yesterday (Sunday). All treatment as per protocol was instituted,” said the spokesperson. Dilip Kumar, 90, was rushed to the hospital and admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) and continues to remain there. In view of his advanced age and post-bypass status, he requires close monitoring in the ICU and is under the care of cardiologist Nitin Gokhale. “At present his condition is sta- ble,” said the spokesperson. Earlier, his wife and former actress Saira Bano had told Workers carry a clay idol of Vishwakarma out of the Kumortoli pot- reporters that the thespian had ter colony, on the eve of the Vishwakarma Puja in Kolkata yesterday. been admitted to hospital follow- Vishwakarma Puja is celebrated to worship Vishwakarma mainly in ing “discomfort”. Later, hospital industry and among people who work with machinery and tools. authorities informed that dis- comfort was caused due to heart attack. IANS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Bengal Christian schools to close PM all ears in riot-hit area on Thursday over Manmohan vows stringent action against perpetrators; BJP calls visit ‘secular tourism’ police inaction

MUZAFFARNAGAR: A KOLKATA: Christian schools grim looking Prime Minister across West Bengal will observe Manmohan Singh yesterday a shutdown on Thursday in pro- demanded “strictest action” test against “police inaction” against those who killed dur- and vandalism at a school fol- ing the communal violence lowing a minor girl student’s here as he consoled victims death allegedly due to bullying who related tales of horror while the institution’s principal to him and Congress lead- was yesterday granted bail. ers Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Helen Sarkar, the principal Gandhi. of the Christ Church School in Over a week after the three- Dum Dum of North 24-Parganas day orgy ended leaving 48 people district, was granted bail on a dead and thousands homeless, personal bond of Rs5,000, her Manmohan Singh toured some counsel said. of the troubled villages, meeting The Calcutta Diocese of the villagers and discussing the relief Church of North India, which and rehabilitation measures with runs the school, announced at officials. a media meet that over 1,000 A large number of men and Christian-run schools will observe women spoke to the prime minis- Thursday as a “black day” and ter and the Gandhis from behind remain shut, decrying the police wooden barricades, with security “inaction” during the vandalism personnel keeping a close watch. perpetrated by guardians and Some were teary eyed as they locals on September 12. narrated incidents of those three “Schools will remain shut to days when mobs set upon inno- protest total police inaction to cents as they fled their village control the mob, to condemn the homes. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi meet villagers during a visit to rampant vandalism and hooligan- “Efforts will be made to ensure Muzaffarnagar yesterday. ism in a girls’ school for hours on that the strictest action be taken end causing trauma to the head against those behind the (vio- got all help. of Barvala. violence — the worst in the state “People behind such ghastly mistress and so many lady teach- lence),” Manmohan Singh said At some places, Manmohan The prime minister was all ears in two decades — forced the violence would be punished and ers,” said Archbishop of Calcutta after touring some of the most Singh and Sonia Gandhi were as distraught people met him, authorities to deploy the army, for all help extended to the UP Thomas D’Souza. affected places. together as people spoke to them. complaining against the Uttar the first time in Uttar Pradesh in government.” The schools observing the “I, Soniaji and Rahul Gandhi Rahul Gandhi mingled with vic- Pradesh government for not com- more than 20 years. While Manmohan Singh spoke shutdown would include around have come here to share your tims separately accompanied ing to their rescue as the violence Although day curfew has since to Divisional Commissioner 700 institutions under the West grief and to understand the mag- by Minister of State of Home raged. “I am here to share your been lifted, night curfew con- Bhuvnesh Kumar and District Bengal Association of Christian nitude of the violence,” he said. R P N Singh. pain,” he said. tinues in Muzaffarnagar. While Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, Schools (WBACS) and the “This is a big incident and the Speaking to residents of Yesterday ’s visit by the prime there has been no fresh violence Sonia Gandhi mingled with Association of Anglo-Indian culprits behind the incident must Budhana Road in Muzaffarnagar, minister and the Gandhis — for days, tension has not totally women and sought to know the schools and about 300 affiliated to be brought to book. It is the gov- 130km from Delhi, the prime slammed by the Bharatiya Janata abated. sequence of events. the Indian Council for Secondary ernment’s responsibility to safe- minister said: “Please maintain Party (BJP) as “secular tourism” Manmohan Singh asked the Rahul Gandhi asked R P N Education (ICSE). guard life and property so that peace and calm.” — came a day after Uttar Pradesh state government to ensure the Singh to take petitions from the D’Souza, also WBACS presi- people can again return to their He spoke to officials as he Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav rehabilitation of the thousands people and address their issues. dent, would submit a memo- homes.” walked through Bassi Kalan vil- was met by angry residents when now sheltered in makeshift relief Uttar Pradesh Governor B L randum to Governor M K The prime minister said the lage and later Tawli. he went to Muzaffarnagar. centres. Joshi and Uttar Pradesh Health Narayanan and Chief Minister federal government would assist Both Manmohan Singh and There was no overt display of He told reporters that he Minister Ahmed Hasan accom- Mamata Banerjee seeking pro- the Uttar Pradesh government to Sonia Gandhi also stopped by anger yesterday. expected the security scenario to panied the prime minister. tection of minority educational ensure that victims of the violence the roadside to talk to villagers The Muzaffarnagar communal improve. IANS institutions. IANS

Rs19m found swept away in floods Minister asks DEHRADUN: Workers clearing said. “The safe was swept away Despite cooperation with China, rubble in a flood-devastated town in the floods but the cash is safe,” puja volunteers in the Indian Himalayas have police Inspector General Ram Singh discovered Rs19m ($303,000) Meena said in Dehradun, capital of not to mistreat border issue remains: Official in a safe which had been swept the northern state of Uttarakhand. away by floodwaters, police said Meena said the money belonged yesterday. to the State Bank of India (SBI), women visitors NEW DELH: Foreign secre- the total number of regis- the new challenges posed by The safe was found on Saturday the country’s largest nationalised tary Sujatha Singh said yes- tered media publications in non-traditional threats and are near the ruins of a bank in the town bank. “We have deposited the cash MUMBAI: Maharashtra terday that although there both countries taken together pursuing new frontiers in space of Kedarnath that was flattened by in another SBI branch,” Meena said. Home Minister R R Patil yes- are many areas of India- is more than 100,000, and the and cyberspace. So the scope flash floods in June, a police officer AFP terday issued a stern warning China cooperation, the scope total number of TV channels of our international coopera- to all Ganeshotsav organisers of engagement on the unre- exceed 1,000. The scope for an tion has widened.” But the dif- and volunteers to ‘behave’ with solved border issue needs to exciting conversation between ficult boundary issue remains women devotees or face action. be deepened. media organisations was thus unsolved, she said. “We have learnt of instances According to a statement, immense. “The boundary question, in which volunteers of some she mentioned that India- Those using the social media which is a particularly difficult Ganeshotsav mandals have mis- China trade, around $70bn, from both countries taken issue, remains unresolved. Yes, behaved with women devotees. is expected to reach around together are in the hundreds we have differing perceptions Mumbai police will serve a notice $100bn by 2015, despite the glo- of millions, she said, noting on some issues. And, yes, we to them asking them to explain,” bal downturn. There is scope in that cumulatively, there are a have potential differences on a grim Patil told the media. expanding media, cyber space little more than a dozen news other matters,” she said. The warning came after volun- and maritime security, she said. organisations from India and “We have set up a number teers at the famous Lalbaugcha “Discussions at the India- China with correspondents of mechanisms for dialogue Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav China Media Forum have set reporting on news about each and communication to address Mandal in Parel pushed and in motion the beginning of an other. these issues. There is need to dragged many women, in some exciting and multi-pronged Noting that both nations widen and deepen the scope of cases by their hair, during the conversation between opinion want a stable Asia-Pacific that our engagement in some areas. ongoing 10-day festival. leaders from media organisa- will allow them to sustain eco- And yes, I can with confidence Many indignant women tions of our two countries,” said nomic growth, she said: “Both say, we are endeavouring in a strongly protested at the outrage Sujatha Singh. are looking towards cooperat- mature spirit of reconciliation and demanded to know how the She was speaking at an event ing on maritime security as and pragmatism to manage volunteers dared to touch the to mark the India-China Media we have a common interest in issues that arise in our rela- female devotees. Forum meet. freedom and security of trans- tionship, even as we build on The incidents were telecast on According to the foreign portation on the global com- the commonalities. TV channels and social network- secretary, it is estimated that mons. Both are wrestling with IANS ing sites, sparking off strong pro- tests especially since the devotees queue up for 8-10 hours before getting to glimpse their elephant- Patient wait headed deity. Lalbaugcha Raja, Mumbai’s most favourite idol of Ganesh, attracts an average of around 1.20 million devotees a day. However, many women devo- tees have been facing hardships and humiliation at the hands of the overzealous volunteers. IANS BSF hands back Pakistani boy ATTARI: The Border Security Force (BSF) yesterday handed over a 12-year-old boy, who had inadvertently crossed into India, to Pakistani border guards. BSF Deputy Inspector General R P S Jaswal said that the boy, Kashim, who belongs to a village in Narowal district of Pakistan’s Punjab province, had recently inadvertently crossed over into India from the international bor- A hand-rickshaw puller waits for customers at a roadside wholesale sugarcane market in Kolkata der between both countries. yesterday. IANS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Pakistan News in Numbers BUSINESS names first OptimismCHART: Index 1 34 Fajr (Dawn) 4:04 film for Oscars Shorook (Sunrise) 5:20 Zuhr (Noon) 11:29 after 50 years Asr (Afternoon) 2:56 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Maghrib (Sunset) 5:37 has put forward a film for the Isha (Night) 7:07 Oscars for the first time in nearly 50 years as its struggling film industry shows signs of revival, officials said yesterday. WEATHER “The Pakistani Academy Selection Committee has selected Zinda Bhaag as the Today Wednesday Weather Thursday Conditions: first Pakistani film in over fifty Clear Clear Clear years to be submitted for Oscar Construction Sector Hot during the consideration in the ‘Foreign day with slight Language Film Award’ category at the 86th Academy Awards,” The outlook for Q2 2013 for the construction sector in Qatar has High: 44° dust to dusty at High: 40° High: 41° a statement issued by the selec- Low: 30° Low: 30° Low: 30° times at places. tracked sideways with respect to the previous quarter. The composite tors said. In addition to Zinda Bhaag index for the sector is only a point down and stands at 41 in Q2 2013 (Flee Alive), a further three films were submitted to the committee compared to 42 in Q1 2013. The Volume of Sales parameter stands DOHA - SUN & SEA for consideration: Chambeli, Josh at 42.17 points lower than the Q1 2013 figure of 59, as project and Lamha. SUN TIDE SEA The selection was made last delays have severely impacted the sales optimism in this quarter. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND week through secret ballot and Zinda Bhaag was the “over- The demand outlook remains steady in Q2 2013; the BOI for New 05:20 17:37 02:45 & 15:30 08:30 & 22:15 05-15/18 KT whelming film of choice of the Orders stands at 53 in the current quarter compared to 54 in the Committee members”. THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW The film is a comedy-thriller preceding quarter. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER about three young men trying to escape the drudgery of their Construction Sector: Composite Index MUSCAT 35/28 Clear 35/28 Clear everyday lives through the use of KUWAIT 43/31 Clear 43/31 Clear unconventional methods available to them. The movie hits the cin- BAHRAIN 43/27 Clear 43/27 Clear 80 emas on September 20. SANAA 27/13 Partly cloudy 27/13 Partly cloudy The film’s narrative is famil- 70 RIYADH 38/30 Clear 44/28 Partly cloudy iar to everyday Pakistanis. The 62 DUBAI 37/30 Clear 38/30 Clear protagonists have unfulfilled 60 BAGHDAD 39/23 Clear 39/23 Clear desires to achieve feats that are out of their reach and a yearning 50 45 46 THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW 43 42 to prove themselves despite the 40 41 hurdles before them. 40 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER 33 Yet an inescapable sense of mel- 31 30 29 30 ATHENS 27/21 Clear 28/22 Mostly cloudy ancholy sets in when they discover 24 23 WASHINGTON 22/13 Clear 24/16 Partly cloudy their opportunities are dictated 20 20 SYDNEY 26/12 Partly cloudy 25/10 Clear by forces outside of their control. The film is directed and written 11 LONDON 16/07 Rain 15/05 Partly cloudy 10 8 by Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi, PARIS 15/17 Chance of rain 18/14 Chance of rain and is produced by Mazhar Zaidi. ISTANBUL 26/19 Clear 25/16 Chance of rain 0 It features Indian born Bollywood MANILA 28/25 Clear 29/25 Chance of storm stalwart Naseeruddin Shah, as

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NEW YORK CITY: For the Persian cat into space first time America’s top beauty queen is a woman of Indian ori- TEHRAN: Iran has settled on into space not only because it is gin, and she is playing down a Persian cat as the best can- unethical but also because they racist tweets that say she looks didate for its latest trial for a turned out to be poor models like an Arab terrorist. manned space mission it hopes for the human experience and The new Miss America is Nina to make by 2020, state media because superior, more scientific Davuluri, a 24-year-old from the reported yesterday. non-animal methods of study are state of New York who wants to The feline would be following now available.” be a doctor. in the footsteps of a menagerie Iran in January claimed to have She called her crowning on of dogs and monkeys who were successfully launched a live mon- Sunday night at the Atlantic City among the early stars of the US key into space and have it land pageant in which she performed and Soviet space programmes in safely back on Earth. a traditional Bollywood dance a the 1960s. The claim was disputed, how- victory for diversity in America. But the announcement of its ever, when at an official press “It was the first time Bollywood planned foray into the atmos- conference a different monkey has been performed on the Miss phere aboard Iran’s Kavoshgar appeared to be presented to the America stage. It’s an honour satellite carrier prompted an media. for myself and my community,” outcry from animal rights groups. Iran’s first attempt to send Davuluri told ABC television yes- Top space official Mohammad a monkey into space failed in terday morning. Ebrahimi told the state IRNA September 2011. “Halfway through, I just news agency that the mission Iran, which first put a satellite started crying because you know, could go ahead by March next into orbit in 2009, has previously it was such an incredible experi- year but previous launch dates sent a rat, turtles and worms into ence being on that Miss America have been put off without official space. stage,” she said. “It was so mean- explanation. Iran’s space programme ingful and powerful.” Ebrahimi said the Persian has prompted concern among Davuluri is beaming despite a cat was the favoured candidate Western governments, which sus- spurt of racist tweets about her. for the mission after tests had pect it is cover for an attempt to She downplayed them, however. been conducted on a number of master the technology that would “I have to rise above that,” animals. be required to deliver a nuclear she said at a news conference His announcement drew an warhead. on Sunday night after being angry response from People Iran denies any such ambition. crowned. “I always viewed myself for the Ethical Treatment of The Persian is the most popu- as first and foremost American.” Animals. lar breed of feline in the United Many described the beauty “Iran’s archaic experiment... States, according to the Cat queen, who is believed to be a is a throwback to the primitive Fanciers’ Association. practising Hindu, as an Arab who Nina Davuluri of New York gets techniques of the 1950s,” the ani- It draws its name from the his- looks like a terrorist. ready to put on some lip gloss mal rights group’s spokesman Ben toric name for Iran, where it has a A user with the handle @ while walking on the beach early Williamson said. recorded history dating back cen- emi_adkins said, “It’s called Miss yesterday after being crowned “European and US space agen- turies before the time of Christ. America. Get outta here New Miss America 2014 at Boardwalk cies stopped sending animals AFP York you look like a terrorist. Hall in Atlantic City. RIGHT: Davuluri #bye #americanforamerica.” performs a traditional Indian dance Lue Brasili exclaimed “9/11 during the contest. was 4 days ago and she gets miss Titanic violin to be auctioned America,” while user Karl Sharro said “Al-Qaeda influenced the lib- LONDON: T h e v i o l i n p l a y e d b y For decades the violin was eral judges.” “I’m so happy this organisa- the bandmaster of the Titanic believed lost but it was found in Others, like the Jezebel femi- tion has embraced diversity,” as the liner sank beneath the the attic of a house in northwest nist blog, denounced the com- she said at the news conference. waves is to go on display at a England in 2006. ments, saying “racists are being “I’m thankful there are children museum marking the tragedy It will be displayed at the racist because Miss America isn’t watching at home who can finally in Northern Ireland, officials Titanic Belfast exhibition white.” relate to a new Miss America.” said yesterday. from tomorrow until October “This world is so ignorant. During her 2014 year of service The instrument belonging 13 before it goes to auction in #MissAmerica Indian or not had as Miss America, she will travel to Wallace Hartley was found Wiltshire, southwest England, every right to gain the title of extensively to speak to audiences strapped to his body after he on October 19. “We are hon- MissAmerica. This is why I want about her chosen issue. drowned with some 1,500 others oured and excited that Titanic to leave America!” chimed in @ The University of Michigan on board the supposedly unsink- Belfast has been chosen to CJlovebug. honour student will also serve able ship in 1912. display Wallace Hartley’s vio- Davuluri competed on the as the official national goodwill It carries an inscription from lin which he played on RMS platform issue of “celebrat- ambassador for the children’s the 34-year-old’s fiancee to mark Titanic,” said the museum’s chief ing diversity through cultural charity group Children’s Miracle Along with her much-prized scholarship to pursue her educa- their engagement. executive Tim Husbands. AFP competency.” Network Hospitals. title, Davuluri won a $50,000 tion. AFP Tuesday 17 September 2013 11 Dhul-qa’da 1434 Volume 18 Number 5825 Price: QR2

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DOHA: The Minister of has always been Qatar’s aim to Energy and Industry, H E Dr have price parity between gas Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, and oil”. has said the diversification Gas and LNG businesses gener- strategy of Qatar’s energy sec- ally rely on long-term contracts tor is successfully going ahead in order to provide certainty to in the changing global market the buyers and sellers and to jus- Until early 2010, Qatargas tify the large scale investments delivered LNG to only seven coun- required. “We believe that gas tries. This number had grown to prices should remain linked to oil 21 as of early 2013, he said in an prices in Asia and Europe. This interview published in the The Oil linkage results in both gas buyers & Gas Year Qatar 2013, which was and suppliers earning reasonable released here yesterday. rates of return on their long-term The minister noted Asia will investments,” the Minister said. remain the centre of interest The LNG market is expected to for Qatar because of the region’s tighten over the next few years, as robust economic growth, geo- little new supply will come online graphical proximity in terms of while demand will continue to grow, global LNG trade and its demand particularly from emerging markets. for cleaner energy. Qatar also sees On the expansion of Qatar’s new Asian markets emerging, downstream sectors Dr Al Sada such as Indonesia and Malaysia. noted Qatar’s long-term hydrocar- Amid concerns over gas supply bons development strategy is to diversity and declining indigenous open new opportunities for further Recipients of The Oil & Gas Year 2013 Awards during a ceremony at the InterContinental Hotel yesterday. (SHAIVAL DALAL) production, the European market development of the downstream potential is also growing. Turkey sector. This would yield new inter- is one of those markets. Similarly, mediate and derivative products, New projects to add value to energy industry emerging Latin American econo- creating various fresh opportu- mies are potential LNG markets nities in the areas of speciality as the continent’s own gas sup- chemicals, plastic adhesives, fibres, DOHA: Qatar is currently of the annual The Oil & Gas production decline rate. sustainable development, Al plies lag behind rising demand. solvents, cosmetics, pharmaceuti- working on a number of Year Qatar 2013. Downstream, Qatar has con- Ghanim said :”We always strive Qatar will continue to explore cals, plastics and industrial alloys. projects aimed at adding the In another parallel develop- solidated its position worldwide to develop in a sustainable man- and consider all new LNG market In a separate interview, Ibrahim value of Qatar’s energy indus- ment, Al Ghanim noted, a com- by launching Muntajat. This new ner… In the oil and gas industry, opportunities. Ibrahim, Economic Advisor to the try. On upstream, Maersk Oil’s prehensive plan is currently being venture will market and deliver our own commitment to future On his expectations about the Emir, said Qatar is working on a development plan for unlock- implemented to raise the produc- a range of petrochemicals and generations is evident. Through price of gas being reconciled in report on energy saving strategies. ing the further potential of Al tivity of QP-operated oil fields. fertilizer products to our clients LNG and GTL, Qatar is supplying future Dr Al Sada said: “The gas “We are working through regulation. Shaheen’s difficult reservoirs The plan includes Bul Haniane worldwide. clean fossil fuels to more than 20 trade is centred on three distinct Electricity is free for consumers in has been approved by Qatar Field redevelopment Project aim- “More investments in petro- countries worldwide”. regional markets-the US, Europe the country…. We could try to impose Petroleum (QP). For Al Khalij ing to completely redevelop the chemicals are expected. HE, the The QP is working hard to limit and Asia. Each has different pric- some tariffs, reasonable ones…”. field, a new exploration and pro- field, replacing a major portion of Minister of Energy and Industry the impact of energy industry on ing structure shaped by the degree “In any case, any subsidy duction-sharing agreement will the offshore facilities and adding Dr Al Sada, has indicated Qatar’s the environment. At Ras Laffan, of market maturity, sources of removal must be gradual. We have extend the partnership between new onshore facilities. ambition to produce 23 million the Jetty Boil-Off Gas recovery supply, dependence on imports to make sure it is consistent with QP and Total for another 25 Bul Haniane redevelopment is tones of petrochemicals a year project is the largest such project and other geopolitical factors”. people’s incomes. We would need years, Issa Al Ghanim, Director, expected to double the field’s cur- by 2020”, he recalled. in the world at a cost of more than “Looking at these markets, we to implement stiff regulations on Strategic Planning & Policy at rent production ate from 40,000 Al Ghanim said QP is develop- a billion dollars. The project will see that the US has a gas-on-gas building codes and assets using QP said here yesterday. to 90,000 barrels of oil per day ing Al Karaana petrochemicals recover 600,000 tonnes of natu- pricing system that the European electricity and adopt other saving For exploiting the full and extend the life of the field complex with Shell and Al Sejeel ral gas and reduce carbon diox- market relies heavily on long- measures such as cutting leaks of potential of Al Shaheen, the by over 25 years with an initial complex together with QAPCO. ide emissions by 1.6 million tones term contracts with price terms desalinated water and water sav- field will see investment of investment of $10 to $13bn. These ventures have been ena- per year. Qafac’s carbon dioxide based on mix of competing fuels, ing projects in agriculture”. more than $1bn. The invest- The project execution is bled by the timely execution of recovery project will see 500 while Asia uses crude oil as a “The Oil & Gas Year Qatar ment is aimed at sustain- expected to take 6 to 8 years the Barzan gas project. This will tonnes of CO2 annually captured benchmark for natural gas prices 2013” was launched at a high- ing production rates of some from the start of construction. channel ethane gas from the and re-injected into the produc- and long-term contracts. These profile function attended by 300,000 barrels of oil per day, A similar plan is being formu- prized North Field to these pet- tion cycle for greater output of differing gas price structures lead Qatar’s energy industry leaders. he said while addressing the lated for Dukhan which will rochemicals complexes. methanol. to significant cost disparities. It THE PENINSULA event that marked the launch significantly reduce the forecast On QP’s commitment to THE PENINSULA GDP to grow by 6.5pc this year Oil prices fall as Mideast tensions recede DOHA: Powered by large-scale pub- construction and services despite a slow- lic infrastructure spending, Qatar’s down in the oil and gas sectors. NEW YORK: Global oil prices fell $1.22 a barrel at $106.99 after hitting export terminals. The decline in oil real gross domestic product (GDP) is The report, which highlights Qatar’s yesterday, after US and Russian a low of $106.10 earlier in the session. prices despite a weak dollar, which forecast to grow by 6.5 percent in 2013 strong growth outlook, says that the eco- officials reached a weekend deal to Brent’s premium over US crude fell usually bolsters dollar-denominated and 6.8 percent in 2014, according to nomic impact of the World Cup is already remove Syria’s chemical weapons, to $3.19. During the session it hit a low oil prices. The dollar hovered near a ‘Qatar Economics Insight 2013’ report being felt as accelerated infrastructure easing investor worries. of $2.94, the smallest premium since near four-week low after former US published by QNB Group. investment has led to a rapid increase Iran’s new atomic energy chief said August 20. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers The report also forecast the cur- in job creation. This has led to an influx his country wanted to settle a decade- Brent crude has fallen by $7 from a withdrew his name as a candidate to rent account surplus of the energy-rich of expatriate workers to fill the growing old nuclear dispute with the West, and six-month high of $117.34 a barrel, hit lead the Federal Reserve. economy to remain high at 34.1 percent requirement for labour force. this also pressured oil prices. in late August on worries about a pos- Markets perceive Summers as rela- of GDP on average in 2013-2014 as the Population growth began picking up “The market is clearly taking out the sible US military strike against Syria tively hawkish, and his withdrawal traditional hydrocarbon exports receipts in mid-2012 and reached double digits risk premium it had afforded to the and unrest in Libya that sent produc- suggests there could be a more gradual are expected to be boosted by exports of in June-2013 (11.3 percent), the world’s potential of military action” on Syria, tion there to a post-war low of 150,000 approach to tightening monetary policy. Gas-to-Liquids (GTL), petrochemicals fastest rate. said Andy Lebow, Vice-President at barrels per day. “The Larry Summers story shows you and fertilisers. Inflation is projected to increase mod- Jefferies Bache in New York. He also RBOB gasoline futures fell by around how dependent we are on our monetary However, the fiscal surplus is pro- erately by 3.6 percent this year and 3.8 cited Iran’s softer tone as a factor pull- five cents to $2.719 per gallon, as a sea- policy, and how hard it’s going to be to jected to narrow at 4.7 percent of GDP percent in 2014. The expanding popu- ing Brent down. sonal change in specifications for deliv- get off that,” said Phil Flynn, an analyst in 2013 and 2.6 percent in 2014 owing lation will increase rents and domestic US President Barack Obama said ery in the New York harbour from at the Price Futures Group in Chicago, to increased infrastructure investment demand, resulting in moderately higher he would retain the military option if summer grade to winter grade gasoline Illinois. US industrial production rose while revenues are mildly reduced by prices. Damascus fails to follow a U N disarma- left the market plentifully supplied with in August as a bounce back in motor lower oil prices. The banking sector will benefit from ment plan drawn up by Washington and both grades. vehicle assembly lifted manufacturing Fiscal surplus is a situation when gov- the strong overall performance of the Moscow. On Sunday, Syrian warplanes “It’s a combination of plentiful sup- output, a hopeful sign for the economy ernments’ total revenue is more than its economy as rising infrastructure spend- and artillery bombarded rebel suburbs plies and the fact that you can’t put the after growth got off to a slow start in total expenditure during a particular ing provides for ample credit oppor- of the capital. excess summer grade into storage,” said the third quarter. period of times, usually one year, which tunities. Coupled with further global Brent crude for delivery in November Stephen Schork, editor of The Schork “The industrial production number is also know as fiscal year. expansion by local banks, this will main- fell by $1.52 to $110.18 by 1.44pm EDT Report in Villanova, Pennsylvania. brought us back up on the demand side The high public spending, as part of tain healthy profits. (1744 GMT), paring losses after drop- On Monday, a spokesman for Libyan a little bit,” added Flynn. the build-up towards the 2022 World The complete report is available on the ping $3 to hit $108.73, its weakest level protesters denied Libyan media reports The Federal Open Market Committee Cup, is expected to accelerate the growth group’s website. since August 12. that striking workers in the east of the is meeting for two days beginning today. of the economy. This will drive growth in THE PENINSULA US oil for October delivery fell by country had reached a deal to reopen REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Business as usual at Zurich Insurance Equity issuance Troika arrives may reflect rosy growth in Portugal for picture LONDON: Companies around the world are increasingly turn- ing to equity issuance to raise bailout review capital, a sign of growing cor- porate and investor confidence that could create a virtuous cir- Lisbon struggling to meet deficit target cle for the economy and finan- cial markets. LISBON: Portugal’s creditors target from 4.0 percent to 4.5 Both primary and secondary arrived back in Lisbon yes- percent of GDP. issuance is picking up steam, with terday to assess the country’s The appeal got a cool response Twitter becoming the latest com- progress under its ¤78bn bail- from Brussels, with the head pany to announce plans to raise out as Brussels signals it will of eurozone finance ministers, equity in an initial public offering not cede to a request for the Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen on Thursday. country’s fiscal targets to be Dijsselbloem, saying Lisbon According to Thomson Reuters relaxed. should stick to the deficit reduc- data, a total of $491.2bn has been Payments of the next tranche tion targets already agreed. raised in equity capital so far this of bailout loans to Lisbon will “I don’t think maintaining the year, up 17 percent from the same depend on a successful review by discussion (over deficit targets) The logo of Zurich Insurance Group at a building beside a construction site in Opfikon, near Zurich, yesterday. period last year. Portugal’s “troika” of lenders — sends out a good signal,” he said By rolling out marketing campaigns, Zurich Insurance is aiming to advertise business as usual after a suicide Equity financing is sometimes the International Monetary Fund, on Friday at a meeting of euro- and resignation in the Swiss insurer’s top ranks. considered a last resort for fund- the European Commission and zone finance minister in Vilnius. ing, as a theory known as the the European Central Bank — of The “troika” has agreed to relax “pecking order” states that com- its progress in implementing eco- Portugal’s deficit targets twice panies usually prefer internal nomic reforms agreed in exchange before, in March and September source of funds from retained for the financial aid. 2012. Sinopec to resume large diesel earnings and debt for raising The assessment by troika audi- “Someone has to explain to us capital. tors will be the first since a politi- how we are going to be able to Selling additional stock to cal crisis erupted in July when the go from a deficit of 5.5 percent investors is also usually nega- resignation of two key ministers in 2013 to a deficit of 4.0 percent exports with fourth quarter quota tive for share prices because it pushed the government to the in 2014. We have never seen such increases the number of shares verge of collapse. a strong reduction in the defi- SINGAPORE: China’s top and the country’s second largest 50,000 tonnes of diesel in August outstanding and reduces earnings It could be the most impor- cit,” said Antonio Saraiva, the r e fi n e r S i n o p e c C o r p i s e x p e c t e d refiner PetroChina , sources close and none in July, traders said. per share. tant review since the bailout was head of the Portuguese Industry to resume high-volume diesel to the matter said. Domestic demand usually But markets are reacting granted in May 2011. The rescue Confederation, after meeting with exports after Beijing approved a Sinopec’s approved volumes are drops in the fourth quarter as warmly to those who have raised programme is scheduled to expire Portas yesterday. quota for the company to export more than one million tonnes for agricultural demand for gasoil equity or said they will do so. in mid-2014. Prime Minister Pedro Passos more than one million tonnes the quarter, one of the sources falls during China’s winter. That Shares in social networking Portugal is struggling to meet Coelho’s centre-right government in the fourth quarter, industry said, declining to give specific is probably what prompted the website LinkedIn hit a record its deficit target of 5.5 percent has imposed relentless spending sources said yesterday. numbers. government to approve higher high on Wednesday, bringing of gross domestic product for cuts and hefty tax increases since Sinopec could export more than Traders said the approved vol- volumes for the two state com- year-to-date gains to around 120 this year as government reforms coming to power in June 2011, it did in the first quarter of the umes are about 1.2 million tonnes panies, the traders said. percent, days after it announced aimed at streamlining the govern- causing its popularity to sink. year, when China’s stepped up for the fourth quarter, or about The increased diesel quota plans to raise additional equity ment repeatedly get bogged down Despite signs of growing diesel exports caused processing 400,000 tonnes each month. This could hit diesel margins, and in capital to fund product develop- by legal challenges. voter weariness with austerity, margins for the oil product to dive could not be confirmed with turn refinery profits, as the indus- ment and expansion. Portugal’s Constitutional Court the government has announced to their lowest in more than two Sinopec. PetroChina has also trial fuel makes up 30 to 40 per- Similarly, shares of US elec- last month struck down a reform fresh austerity measures, includ- years. received a quota to export diesel, cent of production, traders said. tric carmaker Tesla Motors have allowing civil servants to be laid ing an average 10 percent cut in The exports could give rise with its volumes slightly lower The Asian gasoil margins risen 93 percent since it raised off if they fail to requalify for a the pensions of most government to another diesel supply glut in than Sinopec’s, a second source dipped to a nearly three-month equity in May. new job. It was the third time workers, which have been loudly Asia that would pressure margins said. PetroChina’s volumes also low of about $16 a barrel above The trend may reflect grow- that the court has restricted the opposed by unions. again. Demand for the industrial could not be confirmed. Dubai crude in late August, ing approval among investors for scope of a government austerity Portugal is struggling through and transport fuel has already China exported about 1.05 mil- Reuters data showed. companies tapping equity mar- measure. its deepest downturn since a dropped due to an economic lion tonnes of diesel in the first Key diesel importers such as kets to finance growth. The ruling has helped push right-wing dictatorship was top- slowdown in Asia exacerbated by quarter, according to official cus- Indonesia and Vietnam have They may also welcome the Portugal borrowing costs to levels pled in 1974, but some signs of a recent rout in emerging market toms figures. Volumes dropped to curbed imports of the fuel for most fact that firms remain cautious near which it was forced to seek improvement have emerged. currencies, traders added. about 690,000 tonnes in the sec- of the year due to reduced domes- about leverage, having spent the international aid two years ago. The country posted growth of China, which became a net ond quarter after refiners used tic demand and high inventory. past few years building up cash The yield on Portuguese gov- 1.1 percent in the second quarter diesel exporter in mid-2012, con- up government-issued quotas India also stepped up diesel buffers amounting to $6.7 trillion. ernment 10-year bonds stood at as exports soared, putting an end trols shipments of diesel by issu- controlling sales for the first half exports from August due to reduced What is more, increased cor- 7.4 percent yesterday. to more than two years of contin- ing quarterly export quotas to a of the year. domestic demand and a weaker porate finance activity on the Deputy Prime Minister Paulo uous contraction, while the jobless few state-run traders to ensure Third-quarter volumes are currency, while a new refinery in back of growing confidence could Portas last week urged Portugal’s rate fell to 16.4 percent from 17.7 adequate domestic supply. expected to show a sharp decline Jubail, Saudi Arabia, is expected to support equity markets and help international lenders to ease its percent the first quarter. Beijing has approved fourth- from the first two quarters. add to Asia’s diesel surplus. economic growth in the long run. 2014 public deficit reduction AFP quarter export quotas for Sinopec Sinopec exported only about REUTERS REUTERS Danske Bank fires CEO for lack of experience

COPENHAGEN: Denmark’s within banking,” the bank said. becomes more open, result-ori- biggest bank, Danske Bank, Kolding was replaced by ented and even more focused on yesterday ousted its chief exec- Thomas Borgen, a Norwegian who the customers,” he added. utive, saying in a bluntly worded until Monday was the bank’s head Danske Bank said its outlook statement that the group of corporate banking. “Thomas for the current year remained needed a leader with stronger Borgen is an experienced and unchanged. Kolding had spent credentials in finance. customer-oriented banker, who 11 years on the company’s board “The board of directors has knows how to run a modern bank,” before taking the helm last year. assessed that — notwithstanding chairman Ole Andersen said. During his tenure as chief execu- Eivind Kolding’s professional and per- “Thomas is well positioned to tive he oversaw a major reorganisa- sonal qualities — it is, in this phase, make a significant contribution tion of the bank, which has suffered necessary to have a chief executive to a renewal of the bank’s man- from Denmark’s sluggish economy. officer with stronger qualifications agement culture so that the bank AFP TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Ranbaxy faces DAX hits all-time high Muntajat honoured with Oil & Gas Year award new US woes; DOHA: Qatar Chemical and Excellency Dr. Mohammed Bin Petrochemical Marketing Saleh Al-Sada Minister of Energy and Distribution Company and Industry and Chairman of the (Muntajat), was honoured with Muntajat Board of Directors and the 2013 Downstream Company the commitment of the Qatari shares dip 35pc of the Year award by The Oil and producing entities.” Gas Year, a leading international Janis Kreilis, Country Director publication chronicling the indus- for The Oil & Gas Year Qatar try, during a ceremony at the said: “Qatar Chemical and FDA suspends some imports InterContinental Hotel in Doha. Petrochemical Marketing and The publication identified Distribution Company is the MUMBAI: Shares in Indian complicated trail of falsified Muntajat as “one of the most most important development in generic drugs giant Ranbaxy records and dangerous manufac- important developments Qatar’s Qatar’s downstream industry for Laboratories crashed by as turing practices”. downstream sector has seen in the 2012/2013 period. The forma- much as 35 percent yesterday Ranbaxy imported adulter- decades” and acknowledged the tion of Muntajat has strengthened after the US Food and Drug ated batches of drugs made in company’s achievements. Qatar’s position in the global pet- Administration suspended its Paonta Sahib facility near the Receiving the award rochemicals industry, and the imports from one of its factories. Indian city of Chandigarh, which Abdulrahman Ali Al Abdulla, CEO company will more effectively The FDA issued an alert on FDA inspectors said had poor of Muntajat, said: “We’re delighted add value to the country’s hydro- Friday against the factory at record-keeping and inadequate to receive this award, as it vali- carbons resources. Downstream Mohali in the northern state of testing for the stability of the dates the great progress against Company of the Year has been Punjab, spelling more bad news drugs over time. operational and commercial mile- awarded in recognition of the for Ranbaxy which is struggling The company also admitted stones Muntajat has achieved in its efforts to increase Qatar’s glo- to live down a nearly decade- making false and fraudulent first three quarters of operation. bal presence in the downstream long history of US-led regulatory statements to the FDA in 2006- It’s proof positive that we are deliv- industry.” action. 2007 about stability tests on sev- ering on the mandate entrusted to In the course of the past Ranbaxy, one of the world’s eral other export drugs. us by the leadership of the State seven months, Muntajat has well biggest generic drugs makers, The Paonta Sahib facility and of Qatar in creating Muntajat to advanced in its strategic consoli- slid 34.99 percent to a day’s low another at Dewas in central India represent the chemicals and pet- dation programme with nearly 90 of 297.25 rupees on the Bombay were blacklisted from producing rochemicals sector abroad.” percent of Qatar’s chemical, poly- Stock Exchange in early trading. drugs for the US market. Ranbaxy Al Abdulla added: “This award mer and fertiliser export portfolio By the end of the day, some is not alone in facing scrutiny A new all time high is displayed on the German share price index DAX would not have been achieved already transitioned. brokerage firms had downgraded from global regulators because of board at the stock exchange in Frankfurt yesterday. DAX, up 1.2 percent without the support of His THE PENINSULA the stock, citing concerns over problems at its factories. at 8,614.44, was trading at an all-time high. the future of the Mohali plant. In July Britain’s healthcare Shares closed down 30.27 percent regulator recalled 16 drugs from at 318.85 rupees. Indian pharmaceutical firm A spokesman for Ranbaxy, Wockhardt after finding deficien- which was bought by Japan’s cies at one of its plants in western IHT’s Global Energy Forum from October 9 Daiichi Sankyo group in 2008, India. “The import alert could be a said “the company has so far not huge setback for Ranbaxy Labs,” received any communication from said Sarabjit Nangra, pharma DOHA: The International Discussion and debate will focus Held under the patronage of the Secretary- General & the US FDA” and it was seeking analyst with Mumbai’s Angel Herald Tribune’s fourth Global on how to successfully navigate of H E Abdullah bin Hamad CEO, UN - Sustainable Energy information. The FDA website did Broking, adding that import Clean Energy Forum (GCEF), through the challenges of the Al Attiyah, President of the for ALL; Chairman, UN Energy; not explain the reasons for the alerts can take months to resolve. held for the first time in Qatar, ‘new energy reality’ in which Administrative Control and Ned Harvey, Chief Operating “import alert”. Ranbaxy will for now have to will bring together top-level cheap gas reigns once again, the Transparency Authority, Qatar, Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute; In May Ranbaxy pleaded guilty rely on its New Jersey-based energy leaders, policymakers conventional channels of fund- the GCEF’s lineup of distin- Damien Scott, General Manager, to US charges of selling adulter- Ohm Labs to service all its US and investors from across the ing are in decline and policy guished speakers includes: Yvo Williams Technology Centre; ated antibiotic, acne, epilepsy business, Nangra said. globe to discuss current chal- support has become uncertain. de Boer, Special Global Advisor, Sven Teske, Renewable Energy and other drugs and agreed to a Sriram Rathi of Anand Rathi lenges and opportunities for the Speakers will also exam- Climate Change and Sustainability, Director, Greenpeace; Carol record $500m fine. The episode Research, which downgraded the clean energy industry. ine some of the opportunities KPMG; Ignacio Galan, Chairman Browner, Former Director of the was a huge blow to its image. Ranbaxy stock from a “buy” to The GCEF to be held at that exist in emerging mar- & CEO, Iberdrola; Dana Younger, White House Office of Energy The US fraud, uncovered over “sell” rating after the alert, said Qatar’s W Doha Hotel & kets, in new partnership mod- Chief Renewable Energy and Climate Change Policy, Senior eight years, was exposed by a there could also be delays in new Residences on October 9 and 10, els and in an environment of Specialist, International Finance Counselor, Albright Stonebridge whistle-blowing ex-employee product launches. will address key issues driving rapidly-advancing technological Corporation; Kandeh K Yumkella Group. who said Ranbaxy created “a AFP the renewable energy agenda. development. (US-G), Special Representative THE PENINSULA GEMS plans to Rothschild to advise Gulf raise $500m from stake sale Capital on share issue

DUBAI: GEMS Education, DUBAI: Abu Dhabi’s Gulf offering (IPO). “Gulf Marine is a Dubai-based schools opera- Capital said yesterday it has an extremely profitable business tor, is seeking to raise about hired an investment bank to and the firm is ready to be listed $500m to fund growth by sell- advise it on a renewed attempt in a major international stock ing a stake of up to 20 percent to issue shares in oil and gas exchange. Rothschild will help us in the privately owned company, services firm, Gulf Marine, on identify the location for the IPO Chairman Sunny Varkey said an overseas stock exchange. as we prepare for the listing,” said yesterday. The private equity firm, which Karim El Solh, Gulf Capital’s chief GEMS, which employs about owns 79 percent of the Middle executive. 11,000 staff, operates around 100 East’s largest operator of jack-up Gulf Capital is set to appoint private schools across the Gulf barges, tried to sell the business Bank of America Merrill Lynch, region, home to many prosper- last year for more than $500m Barclays Plc and JP Morgan ous expatriates. Private schools in but talks collapsed due to financ- Chase Inc as arranging banks on countries such as the United Arab ing issues and differences over its the IPO, three banking sources Emirates are expanding rapidly valuation. aware of the matter said. The as demand surges along with eco- Since then Gulf Capital has sources spoke on condition of nomic growth. been preparing Gulf Marine anonymity as the matter is not “We are a company that is Services — one of the biggest public. growing. We are looking to raise assets in its portfolio — for an One of the sources said Gulf approximately $500m in the near initial public offering in a major Capital was most likely to list term,” Varkey said. stock exchange such as London GMS on the London Stock Earlier yesterday, Dubai-based or Singapore. Exchange. Other Abu Dhabi- Arabian Business magazine, had Private equity firms in the based firms have listed in London reported, without revealing its region are looking to exit their recently. Al Noor Hospitals listed sources, that the firm was looking investments due to pressure from in London in June with a valuation to sell up to 33 percent to raise shareholders for returns and as of $1bn. Its rival, NMC Healthcare the sum. financial markets in the region listed in London last year. “We will not sell more than 20 recover from the twin blows of El Soh declined to comment percent,” Varkey said. He said Arab Spring uprisings and the on the appointment of arrang- GEMS had appointed Credit Suisse global financial crisis. ing banks. He expects the GMS as a financial adviser to help with Gulf Capital said it hired listing to take place by mid-2014, the sale process and seek investors. Rothschild as a financial he said. REUTERS adviser for the initial public REUTERS

BLME to seek listing in Dubai

DUBAI: Bank of London and prompted at least several com- No new shares would be issued; The Middle East (BLME), panies to consider listings; in the shares would be sold by exist- Britain’s largest stand-alone addition, the Dubai government ing holders, who would receive 25 Islamic bank, plans to seek a said this year it would make a shares in the holding company for listing on the Nasdaq Dubai big effort to develop its Islamic each BLME share. bourse next month in what finance sctor. BLME, which offers corporate would be the emirate’s first “BLME believes that this is the banking and wealth management stock listing for over four years. right time for listing given the services, was founded in 2006 with The most recent listing on current market conditions and the backing of Kuwaiti investors, either of Dubai’s stock two mar- the increasingly prominent role of including Boubyan Bank which kets occurred in early 2009, when Dubai in Islamic finance,” BLME held 21.8 percent of BLME shares construction firm Drake & Scull said in a statement on Monday. as of December 2012. listed. The global financial crash Chief executive Humphrey Percy said in an interview in May and Dubai’s corporate debt cri- Percy said he expected the list- that his bank was aiming for 15 per- sis then intervened, pushing the ing to occur in October this year. cent growth in assets this year. It markets down sharply and freez- BLME said it would list in currently holds over $100 million ing most equity issuance. Dubai through a holding company, in assets under management across Dubai property prices have offering 195.7 million shares in the a range of Islamic funds, including rebounded this year and the emir- holding firm at an expected list- a fixed income fund rated A by ate’s main stock index is up 64 ing price of $2.57 each, implying Moody’s Investors Service. percent year-to-date. This has a share sale worth $503m. REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Financial sector pushes Qatar index down Egypt market hits four-week high

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index Kingdom Holding rose 0.8 per- lost 17.64 points, or 0.18 percent, cent to a two-month high after its to 9,762.70 points from the pre- owner, billionaire Prince Alwaleed vious closing of 9,780.34 points. bin Talal, made bullish comments The volume of the shares fell about his investment in Twitter to 8,221,675 from 13,465,320 on Inc in a Reuters interview late on Sunday and the value of shares Sunday. decreased to QR345,578,297.52 Alwaleed, who invested $300m from QR477,848,419.29 on Sunday. in Twitter in 2011, said he would Among the top losers were not sell any of his shares in the Industries Qatar whose share social media giant when it goes dropped 0.39 percent to QR154.40, public because of its tremen- Doha Bank lost 0.37 percent to dous potential. While the mar- QR54.30, Barwa Real Estate fell ket expects the company’s value 1.16 perccent to QR25.55 and once listed to be more than $10bn, Al khalij Commercial Bank was Alwaleed said it could conceivably down by 0.58 percent to QR18.79. be more than $15bn. The banking and financial sec- Kingdom’s shares have risen tor index dropped 0.29 points 14.1 percent in the last six trad- while consumer goods and serv- ing days, partly because of news ices sector index added 0.38 that Twitter is preparing for an points. The industrial sector was initial public offer. down 0.14 points while insurance Saudi Arabia’s index climbed 0.5 Bombardier employees and guests watch the CSeries aircraft taxi on the runway for its first test flight in Mirabel, Quebec, yesterday. sector gained 0.13 points. percent, up for six in last seven ses- Meanwhile, other Gulf bourses sions. The market is at its highest were mixed yesterday with investors since August 26 and faces resist- Bombardier’s CSeries makes inaugural flight opting to book gains in United Arab ance at 8,223 points — the peak of Emirates’ markets, while Egypt rose August when it a five-year high. to a four-week high as retail players The building and construc- MIRABEL, Quebec: “It was great. You could hardly new planes want to see proof of new-engine versions of their targeted lagging stocks. tion sector index was among the Bombardier Inc’s CSeries jet- hear the take-off,” said Martin Bombardier’s claims of high fuel respective A320 and 737 class air- Dubai’s measure retreated biggest gainers, climbing 1.1 per- liner took flight for the first time Gauss, chief executive of Latvian efficiency, low operating costs and craft after Bombardier unveiled 0.5 percent, halting a four-ses- cent. The cement sector added 0.5 yesterday, the culmination of a carrier AirBaltic, which has low noise levels for the CSeries, a its plans for the CSeries. sion rally. The market made a percent. Investors are bullish on $3.4bn programme to develop ordered 10 of the larger CS300 medium-haul jet made of light- The two big companies have sharp recovery last week and is both sectors, with heavy govern- the first all-new narrow-body planes, which seat 130 passengers. weight composite materials. won more than 3,500 orders for less than 100 points away from ment infrastructure spending plane of its size in decades. “This was one of the reasons Competitors will eye the per- those planes, although only a August’s five-year peak. underpinning demand. Bombardier says the CSeries, why we bought it, along with formance of the plane’s systems small portion are for the smaller “The momentum going for- In Egypt, the benchmark index designed to carry up to 149 pas- the cost savings from lower fuel and components, most notably models that compete directly with ward in the UAE will be positive climbed 0.5 percent to 5,554 points, sengers, will be the world’s qui- burn,” he said, speaking by tel- its PurePower PW1500G tur- the CSeries. but with limited upside,” said Ali its highest level since August 18. etest commercial aircraft. It ephone after watching the take- bofan engine made by Pratt & Brazil’s Embraer SA, the Adou, portfolio manager at The Shares in Egypt Kuwait Holding represents the Canadian com- off yards away from the runway. Whitney, a unit of Connecticut- world’s No. 3 planemaker, leads National Investor in Abu Dhabi. (EKH) rose 2.6 percent, trimming pany’s attempt to break into the Gauss, speaking by phone, said based United Technologies Corp. in sales of smaller regional jets. “The market is very volatile and 2013 losses to 37.5 percent. hyper-competitive, larger air- he would begin discussions with “The CSeries has already Montreal-based Bombardier, dominated by retail investors. I It underperforms the wider craft segment currently ruled by Bombardier about increasing the caused an earthquake in the air- which also makes trains, is hop- think it will be difficult to break market, which is up 1.7 percent Boeing Co and Airbus. airline’s order by dipping into its liner industry. That’s what caused ing to stake a claim on the single- the year’s highs with current on the year. El Swedy Electric co The white-and-blue CS100 options for 10 additional planes. Boeing and Airbus to redesign aisle, 100- to 149-seat class that volatility.” advanced 2.6 percent. test aircraft took off from out- AirBaltic has not yet decided their airplanes,” said Michael is midway between the regional Shares in Drake and Scull “It’s a retail market today with a side the Bombardier plant in how many of these options it will Boyd, chairman of the aviation planes and the larger commer- International bucked the trend shift in interest towards underdogs,” Mirabel, Quebec, at 9.54am EDT exercise. consulting group Boyd Group cial jetliners. It says it can corner and gained 1.7 percent after the said Mohamed Radwan, director (1354 GMT) in front of a crowd of The maiden flight was expected International. half that market over the next 20 firm said its unit won a Dh1.28bn of international sales at Pharos employees, media and spectators. to conclude shortly after noon “The CSeries, on paper, was so years. ($350m) construction contract in Securities. “EKH has been lagging While the thousands of specta- EDT, ending where it began at superior in terms of economics The CS100 seats 110 for a typi- Algeria. Abu Dhabi’s index eased since it was removed from the MSCI tors and engineers cheered, the Mirabel. Testing of the CSeries is that you have two global compa- cal configuration, while the larger 0.09 percent, but is up 43.8 per- emerging market index. Investors plane rose from the tarmac with being closely watched by airlines nies that had to jump from what CS300 seats 135. Another version cent year-to-date. are looking for appealing stocks.” surprisingly little noise thanks to and other plane makers. Bombardier did.” of the CS300 can seat up to 160. Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia’s AGENCIES its new engines. Airlines looking to purchase Airbus and Boeing announced REUTERS

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US miner Northern Dynasty Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.00 2.49 % A1 A- normal. identified by name. As a result, output has been Minerals, which will now take QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.25 1.74 % NR NR Baghdad’s oil revival, which got A prolonged reduction in sup- cut from the Rumaila North oil- over its partner’s 50-percent stake, QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.50 1.48 % Aa3 A+ under way in 2010, has slowed this ply from Iraq would add to losses field, which was producing around Anglo said, indicating the move was QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.50 2.31 % Aa3 A+ year due to infrastructure and such as the virtual shutdown in 600,000 bpd before the stoppage. part of efforts to boost profitability. security problems, keeping pro- Libyan exports, further tighten- A second source put the loss at at “Despite our belief that Pebble Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.25 2.52 % A2 A- duction far below projected tar- ing the market and helping to least 450,000 bpd. is a deposit of rare magnitude and Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 104.00 2.03 % A2 A gets and sometimes even below support oil prices which are trad- “We are replacing the damaged quality, we have taken the decision Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 121.13 3.74 % A2 A last year’s levels of three million ing near $110 a barrel. part due to corrosion and welding to withdraw following a thorough Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 103.25 4.23 % A2 A barrels per day (bpd). Southern shipments have aver- operations need to be done very assessment of Anglo American’s Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 98.63 5.15 % A2 A An Iraqi oil official said last aged 1.83 million bpd in the first carefully to avoid unexpected inci- extensive pipeline of long-dated Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 104.25 1.33 % Aa3 A week that exports from the 15 days of September, according to dents,” the Iraqi official said. project options,” said Anglo chief Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.50 3.56 % Aa3 A Basra Oil Terminal would be con- shipping data. That is down from Oil buyers expect the loading executive Mark Cutifani. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 106.38 4.24 % Aa3 A strained for about a month from August’s average of 2.31 million rate to fall further this month “Our focus has been to priori- the middle of September while bpd, and on a par with the 1.8 as two of the berths at the Basra tise capital to projects with the SOVEREIGNS metering equipment is installed, million bpd initially scheduled in Oil Terminal need to be closed highest value and lowest risks Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P even though the work itself would September. in the early stages of planned within our portfolio, and reduce Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 102.88 0.29 % Aa2 AA continue into 2014. Supplies were even lower yes- work. the capital required to sustain Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 120.38 2.77 % Aa2 AA Iraq exports the bulk of its terday as Iraq has had to cut With two of the four berths at such projects during the pre- oil from its southern terminals output sharply from its biggest the terminal not in use, southern approval phases of development Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.25 2.55 % NR NR and supplies in September have southern producer Rumaila due export capacity is around 1.7 mil- as part of a more effective, value- Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 105.00 3.42 % NR NR already fallen by 500,000 bar- to a pipeline leak, two industry lion bpd, a trading source said. driven capital allocation model.” Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 114.88 5.20 % NR NR rels per day (bpd), according to sources and an Iraqi oil official AFP AFP Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 106.38 5.51 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 104.13 0.90 % Aa2 AA Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 110.75 3.96 % NR BBB Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 99.00 5.68 % NR BBB Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 89.00 7.91 % Caa1 CCC+ Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 100.75 4.37 % NR BBB- India’s August inflation surges to 6.1 percent *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which NEW DELHI: India’s infla- agenda until well into next year,” account deficit that has pushed The August data surprised is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services tion surged to a six-month high said Capital Economics economist the rupee sharply lower. markets which expected the fig- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary in August, data showed yester- Daniel Martin. Rajan has already declared he ure to be in line with July’s. data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising day, strengthening chances the The data comes as former sees his main role as sustaining The inflation increase was out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds new central bank governor will International Monetary Fund “low and stable expectations of driven mainly by food price rises can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant freeze interest rates despite a chief economist Raghuram Rajan, inflation” and analysts said he due to crop damage caused by liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not struggling economy. famed for forecasting the 2008 could not ignore the latest price monsoon flooding. a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and Inflation, as measured by the global financial meltdown, pre- data. Onion prices, a dietary staple consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. Wholesale Price Index, hit 6.10 pares to chair his first monetary They said the impact of the especially for the poor masses, percent in August from a year policy-setting meeting on Friday. rupee’s sharp fall on the price of soared a massive 245 percent earlier and was up from 5.79 per- India’s once-booming economy fuel, most of which is imported, from a year earlier while the cost cent in July. is caught in a quagmire of sharply and other commodities would also of fruit, eggs and other goods also “Rising wholesale price infla- slowing growth, stubbornly high soon start showing up in the infla- climbed. tion will take rate cuts off the inflation and a record current tion figures. AFP TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 A recovery without a home Is Goldman Sachs’ BY ZACHARY KARABELL Northeast, for instance, has been weaker sense, especially if they are living in an area of late than the rest of the country. The that has good schools and decent access to ive years after the collapse of Lehman recent spike in interest rates, triggered by jobs but does not have housing stock that can Hank Paulson a hero? Brothers and the onset of the 2008- the imminent Federal Reserve decision to be rented. That is a reason to buy a home. 2009 financial crisis, the US housing curtail some of their aggressive bond buying, Buying, however, comes with substantial BY FELIX SALMON Fmarket is at last starting to thrive. It may dent the momentum as well. costs and constraints. Money that is used has, in fact, been steadily improving over the Given that housing has direct impact for a down payment can’t be shifted easily ank Paulson had a good crisis. That’s why he’s getting past years, and that trend has only acceler- on GDP, it certainly matters whether it is to other investments; it is locked up in the hero-worship on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek ated of late. Housing is widely perceived as a doing well or badly. Not just construction house. Mortgage debt that is fixed can’t be magazine; he is also pretty much the sole interviewee key ingredient to a healthy economy, and so but millions of retail and industrial jobs are adjusted when rates go down, even if fixed Hin a hagiographic 90-minute documentary, produced by the revival in the housing market has been keyed to the housing market, ranging from rates provide some protection when rates Bloomberg, which is about to appear on Netflix. heralded as a positive step for an American Home Depot salespeople to Caterpillar engi- rise. Buying a home may be a necessity, but The combination is being promoted with the idea that “no system that has been sluggish at best. Similar neers. But the notion that housing should in multiple ways, it is a highly compromised one felt the impact” of the financial crisis more than Paulson, trends in the United Kingdom and parts of be a leading indicator of economic health is and risky investment. A positive outcome to which is obviously false, but which also gives a pretty good idea the EU are greeted as positives as well. unwise, and ultimately destructive. emerge from the past five years would be to of the whole project’s point of view. But is it? Housing is a key aspect of eco- What was most damaging about the hous- dispel the notion of a home as primarily an (The film never mentions, for instance, that Paulson received nomic activity in most countries, but that ing boom and bubble of the 1990s and 2000s investment, let alone a good one. It would more than $500m, tax free, for his Goldman Sachs stock when doesn’t mean that we should welcome a was that millions of middle-class families also be to uncouple the housing market from he sold it before moving to Treasury.) return to housing as a perceived pillar of bought into the notion that homes should be the national perception of a thriving economy. Paulson has an interesting take on the various ways in which national strength. And we should be very the repository of their net worth and future Buying a home may be the right decision, but the crisis could have gone worse. wary of any return to an ethos that sees wealth. Decisions about buying shifted away it should not be a goal intimately tethered First there was Bear Stearns: if he hadn’t managed to rescue either home ownership or housing prices as from pure calculus of need and acceptable to a sense of success. Once, perhaps, own- the bank by finding a buyer in JPMorgan, says Paulson, then the a barometer of individual and collective suc- costs and instead were increasingly based ing a home was indeed a symbol of freedom, chain reaction would have started. “If Bear Stearns had gone, then cess. Those attitudes very nearly imploded on the likelihood (or not) that their homes autonomy and being in charge of one’s own Lehman would have gone immediately thereafter, and we hadn’t the modern financial system, and they could would increase in value. economic destiny. Today, with financing and fixed Fannie or Freddie yet. We would have had Armageddon”. imperil it again. Homes are places where It’s an easy path from that belief to out- costs and lack of liquidity, owning a home can The Bear rescue, according to Paulson, bought precious months you live. They are not investment vehicles. right speculation. The idea that homes are be the opposite of all of those. during which Paulson could deal with Frannie, and during which Yes, homes may gain in value and augment a primary investment is not only what So before we go back to the future and Ben Bernanke could start setting up the various borrowing win- one’s net worth, but the reason to own a drives real estate bubbles but also drives real herald the return of the housing market, dows and liquidity programs which would help to stabilise the home is that it can be a cost-effective way estate crashes. China today is in the grips of let’s hope that we don’t actually return to financial system. to obtain a place to live. The minute they a real estate challenge because middle-class the housing market we experienced at the Paulson also says, in the documentary — and this is a theory I are seen as investments, that reality gets Chinese have nowhere to invest and aug- end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st haven’t heard before — that we would have been worse off if Bank perverted, with dangerous consequences. ment their net worth other than real estate, century. A home is a marvel, and a need. of America had bought Lehman Brothers. If that had happened, There’s no doubt that the economics given that the stock market is widely seen Buying a house or apartment can be a good he says, then there wouldn’t have been any buyer left for Merrill of the housing market have been steadily as gamed, there is only a small bond market investment, and the right way to use both Lynch — and Merrill’s implosion would have been much worse improving. Foreclosures have dropped in and they can’t invest outside the country. credit and cash. But the housing market than Lehman’s was. half since their peak, from over 1 million Why? To begin with, real estate is not liq- is an adjunct to a thriving economy, and It would be nice to see these claims — and Paulson’s tenure in 2010, to a predicted 490,000 this year. uid. It is a place to live. Its primary utility is housing is a cost that families must bear to more generally — interrogated impartially by the Bloomberg Housing starts are up nationally, from a to provide shelter, and quality of life. Most live adequately or to live well. If it goes up Businessweek editorial machine, which is pulling out all the stops low of less than 500,000 in 2009 to close to people finance all or part of that need with in value, that’s a plus, but it should never be in terms of publicising its Paulson extravaganza. (It’s even roping 900,000 this year, and prices are up more mortgages from banks. Today, with down pay- the driver of the decision. As the economy in Mike Bloomberg himself, something which has never happened than 10 percent over the past 12 months. ment requirements on the rise, many families has rebounded, we haven’t yet returned to before.) But with a documentary director who now considers These national trends are neither evenly will also use a considerable portion of their the bubble-era ethos. Let’s keep it that way. Paulson to be “a national hero”, and a cover story which bears distributed nor certain to continue. The liquid net worth. That may make eminent REUTERS Paulson’s own byline, the former Treasury secretary was never going to be facing any tough questions. To their credit, on the other hand, Bloomberg invited me to a promotional lunch with Paulson today, and so I took the oppor- tunity to ask him about the perception that he always thought that he knew best, and that he considered popular opinion, and elected representatives, as annoying obstacles. Paulson replied by saying that he “could not take greater excep- tion with your comment”. He talked at some length about how he used his Goldman- honed client-schmoozing skills to get what he wanted from Congressional representatives on both sides of the aisle, but I must admit that I didn’t come away from his answer feeling as though he really respected those people’s views, or the impor- tance of public opinion. And I’m perfectly happy to defend the argument that the arro- gance of Paulson asking for a $750bn blank check by presenting a three-page TARP bill was a significant reason why that bill was defeated. I’m also happy that I got to ask Paulson about the secret meeting he held with the Goldman Sachs board in Moscow in June 2008. Even at the time, Paulson’s advisers thought it unwise; with hindsight, it seems indefensible. What could he have been thinking? But Paulson was unapolo- getic: “The incident you referred to was totally and completely appropriate,” he told me. “With a board of directors, people I hadn’t seen for years, I went to a social function with them, when we were in the same hotel, and said hi, and saw old friends”. I don’t blame Paulson for the financial crisis; he was a good crisis manager — certainly better than either of his predecessors would have been — and he worked extremely well with Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner. Still, everybody made mistakes during those long sleepless weeks, and it would be nice if some of the principals were more willing to admit that. And I also look forward to rather harder-hitting documentaries from Bloomberg in the future. This one feels altogether too promotional — both of Paulson and of Bloomberg Businessweek itself. The film is basically just one long interview with Paulson, intercut with a few words from his wife, and quite a lot of contemporary news footage and headlines. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Middle East political turmoil ignites the risk on trade HE US dollar dropped to of currencies on the view that a United States forecast in September, the lowest since April. also said that the ECB is “not two-week lows against strengthening British economy would curb its August as the That was below August's 82.1 running out of options,” indicat- the major and com- will mean interest rates rising stimulus soon biggest part of and the 82.0 reading economists ing that the ECB still has room Tmodity currencies amid earlier than the central bank and as fears of the economy had expected this month. Euro- to further support the economic progress in the Middle East has projected. The pound gained a US-led mili- struggled to area industrial output contracted recovery in the area. political turmoil combined with after Bank of England Governor tary attack on Weekly Money Market Review gain momen- more than economists forecast in Britain's unemployment rate growing doubts that the Federal Mark Carney said that the British Syria recede. tum. The July as manufacturers struggled fell unexpectedly in July to its Reserve will scale back stimulus economy was gaining momentum. Gold closed the 0.2 percent to shake off the legacy of a record- lowest since late last year, add- in any significant way next week. He was interpreted by inves- week at 1328.21. increase was the smallest in four long recession. Industrial produc- ing to bets in financial markets Since disappointing US non- tors as making no attempt to The number of Americans fil- months and followed a revised 0.4 tion fell 1.5 percent from June, that the Bank of England might farm payrolls data, markets temper the recent rise in short- ing new claims for unemploy- percent July gain that was bigger when it gained 0.6 percent. That raise interest rates earlier than it appeared to have lowered their term interest rates. Cable opened ment benefits fell last week to than previously estimated. is more than the 0.3 percent con- has suggested. expectations for any aggressive the week at 1.5630 and reached a the lowest level since April 2006 US Producer Price Index for traction forecast by economists. The Office for National moves by the Federal Reserve. high of 1.5838 and finally closed as work on computer systems in finished goods rose 0.3 percent Annually, output fell 2.1 percent. Statistics said on Wednesday The greenback gained some trac- the week at 1.5875. two states caused those employ- in August, better than expecta- Draghi made the unprec- the rate dipped to 7.7 percent in tion on Friday as news emerged The Japanese Yen dropped ment agencies to report fewer tions at 0.2 percent. Prices for edented vow in July, after the the three months ending in July that President Obama could dramatically against most of applications. finished goods were unchanged Federal Reserve’s signal that it from 7.8 percent previously. That name former Treasury Secretary its major counterparts as the Claims fell by 31,000 to 292,000 in July and increased 0.8 percent may start withdrawing US stimu- was the lowest jobless rate since Lawrence Summers as the next carry trades came back into play. versus expectations of 330,000. in June. At the earlier stages of lus pushed market rates higher September-November 2012. Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Investors quickly dropped the However, the decrease in fil- processing, prices received by globally. While European borrow- In another sign of surprising The euro opened the week at safe-haven currency in search of ings does not signal a change in producers of intermediate goods ing costs initially fell, they have strength in the labour market, 1.3168 and then surged to a high higher return specifically amid job-market conditions because were unchanged in August. Over since returned to levels the ECB the number of people claiming of 1.3325, as investors became progress in the Middle East polit- most of it was due to computer- the last 12 months, prices rose 1.4 head called “unwarranted.” jobless benefits fell by 32,600 in sceptic over early tapering by ical turmoil. network conversions in the two percent. That supports the view of some August. Economists had expected the US Fed. The single currency The USDJPY rose to a high states, according to a Labour US consumer sentiment fell to economists that the central bank a drop of 22,000 from July. The has completely recovered from of 100.48 as comments from Department representative. a five-month low in September, cannot stop rates rising as the jobs data has taken on a new sig- the previous week’s drop, which President Barack Obama sug- Nevertheless, the pace of job with Americans worried that 17-nation currency bloc rebounds nificance since the BoE, keen to was sparked by dovish comments gested that the possibility of cuts has declined since the end higher interest rates would curb from it’s longest-ever recession. encourage spending and invest- from the European Central Bank. military action in Syria might be of last year, setting the stage for the housing market recovery Last week, Draghi reiterated ment, pledged last month to keep The currency closed the week at derailed or even cancelled. faster payroll and income growth and overall growth. University that money-market rates are benchmark borrowing costs low 1.3296. Gold fell to a five-week low on that would help boost consumer of Michigan's preliminary read- “unwarranted,” while saying that as long as the ILO unemployment Similarly, Sterling rose to an Friday, heading for its worst week spending. ing on the overall index of con- the guidance has been “very suc- rate remained above 7 percent. eight-month high against a basket in two months on prospects the US retail sales rose less than sumer sentiment fell to 76.8 in cessful” in reducing volatility. He THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Cycling: Horner’s team A good season for Brown seek redress 95 Spirit of Qatar pilot ends season in 4th spot despite Sunday hiccup for testing ‘mistake’ SAN DIEGO: 95 Spirit of Qatar’s Kip Brown rounded MADRID: Tour of Spain win- off a successful season of H1 ner Chris Horner’s (pictured) Unlimited racing by finishing team will seek compensation fourth in the points at the San from anti-doping authorities Diego Bayfair in California on after news of an alleged missed Sunday, despite being disquali- random dope test was leaked to fied from a thrilling final on a the media. technical violation. RadioShack Running with the backing of the said Spanish Qatar Marine Sports Federation Anti-Doping (QMSF) and Sheikh Hassan bin Agency Jabor Al Thani, Brown won heat (AEPSAD) 2B during the third day of rac- officials went ing but had to play second fid- to the wrong dle to the battle between Steve hotel look- David and Jimmy Shane for the ing for the National High Points title. American David, who announced his rider, despite retirement after 44 years of rac- having been ing on the eve of the San Diego given details race weekend, headed to Mission of his correct Bay with a tiny 43-point lead in whereabouts. the series in 1 Oh Boy! Oberto and The team the outcome went right down to issued a statement with a screen- the final heat. shot of Horner’s email to the US Brown snatched the win in heat Kip Brown pilots the 95 Spirit of Qatar during the San Diego Bayfair. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) 2B to ensure that he reached the in which he updated his wherea- final, where David lined up with a bouts for Monday, the day after 163-point lead over Shane. that he had jumped the gun and team,” said Shane. “I always know David had earlier won the quali- the outgoing champion from his triumph in the Spanish grand David moved from lane two to crossed the line too soon. The one I can drive the boat as hard as I fying session from Shane and Lighthouse Point in Florida tour. lane one in front of Shane on the lap penalty demoted David to the need to because they are going to Brown and headed into Sunday’s needed to finish second or higher “Chris Horner updated his approach to the start of the final back of the field before penalties have everything working right.” showdown with a lead of just 63 in the final heat to seal the cham- whereabouts with USADA before and Shane’s boat lifted through during the technical inspection Shane and David were drawn in points in the National High Points pionship again. Brown won heat the start of the final stage, giving David’s rooster tail. lifted him back to fourth. But it separate heats for the first runs championships. 2B and finished second in heat 3B the agency the name of his hotel David led for all five laps on the was enough for Shane to clinch on Saturday and both added to David began Sunday well and before the ill-fated final saw him for the night, phone number and water from then on and appeared the Bayfair win and the National their tallies by earning 400 points he pipped Shane to the cheq- disqualified on a technical viola- room number for his one-hour to have done enough to clinch the High Points title by the narrowest for taking wins in heats 1A and uered flag in heat 2A to extend tion and Shane claim the title window between 6 and 7 am. This Bayfair win and the champion- of margins. 1B. Brown steered 95 Spirit of his lead to 163 points. David won after David was adjudged to have is all according to the rules and ship title, but the start was under “This has just been an incred- Qatar to second position in heat again in 3A and Shane reached jumped the start. Chris Horner received a confir- review and a photo image proved ible experience driving for this 1B and Mike Webster was third. the line first in 3B, meaning that THE PENINSULA mation email,” RadioShack said. “The anti-doping inspectors from the Spanish Anti-Doping Agency that were asked to do the test by the United States Anti- Doping Agency (USADA) showed up at the wrong hotel in Madrid, Rare loss for Qatar drivers in the US where the team was staying but Horner was obviously not to be CONCORD, North Carolina: silver Al-Anabi team was done found.” Dubai native Khalid After a dazzling qualifying for the day. Riders are obliged to provide effort that propelled the Qatar With the first-round loss, alBalooshi, near lane, their whereabouts to anti-doping Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel Langdon dropped one spot to races Doug Kalitta in the authorities, specifying their loca- Team, the two-time World second place in the NHRA Mello first round of eliminations tion for one hour each day. Championship team owned by Yello Top Fuel point standings. near Charlotte, North Missing three tests within Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al He trails new points leader Carolina. an 18-month period triggers an Thani, to the third and fourth Spencer Massey by 24 points and investigation. qualifying positions, drivers leads third-place Morgan Lucas, “The team believes the com- Shawn Langdon and Khalid Sunday’s race winner, by six munication between the Spanish alBalooshi both lost in the first points with five races remaining Anti-Doping Agency and the round of eliminations at the in the NHRA Play-offs. media is a violation of the privacy Carlyle Tools NHRA Carolina It is the first time since July 7 of Chris Horner, especially since Nationals, the first of six races that someone other than Langdon it comes down to a clear mistake that comprise the Countdown has led the NHRA Top Fuel point by the tester,” RadioShack added. to the Championship NHRA standings. “The team asks the media to Playoffs and 19th of 24 races “The Al-Anabi car really was report correctly on this matter that make up America’s 2013 great this weekend,” Langdon and will seek compensation for NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing said. this matter with the responsible season. “We qualified well and made anti-doping agencies.” After stellar qualifying efforts, another excellent run in the first An AEPSAD spokesman said the Qatar Al-Anabi Racing Top round, but we just got caught a its agents had gone to the hotel Fuel team was optimistic enter- little bit on the starting line and address provided by the US ing race day. lost by two thousandths of a sec- agency early on Monday. However, optimism quickly ond. You need that race day luck, They checked another hotel but turned to disappointment. and it just really wasn’t on our Horner was not there either and Langdon, the No. 3 qualifier, had side today. AlBalooshi left the starting line remaining in the NHRA Play- coming out and going back in. AEPSAD did not know his cur- raced Bob Vandergriff seven times “But we still have five races to before Kalitta and was ahead on offs. He trails the points leader I think it was very hard on the rent whereabouts, the spokesman this year, and the Al-Anabi driver go (In the Countdown), and with the race track when the tires on by 87 points. crew chiefs. added. held a 6-1 margin over the sea- everything that happened today, the Al-Anabi dragster lost trac- “A lot of the teams in the “The good news is five count- “We do not want to make any son, but Vandergriff took some we aren’t too far out of the points tion with the race track allowing Countdown, including ours lost in down teams lost in the first round kind of judgment about whether revenge in Charlotte’s first round lead. The Al-Anabi team will be Kalitta to drive around the Dubai the first round today,” alBalooshi we are still OK. I hope next week this was a violation of the rules posting a miraculous performance ready to get back some of the driver and race to the win. said. “I don’t know why. Maybe in Dallas, our team will have a as we do not have all the facts,” on the starting line. points we lost today next week in With the first-round loss, alBa- the weather was tricky at the last better race.” he said. Langdon’s silver Qatar Dallas.” looshi dropped two spots to sev- minute. The Al-Anabi Racing team Horner, who turns 42 next Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel drag- A few minutes after Langdon’s enth-place in the NHRA Mello “The crew chiefs put in the will be back in action September month, became the oldest grand ster made a brilliant 3.795-second loss, gold Qatar Al-Anabi Racing Yello Top Fuel point standings. tune-up, changed it, put in the 20-22 at the AAA Texas NHRA tour champion and the first US run, but Vandergriff’s advantage Top Fuel driver Khalid alBalo- He trails sixth-place Clay tune-up and changed it again. Fall Nationals in Ennis, Texas, the winner of the Tour of Spain when on the starting line got him to the oshi, the No. 4 qualifier, came to Millican by 17 points and leads I don’t know exactly what hap- second race of the Countdown to he sealed victory on Sunday for finish line two thousandths of a the starting line to face veteran eighth-place Bob Vandergriff pened, but I think the weather the Championship NHRA Play- the biggest win of his 19-year second before Langdon, and the driver Doug Kalitta. by 36 points with five races was very tricky with the sun offs. THE PENINSULA career. REUTERS QMMF rider West happy with performance in Italy

MISANO, Italy: QMMF defending his position against six to feel really good with the front Racing Team riders Anthony other riders in the initial stages of bike. We lost this feeling a West and Rafid Topan Sucipto of the race. little bit again in qualifying, so had an exciting Grand Prix of The teenager from Indonesia I couldn’t qualify as well as I San Marino with thrilling bat- could realistically have scored expected and I knew it was going tles and results that boosted 24th place, but fell and lost two to be a tough race. everybody’s confidence for the positions to take 26th. “But I had more confidence last five races of the season. However, his lap times and his than on Friday. I knew I would be West started from 19th position fighting spirit were strong indica- able to fight from the start of the on the grid but started to hunt tions of better times to come in race to the end. I felt really strong down his rivals straight away, tak- near future. and I was able to catch riders and ing 14th position on the first lap “If I look back how the last pass them all the time, which I and working his way up steadily few races have been going until wasn’t able to do in the past,” the up through the point rankings. now, I am happy with this race Australian said. With new-found confidence and I think it is a good result,” Sucipto said: “On one side, I am in the front end of his Speed Up West said. “The direction we are happy with the race, because my bike, he even had a top-10 finish going with the bike is also good. lap times got better again and I within his reach, but ran wide Recently, I had a lot of problems was able to put up a fight. But when another rider clipped his with the bike, but I also had a lot obviously, I am not happy about rear wheel. of problems with other issues out- the fact that I crashed. I managed In the end, West saved eleventh side of the racetrack that affected to ride on and to finish the race, place, which was a great result me. but without the fall, I would have Anthony West of QMMF Racing Team takes a bend on his Speed Up after a string of difficult races. “The first day here at Misano continued to push and probably bike during the Moto2 race at the Misano Marco Simoncelli Circuit in Young team-mate Rafid Topan was still difficult, but on Sunday scored 24th place instead of 26th!” eastern Italy. RIGHT: Rafid Topan Sucipto is seen at the starting grid. Sucipto also put up a strong fight, in the morning session, I started THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Baseball Results Baltimore 3 Toronto 1 Detroit 3 Kansas City 2 Broncos beat Giants in NY Mets 1 Miami 0 San Diego 4 Atlanta 0 Washington 11 Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 3 Chicago Cubs 2 Cleveland 7 C White Sox 1 Minnesota 6 Tampa Bay 4 LA Angels 2 Houston 1 NFL battle of brothers Milwaukee 6 Cincinnati 5 St Louis 12 Seattle 2 Oakland 5 Texas 1 Peyton Manning the hero as Denver Broncos beat New York Giants Arizona 8 Colorado 2 San Francisco 4 LA Dodgers 3 WASHINGTON: Peyton Boston 9 NY Yankees 2 Manning remained unbeaten in NFL Results his NFL rivalry against younger Atlanta 31 St Louis 24 brother Eli, throwing for 307 San Diego 33 Philadelphia 30 Rays waste yards and two touchdowns yes- Kansas City 17 Dallas 16 terday to lead Denver over the Miami 24 Indianapolis 20 3-run lead, lose New York Giants 41-23. Houston 30 Tennessee 24 As their ex-NFL quarterback Green Bay 38 Washington 20 to Twins 6-4 father Archie Manning watched, Peyton took his third triumph in Baltimore 14 Cleveland 6 MINNEAPOLIS: This was a as many tries over Eli, although Buffalo 24 Carolina 23 tough one for the Tampa Bay the elder sibling’s first two came Chicago 31 Minnesota 30 Rays to lose. when he played for Indianapolis New Orleans 16 Tampa Bay 14 With reigning Cy Young Award instead of the Broncos. Arizona 25 Detroit 21 winner David Price on the mound “I think both of us are glad that Oakland 19 Jacksonville 9 facing a Minnesota team hadn’t it’s over with,” Peyton Manning beaten them since last year, the Denver 41 NY Giants 23 said. “Not many other players Rays blew a three-run lead and have to go through it, so you Seattle 29 San Francisco 3 wasted a chance to overtake can’t ask too many people for to the couple’s second son about Texas for the AL wild-card lead. advice. It’s strange circumstances. an hour before the kickoff. Not exactly what the Rays Good team win -- just a unique Flacco, who signed a six-year wanted heading into a four-game situation.” deal worth $120.6m in March, was series with the Rangers that Denver’s Manning completed told as he was warming up for the opens today. 30-of-43 passes while team- contest. “We’ve had way too many mis- mate Knowshon Moreno ran for Flacco completed 22-of-33 steps already this year. That’s touchdowns of 20 and 25 yards passes for 211 yards, includ- what’s got us in this position,” and Trindon Holliday returned a ing a five-yard touchdown pass Rays manager Joe Maddon said punt 81 yards for a touchdown for to Marlon Brown, and Bernard after watching Joel Peralta allow the visiting Broncos. Pierce scored on a 5-yard touch- eighth-inning homers to Ryan Eli Manning, who has two down run as the Ravens beat Doumit and Josmil Pinto in the Super Bowl titles to only one for Cleveland for the 11th time in a 6-4 loss. “We have played well Peyton, went 28-of-49 for 362 row. enough to have a much better yards but was picked off four Aaron Rodgers matched a Matt record. We haven’t closed the times after being intercepted only Flynn’s one-game record with 480 deal.” Tampa Bay appeared on 15 times in all of last season. passing yards, completing 34-of- its way to a season sweep of the Peyton, five years older than 42 throws, including four for Twins after Wil Myers and Sean Eli at 37, expressed doubt that he touchdowns in Green Bay’s 38-20 Rodriguez homered to build a 3-0 will see another brother matchup rout of visiting Washington. lead. unless it comes in the Super Bowl. Rookie EJ Manuel flipped a With his team up 4-2 and two “Post-season is one thing, but touchdown pass to Stevie Johnson Oakland Raiders RB Rashad Jennings (27) runs up the middle for 28 yards in the fourth quarter against the outs in the eighth, Peralta threw I don’t think I will make it to the with two seconds remaining to Jacksonville Jaguars at O.co Coliseum in Oakland, California, yesterday. The Raiders defeated the Jaguars 19-9. a first-pitch strike to Doumit. next regular season one,” he said. give host Buffalo a 24-23 victory Then Trevor Plouffe singled, Josh At Seattle, a severe lightning over Carolina while Martellus Willingham walked and Pinto fol- storm caused a one-hour delay Bennett caught a touchdown total for all of last season, by edg- goal with five seconds to play put more after a one-catch Dolphins lowed by sending an 0-1 pitch into in the first quarter, but the host pass with 10 seconds to play to ing Dallas 17-16. New Orleans past Tampa Bay debut, made nine catches for 115 the Rays bullpen in center field. Seahawks shook off the unex- give host Chicago a 31-30 triumph Matt Ryan connected on 33-of- 16-14. The Buccaneers took the yards and a touchdown. By the time the rookie came pected stoppage to rout San over Minnesota. 43 throws for 374 yards and a pair lead on Mason Foster’s 85-yard Rashard Mendenhall’s late out of the dugout for a curtain Francisco 29-3, with Marshawn Nick Novak kicked the win- of touchdowns, with Julio Jones interception return touchdown one-yard touchdown run gave call following his second career Lynch running for two touch- ning field goal with seven seconds catching 11 of them for 182 yards, but Drew Brees, who threw for host Arizona a 25-21 victory over homer and All-Star closer Glen downs and catching a pass for remaining to lift San Diego over as Atlanta downed St Louis 31-24. 322 yards, drove the Saints into Detroit. Carson Palmer threw for Perkins came in from the bullpen, another. host Philadelphia 33-30. Houston’s Matt Schaub threw position for the decisive kick. 248 yards and a touchdown for the cheering crowd had com- Super Bowl Most Valuable Philip Rivers completed 36-of- for 298 yards and three touch- Miami stayed unbeaten with the Cardinals. pletely forgotten about how futile Player Joe Flacco missed the birth 47 passes for 419 yards and three downs, the last a one-yard flip to a 24-20 triumph at Indianapolis Sebastian Janikowski kicked Price had made the Twins lineup of his second child to spark reign- touchdowns for San Diego. DeAndre Hopkins, to give host as Ryan Tannehill threw for 319 four field goals and Marcel Reece look earlier. “This one hurts the ing NFL champion Baltimore to a The Kansas City Chiefs Houston a 30-24 overtime victory yards and a touchdown and Mike ran for Oakland’s only touchdown most,” Peralta said. “We really 14-6 home victory over Cleveland. improved to 2-0 under new coach over Tennessee. Wallace, who went public with his to power the Raiders over visiting need these games. We need every Flacco’s wife, Dana, gave birth Andy Reid, matching their win Garrett Hartley’s 27-yard field unhappiness at not seeing the ball Jacksonville 19-9. REUTERS game.” AP Golf: Heavy rain delays finish at Illinois event

LAKE FOREST, Illinois: Play was suspended for the day at the BMW Championship yesterday after torrential downpours left the course water-logged, with the final round scheduled to resume at 8 am CT (1300 GMT) A worker uses a today. squeegee to push Twenty-two players in the field of 70 were yet to tee off after the water off the three-and-a-half hours of action fairway on the first had been wiped out earlier in the hole during a rain day and at 4 pm officials aban- delay at the BMW doned a further resumption as Championship at steady rain kept the par-71 layout the Conway Farms saturated. Golf Club in Lake Pools of water had formed on Forest, Illinois, fairways and greens at Conway yesterday. RIGHT: Farms Golf Club after almost an American golfer Phil inch of rainfall yesterday, forc- Mickelson in action. ing the PGA Tour’s penultimate FedExCup playoff event to go into a fifth day. Tournament leader Jim Furyk and second-placed Steve Stricker are scheduled to tee off in the final pairing at 9:40 am today. “I guess there’s good and bad news,” Furyk told reporters after events. Conditions are expected the elite 30-man field for next spending much of Sunday watch- to be cloudy today morning, week’s Tour Championship in ing National Football League with a slight chance of showers, Atlanta, the final play-off event. games in the clubhouse locker though sunshine is forecast for American Furyk, seeking his room. “The bad news, obviously the afternoon. first PGA Tour victory since I’m anxious to get out there and “For the most part of the day, the Tour Championship in 2010 Seung-Yul Noh play, as is everyone else. we feel pretty good that we might when he also landed FedExCup of South Korea “But the good news is no one see some sunshine tomorrow, and honours, was at 13-under 200 poses with the wants to go out and play in this it’s going to be better as the day overnight after carding a 69 in winner’s trophy and slop it around in bad weather goes on,” said Slugger White, the Saturday’s third round. after the final on a golf course where we’re play- PGA Tour’s vice president of rules Stricker was a further stroke round of the ing the ball down (no preferred and competition. back in second, having soared Nationwide lies) and it’s probably a little too Six players managed to com- into contention with a 64, ahead Children’s wet out there.” plete their rounds before play was of fellow Americans Brandt Hospital It will be the third unscheduled abandoned, including defending Snedeker (71), at 11 under, and Championship finish on the PGA Tour this year, champion Rory McIlroy who fired Zach Johnson (69), at 10 under. the most since 2010 when three a second successive three-under- American world number one in Columbus, tournaments spilled over into an par 68 to finish at seven-over 291, Tiger Woods, still smarting after Ohio. extra day. having languished stone last after being docked two strokes for a In all, 22 tournaments have 36 holes. rules violation during Friday’s been delayed by weather on the That marked the end of second round, was a further shot US circuit this season, including McIlroy’s 2013 PGA Tour cam- back in fifth after returning a the first three FedExCup playoff paign as he failed to qualify for third-round 66. REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Olympics: Horwill expected Bach keen on radically changing bid to play next week city mentality

PARIS: Newly-elected I think he is tracking well: Ewen McKenzie International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will move into SYDNEY: Australia coach Robbie Deans resigned in the of and has a lot of experience his new office in Lausanne, Ewen McKenzie expects James wake of the British and Irish so he’s never out of your think- Switzerland, today with little Horwill to rejoin his squad for Lions series defeat. ing,” former test prop McKenzie fanfare but with much to do. next week’s trip to South Africa McKenzie, though, has dis- said. “It’s just a question of the The 59-year-old German -- who but has offered no assurances played a distinct lack of sentiment guys you’ve got and whether was elected in the second round that the big lock will resume the with regard to his former Reds you’re happy with how they’re of voting by fellow IOC members captaincy. players since taking the reins at travelling.” last Tuesday in Buenos Aires see- Horwill suffered a hamstring the Wallabies. Meanwhile, South Africa ing off five rivals -- has finished injury two weeks ago which Firstly, against all predictions, hooker Bismark du Plessis has the celebrations and now it will ruled him out of the home Rugby he failed to restore flyhalf Quade had the red card he received dur- be business only. Championship tests against South Cooper to a starting role for the ing last weekend’s match against He will be received by his pred- Africa and Argentina. first two tests of the champion- New Zealand expunged from his ecessor Jacques Rogge, who will The Wallabies missed both his ship against New Zealand, which record after a judicial hearing also brief him on ongoing issues leadership and physicality in the both ended in defeat. decided his first yellow card had and hand over pertinent files. 38-12 drubbing at the hands of In an even more stunning deci- been wrongly awarded. While Bach’s immediate chal- the Springboks and could do with sion last week, McKenzie dropped Du Plessis was shown two yel- lenge will be to ensure a success- both back for the return match scrumhalf Will Genia to the bench low cards in the match, the first ful Winter Games in Sochi in in Cape Town on September 28. for the match against the Pumas in the 17th minute for a tackle 2014 -- his first official trip will Australia go on from South in Perth. on All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter be to Olympia in Greece to see Africa for a re-match with Given those decisions, it that French referee Romain Poite the Olympic flame lit -- he has Argentina, who they edged 14-13 should come as no surprise that adjudged was high and illegally highlighted longer term goals for at the weekend, and McKenzie McKenzie would not confirm that executed without the use of his his initial eight-year tenure. said Horwill would have to be fit Ben Mowen would hand back the arms. In his post election press con- to train if he was to embark on captaincy when Horwill returns. “Judicial Officer Terry Willis ference he highlighted the fight the flight to Cape Town. “I haven’t thought about it,” he from Australia has removed a red against match-fixing and energis- “There’s no evidence to say (he) added. “I’ll work out where he is card from the disciplinary record ing the young to go out and prac- wouldn’t be fit by the weekend,” up to on the injury. I have to see if of Bismarck du Plessis,” read a tice sports. McKenzie told reporters in Perth he is fit enough to join the group statement from governing body However, in a smaller more before the squad dispersed for a first.” SANZAR released in Sydney informal gathering with journal- week off. Given the problems at the yesterday. ists the morning after he said he “I think James would know he scrum that have been exposed by “(He) found that the decision had another goal -- that of fun- has to be right to train 100 per the Springboks and Pumas over made by referee Romain Poite damentally changing the mindset cent on Saturday. That’s what the last two weeks, it was no sur- to issue a yellow card as a result of cities that bid for the Olympic we’ll look at and we’ll work it out. prise either to hear that 59-cap of the tackle by du Plessis on Games. I think he is tracking well.” loosehead prop Benn Robinson Dan Carter was wrong, as it was “I want to see a new approach When fit, Horwill has been was under consideration for a within the laws of the game.” to the bidding process,” he said. Australia’s captain since replac- return for the two-match tour. Having missed 10 minutes of “At the moment in our bid ing Rocky Elsom in a shock move Robinson, criticised by some the first half because of the ini- process we are asking too much, on the eve of the 2011 World Cup for his lack of work rate around tial yellow card, Du Plessis was too early of the candidates. in New Zealand. the park and dumped from the sent from the field for good two “We approach bid cities like Having also led the Queensland original squad for the champion- minutes after halftime when, a tender for a business or for a Reds to Super Rugby success ship, was replaced in the number attempting a fend-off, he smashed Ben Smith of New Zealand (left) and Zane Kirchner of South Africa (top franchise. for the last few years under one shirt by James Slipper for his elbow into the throat of New right) compete for a high ball during their Test at Eden Park in Auckland “This leads to a situation where McKenzie, his place as team McKenzie’s first four tests. Zealand’s Liam Messam. in this September 14, 2013, file picture. bid books are written by the same leader looked assured when “We know what he’s capable AGENCIES people round the world. “Honestly I can say that before I go into a Question and Answer session with the bid cities for no matter what Olympic Games Guangzhou Open I already know the answers, Serbia’s team because I have heard them all Results celebrates after before.” GUANGZHOU: Results from Janko Tipsarevic Bach, the first Olympic gold the Guangzhou Open WTA ten- defeated Canada’s medalist to become IOC presi- nis tournament in Guangzhou Vasek Pospisil dent, said he wanted to see more yesterday (x denotes seedings): during their Davis involvement from locals. Women’s singles First Round Cup semi-final at the “I would like to try and change this mentality,” he said. Vania King (USA) bt Chanelle Belgrade Arena on “I would invite the potential Scheepers (RSA) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3. Sunday. Serbia, the 2010 champions, will candidates to think about how Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) bt the Olympic Games would fit into Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 6-3, 6-1. host the November 15-17 final against their city, their region and their Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE x6) bt Paula the Czechs who country’s development, their own Ormaechea (ARG) 6-1, 6-2. sustainable development. defeated Argentina “This would allow them to have Zhang Shuai (CHN) bt Olga 3-2 in their semi-final Puchkova (RUS) 6-0, 7-6 (7/1). their own creativity in terms of in Prague. BELOW: Karolina Pliskova (CZE) bt ideas about their bid and this Lucie Safarova who would lead to their population in Johanna Larsson (SWE) 6-4, won a title in Quebec 6-3. the city/region being part of the City. bid at an early stage. Monica Puig (PUR x8) bt Nadiya “You would get more bidders, Kichenok (UKR) 7-5, 7-6 (7/4). more creativity and more par- Johanna Konta (GBR) bt Richel ticipation from local people and Hogenkamp (NED) 6-3, 6-2. therefore more popular support Women’s doubles First Round from the younger generation. Vesna Dolonc/Darija Jurak “It will not be easy to achieve (SRB) bt Liu Chang/Tian Ran this and there will have to be (CHN) 6-4, 6-2. Safarova beats Erakovic minimum standards. However, Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE x1)/ for me we are imposing too much Peng Shuai (CHN) bt Maria too early.” Fernanda Alvarez Teran (BOL)/ Bach, who won Olympic gold Keri Wong (USA) 6-3, 6-3. for West Germany in the fencing for fifth career title team foil event at the 1976 Games, Irina Buryachok (UKR)/ also said with his new workload Karolina Pliskova (CZE) bt Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO)/ QUEBEC CITY: Lucie at the end because it was so long Sixth-seeded Hsieh, from he would be cutting all his other Shahar Peer (ISR) 6-2, 6-2. Safarova of the Czech Republic since my last WTA title. Taiwan, defeated Argentina’s commitments, including the won her fifth WTA title when “I really wanted to win the title Paula Ormaechea 6-1, 6-2 in 56 presidency of the Arab-German Varvara Lepchenko (USA x2)/ she edged New Zealand’s today - so it’s great I was able to minutes in her singles match in Chamber of Commerce. Zheng Saisai (CHN) bt Mathilde Marina Erakovic 6-4, 6-3 in the do that.” the morning. In the afternoon Czech Republic This particular role provoked Johansson (FRA)/Johanna final of the Bell Challenge in Safarova not only landed more Hsieh then won her first round Denis Oswald, one of his rivals for Larsson (SWE) 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 Quebec City yesterday. of her first serves in play than doubles match with her partner, the IOC presidency, to launch an (12/10). top seeds for Third seed Safarova’s serve Erakovic, but also had a higher China’s Peng Shuai. The top seeds attack on him on the eve of the proved a decisive weapon as the winning percentage when she did. and Wimbledon champions over- 2014 Davis Cup vote where he accused him of tak- Seoul WTA Results 26-year-old left-hander ended “I really tried hard to get things came Maria Fernanda Alvarez ing advantage of his position to SEOUL: Results from the a five-year victory drought and right, but Lucie made it very dif- Teran of Bolivia and Keri Wong PRAGUE: Czech Republic will further the interests of businesses KDB Korea Open WTA tour- improved her record in WTA ficult for me today,” Erakovic told of the United States 6-3, 6-3. be the top seeds when the draw he was linked to, especially with nament yesterday: finals to 5-7. reporters. Hsieh will face China’s Zhang for the 2014 Davis Cup is made regard to Kuwait. First Round “I hope it’s not another five “She played solid and didn’t Shuai in the second round of the this week, the International However, Bach was clear he will years until the next (title),” said let up her lead at all. And I was singles tournament, after the Tennis Federation (ITF) said no longer fulfil this role -- indeed Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) bt Safarova, who was broken early struggling to find my rhythm with wildcard entry defeated Russia’s yesterday. he wishes to retain only one such Elina Svitolina (UKR x5) 7-5, in the first set but held serve the her lefty serve and in the rallies Olga Puchkova in their first round Winners last year, the Czechs board membership for sentimen- 2-6, 6-4. rest of the way. - so I just have to take my hat off tie 6-0, 7-6 (7/1). have again reached the final and tal reasons. Vera Dushevina (RUS) bt Silvia Sixth seed Erakovic had her to her and move on now.” Briton Johanna Konta won her will play Serbia in Belgrade next “I would like to remain chair- Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 6-4, 6-1. chances but the Croatian-born first round match against Richel month. man of the supervisory board of Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) bt New Zealander squandered five Hsieh claims two Hogenkamp from Holland, 6-3, Serbia’s run to the final earns the machine building company in Han Sung-Hee (KOR) 6-0, 7-6 break points. 6-2, while Karolina Pliskova of them the second seeding, followed Tauberbischofsheim (his home (7/0). Safarova broke Erakovic four victories on day the Czech Republic beat Sweden’s by Spain and Argentina. town in the Franconia region) as Julia Goerges (GER x6) bt times on the indoor carpet. Johanna Larsson 6-4, 6-3. France, United States, Canada I have an emotional link and I feel Misaki Doi (JPN) 6-3, 7-5. “It was just about a few points one in Guangzhou Galina Voskoboeva from and Kazakhstan make up the a responsibility for the employees. Virginie Razzano (FRA) bt today, but I was more consistent Kazakhstan and Monica Puig eight seeded nations who will be “This is why before even the Lourdes Dominguez (ESP) 6-1, with my game and more aggres- GUANGZHOU: Reigning WTA from Puerto Rico will face off in kept apart in round one. election and in order to be trans- 6-1. sive, and I think that’s why I won,” Guangzhou Open champion and the second round after both play- The other eight teams in next parent I asked the IOC Ethics said Safarova, who entered the Taiwan’s first Grand Slam win- ers won their first round games. year’s World Group are Australia, Commission if it would be ok. Lee Ye-Ra (KOR) bt Daria event ranked 48th in the world. ner Hsieh Su-Wei claimed vic- Vania King of the US also Belgium, Germany, Britain, They said no problem there is no Gavrilova (RUS) 6-4, 6-1. “My strategy was to try to go tory in both her singles and booked her place in the second Italy, Japan, Netherlands and conflict of interests. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS to her backhand side and just try doubles first round matches yes- round after a hard fought 2-6, 6-1, Switzerland. “As far as I am aware the IOC x3) bt Anabel Medina Garrigues to use my lefty shots as well as I terday, the opening day of this 6-3 victory over South African The draw takes place in London is not in the business of wood (ESP) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. could. I was a little bit nervous year’s tournament. Chanelle Scheepers. REUTERS tomorrow. REUTERS processing.” REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Record Real spending faces test Spanish giants take on Galatasaray; PSG open quest against in-form Olympiakos

MADRID: Real Madrid will speculation that Casillas, a fix- get their first indication today Champions League ture for club and country for of whether unprecedented fixtures more than a decade and a hero spending on players of more to Real fans, could leave in the Champions League group stage fixtures (all than 600m euros over the past next transfer window in January. 1845 GMT). five years can secure the 10th “The decision is taken,” European crown they have been Playing today Ancelotti said after the Villarreal chasing since 2002. Group A game. “Iker and Diego know it World-record signing Gareth Manchester United vs Bayer Leverkusen and there is no problem.” Bale, who alone cost 100m euros Real Sociedad vs Shakhtar Donetsk Galatasaray’s disappointing ($133m) when he joined from Group B start to the domestic season Tottenham Hotspur this month, Galatasaray vs Real Madrid continued on Friday when they is likely to line up with 94m-euro drew 1-1 at home to Antalyaspor, FC Copenhagen vs Juventus man Cristiano Ronaldo when a third successive stalemate. Real begin their Champions Group C Speaking after the game, coach League campaign at Group B Benfica vs Anderlecht Fatih Terim was critical of the rivals Galatasaray. Olympiakos Piraeus vs Paris St Germain team’s failure to put away their Wales winger Bale scored on Group D chances but confident about the debut in Saturday’s 2-2 La Liga Bayern Munich vs CSKA Moscow upcoming match. draw at Villarreal, while Portugal “We don’t like losing points but Viktoria Plzen vs Manchester City forward Ronaldo netted his 203rd the Real Madrid match will be goal in as many official matches Playing Tomorrow different,” said Terim, a former for the Spanish giants. Group E Turkey and AC Milan coach. Real, the world’s richest club Schalke 04 vs Steaua Bucharest “On our own pitch and in front by income, have splurged 611 mil- Chelsea vs Basel of our own fans I think we will lion euros on players in the last Group F benefit from the famous Ali Sami five years, according to the latest Olympique Marseille vs Arsenal Yen Arena pressure.” Prime Time Sport Football Transfer Galatasaray’s hopes will rest Napoli vs Borussia Dortmund Review. on the attacking duo of former Their outlay is almost three Group G Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, times as much as European and Austria Vienna vs Porto who scored the equaliser in Bundesliga champions Bayern Atletico Madrid vs Zenit St Petersburg Friday’s match, and Burak Galatasaray’s Ivorian forward Didier Drogba (right) and coach Fatih Terim hold a press conference at Metin Munich, who have spent 227m, Group H Yilmaz, the top scorer in the Oktay Training Centre in Istanbul, yesterday, on the eve of the UEFA Champions League group B football and only English Premier League AC Milan vs Celtic domestic league for the last two match against Real Madrid. side Manchester City come close Barcelona vs Ajax Amsterdam seasons. with an outlay of 549m. The club have been boosted by Real were boosted by the news we have the continuation of such the arrival from Sporting Lisbon League campaign in which signifi- League finalists Benfica and which is a very important com- on Sunday that Ronaldo had unique giants of the game capable of Portuguese winger Bruma, one cent success is expected. Belgian champions Anderlecht. petition for Paris. It is going to be agreed a contract extension until of making history.” of the most promising youngsters Carlo Ancelotti guided the cap- Blanc knows what it takes tough, but we have a team capa- the end of the 2017-18 season and Real, whose draw at Villarreal in the nation’s under-20 side. ital side on a strong run to the to succeed in football’s biggest ble of winning all our upcoming club president Florentino Perez was their first setback in four La Defender Semih Kaya needed quarter-finals last season where club competition having taken matches.” said the deal was in line with the Liga matches this term, travel to treatment for a thigh prob- they narrowly lost to Barcelona Bordeaux to the 2010 quarter- While PSG come into the club’s long-term policy of fielding Istanbul with a question mark lem after Friday’s match, while on away goals and the club’s finals where they were knocked match as slight favourites, the the world’s best players. over coach Carlo Ancelotti’s pol- Drogba and Brazilian midfielder wealthy Qatari owners will be out by domestic rivals Lyon. Greeks cannot be underestimated “(Former president) Santiago icy of rotating goalkeepers Iker Felipe Melo were in light training expecting at least the same this His team came out on top at and have a fine record at their Bernabeu showed us that this Casillas and Diego Lopez. over the weekend after sustaining campaign if not better. Bordeaux 2-0 in their last league Karaiskakis stadium, a venue team should always count on the Spain captain Casillas lost minor injuries. After three wins and two draws outing and club owner Nasser that played a role in the first ever best,” the construction magnate his place in the starting lineup Meanwhile, Paris Saint- in five league outings, PSG travel Al-Khelaifi is optimistic about Olympic Games in 1896. told reporters. last season after falling out Germain coach Laurent Blanc to Athens for the opening round their continental quest. Their Spanish coach Michel, “This is one of the main facets with Ancelotti’s predecessor willbe expecting significent suc- of group matches today where “This was our best match since who scored 97 goals during 14 sea- of our identity and with Cristiano Jose Mourinho and the Italian cess in the European compeitition. they face a stiff challenge against the start of the season and I hope sons at Real Madrid, is looking we have the best,” he added. has decided that Lopez will play Blanc had led PSG to an Greek champions Olympiakos. it will continue,” he said follow- to take the team past their best “Those of us lucky enough to in La Liga and Casillas in the unbeaten five-match start to A good result in the capital will ing the Friday win at the Chaban run of reaching the quarter-finals, have seen Alfredo Di Stefano Champions League. their domestic season and gets put them in good stead amongst Delmas stadium.“On Tuesday which they achieved once, back in play always say that in Cristiano The situation has prompted a second crack at a Champions a pool that also includes Europa we start the Champions League 1999. AGENCIES Only Juve win will do in Copenhagen, says Conte

MILAN: Juventus coach bitter taste and lamenting the Old next month and with the luxury he’s not played for a year, but I’m second goal in a 2-0 home win Antonio Conte (pictured) Lady of Turin’s financial frailty of rotating his squad he expects following his progress closely,” over Celtic to seal Juve’s place in admits a Champions League compared to more robust rivals nothing less than three points in said Conte -- Quagliarella is likely the last eight. It remains to be final appearance is beyond the like Real Madrid, Barcelona and Denmark. to make an appearance at some seen if Vucinic is primed physi- Italians but says he won’t accept Chelsea. “We need to start on a posi- point in the Danish capital. cally for Tuesday when the Danes anything less than a win away Conte has since strengthened tive note on Tuesday, with a win,” Although used sporadically in will be looking to destabilise the to Copenhagen in their Group B his squad with two aims -- claim- Conte said Saturday following the Serie A last season, Quagliarella Italians on their way to an upset. opener today. ing a third consecutive scudetto 1-1 draw at Inter Milan. proved his worth in Europe. What matters most for Conte Juve returned to the competi- for the first time since a record Mirko Vucinic, who partnered He scored a late equaliser in is the final result: “It would tion last season after a three-year five-title haul in the 1930s, and Tevez up front at the San Siro in a 2-2 draw against Chelsea at be a mistake to underesti- absence and impressed on their going further in Europe this time Conte’s preferred 3-5-2 forma- Stamford Bridge this time last mate Copenhagen, because the way to the quarter-finals where around. tion, could start on the bench year and then in a 4-0 rout of Champions League always brings eventual winners Bayern Munich The addition, notably, of strik- at the Parken Stadium in place Nordsjaelland. out the best in teams. handed them a lesson in clinical ers Carlos Tevez and Fernando of either Fabio Quagliarella or The former Napoli striker also “We know how important it football. Llorente will allow Conte to rest Sebastian Giovinco. opened the scoring to send Juve is to start the group stage well. Bayern ran out 4-0 winners on key players when required. With Llorente still short of full on their way to a 3-0 defeat of That’s why we’ll be going there aggregate, leaving Conte with a Juve have seven games in the match fitness -- “we can’t forget Chelsea in Turin and netted the to win.” AFP Europe’s big three ready for opening night

LONDON: Experienced as other teams are weak we will be they are there will still be a few making a mistake,” he said. first-night nerves this week as Mourinho, who announced Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti himself as a coaching heavy- and Jose Mourinho set off on weight by taking Porto all the way new Champions League jour- and repeated the feat with Inter neys with plenty to prove and Milan, will be taking charge of his reputations to polish. 108th Champions League game Each with two Champions when Chelsea host Basel today. League triumphs on their The Portuguese’s last managerial CVs, two of them Champions League game in are attempting to work their charge of Chelsea was a 1-1 draw European magic in new surround- against Rosenborg in 2007 - a ings while the third has returned result that signalled the end of to the club at which the conti- his first spell in charge of the club. nent’s biggest club prize proved Chelsea bowed out of the elusive. Champions League at the group After a year-long sabbatical, FROM LEFT: Jose Mourinho of Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti of Real Madrid, Pep Guardiola of Bayern Munich and Rafa Benitez of Napoli SC stage last season when they were having twice taken Barcelona the holders, but with Mourinho to European glory in a glitter- Gareth Bale in Turkey against Moyes will need all his steely flirtation with the competition containing the likes of Robin van back at the helm and a kind ing reign, Guardiola has arrived Galatasaray while Chelsea face calm and self belief as he plots was a final qualifying round defeat Persie and Wayne Rooney, rivals group which also includes Steaua at Bayern Munich tasked with Swiss side FC Basel at Stamford United’s first Champions League while in charge at Everton, said. Manchester City have recruited Bucharest and Schalke a strong retaining the trophy won in such Bridge. campaign in the post-Alex “If that’s coming from him it a vastly-experienced European run is expected. style by Jupp Heynckes in May. Rafa Benitez, another man- Fergsuon era. must be tough.” coach in Manuel Pellegrini. Ancelotti, who like Mourinho Ancelotti, after his brief stay at ager with a proven Champions The Scot will have a tough Martino has started life con- City’s away tie against Group suffered Champions League dis- Paris St Germain, will be expected League pedigree, will have to hit baptism with Bundesliga side fidently at the Nou Camp and D minnows Viktoria Plzen today appointment while at Chelsea, has to deliver Real Madrid’s 10th the ground running as his Napoli Bayer Leverkusen first up today with Lionel Messi already hav- will be the Chilean’s 45th in the a mouthwatering array of talent European Cup without delay, hav- side host last season’s runners- in a group that also contains Real ing scored six league goals and Champions League and the club’s at his disposal but finding the best ing twice led Milan to the summit. up Borussia Dortmund in what Sociedad and Ukraine champions with Brazilian Neymar about to owners will be expecting a vast system to incorporate the likes of Mourinho, who Ancelotti has looks like being a devilishly dif- Shakhtar Donetsk. make his Champions League bow, improvement on the previous two Ronaldo, Bale, Luka Modric and replaced in the Spanish capital, ficult Group F. A good start in Europe will go a Barca will again start as one of seasons in which they have man- Isco will be key to his chances of will seek to steer Chelsea all the With so many Champions long way to helping Moyes estab- the favourites. aged only three wins in 12 group succeeding where others failed. way to the final in Lisbon having League masterminds among the lish himself but the Champions The Catalans are in Group H games. Bayern are also in City’s An away match at Galatasaray returned to London determined 32 coaches setting off this week, League, as even Fergsuon would - the only section comprised of group, but Pellegrini, who steered will offer some early clues. to win club football’s biggest prize Manchester United’s David testify to, can be an unforgiving all former winners - with Celtic, Malaga to the quarter-finals last The Italian clubs are not being with a third club. Moyes and Barcelona’s new coach place. Milan and Ajax Amsterdam who season, has warned against tak- touted as potential champions Guardiola’s Bayern open the Gerardo Martino look like rookies “(Ferguson) said he thinks this they begin against tomorrow in ing Czech side Plzen or CSKA this year but Napoli, Juventus defence of their crown at home to in comparison as they prepare for is one of the hardest draws United one of the ties of the week. Moscow lightly. and Milan will all bring plenty to CSKA Moscow, Real Madrid will their first ventures in the groups have had in the Champions While Moyes may be a novice “If we think we are going to the party in the coming months. unleash Cristiano Ronaldo and stages of the tournament. League,” Moyes, whose only at this level, albeit with a team qualify for the last 16 because the REUTERS TUESDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Manchester United’s English striker Wayne Rooney (centre) takes part in a training session at the team’s Carrington training ground in Manchester, northwest England, ahead of the UEFA Champions League Group A football match against Bayer Leverkusen, today. RIGHT: Bayern Munich’s defender Jerome Boateng (left) and team-mate Austrain midfielder David Alaba joke during a training session in Munich, southern Germany, yesterday. The team of FC Bayern Munich will play against CSKA Moscow in their first UEFA Champions League group D match in Munich, southern Germany, today. Lethargic Bayern begin title defence against CSKA Moscow We played lethargically at times: Sammer; Leverkusen baptism for newcomer Moyes

LONDON: Bayern Munich 15 goals to Bayern’s nine. Bayern after eight league games. The Moyes was selected to succeed Group A either. Moyes says that have been told to show some have also suffered with injuries former Soviet army club, in Alex Ferguson as United manager although things could have been Giant killers passion and enthusiasm when to Javi Martinez and Bastian the group stage for the seventh at the end of last season despite better, they could also have been they begin the defence of their Schweinsteiger as well as new time, reached the quarter-finals having only overseen two matches a lot worse. Pilsen seek to Champions League title against signings Mario Goetze and Thiago in 2009/10 under coach Leonid in the competition during his “It was the first time I have CSKA Moscow today. Alcantara. Slutsky, who is still in charge. 11-year tenure at Everton. been involved in a draw at that The visitors, meanwhile, will There was definitely a run-of- CSKA, who spent a modest 10 Those games, in 2005, saw the level,” said the Scot. stun Man City be hoping they can help Russia the-mill feel to Bayern’s 2-0 win million euros during the transfer Merseyside club beaten 4-2 by “When the names came out, make some impact on the com- over Hanover 96 on Saturday, window, suffered a blow at the Villarreal over two legs in the there were some that I didn’t PRAGUE: Czech champions petition after a dismal campaign which angered sporting director start of the month when their third qualifying round, but Moyes want and others I would have Viktoria Pilsen are looking to last season when the country’s Matthias Sammer. Ivorian striker Seydou Doumbia is relishing the prospect of a sec- been happy with. Relatively, I am add Manchester City to their two sides, Spartak Moscow and “We played lethargically at was ruled out for around six ond bite at the apple. quite pleased. collection of beaten giants when Zenit St Petersburg, managed just times, we played football without weeks with a back injury. “I am really excited to be “To draw Real Sociedad out the two teams clash in their three wins between them on the emotion, we worked as if we were But they have reinforced their involved in it,” he told United’s of the last pot was a tough one. Champions League Group D way to group stage elimination. following rules,” Sammer told attack by signing 19-year-old in-house television station, MUTV. They have done well in Spain opener today. Bayern’s treble-winning season German media. Brazilian Vitinho who made his “I have been in the Champions this year and had a great result Pilsen beat Atletico Madrid in was always going to be hard to “We must get out of our com- professional debut for Botafogo League before but I have not made against Lyon to get into the the Europa League group stage live up to and there has definitely fort zone. It’s nothing to do with this year and quickly turned into the group stage. I had quite a few group stage. last season before sweeping been an anti-climatic feeling lack of effort, we’re lacking that their most important player. episodes in the Europa League, “That put a little bit of a downer Napoli in the last-32, and they about the start to the new term, last five percent,” he added. Vitinho, however, could find the which were good, but nothing on it. In addition, Leverkusen are are hungry for more while being despite the arrival of new coach Bayern have won 12 of their Champions League a huge step up at the level of the Champions doing well in Germany and we also aware City may be a harder nut Pep Guardiola. last 14 home games in Europe, from the ponderous defences in League. “We will do our home- have the long trip to Donetsk.” to crack. Even though Bayern have taken suggesting that Tuesday’s Group the Brazilian championship. work to make sure we are as pre- Leverkusen finished third in “They’re an English team, play- 13 points out of a possible 15 in the D match, the first-ever meeting Meanwhile, David Moyes will pared as we can be.” the Bundesliga last season and ing more physical football,” said Bundesliga and won the Supercup, between the teams, could also be sample the Champions League United are the only genuine have won four of their first five defender David Limbersky, play- they have been overshadowed by a something of a formality. group phase for the first time today European heavyweights in the games this term, with Borussia ing his sixth season for the cur- much more flamboyant Borussia However, Russian champi- when his Manchester United side group, but with Shakhtar Donetsk Dortmund and Bayern Munich rent Czech top-flight leaders. Dortmund team who have won all ons CSKA have also started the host Bayer Leverkusen in their and Real Sociedad making up the the only sides above them in the “They have a number of play- their league matches and scored season well and are unbeaten opening Group A fixture. pool, there is not a weak team in table. AGENCIES ers from abroad and their qual- ity is immense, but we believe in our own strength and maybe Manchester will underestimate us a bit.” Young may not change Big-spending City, sitting fourth in the Premier League with seven points from four games, owe their fans a Champions League success after failing to get past his diving ways: Moyes the group stage in the last two seasons. MANCHESTER, England: to Parish that even Moyes was “You’ve got to defend a little bit “Now we have two years of Manchester United manager unhappy with his own player more with your head and think experience. We have an even David Moyes has warned his over diving. “The only player in about how you try and combat the stronger team and we hope to own player Ashley Young to the incidents that was honest was forward because they are cute and go through,” City striker Stevan stop diving but said yesterday he Kagisho Dikgacoi and he’s sent off know how to do this type of stuff,” Jovetic, acquired from Fiorentina could not guarantee the winger and banned for the next match,” he added. before the season, told the uefa. would change his ways. Parish told the BBC on Sunday. “It’s a difficult thing for the ref- com website. England international Young “Ashley Young has a yellow card eree to look at so retrospective City manager Manuel Pellegrini was booked for tumbling over and three points and we have no viewing and punishments may be bemoaned injuries plaguing his after a challenge by Crystal points and one less player to pick the way to go.” defence after his team had stum- Palace’s Kagisho Dikgacoi in from for the next game. Young has gained an unenviable bled to a goalless draw at Stoke United’s 2-0 win at Old Trafford in “If preventing a goal-scoring reputation as a player prone to City on Saturday. the Premier League on Saturday. opportunity is a straight red then falling over in the penalty area “We have four of five injured Later in the first half, the referee trying to create one by cheating and the latest incident has led to players that are important. From awarded the home side a penalty should be a straight red also. It calls for him to be banned. the back four, Micah Richards, and sent off Dikgacoi after the might have cost us a point that Former Premier League referee Vincent Kompany and Gael pair clashed again, although tel- might keep us up. Graham Poll, writing in his col- Clichy are out, and David Silva is evision replays suggested Young “(We) need to get some umn in the Daily Mail, accused out as well,” he said. had fallen easily under minimal momentum behind a straight red Young of cheating. Besides, Argentinian defender challenge. for a dive.” “He should be banned for five Martin Demichelis has been ruled The London club’s chairman United defender Rio Ferdinand games, then he might stop diving out for several weeks with a knee Steve Parish said Young should said if there were to be changes to to try and con referees,” he said. injury. have been sent off, while Moyes the ways in which diving was han- Former United manager Alex Pellegrini said Kompany, the said he had spoken to the winger dled, the measures would have to Ferguson said he had “had a team captain, could make it back over the matter and reiterated his be implemented across the world. word” with Young last year after in time for the Pilsen tie. long-held view that there should “For instance, you go into the several high-profile incidents in “We’ll see with Vincent what be retrospective action for diving Champions League and we’re which the former Aston Villa happens, we’ll talk with the doc- to clamp down on it. being told in the Premier League player had fallen over. tor, with the player, and we’ll “You can never be sure it won’t that you’re not meant to dive but Last season in the Premier see if he can play on Tuesday,” happen again, but I’ve had a word you go in the Champions League League, 34 yellow cards were Pellegrini said. with him privately,” Moyes told and you’ve got other countries shown for diving with former His Pilsen counterpart Pavel a news conference on the eve that simulate,” he told a news Tottenham Hotspur forward Vrba has similar problems when of United’s Champions League conference. Gareth Bale the worst culprit, it comes to defence. Group A opener at home to Bayer “It’s difficult and obviously as picking up six of them. Pilsen missed injured Slovak Leverkusen. a defender you don’t want people The Football Association can stalwart Marian Cisovsky and “I’ve said for many years... we to just try and con the referee. If take retrospective action against right-back Radim Reznik in should have retrospective video there’s contact, in today’s game players they feel were guilty of Friday’s 1-1 draw at Slovan for diving, I think it would help the player has got the right to simulation, even if the referee Manchester United head coach David Moyes during the team training Liberec while Cisovsky’s replace- referees no end.” appreciate that he’s been con- deemed nothing was wrong at the session at their Carrington ground in Manchester, Britain, yesterday. ment Lukas Hejda limped off dur- It will come as little comfort tacted and maybe go down. time. REUTERS ing the game. 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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Cilic handed Australia clinch ODI series nine-month doping ban Visitors coast to 49-run win over England; Watson scores century LONDON: Croatia’s Marin Cilic has been handed a SOUTHAMPTON, England: Shane Watson muscled his Mitchell Johnson, who was not nine-month doping ban, the Australia’s three most talented way to 143 from 107 balls with required for the Ashes series won International Tennis Federation players made significant contri- six sixes and captain Michael 3-0 by England, then bowled with (ITF) announced yesterday. butions to take their team to a Clarke, who had been in doubt for raw pace and impressive accuracy The 24-year-old, currently 49-run victory in the deciding the match because of his recur- to capture two for 21 from his 10 ranked 24th in the world, has final one-dayer against England rent back trouble, contributed 75 overs on an easy-paced pitch in had the ban back-dated to May 1 on a chilly evening at the Rose to Australia’s 298 all out off 49.1 England’s 249 all out from 48 this year, meaning he will be able Bowl in Southampton yesterday. overs. overs. Ravi Bopara (62) and Jos to return to action on February Buttler (42) added 92 for the sixth 1, 2014. Scoreboard wicket before Australia wrapped Cilic’s doping violation came up the last international of the when he tested positive for the AUSTRALIA K P Pietersen (run out-F Ahmed/Hughes) ...... 0 English summer to take the stimulant nikethamide at the P Hughes c Carberry b Jordan ...... 2 J E Root b Johnson...... 21 series 2-1 after two games were Munich Open in May. A Finch c Morgan b Stokes ...... 26 E J G Morgan st Wade b Voges ...... 30 washed out. Left-arm fast bowler “The International Tennis S Watson c Buttler b Stokes ...... 143 L J Wright (run out-Bailey) ...... 0 Johnson, whose test career has Federation announced today M Wade c Buttler b Stokes ...... 0 R S Bopara c Voges b Johnson ...... 62 been plagued by inconsistency, that Marin Cilic has been found M Clarke c Pietersen b Jordan ...... 75 J C Buttler b Faulkner ...... 42 again regularly exceeded 145 kms to have committed an Anti- G Bailey st Buttler b Root ...... 4 B A Stokes c Clarke b Faulkner ...... 27 (90 miles) an hour. Doping Rule Violation under A Voges c Buttler b Stokes ...... 8 C J Jordan c Bailey b Watson ...... 14 His speed and bounce discon- Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti- J Faulkner c Buttler b Jordan ...... 10 J C Tredwell (not out) ...... 5 certed all the top-order England Doping Programme (presence M Johnson c&b Stokes ...... 2 W B Rankin b Fawad Ahmed ...... 4 batsman throughout the series of a Prohibited Substance in a C McKay c Root b Rankin ...... 5 Extras (B-3, LB-5, W-6) ...... 14 and he must have forced himself Player’s Sample),” a statement F Ahmed (not out) ...... 4 Total (all out in 48 overs) ...... 249 into consideration when hostili- confirmed. Extras (LB-10, W-9) ...... 19 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-50, 3-64, 4-68, 5-103, ties resume in the first Ashes Test Cilic, a former number nine Total (all out in 49.1 overs) ...... 298 6-195, 7-197, 8-236, 9-240, 10-249. of the return series starting in and 2010 Australian Open semi- Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-48, 3-48, 4-211, Bowling: C J McKay 9-1-54-0; M G Johnson Brisbane on November 21. finalist, provided a urine sample 5-221, 6-244, 7-282, 8-284, 9-294, 10-298. 10-1-21-2 (4w); J P Faulkner 9-0-38-3; Fawad Australia won the second ODI during the Munich event and a Bowling: Rankin 9.1-1-26-1 (1w); Jordan 10- Ahmed 7-0-51-1; A C Voges 4-0-25-1 (1w); S at Old Trafford by 88 runs before WADA-accredited laboratory Australia’s Shane Watson leaves the pitch after being caught out by 0-51-3 (6w); Stokes 10-0-61-5; Bopara 10-0- R Watson 9-0-52-1 (1w). England levelled at 1-1 with a in Montreal found it to contain England’s Jos Buttler for 143 runs during the fifth One Day International 54-0; Tredwell 4-0-38-0; Root 6-0-58-1 (2w). Result: Australia win by 49 runs. three-wicket victory in Cardiff nikethamide, which is banned (ODI) match against England at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, ENGLAND Series: Australia won the 5-match series 2-1. on Saturday after the first and under section S6 (Stimulants) of England, yesterday. M A Carberry lbw Faulkner ...... 30 Player-of-the-Match: S R Watson (Aus). fourth matches ended in rain- the 2013 WADA List of Prohibited affected no results. AGENCIES Substances and Prohibited Methods. The Croatian, who said he would appeal his ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, claimed he was unaware that Coramine tablets he bought contained Ronaldo goal scoring nikethamide, for which he did not hold a valid Therapeutic Use Exemption. “The substance in question originated from a glucose tab- earns ‘record’ pay: Press let purchased at a pharmacy in France. Unbeknownst to me, the MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo’s than renewal,” football analyst forming a potent partnership. glucose tablets contained a sub- unstoppable goal-scoring net- Carlos Carpio wrote in Marca. Both scored in Real’s 2-2 stance that is banned in competi- ted him a world record pay “It is easy. The player asks and draw with Villarreal in La Liga tion,” Cilic said in a statement. packet when he signed a con- the club pays.” on Saturday as Bale made his “I wish to emphasise that I have tract renewal tying him to Real Rival sports paper AS said eagerly-awaited debut having never knowingly or deliberately Madrid until 2018, Spain’s press Ronaldo’s performance had not signed from Tottenham Hotspur taken any banned substances in said yesterday. brought the club the trophy haul in a record 100m euro deal. my life and that I am opposed to Real gave no financial details of it hoped for, with one Liga vic- Portuguese forward Ronaldo, any use of performance-enhanc- the 28-year-old striker’s contract tory, one domestic King’s Cup and who signed a new five-year deal ing substances in sport.” and estimates in the Spanish one Super Cup but it added that with Real remains the fulcrum An Independent Tribunal press varied widely. without his 203 goals in four years of the side and is unlikely to be agreed that Cilic ingested the Top-selling sports paper Marca the club would have had nothing. handing over free kick responsi- nikethamide inadvertently as a said he would earn 17m euros “Cristiano is staying until 2018 bility to the Welshman. result of taking the tablets and ($23m) net a year; El Mundo said and that’s a blessing. For Madrid However, despite the high-pro- did not intend to enhance his per- he secured 18m euros net includ- fans and for the player. Obrigado file of both players Englishman formance in doing so. ing easily reached bonuses; and (‘Thank you’ in Portuguese),” Clement, who also worked with Therefore he met the precon- sports daily AS said he would wrote the paper’s football com- Real coach Carlo Ancelotti at ditions of Article 10.4 of the pro- receive 21m euros net. mentator Tomas Roncero. Chelsea and Paris St Germain, gramme, which entitles him to a “How could I not love you?” Catalan sports papers, which says there will be no ego clash. reduction of the period of ineligi- ran the headline on Marca’s front tend to focus on the fortunes of “There’ll be no issue between bility based on an assessment of page across a photograph of Real Barcelona, took the Ronaldo deal those two, none at all,” Clement his fault. Madrid president Florentino in their stride. was quoted in British newspa- As well as the ban “it was Perez embracing a grinning Barcelona-based Mundo pers which carried extensive also determined that Mr Cilic’s Ronaldo after the deal was signed Deportivo did not mention the coverage of Bale’s opening game results at the 2013 BMW Open on Sunday. Ronaldo contract on its front in La Liga. event should be disqualified, with The agreement extinguished page. “Good players like to work with resulting forfeiture of the ranking rumours that Ronaldo could Rival Barcelona-based sports good players. They’ll help each points and prize money that he make a sensational return to paper Sport ran the headline: other to achieve things for the won at those events. Manchester United when his “Cristiano is not sad anymore,” club, I’m sure, and if they keep “Mr Cilic’s results subsequent former contract expired in 2015. a reference to Ronaldo’s com- scoring, everyone will be happy.” to the BMW Open (in Munich), He had left Old Trafford to join ment in September last year that Bale lasted an hour before up to the time that he accepted Madrid in 2009 for a then world he was “sad” in Real, sparking being substituted and Clement a voluntary provisional suspen- record 94m euros. departure rumours. said fans should be patient with sion are also disqualified, and the It also meant Real got to keep Inside, the paper asked its the Welshman whose pre-season ranking points and prize money their most prized asset. readers: “Does Cristiano deserve has been disrupted by the drawn- forfeited. A fully-reasoned deci- “When a footballer spends four to earn 18 million?” out transfer to Madrid. sion will follow in due course.” years scoring a goal in every one Meanwhile, Real Madrid “He seemed to grow when that Following the Munich Open, of the 200 games he plays and one Assistant Manager Paul Clement goal went in,” Clement, who is Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (left) and Gareth Bale take part in a train- Cilic was knocked out of the day he sits down to discuss his said Gareth Bale and Ronaldo, helping Bale communicate with ing session at Turk Telekom Arena in Istanbul yesterday. Real Madrid will French Open in the third round contract with his club, you are the world’s two most expensive the non English speaking players face Galatasaray in their Champions League match in Istanbul, today. by Viktor Troicki, who coinci- talking about capitulation more footballers will have no trouble in the squad, said. AGENCIES dentally was banned in July for 18 months for failing to provide a blood sample at the Monte Carlo Masters in April. Alves offered to donate his liver to me, says Abidal He then reached the final at Queen’s where he lost to Andy MADRID: Monaco full-back a tumour on his liver in March contract by Barca at the end of relationship with Dani goes much than friendship.” In another Murray before withdrawing from Eric Abidal has said that his 2011 and after briefly returning last season, Alves has changed further than him taking my old recent interview Abidal caused Wimbledon, where he was seeded old Barcelona team-mate Dani to the first team, was ruled out his squad number from two to number 22 shirt,” he said. controversy by saying that Barca 10th, prior to his second-round Alves offered to donate the of the game for over a year to Abidal’s old number 22 this sea- “When I had to undergo sur- hadn’t paid him whilst he had match against Kenny de Schepper Frenchman his liver when undergo the transplant in March son. However, the 34-year-old gery, he wanted to donate his liver. been ill. Those allegations were with a knee injury. Abidal needed a transplant 18 2012. has revealed their friendship Logically, he couldn’t because he denied by the club who said they Cilic will miss the Australian months ago. As a tribute to Abidal, who was went even much further than is a professional footballer. Our had fulfilled all their contractual Open while serving out the latter Abidal was first diagnosed with surprisingly not offered a new public displays of support. “My relationship goes much deeper obligations to the player. AFP stages of his ban. AFP