ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 25 October 2013 20 Dhul-Hijja 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5863 Price: QR2 Qatar bourse Serena index falls to reaches WTA three-week low semi-finals Business | 13 Sport | 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Shelter from shelling Qatar Airways Greater Doha ‘not interested’ in Boeing 777X Metro to be DOHA: Qatar Airways is not interested in ordering Boeing’s proposed new 777X wide-body jet, its chief executive said. Asked whether the carrier was ready in 2018 looking at ordering a proposed revamped version of Boeing’s 777 mini-jumbo, Akbar Al Baker said: Al Khor, Ras Laffan also on rail grid “We are not interested in buying”. Qatar Airways is among several DOHA: The Greater Doha Blue. It will be a semi-circular carriers being courted by Boeing Metro Rail, which will link network and will link the first as it finalises plans for a larger Messaieed to Al Khor and three networks to one another. It version of its profitable 777 wide- Ras Laffan via Musheireb and will pass through the West Bay body jet expected to be launched Hamad Hospital in Doha city, to the northern side of Hamad at Dubai Airshow next month. will be ready in 2018. International Airport. The net- Al Baker had earlier said the Al Khor is some 42km north of work will go around the C Ring airline wanted to be a launch cus- Doha while Ras Laffan is about Road. tomer for the 777X. He denied 90km away from here, also in the The Education City station reports that Qatar Airways is in north. The metro will comprise will be the second largest after talks with Indian budget carrier four rail networks, some 80 per- Musheireb. The Musheireb sta- SpiceJet for a stake. “No, that’s not cent of which will be underground. tion will have 190-metre long true at all. We are not interested The networks will crisscross platform and will be located some in that.” He said Qatar Airways is one another at Musheireb rail 30 meters underground. A farmer helps his daughter as he demonstrates how to get into a makeshift shelter in Duma near Damascus. only interested in a code share with station, which will be the main As for international rail lines, the Indian carrier. REUTERS He has dug an underground shelter for his family to hide in during shelling from forces loyal to President junction. one will link Doha to Saudi Bashar Al Assad. The first network to be known Arabia while the other will pass as Red, will be 174km long through the proposed Doha- and cover 20 stations and link Bahrain causeway and link Doha Messaieed to Al Khor and Ras to Manama. Laffan via Musheireb and Hamad It is, however, not known if Hospital in Doha and Lusail City. these two networks will also be Civic fumigation hit as pesticides run out Lusail will have its own internal ready for operation by 2018. rail network. The designs of all stations and DOHA: Fumigation services of Al Rayyan Al Rayyan Municipality has contacted the Residents said private fumigation service The second Metro network, related buildings will be based on Municipality have come to a standstill, ministry and they have given assurances to providers are having a gala time. Some are with a length of 128km, is to Arab and Islamic architecture. leaving several homes infested with pests provide pesticide stocks in a few weeks, he asking for cash deposits of up to QR3,000, be known as Green. It will pass The initiation point for the Red and cockroaches, residents complain. said. According to Al Shummari, they are claimed a resident. through 32 stations and link Doha network will be Messaieed, while Al Rayyan is a large municipality covering receiving more than 50 requests a day for There are other providers who demand city (Musheireb) to Education that for Green will be Hamad a vast area. A senior official from the civic fumigating homes. “Requests are piling up. QR300 for one visit. “The problem is, their City and the South Industrial International Airport. Messaieed body said they had run out of pesticide stocks. We now have more than 500 requests but we pesticides are not effective. The civic fumi- Area and stretch up to Umm will also be a large terminus. “We have not been providing fumigation can’t do a thing.” gants are the best,” claimed another resident. Salal in the north. Qatar’s rail project comprises services since August 22 (for more than two A Qatari, who gave his name as Abdullah Al Meanwhile, in Al Wakra, some expatriates The third Metro network will three parts: The Greater Doha months now) since we have no pesticide stocks Suwaidi, told the daily that he and his family this newspaper spoke to said their homes be known as Golden. It will link Metro networks, the interna- left,” said Muqbil Al Shummari. members couldn’t sleep because his home was remained invaded particularly by American Hamad International Airport to tional lines that will connect Doha He told local Arabic daily Al Raya in invaded by pests. Efforts to contact Al Rayyan cockroaches (smaller roaches). Al Waab city via Doha from east to Bahrain and Doha to Saudi remarks published yesterday that the Ministry Municipality for help have failed because it has A resident said the menace of smaller cock- to west. This network will also Arabia (and to other countries of Municipality and Urban Planning floats ten- run out of pesticide stocks, he said. roaches in his home, especially kitchen, was pass through Musheireb (the from there), and the Lusail City’s ders to procure stocks every two years. Jarallah Al Marri, from the sprawling and too much to handle. main junction), northern parts internal rail system. Some 32 However, this year tenders were delayed working class locality of Maither, said the Several residents of Doha also complained of Old Airport locality, south of percent of Qatar Rail Company’s due to the restructuring of some ministries. area’s streets remain infested by rodents and of cockroach menace in their homes. One resi- Al Rayyan and Salwa Road. employees are Qatari and include The responsibility to import stocks and coor- attempts to rope in civic fumigation services dent of Old Airport locality said he got his Then comes the fourth and highly qualified and experienced dinate with other municipalities has now been have been in vain. Black rats are a bigger men- home fumigated by a private company every the last network, to be known as engineers. THE PENINSULA assigned to Doha Municipality, he said. ace, Al Marri added month for QR200. THE PENINSULA Kitchen gutted in fire Bahrain court frees Wefaq leader until NSA monitored calls November 18 MANAMA: A senior Bahraini of 35 world leaders opposition politician was tem- LONDON: The National officials in Berlin quickly pointed porarily freed yesterday by the Security Agency (NSA) moni- out that the US did not deny court trying him on charges tored phone conversations of monitoring the phone in the past. that include inciting terrorism. 35 world leaders after being NSA memo suggests that such Ex-MP Khalil Al Marzouq was given the numbers by an offi- surveillance was not isolated, as detained in September by police cial in another US department, the agency routinely monitors the investigating his alleged promo- according to a classified docu- phone numbers of world leaders tion of terrorism, angering his ment provided by whistleblower and asks for assistance of other Shia Islamist Al Wefaq party, the Edward Snowden. US officials to do so. largest opposition group. The confidential memo reveals The memo, dated October Al Wefaq suspended its par- NSA encourages senior officials 2006 issued to staff in NSA’s ticipation in talks with the gov- in its “customer” departments, Signals Intelligence Directorate, ernment to end the political such the White House, State was titled ‘Customers Can Help stalemate. Marzouq, in court for Department and the Pentagon, SID Obtain Targetable Phone the first time, denied charges. The to share their “Rolodexes” so the Numbers’. judge said he could go free until agency can add the phone num- It begins by setting out an his next hearing on November 18. bers of leading foreign politicians example of how US officials who REUTERS The kitchen of an apartment in Musheireb opposite Sofitel Hotel was last night gutted in a fire due to leakage to their surveillance systems. mixed with world leaders and pol- See also page 5 The document notes that one iticians could help agency surveil- in the pipe of cooking gas cylinder. No one was injured. Report on page 3 US official handed over 200 num- lance. “In one recent case,” the bers, including those of the 35 memo notes, “a US official pro- leaders, none of whom is named. vided NSA with 200 phone num- These were immediately “tasked” bers of 35 world leaders... Despite for monitoring by NSA. the fact that the majority is prob- Time Warner Cable to carry Al Jazeera America The revelation is set to add to ably available via open source, mounting diplomatic tensions the PCs [intelligence production WASHINGTON: Time Warner Cable second-largest US cable provider, with 12 mil- In a statement, Al Jazeera America interim between the US and its allies, centres] have noted 43 previously (TWC) will carry Al Jazeera America, lion subscribers. TWC declined to comment Chief Executive Officer Ehab Al Shihabi said after German Chancellor Angela unknown phone numbers.