SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2014 JAMADA ALAWWAL 18, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait’s Another Bush Gulf Bank Chelsea public run for White names Cesar cruise past libraries House? Jeb may González-Bueno Galatasaray abandoned2 be14 up for it as21 CEO into20 last eight Saudi FM demands Qatar Max 29º Min 14º change policy to end spat High Tide 01:22 & 13:31 Low Tide Panel backs Kuwait govt policy on dispute 07:42 & 20:07 40 PAGES NO: 16109 150 FILS By B Izzak and Agencies conspiracy theories RIYADH/KUWAIT: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said a dispute with Qatar over Gulf security would not be What’s in a name? solved unless Doha changed its policy, Saudi media reported yesterday, the kingdom’s first public comment since pulling its ambassador from the Gulf state. In an unprecedented move within the Gulf Cooperation Council of allied hereditary monarchies, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Qatar on March 5, accusing Doha of By Badrya Darwish failing to abide by an accord not to interfere in each others’ internal affairs. “If the policy of the country that has caused the crisis (Qatar) has been revised, there will be a breakthrough,” Prince Saud Al-Faisal said, according to the Saudi- [email protected] owned Al-Hayat newspaper. The minister added, in response to a question from the newspaper, that there will be “no American mediation to put an end to the cri- hat’s with names? Why are countries so sis”. US President Barack Obama is expected to visit worried about baby names? Saudi Arabia Riyadh at the end of March. Wlately published a list of names that the In Kuwait, the National Assembly’s foreign relations kingdom has prohibited people from using, around committee said yesterday it backs the government’s 50 names or more. But it’s not only Saudi that’s ban- official policy towards the dispute. The statement came ning names. Democratic and advanced nations in after Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah the West are also doing it. For instance, Germany briefed the committee on the latest developments banned a Turkish couple from naming their baby regarding the issue. The minister declined to make any Osama bin Laden. With this, I fully agree because it MANILA: Students stand next to a giant mural featuring missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 dis- statement after the meeting. is so stupid to call your son after such a controver- played on the grounds of their school in Manila’s financial district of Makati yesterday. — AFP But head of the committee MP Ali Al-Rashed said in a sial figure. Because you never know in which coun- written statement that the minister explained to the panel try your son will end up in the future and may cause the consequences of the row and the latest developments. him harm and discrimination for nothing. But Area of plane search Continued on Page13 Germany also banned ordinary names like Miatt, Stompie, Woodstock and Grammophon. That’s Germany’s business. now size of Australia Emergency But Iceland went too far. Instead of banning, they have a list of approved names for boys and another KUALA LUMPUR: An international land and sea perhaps thousands of miles off its scheduled course list for girls and you have to follow them. If you search for a missing Malaysian jetliner is covering an from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. drills today choose a name not on the list, you are out. I find area the size of Australia, authorities said yesterday, But intensive background checks of everyone that ridiculous. A girl was named Blaer, which has a but police and intelligence agencies have yet to aboard have so far failed to find anyone with a KUWAIT: According to media reports, an emergency beautiful meaning ‘light breeze’ (which we need establish a clear motive to explain its disappearance. known political or criminal motive to hijack or delib- response exercise will take place today between 8:30 badly sometimes in our long summers), but the Investigators are convinced that someone with deep erately crash the plane, Western security sources and am and 12 pm in the vicinity of Highway 40 and Road Icelanders tried to ban the breeze. knowledge of the Boeing 777-200ER and commercial Chinese authorities said. Malaysian Acting Transport 208. Various emergency response elements will be Other countries are also banning names. For navigation diverted Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news involved in the exercise. Emergency vehicles, military instance, Tom is banned in Portugal though I have carrying 12 crew and 227 mainly Chinese passengers, Continued on Page 13 aircraft and emergency siren activations should be no idea why. Bless the Japanese for denying parents expected during this period. the option of naming their child Akuma, which means devil. I also second that. And no one can for- get the child Talula Does The Hula from Hawaii, Chechen rebel leader blocked by the authorities in New Zealand. Also, enterprising parents in China wanted to name their child @ but were stopped. Doku Umarov ‘dead’ But seriously speaking, names make a lot of dif- ference on the personality of children and this is MOSCOW: Chechen rebel leader Doku tants. “Foreign media periodically publish what some parents do not realize. They choose Umarov, whose Caucasus Emirate group information about the liquidation of bizarre or funny names and they think it’s cool but claimed responsibility for a string of Doku Umarov but the Russian special they don’t know the psychology of the child himself deadly attacks in Russia over the last services at this moment do not have and what he will feel when he’s older and he’s years, has been killed, a pro-insurgency such information and will not comment teased and mocked by other kids only because of website said yesterday. “The leadership on it,” the National Anti-Terror Committee his name. of the Caucasus Emirate officially said in a statement to the state RIA I’m serious about this because the parents of a announces the martyrdom of Emir Novosti news agency. good friend of mine gave him a funny name and Dokku Abu Usman,” the Kavkaz Center But Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, that affected his life. He’s a grown up man with chil- website said, using the Arabised nom- who is backed by Moscow, wrote on his dren. When he reached adulthood, he changed his de-guerre of Umarov. Instagram microblog: “The terrorist name to something more common but in his official It gave no details of how he was said mouthpiece reports that Doku Umarov is VIENNA: Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union of Foreign Affairs documents, the old name remains. And he told me to have been killed and there was no dead!” “Umarov was killed in a security and Security Policy for the European Union, and Iranian Foreign Minister that he wishes he could change that as he doesn’t confirmation from the Russian authori- operation, which I wrote about earlier ... Mohammad Javad Zarif attend the first day of the second round of P5+1 talks want his kids to face the same embarrassment he ties who are usually keen to rapidly boast Now it is confirmed by the rats them- with Iran at the UN headquarters yesterday. — AFP faced in school. of the “liquidation” of top Caucasus mili- selves,” he wrote. In fact, our Prophet (PBUH) advised people to Kavkaz Center published a statement give their children good and nice names and also saying that the Caucasus Emirate had Iran, powers meet in allowed that if a child has a name that is harmful, to appointed a militant named as Sheikh Ali change the name. There are a lot of stories from the Abu Mukhammad as its new chief. The shadow of Ukraine Prophet’s (PBUH) time that he himself changed chil- website also posted a video said to be of the bearded militant confirming the dren’s names to avoid them being embarrassed and VIENNA: Russia, the United States and oth- old standoff and removes the threat of war. mistreated. death of Umarov and outlining his lead- ership strategy for the Caucasus Emirate, er world powers put their sharp differences So far, despite disagreements over the But some countries are not doing it for the chil- over Ukraine to one side yesterday as they Syria conflict and other issues, the six pow- dren’s sake or to save them embarrassment. You which wants to impose an Islamic state across the mainly Muslim Northern held their latest nuclear talks with Iran in ers have shown a united front over Iran, have a feeling some countries are doing it simply Vienna. The gathering is the second in a but events in Ukraine in recent weeks have for politics. Caucasus. Ali Abu Mukhammad was shown in series of meetings aiming to transform by precipitated the worst crisis in East-West After all, what’s in a name, as Juliet said in July a November interim deal into a lasting relations since the Cold War. Shakespeare’s famous play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. battle fatigues at an undisclosed location Doku Umarov Continued on Page 13 accord that resolves for good the decade- Continued on Page13 US closes Syrian embassy WASHINGTON: The Obama administra- able for individuals appointed by that tion ordered the Syrian government regime to conduct diplomatic or con- yesterday to suspend its diplomatic and sular operations in the United States,” US consular missions in the United States, special envoy to Syria Daniel Rubenstein requiring all personnel who are not said in a statement.