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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013 SHAWWAL 19, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Canadian Bomb tears Celebrated US New boys minister visits through Yemen actress Julie Cardiff AC-Kuwait air force bus Harris dies at 87 stun City campus2 site 7 15 20 US considers military Max 45º Min 28º action as Syria warns High Tide 02:46 & 15:33 Damascus okays UN probe, Washington says ‘too late’ Low Tide 09:25 & 21:37 40 PAGES NO: 15909 150 FILS DAMASCUS: UN experts are today to start investigating Kuwait backs AL the site of an alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack after a go-ahead from Damascus, as a skeptical Washington said Syria’s acceptance had come too late. call for Syria In an escalation of a showdown over a suspected chem- ical weapons attack near Damascus last week, the crisis session United States pointed the finger of blame at President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime as it weighed military action. CAIRO: Kuwait yesterday supported a call by Arab League Secretary General Nabil Al-Araby to con- “There is very little doubt at this point that a chemical vene an emergency session of the UN Security weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians Council for issuing a resolution aimed at bringing a in this incident,” based on the reported number of vic- ceasefire in Syria. tims and their symptoms, as well as US and other for- Kuwait’s permanent delegate at the Arab League eign intelligence, one official in Washington told AFP. Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim renewed Kuwait’s Syria’s opposition says more than 1,300 people died rejection and condemnation of usage of chemical when regime forces unleashed chemical weapons arms against the Syrian people. He called upon against rebel-held towns east and southwest of United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon to Damascus on August 21, while Doctors Without Borders investigate reports about the Syrian regime’s use of said 355 people had died of “neurotoxic” symptoms. chemical weapons against civilians in Al-Ghouta on Damascus has strongly denied it carried out such an outskirts of Damascus last Wednesday and commu- attack, instead blaming the rebels. French Foreign nicated the country’s demand that the Security Minister Laurent Fabius told a Jerusalem press confer- Council shoulder the historic responsibility toward ence yesterday there was “no doubt” the Damascus “the ugly crime and its call upon the international regime was behind the suspected attack. community to hold investigations immediately.” Meanwhile, Syria’s information minister said any US Kuwait’s stance is totally in harmony with the ini- military action would “create a ball of fire that will tiative, launched by the Arab League Secretary inflame the Middle East”. He said Damascus had evi- General, which also calls for adoption of a practical dence chemical weapons were used by rebels fighting mechanism to supervise execution of the resolution to topple President Bashar Al-Assad, not by his govern- under UN supervision, and then allowing entry of ment. Western countries say they believe the rebels do humanitarian aid to the stricken regions as well as not have access to poison gas. start of implementation of what had been agreed “From the moment the substance of the facts is upon regarding the holding of the Geneva-two con DAMASCUS: A Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime established incontestably (by the UN inspectors), there ference to find a political settlement to the crisis, forces, according to activists, in Douma town, Damascus. — AP Continued on Page 15 Ambassador Al-Ghunaim stated. He also welcomed the League’s call to hold an emergency session of the permanent delegates tomorrow to discuss the steps to be taken at the ‘Trial of two regimes’ in Egypt international level to deal with the dangerous devel- opments in Syria. — KUNA CAIRO: Three leaders of Egypt’s Muslim than 1,000 people, including about 100 Brotherhood and the movement’s former soldiers and police, have died in violence arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate across Egypt since Morsi’s fall, making it trials yesterday on similar charges of the bloodiest civil unrest in the republic’s Oman’s Qaboos involvement in the killing of protesters. 60-year history. Brotherhood supporters With Egypt now under an army- say the toll is much higher. in Iran on installed government after last month’s Mubarak, who left prison on Thursday overthrow of Islamist President after judges ordered his release, Mohammed Morsi, local media seized on appeared in a courtroom cage in a historic visit the symbolism of scheduling both ses- wheelchair, wearing sunglasses and DUBAI: Oman’s Sultan Qaboos yesterday began the first sions on the same day. “Trial of two dressed in white, along with his jailed visit to Iran by a foreign leader since moderate President regimes,” headlined Al-Shorouk daily. sons Gamal and Alaa and former interior Hassan Rouhani took office and Iranian media said his In the end, Mohamed Badie, the minister Habib Al-Adly. After a hearing trip might be an effort to mediate between Tehran and Brotherhood’s “General Guide”, and his that lasted about three hours, the judge Washington. deputies did not appear at the opening set the next session for Sept 14, pending Oman, a Gulf Arab state that maintains unusually of their trial for security reasons, a judi- further investigation. friendly ties with both the United States and Iran, has cial source said. Citing their absence, the The former president was sentenced previously been an important go-between for the two judge adjourned the proceedings until to life in prison last year for complicity in countries that severed diplomatic relations in 1980 and Oct 29. the killing of protesters during the 2011 are in a protracted stand-off over the disputed Iranian The case against Badie, Khairat Al- revolt against him, but an appeals court nuclear program. Shater and Rashad Bayoumy relates to ordered a retrial. A helicopter flew The West suspects the Islamic Republic is working to unrest before the army removed Morsi Mubarak to the court in the Police CAIRO: Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (center) and his sons Gamal (left) on July 3. Morsi has been detained in an Academy on the eastern outskirts of develop a nuclear arms capability, an accusation Iran and Alaa (right) are seen behind bars during their trial yesterday in Cairo. — AFP denies, and has brought about increasingly strict inter- undisclosed location since then. More Continued on Page 15 national sanctions against Tehran. President Barack PAGE PAGE Obama’s administration has said Washington is open to Bedoon weddings direct talks with Iran to resolve the nuclear and other Mumbai police arrest disputes, and Iranian officials have not ruled them out. start with a bang The landslide election of Rouhani, who took office on last of 5 rape suspects Aug 3, has raised hopes of a negotiated settlement to the nuclear dispute and an end to sanctions that have halved Iran’s oil exports since 2011 and put immense pressure on the economy. “It can be guessed that the ‘Hijab appeal’ splits Sweden Sultan of Oman’s trip to Iran can mean that afterward this country, instead of playing the role of mediator in STOCKHOLM: In gender-equality against Muslim women has increased veiled women who wear it out of relation to Iran and America, wants to play the role of Sweden, a grassroots movement defend- lately,” one of the campaign organizers, choice. Those women should have the host for these two countries with regard to ing women’s right to wear hijab has split Foujan Rouzbeh, said. right to do that without being attacked,” Continued on Page 15 the nation, backed by politicians and However, critics say the campaign she said. Muslim women were being celebrities while critics say it supports a trivializes the suffering of women forced used as scapegoats in the face of rising symbol of female “oppression”. or pressured into covering their heads, unemployment in Sweden and the rest Hundreds of Swedish women have in Sweden and elsewhere. “I support of Europe, said Rouzbeh, who met the posted photographs of themselves protesting against the treatment of the justice minister on Wednesday. “None of wearing headscarves on social media woman who was attacked, absolutely. us are saying this started under the cur- sites to show solidarity with a heavily Holding speeches, demonstrating,” said rent government, but we would argue pregnant Muslim woman who says she Sara Mohammad, the head of a charity that it has increased because they was attacked outside Stockholm for for victims of honor crimes. haven’t taken this threat seriously.” The wearing a veil. Police are searching for “Not by wearing the veil, which is group is demanding a commission be witnesses to the incident, which is known around the world as an Islamic set up to investigate the problem of vio- being treated as a hate crime, and has symbol for oppressing women. It’s not lence against veiled women, and also sparked a wave of online protest. just being forced on women in Iran and wants the government to ensure a ban Leftist politicians and celebrities Saudi Arabia, it has also become the flag on newsreaders for public broadcaster were among those who lent their for political Islam in the west.” The SVT wearing the garment is lifted. support to the movement, dubbed Swedish politicians wearing the hijab Rouzbeh said the rise of the anti- “The hijab appeal”, by tweeting pic- this week rarely displayed the same immigrant Sweden Democrats, which tures of themselves wearing the support for those fighting for the right the latest polls indicate would be the Islamic headscarf.

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