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3rd Best News Website in the Middle East BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 24 Manateq attracts Qatar Olympic squad QR488.5m private ready for Asian investment challenge at home Tuesday 18 July 2017 | 24 Shawwal 1438 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Volume 22 | Number 7226 | 2 Riyals Shameful act of cyber terrorism Washington Post: UAE behind hacking of Qatar News Agency QNA & Agencies It is unfortunate that this shameful act of cyber he State of Qatar has long terrorism is being attributed to a fellow member maintained that its govern- ment news agency website of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), says was hacked on May 24 and Director of the Government Communications fabricated quotes were pub- Tlished. The information published in The Office, H E Sheikh Saif bin Ahmad Al Thani. Washington Post on 16 July 2017 revealed the involvement of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and senior Emir- The Public Prosecutor will take all necessary legal ati officials in the hacking of Qatar News Agency (QNA), unequivocally proves that measures to bring to justice the perpetrators and this hacking crime had taken place. instigators of this crime, whether in Qatari courts or Director of the Government Com- relevant international jurisdictions specialising munications Office, H E Sheikh Saif bin Ahmad Al Thani, stated that it is especially in cybercrimes. unfortunate that this shameful act of cyber terrorism is being attributed to a fellow member of the Gulf Cooperation Council unnamed US intelligence officials as say- ing Qatari government websites. (GCC). This criminal act represents a clear ing that senior members of the Emirati The hacking took place on May 24, violation and breach of international law Public Prosecutions investigation into the Public Prosecutor on 20 June 2017. government discussed the plan on May shortly after a lengthy meeting between and of the bilateral and collective agree- this crime is ongoing. The Public Pros- A report in the The Washington Post 23, but the officials said it was unclear US President Donald Trump and Gulf ments signed between the member states ecutor will take all necessary legal said that the United Arab Emirates if the UAE hacked the websites or paid leaders in Saudi Arabia. of the GCC, as well as collective agree- measures to bring to justice the perpe- orchestrated the hacking of a Qatari for them to be carried out, the newspa- ments with the Arab League, the trators and instigators of this crime, government news site in late May, to per reported. Siege countries miscalculated Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and whether in Qatari courts or relevant post incendiary false quotes attributed The report said it was unclear steps against Qatar: the United Nations. international jurisdictions specialising to the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin whether Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Australian Newspaper » Page 2 The Director added that the Qatari in cybercrimes, as per the statement of Hamad Al Thani. The report quotes Egypt had also taken part in penetrat- Al Wakrah Qatar may approach ICJ for Economy Minister discusses impact of stadium on compensation: Al Attiyah siege with top officials in Switzerland schedule MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE Affairs H E Dr Khalid QNA bin Mohammed Al Attiyah said that Qatar may approach Inter- AFP national Court of Justice (ICJ) and ask compensation for inister of Economy and Commerce H damages caused due to blockade imposed on Qatar by siege E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin A SECOND STADIUM being countries since June 5. During interview with TRT World, a MMohammed Al Thani has underlined built for the football World Cup Turkish news channel, he added that “Qatar faces the same that the measures taken by the siege coun- 2022 in Qatar will be ready on situation which Nicaragua faced in the eighties and went to tries are in violation of international laws, schedule next year despite sanc- the International Court of Justice and succeeded in getting conventions and norms and are contrary to tions imposed by Gulf compensation,”. intellectual property rights as well as the WTO neighbours, an official said. He also added that Qatar and US has historical and stra- Trade Facilitation Agreement, which stipu- Al Warkah 40,000-seat sta- tegic relations, and it fights with US against terrorism. He was lates the need to ensure that no obstacles are dium, designed in the shape of surprised to see that UAE was trying to transfer the US base added to trade between the member a boat by the late award-win- from Qatar. About the demand to close the Turkish base, he countries. ning architect Zaha Hadid, will said this demand is rejected and all the siege countries know The Minister made the remarks during come in line after Khalifa sta- about this since long time. It is the decision between two sov- his visit to the Republic of Switzerland, dur- dium, which was delivered in ereign countries. ing which he met with heads of international Minister of Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed May. Meanwhile, the Kuwaiti cabinet in its session yesterday organizations and a group of lawyers from a bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani with Professor “The current project is going reviewed the latest developments of the Kuwaiti efforts to resolve legal firm specialising in WTO issues in on schedule and Al Wakrah sta- the Gulf crisis. Following the meeting, Minister of State for Cab- Geneva. Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the dium will be delivered on time inet Affairs and Acting Information Minister Sheikh Mohammed → Continued on page 2 World Economic Forum, in Geneva, yesterday. by the end of the next year,” said Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah said that he briefed the Cabinet project manager Thani Khalifa on the results of the recent visits by US Secretary of State Rex Till- Al Zarah. erson, UK National Security Advisor Mark Sedwill , and French Qatari citizens will be required to get advance visa from Thursday to enter Egypt, a source On June 5, Saudi Arabia, the Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to Kuwait, during which at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo said. The visa can be obtained from Egyptian United Arab Emirates, Bahrain they discussed the latest developments concerning the Gulf dis- embassies or from the Egyptian Section at the Embassy of Greece in Doha, QNA reported. and Egypt imposed siege on pute and ways to resolve it, Kuwait news agency Kuna reported. Qatar. The siege included block- ing Qatar’s only land border with Saudi Arabia, depriving Doha of all imports by road, including construction material. CRA initiates probe into Vodafone outage Complaints against More than 50 percent of con- crete work at the stadium has The Peninsula to address main cause of this outage, said the company in a tweet. “While blockade exceed 1,000 been completed while steel nature and extent of the impact on performing a critical service upgrade material for the roof structure he Communications Regulatory customers, steps taken to resolve the to the network earlier today we faced Sidi Mohamed has already been delivered, said Authority (CRA) has initiated a issue and measures and procedures a technical issue causing the current The Peninsula Zarah, insisting that border Tfull investigation into the out- put in place to avoid such outages in outage,” said another tweet. blockade is not affecting the age of Vodafone Qatar’s network that the future in the report. The complete outage of Vodafone he Compensation Claims Committee has so project and that the contractor left many of its customers without In addition, Vodafone is bound by services caused great troubles for far received more than 1,000 complaints filed is the party responsible for access to voice calls and data serv- its license to provide customers with thousands of users and all the day peo- Tby people affected the blockade against Qatar. securing supplies. ices. The outage started as early as appropriate compensation for this ple kept on complaining about the major “Yesterday the committee received 193 cases and “They are currently looking 3.30am this morning and was restored disruption of service. Vodafone Qatar, disruption in network. “All Vodafone 43 inquiry calls,” said a source at the committee. for alternatives and I don’t think partially until late evening. an affiliate of Vodafone Group, said teams are working tirelessly to restore The Peninsula visited the Committee’s office to from a client perspective that’s CRA has requested Vodafone to yesterday that access to its network service to the network as soon as pos- meet some people who had come to file their cases a concern for us,” he said, add- provide a detailed investigation report was being affected by technical issues. sible. We sincerely apologies for the to the committee. Among those people, The Penin- ing that the blockade has by July 20, addressing violations of the “We are facing technical issues delay and will keep you updated with sula met Khaled Al Obaidly, a citizen who has two “already opened new markets service continuity and customer infor- that may affect your access to our net- any progress,” tweeted the company. A flats in Dubai with collective value of QR1.2m. for the country and the contrac- mation obligations stated in its Licence. work. We are working to resolve this spokesman for Vodafone Qatar did not tors as well to explore.” Vodafone has also been requested issue. Thank you for your patience,” respond to a request for comment. → Continued on page 2 02 HOME TUESDAY 18 JULY 2017 Emir holds Emir issues phone talks with Austrian instruments Chancellor QNA mir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of ratification Eheld last evening a tel- ephone conversation with the Federal Chancellor of the QNA Republic of Austria, Christian One of the Kern.