Bahrain's Police, Protesters Clash
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SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013 SHAWWAL 8, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net India submarine Federer opens explodes; 18 season with feared 7dead easy17 win Egypt bloodbath Max 48º Min 28º High Tide 03:48 & 16:50 Over 149 killed • ElBaradei resigns • State of emergency imposed Low Tide 10:48 & 22:44 40 PAGES NO: 15898 150 FILS CAIRO: Smoke rises from a building by a sit-in camp set up by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi near Cairo University as Egyptian security forces clear the camp. (Inset left) Morsi’s supporter fires a gun towards the Egyptian Police. (Inset right) Kuwait’s Brotherhood supporters rally near the Egypt consulate yesterday. (Right ) The bodies of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi lie on the floor of a makeshift hospital set up at Rabaah Al-Adawiya mosque yesterday. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat and Agencies CAIRO: Egyptian security forces crushed a protest camp returned to power. Violence spread beyond Cairo, with call for violence, terrorism and the most extreme groups.” wound on his head. of thousands of supporters of the deposed president yes- Morsi supporters and security forces clashing in the cities Since Morsi was toppled, the security forces had twice After shooting with live ammunition began, wounded terday, shooting dead scores of people in the bloodiest of Alexandria, Minya, Assiut, Fayoum and Suez and in before killed scores of protesters in an attempt to drive and dead lay on the streets near pools of blood. An area day in decades in the Arab world’s biggest country. The Buhayra and Beni Suef provinces. Morsi’s followers off the streets. But they had held back of the camp that had been a playground and art exhibit health ministry said 149 people were killed, both in Cairo With the assault on the camps, the authorities have from a full-scale assault on the tented camp where fol- for the children of protesters was turned into a war-zone and in clashes that broke out elsewhere in the country. ended the six-week stand-off with a show of state force lowers and their families have lived behind makeshift field hospital. Seven dead bodies were lined up in the Deposed President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim that defied international pleas for restraint. The blood- barricades. street, one of a teenager whose skull was smashed, with Brotherhood said the death toll was far higher in what it shed also effectively ends the open political role of the After the assault on the camp began, desperate resi- blood pouring from the back of his head. At another described as a “massacre”. While dead bodies wrapped in Brotherhood, which survived for 85 years as an under- dents recited Quranic verse and screamed “God help us! location in Cairo, a Reuters reporter was in a crowd of carpets were carried to a makeshift morgue near the ground movement before emerging from the shadows God help us!” while helicopters hovered overhead and Morsi supporters when he heard bullets whizzing past Rabaa Al-Adawiya mosque, the army-backed rulers after the 2011 uprising to win every election held since. armored bulldozers ploughed over their makeshift and hitting walls. The crowd dived to the ground for cov- declared a one-month state of emergency, restoring to In one a rare sign of unease from among the defenses. Reuters journalists on the scene saw masked er. A man was killed by a bullet to the head. the military the unfettered power it wielded for decades Brotherhood’s opponents, Mohamed ElBaradei, a former police in dark uniforms pour out of police vans with sticks The government insists people in the camp were before a pro-democracy uprising in 2011. UN diplomat, quit his post of vice president in the army- and tear gas bombs. They tore down tents and set them armed. Several television stations, all controlled by the Thousands of Morsi’s supporters had been camped at backed government, saying the conflict could have been ablaze. “They smashed through our walls. Police and sol- state or its sympathizers, ran footage of what appeared two major sites in Cairo since before he was toppled on resolved by peaceful means. diers, they fired tear gas at children,” said Saleh Abdulaziz, to be pro-Morsi protesters firing rifles at soldiers from July 3, and had vowed not leave the streets until he was “The beneficiaries of what happened today are those 39, a secondary school teacher clutching a bleeding Continued on Page 13 New York Times Kuwait to deport expat PAGE Children from obese PAGE site goes offline with infectious disease women die younger NEW YORK: The New York Times’ website went offline yesterday, the result of a server problem, the company said. The website went down late in the Bahrain’s police, protesters clash morning and remained down as of 1:30 pm. The newspaper said on Twitter yesterday afternoon that MANAMA: Bahraini police fired tear gas other. A Reuters witness said police it believes the outage stemmed from an internal and birdshot at demonstrators yesterday, charged the crowd, firing birdshot and issue. The outage affected both the Times’ main witnesses said, as protests called for by tear gas. They said some people were news site and the company’s corporate sites, along activists to press demands for democratic overcome by tear gas but there were no with the company’s email system. Its mobile phone change in the US-allied Gulf kingdom reports of serious injury. app also didn’t appear to be updating. turned violent. Activists have stepped up Witnesses said similar clashes occurred Company spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said the a two-and-a-half-year-old campaign to in other Shiite villages, including Karana problem occurred “within seconds of a scheduled push the Sunni Muslim ruling family into where demonstrators responded by maintenance update” and wasn’t believed to be allowing more democracy in the Shiite- throwing firebombs at police, without linked to a cyber-attack. The outage came amid a majority state of 1.25 million people. causing casualties. Earlier, a protest of heavy day of news that included a state of emer- Bahrain is an important US regional ally some 100 people ended peacefully in the gency declaration in Egypt as the country contin- against Shiite Iran. village of Saar west of Manama without ued a crackdown on protesters. While it was work- Opposition figures had called in social police intervention. The main opposition ing to restore its website, The Times posted an media for mass rallies yesterday in Al Wefaq Society said on its website that updated story about the unrest in Egypt on its Bahrain, prompting the authorities to around 60 protest rallies were held in 40 Facebook page. tighten security and warn of tough meas- locations yesterday. Reuters was not able Like other newspapers, The Times has focused its ures and leading the United States to to confirm that figure. growth strategy on digital products in recent years. temporarily close its embassy. There were Security forces converged on the The newspaper is attempting to offset drops in print no reports of serious injury in the clashes Manama district of Al-Seef after activists subscription revenue by boosting its ranks of digital that erupted after sunset in a number of used Twitter to encourage demonstrators subscribers. As of June 30, the Times had 738,000 Shiite villages around the capital to gather there, in defiance of a blanket digital subscribers, representing a nearly 40 percent Manama. ban on protests in the capital, although increase from a year ago. Revenue from digital sub- In Shakhoora, a village west of the no incidents were reported. scriptions in the April-June quarter rose to $38.3 mil- capital Manama, a standoff deteriorated The concerted new thrust for a “free lion, up 44 percent from a year ago. The New York into a clash between police on one side and democratic Bahrain” through popular Times Company’s stock was down less than 2 per- of a barbed wire fence they erected protest is being driven by “Tamarrod” cent at $12.05 in afternoon trading. — AP MALKIYA: A Bahraini anti-government protester rolls a tire towards burning overnight and about 300 demonstrators (Rebellion), a loose association of tires on a street in the western village of Malkiya, Bahrain. — AP chanting anti-government slogans on the Continued on Page 13 THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2013 LOCAL Expats with communicable Indian president’s address diseases to be deported on India’s Independence Day Fellow citizens, Official refutes news report n the eve of the 66th anniversary of our Independence, I extend By Ben Garcia rate. My understanding about MoH policy is has been following the news about expatriates warm greetings to you and to all that, at first, when you have such kind of a in Kuwait. “They have enough issues from O Indians around the world. KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health announced communicable disease, you will not be allowed crackdowns to deporting expats with serious My thoughts turn first towards the that it will deport expatriates who contract to enter Kuwait,” he said. “If you are not a threat traffic violations. And now with this, it’s Father of our Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, infectious diseases as part of a new policy to to the people around you, for example, TB enough bad news for the expats,” he said. who shaped our liberation struggle and follow strict procedures under a law where the (since it can be treated), you will be given at A European expatriate appealed to MoH to the martyrs who made supreme sacri- state is required to take precautionary meas- least one year on humanitarian grounds, since clarify the automatic deportation rule.