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Page 01 Nov 16.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 16 November 2012 2 Muharram 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5520 Price: QR2 QE’s market Sehwag capitalisation puts India falls by 1.32pc in control Business | 13 Sport | 19 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Israel must be 2012 WISE Summit concludes punished for Gaza raids: PM 3 Israelis killed; rocket hits Tel Aviv DOHA: The Prime Minister and truce. Prime Minister Benjamin Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Netanyahu warned he was ready Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al to “significantly expand” the cam- Thani warned that Israel’s deadly paign against the territory. raids on the Islamist-controlled Soon after he spoke, a rocket hit Gaza Strip must not go unpun- the sea just south of Tel Aviv, the ished, state news agency QNA farthest that a rocket from Gaza reported yesterday. had ever landed inside Israel. The “This vicious attack must not attack sparked panic in Tel Aviv, pass unpunished,” QNA quoted the with television images showing Premier as saying at a Wednesday people lying on the ground outside meeting in Saudi Arabia of the six the defence ministry, their hands Gulf Arab nations and Russia. over their heads as sirens wailed. “The UN Security Council must The military’s official spokes- take up its responsibility to secure man said that no rocket had “hit peace and security in the world,” the ground.” Israeli news net- he said, adding the latest escala- works said it was the first time tion of violence in Gaza is likely to rockets had been fired at the city “promote extremism”. “We reject since the 1991 Gulf War, when it extremism and terrorism but was hit by Iraqi Scud missiles. such irresponsible and unjustified The armed wing of the radical H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with H E Saad bin Ibrahim Al Mahmoud, Minister of Education, and other dignitaries at the closing session of the attacks must be condemned by the Islamic Jihad quickly claimed it 2012 WISE Summit in Doha yesterday. See also page 3 AR AL-BAKER world,” the Prime Minister said. had fired an Iranian-made Fajr Militants defied a major Israeli 5 rocket at the sprawling coastal bombing campaign across Gaza city in central Israel. yesterday, firing off volleys Israel’s biggest military campaign of rockets which killed three against Gaza began on Wednesday Israelis and sparked panic in Tel with the targeted killing of top Aviv. Gaza medics reported 16 Hamas commander Ahmed Jaabari. Qatar to make fresh bid for 2024 Olympics Palestinians killed in two days Since the start of Operation Pillar of of air raids, among them seven Defence, the military said it had car- DOHA: Qatar will make a fresh which didn’t happen the first time.” of the Qatar Sports Venue Master director of engineering at QOC, militants and three children, a ried out more than 150 air strikes as bid to bring the Olympics to the “We think our next bid (for the Plan. The plan is a two-year added that “the plan was put into woman and two elderly men, and armed groups fired more than 380 Middle East for the first time in Olympics) will be even stronger audit of the country’s 62 existing place with the Olympics 2024 in 150 people have been injured. rockets at southern Israel. 2024, having missed out on the because of what we have learnt sports venues for usability and mind”. As Palestinian deaths mounted, And in the southern Israeli 2020 Games. from 2020 and we think that each proposed 11 new ones, in addi- The 2016 bid was cut short Defence Minister Ehud Barak town of Kiryat Malachi, police “We will continue on that path time we bid, we can get closer,” tion to eight venues originally due to Doha’s plans for Games gave the go-ahead for 30,000 said two men and a woman were and we will continue to bid,” said Al Thani. planned by the QOC. in October without clearing it reservists to be called up and the killed when a rocket hit their the Qatar Olympic Committee’s “We think that if we can keep “Our focus since the beginning with the IOC first. Despite a date military said it was “in the proc- home, and that another 19 people Secretary-General Saoud bin doing that, one day the dream will of this project has been legacy and exemption for the 2020 bid, Doha ess of expanding the campaign”. had been injured in various areas. Abdulrahman Al Thani said at happen to host the Olympics in ensuring that we avoid white ele- again failed to make the shortlist. Egypt, meanwhile, announced The Israeli operation prompted the Aspire4Sport business confer- the Middle East.” phants,” Sheikh Saoud said. It was not just the threat of that Prime Minister Hisham an outpouring of anger across the ence. “Every time we bid, we are Qatar, named as surprise host “We have watched countries searing temperatures that fright- Qandil would visit Gaza today, as Arab and Muslim world, with listening and learning to see how for the 2022 football World Cup, build large venues and struggle ened away the IOC, but also the Washington urged Cairo to use its Tehran accusing the Jewish state we can make our bid stronger.” failed to make the short-list for later with what to do with them; prospect of low television ratings if influence to try to halt the violence. of “organised terrorism”. Egypt’s “Our 2020 bid was stronger the 2020 Games, leaving Madrid, and our team has worked back- the Olympics was to go up against But Gaza’s ruling Hamas move- Islamist administration, which has than our 2016 bid because the Tokyo and Istanbul in the running wards, thinking first about how other major sporting events. The ment remained defiant. Hamas close ties with Hamas, immediately IOC (International Olympic as the leading candidates. these venues can be of use in the IOC made it clear in their evalua- spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri recalled its ambassador in protest. Committee) executive board But that has not deterred the future before planning their use tion report that holding the Games insisted the Islamist movement AFP accepted our plan to host the country’s leaders, with Al Thani during major sporting events.” in October was a non-starter. was not interested by talk of a See also page 4 Games in the October window, announcing yesterday the results Abdul Rahman Al Malki, AFP/REUTERS Dhow festival fireworks France for arming Syrian Food security meet adopts rebels; Russia opposes Doha Declaration DAMASCUS: France raised coordination with the Europeans.” the prospect yesterday of pro- Turkish Foreign Minister DOHA: The two-day Intern- viding Syria’s rebels with defen- Ahmet Davutoglu said that ational Conference on Food sive weapons in a conflict now Ankara too now “recognises the Security in Dry Lands (FSDL) said to have cost more than Syrian National Coalition as the concluded here yesterday 39,000 lives, but Damascus ally sole legitimate representative of with call on governments Russia said this would violate the people of Syria.” for increased allocation of international law. In Moscow, Russian foreign resources to promote agricul- The diplomatic manoeuvring ministry spokesman Alexander ture and food production. comes as Syria’s army pressed Lukashevich said “promises are A Ministerial Dialogue held an operation in areas around being made from a number of capi- yesterday with participation Damascus to rout rebels who have tals of massive supplies of modern of 13 ministers underlined the stubbornly clung to gains made weapons”. “Outside help to the urgent need to promote sound in July, and as fighting raged on opposition waging an armed bat- policies for agricultural and Fireworks light up the night sky over Katara yesterday as part of the ongoing second Traditional Dhow Festival. northern battlefields. tle against a legitimate government rural development and called Visitors at Katara can witness breathtaking pyrotechnics display tonight and tomorrow night at 8pm. In Paris, Foreign Minister is a gross violation of fundamental on respective governments to Laurent Fabius raised the issue of norms of international law.” allocate 10 percent of national excluding defensive weapons from Meanwhile, the death toll in budgetary resources for imple- the current European Union arms 20 months of conflict has topped mentation of a declaration that embargo on Syria to help rebels 39,000, a watchdog said. The came out of the conference. fighting President Bashar Al Syrian Observatory for Human The conference concluded Qatar Holdings backs Glencore-Xstrata merger Assad’s regime. “For the moment, Rights said 27,410 civilians, with the adoption of the Doha there is an embargo, so there are 9,800 soldiers and 1,359 military Declaration, which reflected DOHA: Qatar’s sovereign wealth equity, had been holding out for new Glencore shares for every one no arms being delivered from the deserters had been killed since the consensus of delegates on fund said yesterday that it will 3.25 Glencore shares for one existing Xstrata share,” the fund European side. The issue... will the uprising began on March 15, the necessary actions to combat vote in favour of commodities Xstrata share, but it said it now said. The fund also announced that no doubt be raised for defensive 2011. Observatory chief Rami food and water insecurity in the giant Glencore’s bid to merge with accepted the 3.05 final offer. it would abstain on proposals to arms,” he told RTL radio. Abdel Rahman said another 543 dry lands.
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