SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015 SAFAR 27, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Malaysian envoy Beijing slashes Emotion, defiance Pistorius hands over ACK traffic in as Eagles of Death bailed, chairmanship to pollution go back on tagged and Laos ambassador5 red28 alert stage39 in Paris free15 to roam Trump blasted over call Min 4º Max 18º to ban Muslims from US High Tide 09:56 & 21:25 GOP frontrunner says proposal similar to WWII policy Low Tide 03:48 & 14:53 40 PAGES NO: 16722 150 FILS WASHINGTON: A firestorm erupted yesterday over Donald Trump’s call for a ban on Muslims entering the Plans to raise United States, as religious leaders, the White House and his rivals on the presidential campaign roundly con- corporate tax, demned the proposal. The leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination made the provoca- tive remarks - just his latest on a range of topics on the cut subsidies campaign trail - after last week’s shooting that left 14 dead in California by a Muslim couple said to have been KUWAIT: Kuwait may raise the corporate tax rate to 10 radicalized. percent for local firms and impose limits on energy In a rare primetime speech to the nation from the subsidies, the commerce minister told a local newspa- Oval Office on Sunday, President Barack Obama called per yesterday, part of a broad move to introduce fiscal the attack in San Bernardino an “act of terrorism” and reforms amid pressure from low oil prices. Corporate vowed to defeat extremism, but also stressed that it was taxes, currently levied at different rates for local and not “a war between America and Islam”. Less than 24 foreign companies, could rise to 10 percent, Minister hours later, Trump’s bombastic bid for the White House of Commerce and Industry Yousuf Al-Ali told Al-Anbaa plumbed what critics called a new low and triggered newspaper. “Initial ideas being tossed around are that calls for him to be barred from taking power after he it will be up to 10 percent. There are companies in the urged a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims enter- market now paying up to 4.5 percent that will see their ing the United States until our country’s representatives taxes rise a little to 10 percent,” Ali said. can figure out what is going on”. Continued on Page 13 SEE PAGE 7 Company without In a speech late Monday, the 69-year-old billionaire real estate mogul and reality television star doubled contract checking down on his initial statement. “We have no choice,” Trump said, saying that Islamist radicals want to kill Americans. “It’s going to get worse and worse. We’re vehicles at border going to have more World Trade Centers,” he said, refer- MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump references fellow can- ring to the deadly attacks on Sept 11, 2001. By B Izzak didate Jeb Bush at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally at the USS Yorktown on Monday. — AFP His comments were condemned by the White House KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji said yesterday that a private as “totally contrary” to American values and similarly company is continuing to inspect vehicles at Abdaly crossing slammed as far afield as London and Cairo, where US leaders ask Muslim Egypt’s official religious body Dar al-Iftaa denounced point with Iraq although its contract with the customs depart- ment expired a year ago. Turaiji said the disclosure about the them as “extremist and racist”. The strongest reaction company coincided with the busting of a 200-kg hashish haul came in the United States, including from Trump’s rivals with a truck coming from Iraq and after it was inspected by the Americans to fight back in the race to run for the White House in 2016. Senator company. The bust was made by detectives after the truck was Lindsey Graham branded the remarks “un-American” and allowed to enter by the company. said Trump was only fueling radical Islam. The lawmaker said he learnt that the company is owned by NY shopkeeper beaten in hate crime Trump was the “ISIL man of the year,” said Graham, a woman from the ruling family and whose brother is an assis- referring to the extremist Islamic State group. “Do you tant undersecretary at the interior ministry. The court of WASHINGTON: Facing what As Republican presidential candi- know how you win this war? You side with people in the appeals upheld a ruling on April 27 ordering the company to President Barack Obama has called a date Donald Trump suggested ban- faith who reject this ideology, which is 99 percent,” vacate the site, adding that the company collected KD 880,000 new phase of terrorism, US officials ning all Muslims from entering the Graham told CNN, before invoking Trump’s campaign after the court ruling. appealed to Muslim Americans on country on Monday, Homeland slogan - “make America great again”. “And do you know Turaiji said that the director of the customs department Monday to fight harder against Security Secretary Jeh Johnson stood how you make America great again?” asked Graham, told the budgets committee yesterday that he has asked the extremist ideology. in solidarity with an imam and leaders who is lagging badly in the nomination race. “Tell interior ministry to implement the ruling and evict the compa- The Obama administration has of other faiths at a northern Virginia Donald Trump to go to hell.” Other Republican con- ny, adding if this is true, the interior minister should launch an defended Muslim Americans after Islamic center. Johnson would not tenders including Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Chris investigation into the matter. Head of the budgets committee Christie and Jeb Bush, as well as Republican House MP Adnan Abdulsamad said Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, comment on Trump’s remarks but California, and the inflammatory rhet- urged Americans not to vilify Muslims Speaker Paul Ryan, also rejected Trump’s proposal. told the committee that work requires the company to contin- Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, oric that came in its wake, while a par- NEW YORK: Muslim shopkeeper or throw a “net of suspicion” over an ue operating until an alternative is found. Abdulsamad said tweeted: “Declaring war on Islam or demonizing Muslim another company working with the customs department has allel message to Islamic communities Sarkar Haq, who was beaten, is seen entire community. Continued on Page 13 won damages worth KD 68 million. is gaining urgency: please help. at his shop on Monday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Sheikh Athbi denies knowing ‘Abdaly’ suspect By B Izzak and Meshaal Al-Enezi KUWAIT: A member of Kuwait’s ruling family denied in court yesterday allegations linking him to a recently uncovered ‘terror cell’. Sheikh Athbi Al-Fahd Al-Sabah yesterday told the criminal court that the main suspect in the Iran-linked terror cell is unknown to him and that he had never asked him to hide the weapons. The prime suspect in the 26-member cell had told the court that he was a member of the resist- ance against the 1990-91 Iraqi invasion and that Sheikh Athbi, who was a resistance leader, had RAMADI: Displaced civilians from Ramadi and around the area cross the Bzebiz asked him to hide a quantity of arms. Sheikh Athbi, GAZA CITY: Palestinian entrepreneurs brainstorm ideas as they compete for bridge as they leave their hometowns towards Baghdad on Monday. — AP who was the head of the secret service, said that he acceptance in the third version of Mobaderoon project, hosted by the Islamic does not know the man and never gave him any University’s Business and Technology Incubator, on Nov 24, 2015. — AP Iraq forces retake large instructions. During the hearing, defense lawyer Khaled Al- In war-torn Gaza, a tiny Shatti questioned the validity of the arrest warrants part of Ramadi from IS issued to arrest his clients. He also refuted some of the points mentioned in the arresting officer’s hi-tech sector emerges BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces recaptured service, told AFP, using an Arabic acronym report, noting that the officer was only two years old a large part of the city of Ramadi from the for IS. IS fighters “had no choice except to when some of the incidents happened and had not GAZA CITY: As a student graduating from desk. It is a rare success story in Gaza, whose Islamic State group yesterday, officials said, surrender or fight and they were complete- been even born when others took place. computer college two years ago, Mohammed economy has been battered by an Israeli and scoring a significant breakthrough in their ly destroyed,” Noman said. Major General Shatti also demanded dropping the charges Qudih was dreading the “painful” unemploy- Egyptian blockade and a 50-day war between fightback against the jihadists. Hadi Irzayij, the police chief for Anbar, con- because the accusations made took place more than ment in the Gaza Strip - a war-battered Israel and the territory’s Hamas rulers last year. Baghdad’s forces have been fighting firmed that Al-Tameem had been retaken 10 years ago and stressed that his clients kept the coastal territory where nearly half the popula- Israel considers Hamas, an Islamic militant for months to secure territory around as did Brigadier General Yahya Rasool, the weapons in case Saddam Hussein decided to launch tion is without work. Today, the 25-year-old group committed to its destruction, to be a Ramadi, the capital of the vast Anbar spokesman for the Joint Operations another invasion of Kuwait.