SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 MUHARRAM 1, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net MoI draws plan to protect Min 20º mosques during Muharram Max 35º High Tide 00:40 & 12:53 Hundreds held in crackdown • ‘Butcher’ busted • Jail beating refuted Low Tide 04:52 & 17:40 40 PAGES NO: 17007 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior has set a plan to safe- guard mosques and husseiniyas with the start of the month of Muharram, Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al- Fahd said yesterday. The plan aims to protect lives and valuables as well as to ensure the safety of all worship- pers, “which we refuse to compromise in any way”, a state- ment by the ministry quoted Fahd as saying. “Diligent efforts on the part of security forces are key to the success of this plan,” the undersecretary noted. Moreover, Fahd underscored the need of diligence and cooperation between government bodies to ensure that the plan goes off without a hitch. Meanwhile, a comprehensive security inspection cam- paign in various governorates resulted in arresting 417 people, including eight wanted for criminal cases, 53 wanted for civilian claims, 56 absconders, 187 for not holding IDs, seven for drug possession, eight for alcohol possession, 83 with expired residency visas and 14 want- ed people, in addition to filing 776 traffic tickets. Also, a ‘butcher’ was arrested for collecting dead sheep from the desert, cleaning them at his house and selling them, said security sources. KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd holds a security meeting yesterday. (Right) Residents board a police bus during a nationwide crack- Separately, the interior ministry’s relations and security down yesterday. — MOI media department yesterday strongly denied social media rumors about a central prison inmate who was PAGE PAGE beaten. It explained that during a routine inspection last Senior people given Liverpool move second, Tuesday, prison authorities found some illegal items in the prisoner’s possession and confiscated them, after tak- proper care: Subaih Chelsea back on track ing standard measures followed to deal with the smug- gling of illegal items into prison. White House race hits new low Trump drags sex scandals into campaign WASHINGTONA: Donald Trump indicated in an interview posted late Friday. in a new interview that he’s ready to drag He added: “Hillary Clinton was married Duterte defiant ex-president Bill Clinton’s sex scandals into to the single greatest abuser of women in the White House campaign, after the history of politics,” referring to Bill over call to kill Democrats lashed out at the billionaire’s Clinton (president 1993-2001). “Hillary was Twitter rant against a pro-Hillary ex-Miss an enabler, and she attacked the women 3m drug dealers Universe. Trump told The New York Times who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward. I that he believes talking about the sex scan- think it’s a serious problem for them, and MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dals that stained the career of Hillary’s hus- it’s something that I’m considering talking refused to back down yesterday over his stated band Bill would turn female voters away about more in the near future,” he told the desire to slaughter millions of people, as global con- from her. “She’s nasty, but I can be nastier newspaper. demnation built against him likening his crime war than she ever can be,” Trump told the Times Continued on Page 13 with Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews. Duterte on Friday drew parallels with the Nazi’s mass murder of Jews and his anti-drug crackdown, which has left more than 3,000 people NEW DELHI: Indian workers from the eastern state of Bihar gather in a hotel on Sept 29, dead and raised con- 2016 after they were repatriated by the Indian government from Saudi Arabia. — AFP cerns about the rule of law crumbling in the Indian migrants return chaotic Asian democracy. Facing a fierce inter- national backlash, home, recall nightmare Duterte’s spokesman released a statement NEW DELHI: They left India for Saudi die” by their employer Saudi Oger, the Rodrigo Duterte Arabia with big dreams, but have once-mighty firm led by Lebanon’s bil- insisting the president returned with only harrowing tales after lionaire former prime minister Saad Hariri. did not want to be com- an oil price slump threw the economy The company, which at one time had pared with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler but confirmed into turmoil, leaving thousands of poor some 50,000 workers on its payroll, was he was prepared to kill three million people in his migrant laborers stranded. The workers hit by a drop in income from its core con- crime war. “We do not wish to diminish the pro- from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the struction business after Saudi Arabia found loss of six million Jews in the Holocaust,” Philippines were left destitute, without delayed or cancelled projects in the face presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said in a enough money to get home or even to of plummeting oil revenues. “They closed statement. “The president’s reference to the buy food after losing their jobs. This week down the mess (canteen) suddenly. For slaughter was an oblique deflection of the way he around 40 workers from the impover- three days we did not have even water to has been pictured as a mass murderer, a Hitler, a ished east Indian state of Bihar finally drink. label he rejects.” Continued on Page 13 GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan: US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrived home with stories of being “left to Continued on Page 13 pays his respects at former US President Gerald Ford’s tomb on Friday. — AFP Aleppo hospital hit, army presses assault ALEPPO: The largest hospital in rebel-held east gency cases” when the bombardment began. Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that “the sys- Aleppo was bombed yesterday for the second SAMS radiologist and hospital administrator tematic targeting of structures and health time in days as Syrian government forces Mohammad Abu Rajab made an urgent call for workers is particularly unjustifiable”. pressed a Russian-backed offensive to retake help on Saturday morning from inside M10. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council the entire city. Aleppo, once Syria’s vibrant “The hospital is being destroyed! SOS, every- urged the UN Security Council to “immediately commercial powerhouse, is now at the heart of one!” he said in an audio message distributed intervene to stop the aggression against a major military campaign by President Bashar to journalists. M10 had already been hit on Aleppo”. The World Health Organization has Al-Assad’s fighters and his steadfast ally Wednesday along with the second-largest hos- called Syria the most dangerous place in the Moscow. The offensive, announced on pital in the area, known as M2. That bombard- world for health workers, and Aleppo in partic- September 22, has seen dozens of civilians ment heavily damaged the two facilities and ular has seen much of its medical infrastructure killed and residential buildings flattened in the left only six fully-functional hospitals in the destroyed or heavily damaged. Since fighting east, where an estimated 250,000 people live city’s east, according to SAMS. first broke out there in 2012, Aleppo has been under government siege. At the bombed hospital, an AFP journalist divided by a front line between rebel forces in As the situation for civilians grows increas- saw bloodstained hospital beds and dented the east and government troops in the west. ingly dire, the largest hospital in east Aleppo equipment lying in disarray beneath blown-out After the government launched its offensive was hit by barrel bombs, the medical organiza- windows. “A new barrel bomb fell this after- last month, more than 220 people have been tion that supports it said. “Two barrel bombs hit noon in front of the hospital, forcing medical killed by bombardment on Aleppo’s east, the M10 hospital and there were reports of a staff... to evacuate all patients to another one including six children and 12 other civilians on cluster bomb as well,” said Adham Sahloul of and leave the hospital,” a doctor at M10 told Friday, according to the Syrian Observatory for the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). AFP. European Parliament president Martin Human Rights. In west Aleppo, rebel rocket fire KAFR BATNA, Syria: A Syrian man carries the body of a girl following an air strike Sahloul said a small group of patients and doc- Schulz called the hospital bombing a “war killed 15 civilians and wounded 40 on Friday, in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on tors “were inside the hospital for basic triage, crime”. “Intl community must unite to prevent state television reported. Friday. — AFP bandaging, and cleaning services for emer- city annihilation,” he tweeted. French Foreign Continued on Page 13 LOCAL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir was received at the airport by His Highness KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir is being received by National Assembly KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir is being received by Sheikh Nasser Al- the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.—KUNA Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim. Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Amir returns home from US visit KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh recently held at the United Nations. His Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Al-Sabah, Deputy Premier, Minister of Amir’s Office Ahmad Fahad Al-Fahad, Advisor Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, accom- Highness the Amir was received at the airport Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Finance and Acting Oil Minister Anas Al- at the Amiri Diwan Mohammad Abdullah panied by Deputy Chief of the National Guard by His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Saleh, besides senior state officials.