IS Suicide Bombers Kill 20 Outside Syria Shrine
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2016 RAMADAN 7, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Lights drown out US Muslims see Hard times in Warriors move Ramadan TImings Milky Way for 3rd anti-mosque bias Egypt stoke to brink of NBA Emsak: 03:03 of the population in court decision labor unrest title, beat Cavs Fajer: 03:13 Shrooq: 04:48 Dohr: 11:48 Asr: 15:22 Maghreb: 18:48 3 13 25 17 Eshaa: 20:20 IS suicide bombers kill Min 30º Max 46º 20 outside Syria shrine High Tide 05:46 & 16:33 Low Tide Attack highlights sectarian dimension of civil war 11:16 & 23:48 40 PAGES NO: 16902 150 FILS AMMAN: Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide Ramadan Kareem and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb yes- terday near Syria’s holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, and a monitoring group said at least 20 people were killed. Forgiveness State television showed debris, mangled cars and wrecked shops in a main commercial thoroughfare near the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, in an area where at least in Ramadan three bomb attacks claimed by Islamic State have killed and wounded scores of people this year. The ultra-hardline Sunni militants of IS, whose many By Hassan T Bwambale foes are advancing on a number of fronts in both Syria and Iraq, are avowed enemies of Shiites, whom they orgiveness is epitomized in avoiding harming consider a heretical group within Islam. State media someone in revenge for the injury or harm he said at least eight people were killed. But the UK-based “Fmeted out to you, despite having the ability to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll avenge,” according to Al-Imam Al-Kafawi (Al-Kulliyyaat, P had risen to at least 20, including at least 13 civilians, 52- 58). This means that when someone wrongs you or with the other victims coming from pro-government treats you with injustice, underestimating your ability to militias. It said the number was expected to rise avenge, you choose to forgive and forget due to your because many of the scores of wounded people were in strong faith in God Almighty. Not only is your self-confi- critical condition. dence boosted, but also your reward for this virtue is great. Islamic State said two of its suicide bombers had Encouraging us to forgive, Allah (to Whom is blown themselves up and operatives had detonated an ascribed all perfection and majesty) says what can be explosives-laden car, according to the IS-affiliated Amaq translated as: “So by mercy from God, you [O news agency. The Sayeda Zeinab shrine is a magnet for Muhammad (PBUH)] were lenient with them. And if thousands of Iraqi and Afghan Shiite militia recruits who you had been rude [in speech] and harsh-hearted, they go there before being assigned to front lines, where would have disbanded from about you. So pardon they fight against the Sunni rebel groups trying to top- them and ask forgiveness for them and consult them in ple President Bashar Al-Assad. Almost every Shiite mili- affairs....” (Al-Imran 3: 159). God Almighty in this verse as tia fighter bears insignia on his combat fatigues with well as in many others, commands Prophet the words “For your sake, Sayeda Zeinab”. Muhammad (PBUH) to forgive all those who wronged The heavily garrisoned area near the shrine is also a him whether Muslims or non-Muslims so long as their well known stronghold of Lebanon’s powerful Shiite offences did not lead to a dangerous catastrophe. Hezbollah group, an Iranian-backed movement that is Continued on Page 13 DAMASCUS: Syrians check the site of a double bombing attack yesterday outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, one of Assad’s chief allies. which is revered by Shiites around the world. — AFP Continued on Page 13 News Fire ravages Kuwait in brief Airport warehouse Prominent opposition activist leaves Bahrain KUWAIT: Six teams of firefighters man- tions took part in extinguishing the DUBAI: Bahraini Shiite opposition activist Zainab Al- aged to put out a fire that broke out blaze. He expressed his deep gratitude Khawaja, who was released from jail this week on yesterday at a warehouse of a post for the efforts of firefighters which is “humanitarian” grounds, announced yesterday that she office at a cargo terminal of Kuwait aimed at saving the lives and proper- has left the country. “It pains me to leave, but I leave car- International Airport, Kuwait Fire ties. Director General of KFSD rying our cause on my back, and my love for my country Service Directorate (KFSD) said. The fire Lieutenant General Yousef Abdullah Al- in my chest,” Khawaja, who left for Denmark where she did not lead to any injury, but some lit- Ansari, who was in a direct contact with also holds nationality, said on Twitter. Her sister Maryam, tle financial losses, Deputy Director Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs likewise on Twitter, said Zainab left on Monday with her General of KFSD for Fighting Sector Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- children after having received undisclosed threats. Major General Jamal Al-Bulaihees said. Mubarak Al-Sabah, rushed to the site of Bahraini authorities said they released Khawaja, who The body tasked with the incidents of the fire to get acquainted with the inci- had been held in prison with her toddler son since fire is working on collecting required dent. Earlier, Acting Director of KFSD March, on May 31 because of her “humanitarian situa- data to uncover the reasons behind the Major General Khalid Al-Mekrad said tion”. The Shiite mother had been convicted of insulting fire, he said. that the fire did not affect the flights at KUWAIT: Massive fires engulfed the Kuwait Airport cargo store yesterday. Firemen King Hamad by ripping up a picture of him, and she had He noted that a number of fire sta- the airport. — KUNA from the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate (KFSD) battled the blaze. — KUNA chosen to keep her 17-month-old son with her in jail. Judicial authorities ordered “the suspension of the sen- tence” for Khawaja. She is the daughter of prominent rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, who is serving a life sentence for plotting to overthrow the Sunni regime. ‘The Voice’ star killed in US shooting MIAMI: Singer Christina Grimmie, who Woman held in Qatar starred in NBC’s “The Voice,” was killed over ‘rape complaint’ after being shot at a concert in Orlando, THE HAGUE: A 22-year-old Dutch woman is being Florida by an unidentified gunman, who held in Qatar on suspicion of adultery after she said then killed himself, police said yesterday. she was raped while on holiday there, her lawyer and “With deep regret, we have confirmed Dutch media said yesterday. The woman says she Christina Grimmie, @TheRealGrimmie, has was drugged in a hotel, and that she realized she died from her injuries,” the Orlando Police had been raped when she woke up in an unfamiliar Department said on its Twitter account. apartment. “She was arrested in March on suspicion The 22-year-old Grimmie performed of adultery, which means having sex outside mar- late Friday with the group Before You Exit riage,” lawyer Brian Lokollo told Dutch radio NOS- at Orlando’s Plaza Live Theater and stayed Radio1. A Dutch foreign ministry spokeswoman con- after to sign autographs and sell mer- firmed the arrest but said the young woman, whom chandise. A man, who was armed with she named as Laura, has not been charged. Daphne two guns, walked toward her and shot Kerremans added that “the enquiry is ongoing” and her, police said. “Christina’s brother imme- that Dutch authorities are in regular contact with diately tackled the suspect, who shot & Laura. The woman’s lawyer said that the case con- killed himself,” the police said. Grimmie cerns a trip his client made in March to a Qatar hotel BEIT HANUN: Palestinian Karam Al-Zaaneen (left), 13, and his brother was rushed to the Orlando Regional Christina Grimmie where the consumption of alcohol is allowed. Mustafa, 16, ride a donkey-pulled-cart after collecting plastic at a garbage Medical Center. The motive of the gun- dump in Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip. — AFP man, who was not identified, was unclear. Control and Prevention. “We don’t know if he was just a crazy fan But past bouts of even more extreme Journalist Mohamed Fahmy that followed her on Twitter or on social gun violence, including the 2012 killing of regains Egyptian citizenship Wars and poverty force media. We really don’t know,” police 20 school children at an elementary TORONTO: A Canadian journalist who spent almost two spokeswoman Wanda Miglio said at a school in Connecticut, have led to little years jailed in Egypt said that Egyptian authorities have Gaza children to work news conference. change in a country where the right to restored the citizenship he renounced in order to win his “This is a very tragic event. This should bear arms is protected under the second release. Mohamed Fahmy, a former Al-Jazeera journalist GAZA: Instead of going to school, astating 50-day conflict in 2014 in the have been something that was fun and amendment of the US constitution. US released last year after receiving a pardon from Egypt’s Walid and Ibrahim spend hours each tiny Mediterranean territory. exciting, and for something like this to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has president, was a dual citizen but renounced his Egyptian day rummaging through houses Residents have lived under a puni- happen is just a tragedy.” She said about vowed to take on the powerful US gun citizenship late in 2014 after being asked to do as a con- destroyed in Gaza’s wars in search of tive Israeli blockade imposed 10 years 60 to 100 people attended the concert, lobby if elected president, while Donald dition of his release.