ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 6 December 2013 2 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5905 Price: QR2 Dubai World Stage win arm sells for UAE’s Atlantis Yousif Mirza Business | 13 Sport | 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Anti-apartheid Qatar slams hero Nelson Mandela dies JOHANNESBURG: Nelson terror attack Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apart- heid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering politi- in Yemen cal figures of the 20th century, has died aged 95. Suicide bomber, gunmen kill 52 Mandela, who was elected South Africa’s first black presi- DOHA: Qatar strongly con- government’s security committee. dent after spending nearly three demned the explosion that Two German and two Vietnamese decades in prison, had been targeted the Yemeni defence doctors, and one Indian and two receiving treatment for a lung ministry in Sana’a and killed 52 Filipino nurses were among the infection at his Johannesburg people, including foreign medi- dead, it added. home since September, after cal staff, yesterday. No one immediately claimed three months in hospital in An official source at the Qatari responsibility, but a Yemeni a critical state. His condition Foreign Ministry told Qatar News expert on Islamist militant affairs deteriorated and he died fol- Agency that this criminal act was said it bore the hallmarks of Al The Minister of Environment H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Al Humaidi (third right) at the opening of Al Mazrouah lowing complications from the contrary to all human values. Qaeda. vegetable market in Umm Salal yesterday. ABDUL BASIT lung infection, with his family The source renewed Qatar’s Ministry staff were arriving for by his side. firm stance denouncing violence work when the bomber struck, The news was announced by in all its forms and manifesta- sources inside the ministry said. an emotional President Jacob tions, whatever its source. The massive blast shook the Zuma on television, who said In Riyadh, GCC Secretary- bustling Bab Al Yemen neigh- Al Mazrouah market opens Mandela had “departed” and General Abdullatif Al Zayani bourhood on the edge of capital was at peace. “Our nation has BY SANAULLAH described the terrorist attack as Sana’a’s old city. Medics and a pumpkin and spinach, among Al Mazrouah Yard also con- lost its greatest son. What made a horrible crime that aimed at defence ministry official said the other varieties, were also avail- tains a new section for selling cat- Nelson Mandela great is pre- destabilising Yemen’s security and gunmen pulled a Western doctor DOHA: Locally-bred, red-col- able. Farm-fresh vegetables were tle, sheep, goats, chicken, birds, cisely what made him human.” stability. He expressed confidence and a Filipino nurse into the hos- oured chickens, birds such as up for sale at prices that were at including ducks and pigeons, aside Mandela, once a boxer, had that the perpetrators of the crime pital’s courtyard and shot them pigeons and ducks, cattle and least 30 percent lower than those from some stalls selling fresh a long history of lung problems will be brought to justice. in front of local staff. They also sheep, Syrian lamb and goats, at the Central Market, vendors fish and eggs along with a special after contracting tuberculosis The GCC member countries killed one of Hadi’s relatives who fresh fish — all at relatively said. store for fodder sale. while in jail on Robben Island. are fully behind Yemeni President was visiting a patient, the minis- low prices — are new attrac- Hassad Food Company, like last Al Humaidi said the idea of His extraordinary life story, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and try said on its website. tions at the seasonal vegetable year when the market was opened opening the seasonal market quirky sense of humour and lack the government in their bid to Security forces retook the com- market for local produce that for the first time, has its stall for was to provide food security and of bitterness towards his former maintain stability and security pound after killing most of the was thrown open in Umm Salal imported fruits but at prices that help local farmers, animal breed- oppressors ensured global appeal in Yemen, Al Zayani added. attackers, the ministry added. yesterday. are at least 10 percent less than ers and fishermen increase their for the charismatic leader. Once A suicide bomber and gunmen The UN and German Foreign Al Mazrouah Yard will the market rates. The vegetables production. The ministry is ready considered a terrorist by the US wearing army uniforms attacked Minister Guido Westerwelle also remain open from 7am until are procured directly from local to help local farms wishing to and Britain for his support of the ministry, in the worst single condemned the attack. 5pm on Thursdays, Fridays and farms. expand and improve the quality violence against the apartheid militant assault in Yemen in 18 Yemeni analyst Abdelrazzaq Al Saturdays. The market in Umm Salal, of their production. regime, at the time of his death months. Jamal, an expert in Islamist mili- Local chickens were for sale some 25km north of Doha, Some 55 types of vegetables he was an almost unimpeach- One attacker drove a car tant affairs, drew parallels with for around QR50, while a pair was opened by the Minister of and fruits were on sale in the able moral icon. The Nobel packed with explosives into the an attack claimed by Al Qaeda on of pigeons cost between QR50 Environment H E Ahmed Amer yard, including tomatoes, zuc- Peace Prize winner spent 27 gate of the ministry’s compound, a military base in eastern Yemen and QR100. Arabian goats and Mohamed Al Humaidi. chini, cucumber, leafy vegetables, years behind bars before being then gunmen in another vehicle in September. sheep were being sold for between He told reporters after the Efranji lettuce, Qatari melons, freed in 1990 to lead the African sped in and opened fire on soldiers “The operation carries the fin- QR1,400 and QR1,500. King fish opening ceremony that a similar strawberries, okra, green onions National Congress in negotia- and doctors and nurses working gerprints of Al Qaeda because of and Hamour were available for market will be opened in Al Khor and cherry tomatoes. Qatari ghee tions with the white minority at a hospital inside, witnesses the suicide nature of the attack,” QR25 and QR35 a kg, respectively. by this month-end and it will be and high-quality Al Sidr honey rulers which culminated in the said. The coordinated strikes he added. AGENCIES Local vegetables, including bigger and have more vending were also on sale. first multi-racial elections in wounded 167 people, said the Picture on page 8 cucumber, lettuce, eggplant, facilities. THE PENINSULA 1994. He served a single term as president. AGENCIES Toll-free numbers Son meets Qatari detained in UAE German exhibition surprises DOHA: A son of a Qatari who remains detained in the UAE over for nationals charges of having links to a banned organisation in the country, has complained that he was allowed to meet his father in the prison travelling abroad briefly and under tight security. visitors with facts and fables “We were allowed only 30 minutes and talked on the phone across DOHA: The Foreign Ministry a glass wall in a room fitted with CCTVs all over,” Dr Mehmoud Al BY MUKESH SHARMA has set up toll-free telephone Jaidah’s son, Hassan, said. numbers for citizens travelling Al Jaidah was detained at Dubai airport while he was returning to DOHA: The luscious Black Forest cake you dig abroad to contact it in case of Doha from Bangkok late last February and charges were filed recently. your teeth into originated in the Black Forest an emergency. The UAE’s prosecution charged him with having close ties to a UAE- region, a thickly wooded area in southwestern Initially, the service is avail- based organisation banned for its alleged links to Muslim Brotherhood. Germany almost grazing the borders of northern able in 82 countries and will be Hassan said on his Twitter account that he and his family (wife and Switzerland and eastern France. Germans con- expanded to another 16 later, said children) were allowed to see his father after a thorough search on sume much more coffee than the beverage you Dr Saif Al Kuwari, Director of the Wednesday. He said security checks at Al Razeen Prison in Abu Dhabi think makes the country of Oktoberfest popular IT Department at the ministry. were a long and cumbersome procedure. “And when we finally met my in the world. He said the service has been father we were shocked to find that we had to converse on the phone The nation that produced words like Kindergarten launched in view of an increase through a glass wall.” There were four security personnel in the room and Blitzkrieg (from the Second World War) has a in the number of Qataris visit- and CCTVs were fitted everywhere, he said. “So we couldn’t talk any- swathe of land straddling hundreds of kilometres ing countries all over the world, thing private.” The court adjourned Al Jaidah’s trial to December 16. where many fairy tales— from Cinderella to Red especially during summer. Riding Hood to Snow White — are said to have origi- “We have reached deals with 82 No new MERS cases in camels, humans nated. Traditions and quirks abound in the country countries, in collaboration with of 82 million, helping define the German identity. Ooredoo, and are working to DOHA: The Minister of Environment H E Ahmed Amer Mohamed Many Germans place wooden dolls in their gar- expand the service to another 16,” Al Humaidi yesterday reassured that no new MERS (Middle East dens you might be sometimes forgiven to believe, are Al Kuwari told a press conference.