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KT 16-10-2016.Qxp Layout 1 SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2016 MUHARRAM 15, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Alghanim Modi, Putin Global deal Raging Industries sign defense reached to Djokovic platinum sponsor deals ahead phase out super sent crashing of ArabNet3 of11 BRICS greenhouse28 gases in17 Shanghai Security authorities arrest Min 25º ‘major drugs supplier’: MoI Max 37º High Tide 11:53 & 23:57 Suspect concealed ‘Spice’ in cosmetics to send to Europe Low Tide 05:48 & 18:12 40 PAGES NO: 17021 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: A citizen described by the Ministry of Interior as a “big drugs supplier” was arrested yesterday as he was preparing a “narcotic substance” in collaboration with an Iraqi man to distribute it. The General Directorate for Drug Control received information about a dealer bringing in drugs to distribute it in the country, the ministry’s security media department said in a statement, noting that the sup- plier was immediately arrested after the information was confirmed. The accused confessed that he had a place containing a laboratory to prepare the ‘Spice’ drug, the statement said, adding that a large amount of drugs was seized. The accused also admitted that he was preparing orders of nar- cotics to sell to a European country. He added that he used names of cosmetics on these orders to disguise the drugs. Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd conveyed greetings of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah to the directorate’s staff for their prominent and outstanding efforts in arresting the suppliers of narcotics. He expressed his appreciation to the minister for his support of security men to help them launch preemptive strikes against criminals. He stressed readiness of security men in performing their duties and maintaining the safety of citizens and resi- dents. The aim of such campaigns is to arrest major suppli- KUWAIT: Interior Ministry Undersecretary Lt Gen Suleiman Al-Fahd (right) and General Directorate for Drug Control officers inspect the drugs yesterday. (Right) The sus- ers of narcotics which affect the health of people, Fahd pects are seen after their arrest. — MoI emphasized. Fresh talks try to revive Syria truce Turkish-backed fighters advancing on IS-held Dabiq LAUSANNE: Pessimistic envoys from the sides warned against hopes for a rapid United States, Russia and Syria’s neighbors breakthrough in Lausanne, and Moscow met yesterday in Switzerland as Secretary showed no sign of softening its strong sup- 55 killed in of State John Kerry tried to revive hopes of port for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. a ceasefire for the war-torn country. The Even as the diplomats gathered in a talks marked Kerry’s first encounter with lakefront hotel, Moscow’s flagship aircraft Patrick Eugene Stein Gavin Wright Curtis Allen Iraq attacks his Russian opposite number Sergei Lavrov carrier set sail for the Mediterranean to since a US and Russian-sponsored truce support the Russian forces shoring up 3 men accused of plotting BAGHDAD: Around 55 people were killed in Iraq in collapsed last month amid a ferocious Assad’s rule. attacks yesterday that targeted a Shiite gathering, a Syrian offensive. But diplomats from all Continued on Page 13 to bomb Muslims in Kansas police checkpoint and the family of a Sunni paramili- tary leader opposed to Islamic State, according to WICHITA, Kansas: Three members of a based on their hatred for Muslims, people security and medical sources. The escalation comes Kansas militia group are accused of plot- of Somali descent and immigrants - and as Iraqi forces are getting ready to launch an offen- ting to bomb an apartment complex that’s out of a desire to inspire other militia sive to take back Mosul, the last Iraqi city still under home to Somali immigrants in the western groups and “wake people up”. control of Islamic State, in northern Iraq. Kansas meatpacking town of Garden City, The FBI began a domestic terrorism The heaviest toll was caused by a suicide bomber a thwarted attack prosecutors say was investigation of the group in February, who detonated an explosive vest in the middle of a planned for the day after the November and a confidential source attended its Shiite gathering in Baghdad, killing at least 41 peo- election. A complaint unsealed Friday meetings in southwestern Kansas. In a ple and wounding 33. The explosion went off inside charges Curtis Wayne Allen, 49; Patrick June meeting, Stein brought up the a tent filled with people taking part in Shiite Eugene Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne Wright, Orlando nightclub shooting and pro- Ashoura rituals, which mourn the killing of Prophet 49, with conspiring to use a weapon of posed carrying out a similar attack against Muhammad’s (PBUH) grandson Hussein in the 7th mass destruction. The men are members Muslim refugees in Garden City, according century. Islamic State claimed the attack in an online of a small militia group that calls itself “the to the complaint. They ultimately decided statement. Some people were also in the tent to Crusaders”, and whose members espouse to target the apartment complex because mourn the death of a local resident, authorities said. sovereign citizen, anti-government, anti- of the number of Somalis who lived there The tent was set up in a crowded market in the city’s Muslim and anti-immigrant extremist and the fact that one of the apartments northern Al-Shaab district. beliefs, according to the complaint. was used as a mosque. The complex hous- A witness said the bomber entered the funeral Prosecutors said the men don’t yet es about 120 Somali residents, Beall said. tent and blew himself up as lunch was being served. have attorneys. Publicly listed phone The complaint said Stein discussed “I saw with my eyes 20 martyrs on the ground,” the numbers for the men couldn’t immediate- the explosives used in the 1995 bomb- witness said. Blood stained the ground at the scene ly be found. Their first court appearance is ing of the federal building in Oklahoma of the attack, which was littered with the remains of LAUSANNE: (From left) Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Russian Foreign tomorrow. The arrests were the culmina- City by Timothy McVeigh. The men, who plastics chairs mourners had been seated on. Minister Sergei Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel tion of an eight-month FBI investigation were arrested in Liberal on Friday morn- Gunmen believed to belong to Islamic State earli- Al-Jubeir, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Al-Thani, Iraqi Foreign Minister that took agents “deep into a hidden cul- ing, performed surveillance of the apart- er in the day staged two attacks north of Baghdad, Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, UN Special Envoy ture of hatred and violence,” Acting US ment building and prepared a mani- one targeting a police checkpoint and the other the for Syria Staffan de Mistura, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Attorney Tom Beall said. The complaint festo, Beall said. Continued on Page 13 Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh are seen during a meeting yesterday. — AFP alleges group members chose the target Continued on Page 13 Trump claims election ‘rigged’, slams ‘smears’ PORTSMOUTH: Donald Trump charged yester- “Either we win this election or we lose this refused to visit her California restaurant during day that “corrupt” media were seeking to rig country,” he told supporters in New Hampshire. the primaries. Also Friday, a former aspiring November’s presidential election in favor of his “I really believe this is the last chance we have model, Kristin Anderson, told the Washington Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. His White to win. I really believe it. Not going to happen Post that Trump had sidled up to her in a night- House campaign in chaos over snowballing again.” The virulence of Trump’s attacks on the club in the early 1990s, reached under her skirt accusations of sexual assault, Trump has cast Clinton camp have raised concerns about and touched her vagina through her panties. himself as the victim of a “smear campaign”, and whether the real estate mogul would even They were the latest in a stream of women further escalated his attacks on his rival head- acknowledge a defeat, and how his legions of accusing Trump of predatory sexual behavior, ing into the final weeks of the race. “Hillary is fired-up supporters would react should he lose. adding to the woes of his now free-falling presi- running for president in what looks like a rigged Trump earlier rejected claims of women dential bid. Clinton on Friday called the election election,” he told a fired-up rally in Portsmouth, accusing him of sexual misconduct, and por- “incredibly painful”. “I take absolutely no satisfac- New Hampshire. “The election is being rigged trayed himself as the victim of a “smear cam- tion in what is happening on the other side with by corrupt media pushing completely false alle- paign” orchestrated by the media and estab- my opponent,” she told a crowd at a campaign gations and outright lies in an effort to elect her lished politicians. As Trump spoke at a rally, field office in Seattle, Washington. “I am not at all president.” Summer Zervos - an ex-contestant on his reality happy about that. It hurts our democracy.” Trump tweeted out a similar allegation earli- TV show “The Apprentice” - came forward to The torrent of allegations against Trump er yesterday to his 12 million followers, charg- accuse him of kissing, groping and thrusting his was unleashed by the Oct 7 release of audio ing: “Hillary Clinton should have been prosecut- genitals at her during a meeting at a California from 2005 in which Trump bragged that he ed and should be in jail.
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