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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER OFID’s plan Craig makes to be ready mark as NZ next year beat Windies Business | 13 Sport | 19 Friday 13 June 2014 • 15 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 • Number 6095 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatari tweeters Petrol station launch ‘boycott UK’ campaign shortage hits over FIFA reports DOHA: Qatari social media enthusiasts have launched a campaign on Twitter urging fel- low citizens not to travel to the motorists UK this summer as a show of protest against reports appear- ing in a section of the British CMC receiving lots of complaints media questioning Qatar’s right to host the 2022 FIFA World DOHA: For a motorist in Qatar, the woes motorists face. Cup. filling up his car at a petrol sta- Many old petrol stations in the The boycott call has gone viral tion is becoming as nightmarish city have faced the bulldozers and on Arab social media, with many as having to wade through cha- given way to modern structures. describing the negative media otic and congested city roads For example, the filling sta- campaign against Qatar as a during peak hours. tion that existed near the QNB manifestation of the racist nature Motorists increasingly com- headquarters (adjacent to the old of the British democracy, Al Sharq plain that at any given time Mashreq Bank building) is gone. reported. of the day a petrol station is So is Al Tadamun petrol sta- Ilham Badr, a prominent Qatari crowded with vehicles and queues tion next to Naseem Al Rabeeh woman media personality, on her Dancers perform during the opening ceremony prior to the FIFA World Cup 2014 group A preliminary round match are sometimes frustratingly polyclinic on D Ring Road. Twitter account urged Qataris between Brazil and Croatia at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. Brazil won 3-1. serpentine. The one on the C Ring Road and all those who love Qatar to For those stuck in a queue, remains closed. avoid travelling to the UK this eventually getting out of it with On the B Ring Road, near what summer and look for “other their cars filled with fuel is always once was the Crazy roundabout, beautiful cities that are not racist a relieving experience. there was a petrol station which Fans enjoy free Cup opener and whose governments are not “It takes no less than half-an- has vanished, too. defaming our country.” Racism hour every time I take my car to A motorist told this news- DOHA: A huge crowd of people the ball into his own net as he the crowds, traffic leading to the in Britain is targeting not only a petrol station,” said a Qatari. paper that he recently went to of various nationalities turned tried to clear it away from the souq moved on a snail’s pace. Qatar but all Arabs, she added. “There always are long queues.” a petrol station near The Mall up with loud chatting and clap- danger zone. The mood, however, The souq was presumably the Another media personality, The lines are sometimes so long Roundabout and the machine pings, to watch the first match returned to celebration in the only place where the match could Jabir Al Merri, tweeted, “Racism that they block traffic on main there got stuck after a while. of the World Cup, at Souq 29th minute when Neymar de be watched for free. against the Arabs has surfaced roads, causing jams, he added. “I had to rush to another petrol Waqif in which the host and five Silva Desantos equalised. Many football fans have been after one of the Arab countries The increasing number of vehi- station.” times champions Brazil hosted “This is what we have been posting complaints on social proved that it is capable to host cles in the country means that Central Municipal Council Croatia. waiting for,” said Omar Al Ali, media about higher charges by the World Cup”. there is a severe shortage of pet- member, Mubarak Fraish, said “There is nothing so much uni- another Qatari. “Those minutes of TV channels for watching the “No doubt they will fail. All the rol stations in and outside Doha, the CMC hadn’t so far discussed fying in this world as football,” Croatia leading have been so pain- matches live. world is against their racism and the local Arabic daily Al Raya the issue. However, he said a lot said Ahmed Abdullah, a Qatari, ful for our team [Brazil] which World Cup broadcast rights is supporting us. FIFA will not reported yesterday. of people have been complaining among the crowd. “Not anywhere is the favourite to win the Cup.” have been given to Qatar-based kneel down to their media cam- “Petrol stations haven’t kept of problems. would you find all nationalities People were glued to a big beIN Sports, which is part of Al paign,” wrote Hamad Al Qahtani. pace with the exploding popula- “The situation is worse outside united and happy like they are screen showing the match, block- Jazeera network. Meanwhile, a survey of Arab tion and the increasing number Doha. In the city, you still have here today.” ing most roads leading to major Those who want to watch youth has found that more than of cars,” it added. many petrol stations,” said Fraish. The crowd, mostly supporting restaurants at the souq while action from Brazil in the comfort 60 percent of youth in GCC coun- Several motorists The Peninsula “Actually, some areas have several Brazil, briefly fell silent in the 11th families struggled to break up the of their homes have to subscribe tries and 57 percent in non-GCC spoke to on the issue said many petrol stations while others don’t minute, shocked when Croatia got crowd for easy passage. to beIN via Ooredoo by calling 111. Arab countries believe Qatar is old petrol stations in Doha having have even one.” a goal from a fault of a Brazilian Police regularly kept on asking Continued on page 2 the right choice to host the 2022 been demolished to give way to Continued on page 5 defender. spectators, mostly bachelors, to See also pages 20, 21; Edit 6 World Cup. See also page 3 modern projects, had aggravated THE PENINSULA Marcelo Viela da Silva poked leave way for passers-by. Due to THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Dust storm hits Qatar Obama warns Woqod must clarify on car of military tank threat: CMC member strikes in Iraq DOHA: A member of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) has criticised local petro- BAGHDAD: President Barack leum products distributor, Woqod (Qatar Fuel Obama threatened US military Company), saying it doesn’t bother to clarify on strikes in Iraq yesterday against issues that directly concern people’s safety. Sunni Islamist militants who Mubarak Fraish (pictured) said there is a dis- have surged out of the north to cussion raging on the local social media suggesting menace Baghdad and want to that filling up a car’s petrol tank to capacity in establish their own state in Iraq this extremely hot weather can be risky as it can and Syria. explode. “Woqod should have issued a clarification “I don’t rule out anything through the media but it hasn’t bothered, even as because we do have a stake in the debate rages on,” Fraish said in remarks to this newspaper. making sure that these jihad- The company should be sensitive to such issues as they directly ists are not getting a permanent concern people’s safety. “It should have immediately issued a statement foothold in either Iraq or Syria,” clarifying whether what is being discussed is true or false.” Obama said at the White House Experts, meanwhile, told this newspaper that since petrol in Qatar when asked whether he was con- is of high quality, it expands in volume due to extreme heat, causing templating air strikes. Officials pressure inside the tank. So it is always advisable not to fill the tank later said ground troops would Skyscrapers in West Bay blanketed by dust storm that lashed Qatar since last morning, leading to poor vis- to its capacity. THE PENINSULA not be sent in, however. ibility. Dust winds associated with heatwave are expected to continue over the weekend, probably leading to Full report on page 5 a further rise in temperature. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH US moves inmates out of Afghan jail UK passport delay could ruin Doha family’s vacation plan WASHINGTON: The Obama BY FAZEENA SALEEM administration has quietly as authorities here have no role the world, the daily added. embassy is in close contact with find they have to change their repatriated a dozen detainees in British nationals getting new But the report gives a false the Foreign and Commonwealth travel arrangements at the last from a small US military prison DOHA: Some Britons, espe- passports. impression as if Qatari authorities Office and Her Majesty’s Passport minute. In particular, I am very in Afghanistan, moving a mod- cially families with newborns in Daily Record, the UK-based are to be blamed for the plight of Office, seeking suitable solutions concerned about the unnecessary est step closer towards wind- Qatar, are unable to travel over- newspaper, on Wednesday the Scottish family, which is not to solve the passport problem. stress this situation is putting on ing down the US’ controversial seas because of delay by their reported that a Scottish family true. It is strict security checks “I would advise anyone who families with newborn babies,” he post-9/11 detainee system.

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