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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir’s glasses fetch QR2.4m Members can arm SDC charity gala dinner raises QR7.8m; Gandhi’s letter sold for QR2m Syrian rebels: League BY RAYNALD C RIVERA CAIRO: Arab League ministers Thani told the meeting. decided yesterday to let member The Prime Minister made the DOHA: A pair of glasses of nations arm Syrian rebels fight- remarks during the opening ses- the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad ing President Bashar Al Assad, sion of the 139th Arab League bin Khalifa Al Thani fetched and invited an opposition coali- ministerial council meeting. He QR2.4m, making it the most tion to take the League seat for- was responding to comments by expensive item auctioned at the merly occupied by Damascus. Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan 8th Social Development Centre Previously the League had Mansour in which he said Arabs (SDC) Charity Gala Dinner at stressed that the Syrian politi- left Syria for an unknown fate the Qatar National Convention cal opposition and rebels should waiting helplessly for others to Centre last night. be supported by humanitarian solve the crisis, urging the Arab The spectacles which the Emir and diplomatic means during League to lift the suspension of was wearing when he arrived at the civil war, which has cost an Syria’s membership and bring it the event was bought by some- estimated 70,000 lives.