MOHARRAM 3, 1441 AH MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2019 28 Pages Max 49º Min 30º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17921 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Amir flies to US today, to First of 15 Kuwait Airways US and Taleban on Arsenal fight back against 3 meet Trump on Sept 12 4 Airbus A320neo planes arrives 6 threshold of deal 28 Spurs to draw London derby Israeli army fires into Lebanon amid fears of serious escalation Hariri urges US, France to intervene; Bahrain instructs citizens to leave Lebanon JERUSALEM: Israel’s military said yesterday it fired into southern Egyptian president concludes Kuwait visit Lebanon after a number of anti-tank missiles targeted an Israeli military base and army vehicles near the bor- der, raising fears of a serious escala- tion with Hezbollah after a week of rising tensions. “A number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards an Israel Defense Forces base and mili- tary vehicles. A number of hits have been confirmed,” it said in a statement. Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in a statement its fighters “destroyed a military vehicle on the road to the Avivim barracks (in northern Israel), killing and wounding those inside.” Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged the United States and This picture taken yesterday from a location near the northern Israeli town of France to intervene, contacting US Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, shows fires and smoke rising after KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah holds talks with Egyptian President Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Hezbollah movement fired anti-tank missiles into northern Israel. — AFP Abdelfatah Al-Sisi yesterday. — KUNA (See Page 2) French President Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic adviser to do so. and sparked a fire in a pine forest by bombs into the Israeli-occupied KUWAIT: Egyptian President Abdelfatah Al-Sisi on the Kuwaiti side while Al-Sisi headed the Meanwhile, the Lebanese army the border yesterday. The fires near the Shebaa farms along the border. and his official delegation concluded the official visit Egyptian delegation. said Israel fired 40 rockets into the border in Lebanon “originate with Lebanese state news agency NNA to the country yesterday. His Highness the Amir The talks revolved around matters of mutual con- south of the country. After the initial operations by our forces in the area,” said Israeli forces fired flare bombs Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, along cern and the latest happenings around the world, reports of fire from Lebanon, an the Israeli military said in a statement there on Saturday - a tactic some- with senior Kuwaiti officials, held talks with President according to the Acting Minister of Amiri Diwan Israeli military spokesman called on without elaborating. The Lebanese times used to burn away brush to Al-Sisi and a delegation accompanying him. Affairs Mohammad Daifallah Sharar. Israelis living within four kilometers army statement said it was following prevent an ambush. Bahrain’s Foreign HH the Amir, with His Highness the Crown Prince Later, the president and his entourage were seen (2.5 miles) of the Lebanese border to up with UN peacekeepers but gave no Ministry yesterday instructed its citi- Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His off at the airport by HH the Amir, HH the Crown remain at home and prepare shelters. further details. zens to leave Lebanon immediately, Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Prince, HH the Prime Minister and other senior State The Lebanese military said an Residents and security sources at citing “security events and develop- Al-Hamad Al-Sabah by his side, led the discussions officials. — KUNA Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon’s the border in south Lebanon say ments”, after a week of growing airspace, dropped incendiary material Israel has in recent days fired flare Continued on Page 24 21 shooting victims and at least five deceased David Turner, the mayor of Odessa where the Seven dead, 21 at this point in time,” Odessa city Police Chief incident ended, told Fox News. Michael Gerke told reporters. “This coward pulls up beside” and opens Three police officers were injured, he said. fire on the car where the man and his family hurt in Texas The Odessa Police Department had earlier were waiting at a stop light, Turner said. During reported that a suspect was “driving around his rampage, the suspect had switched vehicles mass shooting Odessa shooting at random people” and “just by hijacking the postal van, and Gerke said he hijacked a US mail carrier truck.” “would assume” the postal worker was among WASHINGTON: A gunman hijacked a US Troopers had initially tried to pull over a the victims. Police said the suspect died during postal truck and opened fire at random in the passenger vehicle on the Interstate 20 high- an exchange of fire with law enforcement at a US state of Texas on Saturday, shooting dead way but before it stopped, “the male driver movie theater in Odessa. Alex Woods, a wit- at least seven people and wounding many oth- (and only occupant in the vehicle) pointed a ness, told CNN that near the movie theater “I ers before dying in a shootout with officers. rifle toward the rear window of his car and could see a bunch of gunfire going off. And I Police identified the suspect as a white man in fired several shots toward the DPS patrol unit,” could see the officer walking up to the mail van his mid-30s, but could not yet name him or say the Texas Department of Public Safety said in and discharging his weapon into it. why he carried out the attack in the West a statement. One trooper was wounded, the “And I believe that was when the shooter Texas cities of Midland and Odessa. suspect fled the scene, “and continued shoot- was killed.” President Donald Trump tweeted Coming less than a month after a gunman ing innocent people,” the department said. that he had been briefed by Attorney General killed 22 people in the Texas city of El Paso, Some of the shots were fired on the high- Bill Barr. The latest incident came after the ear- the latest bloodshed immediately ignited fresh way linking the cities of Odessa and Midland, ly August mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart, ODESSA, TX: Flowers hang on the Odessa Police Department sign following a deadly calls for gun control to stem the US scourge of where cars were left with bullet holes. “I just where many victims were Hispanic. shooting spree yesterday in Odessa, Texas. — AFP mass shootings. “We have at least 21 victims, found out a friend of mine passed away,” Continued on Page 24 Iran unveils new Dorian, the strongest reconnaissance storm this year hits and attack drone Northern Bahamas MIAMI: Hurricane Dorian unleashed “catastrophic conditions” yesterday as it hit the northern Bahamas, lashing the low-lying island chain with devastating 180 mph (285 kph) winds, the most intense in its modern history. Residents of the Abaco Islands closest to the storm were warned to “seek elevated shelter immediate- ly,” as US forecasters predicted a towering storm surge of 18 to 23 feet. Many Abaco islands residents were reported to have opted to ride out the monster hurricane rather than heed government warnings to evacuate. The Nassau Guardian quoted local resident Troy Albury as saying 150 people stayed behind in Guana TEHRAN: The Iranian Army office yesterday shows Cay, in the center of the Abaco islands, to face the Brigadier-General Alireza Sabahifard (center), com- storm’s fury. Only eight left on the last ferry out, he said. Power went out as the storm approached, a resident of mander of the Army Air Defense force, unveiling a This satellite image obtained from NOAA/RAMMB, shows Tropical Storm Dorian as it approaches the Bahamas at Man-o-war Cay in the Abacos said. new drone. — AFP 13:40 UTC. Monster storm Dorian unleashed “catastrophic conditions” as it hit the northwestern Bahamas yester- “Catastrophic conditions occurring in the Abacos day, becoming the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the region, US forecasters said. — AFP islands,” the Miami-based National Hurricane Center TEHRAN: Iran yesterday unveiled a jet-pro- said in a bulletin at 1500 GMT. The eye of the Category said the Bahamas would be under major hurricane con- Carolina, he said, adding that Dorian’s path could pelled drone it said is capable of finding and 5 hurricane was still 25 miles from the Abaco islands, attacking targets far from the country’s borders ditions for 30 hours or more. change again. Florida residents, meanwhile, were brac- but the slow-moving hurricane’s core was expected to “That’s major hurricane winds, that’s storm surge of ing for a potentially dangerous brush with the storm as with precision. Dubbed the “Kian”, the unmanned move directly over Great Abaco, and possibly also aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested 10 and even 20 feet in some of those areas,” he said. it slowly turns north after passing the Bahamas. Grand Bahama Island later yesterday and today, US “That’s also torrential rainfall of 15 to 20 inches, isolated Tropical storm warnings were in effect for parts of by experts of the air defense force within about a forecasters said. year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General 30 inches.” In Washington, US President Donald Trump the Florida coast. Mandatory evacuation orders were The NHC said Dorian had become “the strongest warned Dorian was “a very, very powerful hurricane.” issued for parts of Palm Beach and Martin Counties.