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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017 JAMADA ALTHANI 15, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Administrators Mohannad Star abroad, Barca suffer call on Amir Al-Kharafi pest at home, PSG hangover to help save appointed magician in Deportivo museum3 Zain21 chairman fights40 law defeat20 Leftover cluster bomb Min 18º Max 31º kills child, guts house High Tide 00:05 & 13:08 Low Tide MoH orders probe into liposuction video 07:03 & 19:03 40 PAGES NO: 17166 150 FILS KUWAIT: A child was killed and his brother was injured in Qusoor while they were playing with a BLU61 type cluster Erdogan slams ‘banana republic’ Netherlands bomb, a remnant from the 1990 Iraqi invasion. The interior ministry said in a statement that concerned authorities ANKARA/ROTTERDAM: President Tayyip Erdogan said checked the shrapnel lodged in the boy’s body, and con- yesterday the Netherlands was acting like a “banana firmed it was from a cluster bomb. The children had gone on republic” and should face sanctions for barring Turkish a picnic and brought home two “foreign objects”. One of the ministers from speaking in Rotterdam, fuelling a row over Ankara’s political campaigning abroad. Erdogan is looking boys was playing with it when it exploded, leading to a fire. to the large number of Turks living in Europe, especially in Leftover ordnance from the Iraqi invasion continues to Germany and the Netherlands, to help secure victory next cause sporadic casualties. In December last year, an month in a referendum that would give the presidency unidentified man was killed by a landmine in the Salmi sweeping new powers. desert. The victim’s legs were blown off by the blast. In In a speech in France, Foreign Minister Mevlut November, landmines were found on the beach and in the Cavusoglu described the Netherlands as the “capital of water near a seaside club in Bidaa. According to the interi- fascism” as it joined other European countries in stopping or ministry, the landmines were washed up by the tide on Turkish politicians holding rallies, due to fears that ten- the beach. The mines were removed safely and no injuries sions in Turkey might spill over into their expatriate com- were reported. munities. The Dutch government barred Cavusoglu from According to reports, during the 1991 Gulf War, Iraqi flying to Rotterdam on Saturday and later stopped Family troops planted millions of mines in Kuwait, with approxi- Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya from entering the mately 97.8 percent of Kuwait’s land mined or affected by Turkish consulate there, before escorting her out of the unexploded ordnance. Heavily mined areas included the country to Germany. northern coast of Kuwait Bay and the Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Dutch police used dogs and water cannon yesterday border. Millions of mines have since been recovered, but to disperse hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags outside the consulate in Rotterdam. Some threw bottles many are still hidden in coastal and desert areas of Kuwait. and stones and several demonstrators were beaten by Separately, Health Minister Dr Jamal Al-Harbi yesterday police with batons, a Reuters witness said. Mounted said he has ordered the medical license committee of his police officers charged the crowd. The Dutch government ministry to interrogate a surgeon involved in a video - set to lose about half its seats in elections this week, showing a woman undergoing a liposuction. “The video, according to polls, as the anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders circulated live on social media, shows the surgeon con- makes strong gains - said the visits were undesirable and ducting the cosmetic procedure on the woman in contra- it would not cooperate in their campaigning. vention of the values and standards of the medical profes- “I call on all international organizations in Europe and sion,” the minister told KUNA. elsewhere to impose sanctions on the Netherlands,” “The surgeon is a consultant in general surgery and Erdogan said, after his prime minister earlier said Turkey not plastic surgery, so he is not entitled to conduct such would retaliate in the “harshest ways”, without specifying A police dog bites a demonstrator after riots broke out during a pro- a procedure,” he said. “Moreover, it is unacceptable to how. “Has Europe said anything? No. Why? Because they Erdogan demonstration at the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam, film a surgery and circulate such a video, which violates don’t bite each other. The Netherlands are acting like a the privacy of the patient and the standards of the pro- banana republic,” Erdogan said in a speech in Kocaeli Netherlands yesterday. (Inset) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he speaks in Istanbul yesterday. — AP/AFP fession,” Harbi explained. The video, circulating on province, near Istanbul. — Reuters (See Page 7) Facebook and Twitter, drew resentment in professional and public circles. — Agencies Jordan releases jailed soldier AMMAN: A Jordanian soldier who shot north of the capital Amman. He had dead seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 was been sentenced to life imprisonment, MP threatens released from prison yesterday after serving which in Jordan is 20 years. Dakamseh, out his life sentence, sparking outrage from who hails from Irbid’s Ebder area, was a to grill premier, the families of those killed. In March 1997, married father-of-three at the time of the Ahmad Dakamseh fired an automatic attack. His motives were never entirely three ministers weapon at schoolgirls on a trip to the clear, but he told the national security Jordan-Israel border, killing seven of them court during his trial that he fired his By B Izzak and wounding five others and a teacher. “He weapon at the schoolgirls after they is now a free man,” his cousin Mohammed mocked him while he was praying. KUWAIT: Leading opposition MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri Yahya Dakamseh told AFP by phone, saying Jordan’s then ruler King Hussein con- yesterday threatened that he will file to grill the prime he had been released at around 1:00 am demned the attack and later travelled to minister and three Cabinet ministers after 30 days if a after “he finished his jail term”. Israel to offer his condolences to the fam- number of demands were not met, including scrap- Dakamseh, who is aged 46 according ilies of the murdered schoolgirls. His gov- ping hikes in the prices of petrol and electricity. to a family member, was released from ernment also paid compensation. Muwaizri’s threat comes just a few days after a self- the Bab al-Hawa prison in Irbid, 90 km Continued on Page 13 declared moratorium by the opposition not to grill the prime minister as part of a deal stipulating that the government will reinstate citizenship of opposi- This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry yester- tion figures it revoked in the summer of 2014. Several day shows a domestically manufactured tank called “Karrar” in an undisclosed lawmakers however openly said they were not com- location in Iran. — AP mitted to that agreement. Muwaizri is one of them. Muwaizri said that the grillings against Prime Iran unveils domestically Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and at least three ministers are ready and he plans to file made tank, production line them after 30 days. The demands the lawmaker made TEHRAN: Iran’s semi-official Fars news medical evacuations and surveillance. include respecting the constitution, suspending the agency yesterday reported that the The official IRNA news agency said that so-called economic reform charter, immediately halt- country has unveiled a domestically the four-bladed Saba-248 has two ing the petrol and electricity price hikes and suspend- manufactured tank and has launched a engines but its capable of operating with ing the privatization program. Other demands mass-production line. The report quoted just one, and that it can fly in tempera- include resolving the decades-long problem of state- Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan as tures ranging from minus 25 to 55 less people locally known as bedoons, stopping secu- saying: “The tank has the capability to degrees Celsius. rity restrictions on Kuwaiti jobseekers and halting fire missiles and precisely guide them.” Dehghan also said the tank can com- government “atrocities” against the disabled and Fars said the tank named “Karrar” is pete with the most advanced tanks in receivers of social aid. equipped with an electro-optical fire the world in the three main areas of The lawmaker said that the constitution does not control system and laser range-finder “power, precision and mobility”. Iran has give any immunity to anyone against grillings and the and is capable of firing at both stable been producing its own weapons and only immunity for the government is to serve the and mobile targets day or night. military equipment, including missiles, people correctly. He called on ministers and officials Last week Iran unveiled a new heli- fighter jets and submarines, for more to respect the responsibilities entrusted to them. IBDIR, Jordan: Ahmad Dakamseh (second left) is seen with friends and relatives copter designed for offshore operations, than two decades. — AP Continued on Page 13 after his release from prison yesterday. — AP LOCAL MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017 KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with Speaker of the Bosnian House of His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Representatives Sefik Dzaferovic. —KUNA photos meets with Speaker of the Bosnian House of Representatives Sefik Dzaferovic. Amir meets top Bosnian lawmaker KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Nasser Al-Mutairi, and Bosnian Ambassador to Meanwhile, His Highness the Crown Prince Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met with the visiting Kuwait Mehmed Halilovic.

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