SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014 SHAWWAL 11, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Health Them’s fighting Obama, African Khan’s century Ministry words! The leaders talk rescues downplays politics of security, Pakistan in Ebola threat3 place15 names governance26 first20 Test US sanctions ‘terror Max 46º Min 29º financiers’ in Kuwait High Tide 07:08 & 21:59 Low Tide Trio accused of supporting Islamic State, Nusra Front 01:16 & 15:14 40 PAGES NO: 16247 150 FILS WASHINGTON: The United States 41, and Hajjaj Fahd Hajjaj Muhammad three have been named a “specially desig- Anizi had worked in the past with Al- imposed sanctions on three men, two of Shabib Al-Ajmi, 26, of raising money for nated global terrorist” by the United Qaeda facilitators based in Iran, and that Lawyer slams them Kuwaiti, yesterday, accusing them of the Al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group fight- States government, which accuses them the younger Ajmi had tried to get fellow providing money, fighters and weapons ing in Syria. Both men are said to be of soliciting donations for militants from Kuwaitis into leadership positions in Al- fatwa against to extremists in Iraq and Syria. Under the Kuwaiti, and the elder Ajmi’s street wealthy donors in the Gulf region. “We Nusra. The latest US terrorism report on order, issued by the US Treasury, any address in Kuwait was given. and our international partners, including the country noted “increased reports of assets the men hold in the United States A third man, Abdulrahman Khalaf Al- the Kuwaiti government, need to act Kuwait-based private individuals funnel- ‘The 99’ series are frozen and American citizens and resi- Anizi, whose nationality was not disclosed more urgently and effectively to disrupt ing charitable donations and other funds By Nawara Fattahova dents are “generally prohibited” from and who is thought to be around 40 years these terrorist financing efforts,” said to violent extremist groups outside the doing business with them. The order old, is accused of supporting the so-called Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen. country.” KUWAIT: The lawyer of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa - whose accused Shafi Sultan Mohammed Al-Ajmi, Islamic State, formerly Al-Qaeda in Iraq. All The Treasury statement alleged that Continued on Page 15 comic series ‘The 99’ was banned by a Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs fatwa - yesterday said the edict was wrong and motivated by personal conflicts. Life stirs in Gaza as ceasefire holds Kuwaiti lawyer Duwaim Al-Muwaizri had filed a case against the ‘The 99’ to stop broadcasting on an Arabic GAZA CITY: Life in the battered Gaza Strip began return- satellite channel, ing to normal yesterday as a ceasefire held for a second and to support his day and Egyptian mediators engaged in shuttle diploma- case, demanded a cy on extending the truce. Shops, banks and markets fatwa from the reopened around the devastated enclave where residents Awqaf Ministry. The seemed more confident that the three-day ceasefire, ministry issued a which began Tuesday, would hold after a month of fight- fatwa banning the ing killed 1,875 Palestinians and 67 on the Israeli side. broadcast and dis- With life returning to the streets in Gaza, the Arab League tribution of the ani- said a delegation of foreign ministers planned to make a mated series for dis- solidarity visit to the impoverished enclave which would respecting Almighty Naif Al-Mutawa also assess the vast reconstruction needs. Allah. “An Arab ministerial delegation will go to Gaza soon in “Muwaizri claimed that the main characters of the solidarity,” Arab League chief Nabil Al-Arabi told reporters cartoon were given Allah’s names, which is disre- in Cairo, without giving a date. The delegation, which is spectful and should be stopped. And it seems that likely to expand, so far includes top diplomats from Egypt, the sheikh giving the fatwa didn’t watch the series, as Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco. Palestinian officials in the their names are without the prefix ‘Al-’. Such names West Bank have estimated the total damage from the 29- are common in most Arab countries, so there is no day war as high as $6 billion. Nearly half a million people insult,” Mutawa’s attorney Mohammed Dashti told were displaced by Israeli bombardment, and many are Kuwait Times yesterday. still sheltering in schools after their homes were flattened According to Dashti, the reason behind filing the in the offensive. case and demanding a fatwa was to fight the satellite Across Gaza, people began trying to patch up their channel that is broadcasting the series. “There was a battered homes, as the emergency services cleared rub- conflict between the Saudi extremist Mohammed Al- ble and searched for bodies in worst-hit areas, among Arifi and the channel. Then his followers and fans on them Tuffah and Shejaiya near Gaza City, Khuzaa and an social media started a war against this channel and its area east of Rafah on the southern border with Egypt. programs including ‘The 99’ series,” he explained. Small businesses reopened for the first time in nearly a ‘The 99’ cartoon has been approved by the month and fisherman put out to sea after weeks stranded Ministry of Information in Kuwait. GAZA: Palestinian relatives of Islamic Jihad militant Shaaban Al-Dahdouh, whose body was found under the on land, an AFP correspondent said. Continued on Page 15 rubble yesterday, grieve during his funeral yesterday. — AP Continued on Page 15 Probe makes space history Saadoun: Revocation PARIS: The space probe Rosetta made a historic ren- dezvous with a comet yesterday, climaxing a 10-year, of citizenship illegal six-billion-kilometer chase through the Solar System, By Staff Reporter brothers and sister along with their fam- the European Space Agency (ESA) said. “We’re at the ily members. comet,” Rosetta’s flight operations manager, Sylvain KUWAIT: Veteran opposition leader and Saadoun however said that the Lodiot, declared in a webcast from mission control in former National Assembly speaker nationality law was amended in 1994 to Darmstadt, Germany. It marks the first time a spacecraft Ahmad Al-Saadoun said yesterday that make all children born to Kuwaiti has been sent into orbit around a comet, a wanderer of the decree revoking the citizenship of fathers, even if naturalized, citizens by the Solar System whose primeval dust and ice may hold Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari is illegal birth. He added that Shemmari was one insights into how the planets formed. because he is not a naturalized Kuwaiti. of them and was born to a Kuwaiti In November, a robot scientific lab called Philae will Shemmari is the owner of the pro-oppo- father and accordingly becomes a be sent down to the surface to make the first-ever land- sition Al-Youm satellite channel and Kuwaiti by birth. As a result, Saadoun ing on a comet. Rosetta’s rendezvous with Comet Alam Al-Youm newspaper. The govern- argued that the article in the law does 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was confirmed at 0929 ment revoked his citizenship along with not apply to Shemmari’s case and GMT at distance of 400 million km from Earth, according his family two weeks ago on the basis of becomes legally redundant. Shemmari to signals received at ground stations. ESA Director an article in the 1959 nationality law that has not announced if he is going to chal- General Jean-Jacques Dordain hailed the fruit of 20 allows the revocation of citizenship of lenge the government’s decision in years’ work to design, build and launch the three-tonne naturalized citizens if they undertake court. Under Kuwaiti law, courts are not craft and then steer it to a tiny target in deep space. “It actions that pose a threat to the national authorized to tackle nationality issues makes 2014 the year of Rosetta,” he said. “Rosetta is a security and economy. Along with since they are considered sovereign unique mission, unique by its scientific goal,” Dordain Shemmari, the Cabinet also revoked the matters but can look into the wrong said. “Understanding our origins is certainly the best citizenship of former opposition MP application of the law. This handout picture by space probe Rosetta shows the Comet 67P/Churyumov- way to understand our future.” Abdullah Al-Barghash and two of his Continued on Page 15 Gerasimenko from a distance of 285 km. — AFP Continued on Page 15 in the news Saudis ban brides China city bans big Bahrain court strips beards from buses Saudi Ebola sufferer from 4 countries convicts’ citizenship dies of heart attack RIYADH: Saudi men have been banned from marrying BEIJING: A city in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region MANAMA: Nine Bahraini opposition activists convicted has banned people with large beards or Islamic clothing RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian who had travelled to women from three Asian and one African country as yesterday of various public security charges have been Sierra Leone and had symptoms similar to those the Gulf state toughens the rules restricting marriage from travelling on public buses, state media said, prompt- stripped of their citizenship, said their defense lawyer. ing outrage from an overseas rights group yesterday. found in Ebola sufferers died yesterday of a heart with foreigners, a local daily said. Marrying women Lawyer Reem Khalaf, who represented some of those attack, the health ministry said. “The patient died of from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar and Chad is no Authorities in Karamay banned people wearing hijabs, on trial, said the defendants were convicted and sen- niqabs, burkas, or clothing with the Islamic star and cres- cardiac arrest, despite efforts by the medical team longer permissible, Makkah newspaper reported. It tenced on charges that included participation in an cent symbol from taking local buses, the Karamay Daily to resuscitate him,” the ministry website reported.