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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2014 THULQADA 19, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Hundreds of Thousands Woman Demichelis Kuwaitis lose march for UK incarnate saves City their passports as Scotland Bardot against battling every month4 vote nears7 hits40 80 Arsenal20 Senior Brotherhood Max 44º Min 28º figures to leave Qatar High Tide 00:28 & 12:29 Doha facing pressure from Gulf states Low Tide 06:33 & 19:08 40 PAGES NO: 16285 150 FILS CAIRO: Qatar has asked seven senior figures from Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to leave the country, the Kerry in Cairo to drum up support movement said yesterday, following months of pressure on the Gulf state from its neighbors to stop backing the CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry said yester- Islamists. Ibrahim Munir, a senior Brotherhood official day Egypt was on the frontline against “terrorism” based in London, told Reuters the departures did not after meeting its leadership to garner support to fight mean a rupture in ties between Qatar and the jihadists in Iraq and Syria. Egypt’s formidable army is Brotherhood. “The Qatari authorities told the Brotherhood they are facing pressure and circumstances would not unlikely to take part in a military coalition against the allow the presence of all these Brotherhood figures in Islamic State (IS) jihadists, but it has closely cooperat- Doha,” he said by telephone, without elaborating. Qatari ed with the United States on counter-terrorism. The officials were not immediately available for comment. Arab world’s most populous state boasts the presti- Qatar and Turkey were the only regional countries to gious Sunni Muslim authority Al-Azhar which Kerry back the Brotherhood after Egypt’s army toppled Islamist said would fight back against the Islamic State’s use of President Mohamed Morsi last year following mass the religion. protests against his rule. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Washington says it is “at war” with IS and has Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf Arab states, in contrast, have named John Allen, a hawkish former commander in showered Egypt’s new rulers with billions of dollars. They Afghanistan and Iraq, to coordinate its campaign see the Muslim Brotherhood as an existential threat to the against the movement that has seized large chunks of monarchies. Iraq and neighbouring Syria. Kerry, who flew in from Tensions over Qatar’s support for the Brotherhood led Ankara, held talks with President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE to withdraw their after meeting Arab League chief Nabil Al-Arabi. ambassadors from Doha in March. “To lift the embarrass- Cairo’s involvement in the coalition may help to ment for the state of Qatar, which we found hospitable, soothe its relations with Washington, after the United some of the symbols of the Muslim Brotherhood who have States suspended - then restored - military aid when been asked to move their residency outside the state have the army ousted elected Islamist president Mohamed agreed,” senior Brotherhood figure Amr Darrag said on his Morsi in July 2013. Morsi’s successor, the former army Facebook page. Munir said Darrag was one of the chief Sisi, is fighting Islamist militants in the restive Brotherhood members leaving Qatar, though Darrag did Sinai Peninsula who have expressed support for the not specifically say so in his message. Islamic State. “Egypt is on the frontline of the fight Ties between Qatar and Egypt were badly damaged against terrorism, particularly when it comes to fight- after Morsi’s fall. Doha has welcomed a number of senior ing extremist groups in Sinai,” Kerry told a news con- Brotherhood figures since Egyptian security forces ference with Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri. CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at the presi- launched a crackdown on the movement, killing hundreds Continued on Page 13 dential palace yesterday. — AFP in the streets and arresting thousands of others. Continued on Page 13 Uganda foils Shabab attack Americans told to stay home • France aided Godane killing KAMPALA: Ugandan security forces terday. “We remain in close contact with our specific targets, and the Ugandan authorities stopped a cell of Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Ugandan counterparts as investigations con- have increased security at key sites, includ- Shabab insurgents apparently “planning for tinue into what appears to have been plan- ing Entebbe International Airport,” the an imminent attack”, the US embassy said ning for an imminent attack,” the US added. embassy said. Last Monday the US embassy yesterday. Arrests were made, police said, in Police spokesman Fred Enanga said forces warned that Shabab insurgents may try to raids two weeks after Ugandan troops, fight- had “made arrests” but gave no details of exact revenge for a US air strike that killed ing in Somalia, reportedly provided intelli- how many people had been detained. “Joint the militant group’s commander. “Stay alert gence that helped US special forces kill the security agencies in Uganda have foiled a to the ongoing potential for terrorist attacks Shabab’s chief in a devastating air strike. terrorist attempt at one of its installations,” in Uganda,” it said. “We also caution US citi- “Ugandan authorities reported the discovery Enanga told AFP, without giving any further zens of the possibility of retaliatory attacks of an Al-Shabab terrorist cell in Kampala,” the information. in Uganda by Al-Shabab in response to the US embassy said in a statement, adding that Security forces have boosted patrols US and Ugandan military actions in Somalia forces were working to see “whether there around major sites, the US said, in a warning last week which killed Al-Shabab leader are members of the cell still at large.” statement to its citizens in the east African Ahmed Godane.” Citizens were urged to stay at home yes- nation. “At this point we are not aware of Continued on Page 13 Gazans move into mobile homes KHAN YOUNIS: Fifty Palestinian families Israeli air strike, is one of those moving SRINAGAR: An Indian air force Mi-17 flies over floodwaters during a rescue and made homeless by Israeli bombing dur- into the UAE accommodation, which he relief mission yesterday. — AFP UN criticizes ing the summer’s fierce offensive on the described as an “excellent initiative” for Gaza Strip were rehoused yesterday in the near term. “We expect to rebuild our Oman on right mobile homes in the southern town of house; we do not just want a temporary Thousands still stranded Khan Yuonis. During the 50-day conflict, solution,” he said. Haddad said each unit - 9,800 homes were totally destroyed and comprising two bedrooms, a bathroom by killer Kashmir floods to assembly another 8,000 left uninhabitable, accord- and kitchen - could accommodate six ing to data from the housing ministry in people and cost an estimated $7,000. He SRINAGAR: Rescuers struggled to reach relief camp, told AFP. MUSCAT: The right of Omanis to peaceful assembly is “virtually non-existent in practice” a United Gaza. Imad Al-Haddad, Gaza head of a said his association would donate 50 more than 200,000 people still stranded In both countries, security forces were United Arab Emirates association provid- more before the onset of winter. yesterday in Indian Kashmir as deadly using boats and helicopters to deliver Nations special rapporteur said yesterday during a visit to the Gulf monarchy, which detained hundreds ing these 50 mobile homes, told AFP that According to the UN agency for aid to floodwaters receded, revealing horrific food supplies and evacuate survivors. in the town’s Khuzaa neighbourhood Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), 65,000 devastation in the Himalayan region People waved from rooftops and upper- in 2011 after quashing pro-democracy protests. Oman, a US ally which occupies one side of the nar- alone 500 families lost the roofs over homeless Gazans are still sheltering in including neighboring Pakistan, officials storey windows to attract attention. In their heads. UN schools awaiting accommodation, said. A smell of death hung in the air as Indian Kashmir, there was anger over row Strait of Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil shipping route, has an elected parliament but ultimate power Mohamed Al-Najjar, 60, whose and thousands more have sought refuge animal carcasses lay in the roads of slow rescue efforts. Some rescuers had three-storey house was crushed by an with relatives. — AFP Indian Kashmir’s normally scenic main been attacked, although now such inci- rests in the hands of Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who city of Srinagar, a top tourist draw, that dents had diminished, Indian Kashmir has ruled since 1970. one top official said had been “drowned State disaster chief Shah said. “My men “In my meetings with the government, I observed completely” by the worst floods in over a have been beaten up, our boats have a consistent focus on maintaining peace, order and century. “This is not a flood, this is a been attacked with stones. If people are stability in Oman, often used as the rationale for lim- tsunami,” Mehraj-Ud-Din Shah, Indian depressed they can do anything. They iting assembly and association rights,” said Maina Kashmir State Disaster Response Force blame the government for not doing Kiai, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of peaceful chief, told AFP by phone from Srinagar anything,” he said. “We try to calm them assembly and association. Kiai said at a news confer- yesterday. “There’s a stench everywhere down by saying ‘We will help you, we ence in the capital Muscat that he had also met as animals have died and their bodies will help your family, come with us’,” he activists who had been detained.