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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014 SHAABAN 17, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaiti aid Obama visits Bollywood Kings reclaim helps improve ‘Indian actress files Stanley Cup life in Country’ in molestation in overtime Bethlehem2 North Dakota9 complaint39 thriller17 Kuwait scrambles to Max 43º Min 28º High Tide keep out Iraq tumult 01:55 & 12:27 Low Tide Army asked to be on ‘level 3’ alert • US sends aircraft carrier 07:10 & 18:08 40 PAGES NO: 16197 150 FILS By A Saleh and Agencies KUWAIT: The Cabinet is preparing to discuss a report from Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sheikh Khalid Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah tomorrow about national preparations amid the security developments in Iraq. The Cabinet’s weekly meeting is expected to end with instructions for the Interior Ministry to reinforce security at border checkpoints, especially the northern Abdaly checkpoint in order to prevent infiltrators asso- ciated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant from making their way in or out of Kuwait, said informed sources. The Cabinet is also expected to make a decision to send humanitarian aid to Iraqi refugees from cities con- trolled by ISIL troops, and coordinate with the Iraqi gov- ernment and the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council states in this regard, said the sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not author- ized to speak publicly about the matter. This comes amid reports indicating that army intelli- gence sent a recommendation to the Kuwait Army General Staff Headquarters to raise the armed forces’ level of alert to level 3, which requires that one third of forces from all sectors of the army must remain in their camps. The army has meanwhile taken measures to maintain constant communication with the Directorate General for Border Security and the State Security Department in the Interior Ministry in order to stay updated about possible security breaches at the borders, according to sources quoted by Al-Anbaa daily yesterday. Army offi- cials have already received updates regarding the latest developments following blasts on Friday in Safwan near the border with Kuwait, said the sources who were unnamed in the report. The daily also reported that officials at the Safwan border checkpoint informed their Kuwaiti counterparts that they have stopped receiving passengers from all nationalities into Iraq starting from Friday until further BAGHDAD: Iraqi Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Sadr City yesterday after notice. authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. — AP Continued on Page 15 Turmoil blurring borders CAIRO: Working in secret, European State of Iraq and the Levant, wants to diplomats drew up the borders that have establish a shariah-ruled mini-state Iran offers defined the Middle East’s nations for near- bridging both countries, in effect uniting ly a century - but now civil war, sectarian a Sunni heartland across the center of help in Iraq bloodshed and leadership failures threat- the Mideast. en to rip that map apart. In the decades Other potential de facto states are since independence, Arab governments easy to see on the horizon. A Kurdish one if US acts have held these constructs together, in in northern Iraq - and perhaps another in part by imposing an autocratic hand, northeast Syria. A rump Syrian state BAGHDAD: Shiite Iran offered yesterday to consider despite the sometimes combustible mix based around Damascus, neighboring working with long-time foe Washington if it takes of peoples within their borders. But recent cities and the Mediterranean coast, the the lead in helping repel Sunni Arab militants who history - particularly the three years of heartland of President Bashar Assad’s have seized a swathe of northern Iraq. The offer Arab Spring turmoil, has unleashed old minority Alawite sect. A Shiite-dominat- came as Iraqi commanders said soldiers had recap- allegiances and hatreds that run deep and ed Iraq truncated to Baghdad and points tured two towns north of Baghdad as they pre- cross borders. The animosity between south. pared a fightback, bolstered by thousands of Shiite Shiites and Sunnis, the rival branches of Fawaz Gerges, a professor at the volunteers who answered a call to arms by top cler- Islam, may be deepest of all. London School of Economics, sees an ic Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani. Prime Minister The unrest is redefining Syria, Iraq, ongoing, violent process to reshape gov- Lebanon and Libya - nations born after ernment systems that have been unable LUGANSK, Ukraine: Pro-Russian fighters walk past the remnants of a downed Nouri Al-Maliki visited the besieged shrine city of the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Already to address sectarian and ethnic differ- Ukrainian army aircraft Il-76 at the airport yesterday. — AP Samarra north of the capital Friday to rally troops quasi-states are forming. For the Al- ences and provide for their publics. “The and pray at the Al-Askari mausoleum, a revered Qaeda breakaway group that overran current order is in tatters,” he said. “More 49 killed as militants Shiite shrine whose 2006 bombing by Al-Qaeda parts of Iraq this week, the border and more and more people are coming sparked sectarian conflict that killed tens of thou- between that country and Syria, where it to realize that the system as it is organ- sands. is also fighting, may as well not even be ized, as it is structured, is imploding.” down Ukraine plane Continued on Page 15 there. The group, known as the Islamic Continued on Page 15 LUGANSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s new telling us what to do.” Mudzhakhed said Western-backed leader vowed yesterday to that the plane tried to dump fuel after the strike back at pro-Russian rebels who killed rebels hit its engines. The heavy transporter 49 troops by downing a military plane in crashed on its second landing approach. the deadliest attack against federal forces Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in the two-month insurgency. The attack signalled an imminent intensification of the came hours before top Moscow and Kiev offensive he had pledged to end just days officials were to meet in the Ukrainian capi- after his May 25 election. He vowed to deal tal for 11th-hour gas negotiations aimed at the rebels “an adequate response”. And an averting an imminent cut in Russian sup- irate mob of about 300 in Kiev overturned plies that would also affect large swathes several cars before tearing down the of Europe. The United States accused Russian embassy flag while a dozen city Russia of helping the insurgency by send- police officers looked on without interfer- ing tanks and rocket launchers to the pro- ing. Federal forces suffered still more casu- Moscow rebels - a charge the Kremlin alties on Saturday when three border denied. guards were killed and four wounded after A Lugansk rebel commander who being ambushed in the eastern port of showed pieces of the Il-76 transporter’s Mariupol - captured with great fanfare by charred debris in a wheat field a dozen kilo- federal forces the day before. metres outside the airport said five mili- German Chancellor Angel Merkel and tants shot down the plane using machine French President Francois Hollande guns. The tall and bulky commander, expressed “extreme concern” over Ukraine’s referred to by his unit as Mudzhakhed spiralling violence in a joint phone conver- (Sacred Fighter), brandished a Kalashnikov sation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in which rifle while listing the mostly Russian-speak- they said it was important to rapidly reach a ing region’s grievances against the new ceasefire. Just before the transport plane more nationalist leaders in Kiev. “They was shot down, an AFP correspondent in brought machine guns and ammunition,” Lugansk heard heavy fighting and a series BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: Colombia’s midfielder Abel Aguilar (second left) breaks through the Greece defense during a group C football match Mudzhakhed said. “We do not like people of loud explosions. “ — AFP between Colombia and Greece at the Mineirao Arena during the 2014 FIFA World Cup yesterday. Colombia won 3-0. - AFP (See Page 20) p2 COPY_Layout 1 6/14/14 9:58 PM Page 1 LOCAL SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 2014 Photo of the day KUWAIT: A child plays with a ball during a friendly tournament in Yarmouk. Kuwait is gripped by football fever as the World Cup got underway in faraway Brazil. — Photo by Joseph Shagra Kuwaiti aid helps boost lives in Bethlehem Mayor thankful for support By Ben Garcia The Red Crescent Society’s and Kuwaitis for Jerusalem’s has about 50 beds will help cardiac patients and our city pledges in the form of medicine supplies and financial and municipality greatly. For cardiac surgery, patients now KUWAIT: The mayor of Bethlehem is in Kuwait to attend assistance are also underway. “I am here to sign some doc- have to go to Jerusalem. Then from Jerusalem, we transfer meetings and sign various documents of grants and uments regarding the grants, and we have scheduled our patients to Jordan. The hospital we are currently build- pledges made earlier by Kuwait-based non-governmental meetings regarding the funding. The hospital is almost ing will be a great help when completed and ready,” she agencies. Speaking with Kuwait Times at the Sheraton done, and will be ready soon if the equipment and furni- added. She lamented that Bethlehem is wholly controlled Hotel on Thursday, Vera Babuon noted two hospitals in ture that we need are installed in a few days,” Baboun said. by Israelis, and if you want to move out for emergency pro- Bethlehem and some roads and bridges are currently fund- According to Babuon, the hospital is an important health cedures, the task is not easy for Palestinians.

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