ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER New Port to Raina ton sets be operational up India win by 2016-end over England Business | 17 Sport | 26 Thursday 28 August 2014 • 2 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6171 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives Saudi officials Emir leaves for Qatar ready to Turkey today DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will leave for Turkey help rebuild today to attend the inaugu- ration ceremony of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, at his ravaged Gaza invitation. QNA Rebels seize Sheikh Eid charity to raise QR100m Syria crossing DOHA: Qatar has voiced its latest Israeli aggression, Aljazeera near Israel full readiness to contribute to reported. reconstruction of the war-rav- Last July, Qatar called for BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria aged Gaza Strip following the establishment of a commercial The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday received Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, wing Nusra Front and other ceasefire agreement reached port in Gaza as a temporary solu- Chief of General Intelligence Prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz and Interior Minister Prince Mohammed Islamist fighters have taken in Cairo between Israel and tion and demanded lifting of the bin Naif bin Abdulaziz and discussed ties, joint GCC work and regional and international developments. Emiri control of a border crossing on Palestinians on Wednesday. siege imposed on the city since Diwan Chief H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh the line dividing Syria from the In a statement issued early 2006. Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani were present. The Emir also hosted a luncheon banquet in honour Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, yesterday, Qatar hoped that The ceasefire agreement men- a group monitoring the Syrian of the Saudi officials. the agreement would be a step tioned that the reconstruction of conflict said yesterday. towards alleviating the suffering Gaza will be carried out under The fighters, who have vowed of the people in Gaza and achiev- the supervision of the Palestinian to “liberate” the area, captured ing the legitimate demands of the unity government. the Quneitra post on the Syrian Palestinians. In a statement issued by Maan, side from forces loyal to President The statement added that the a Palestinian news agency, Moosa Survey urges no-smoking QF Bashar Al Assad after fierce credit for achieving this agree- Abu Marzouq, Vice-Chairman clashes, the Syrian Observatory ment is primarily due to the of the political office of Hamas, DOHA: Majority of students in The Health Safety, Security and and many private clinics have col- for Human Rights said. steadfastness of the Palestinian said the reconstruction of Gaza the Education City have sug- Environment Directorate (HSSE) laborated with Vodafone Qatar in The crossing is monitored by people and their sacrifices. is going to be discussed in a gested that Qatar Foundation of QF, Weill Cornell Medical an awareness workshop. the United Nations, which over- Qatar also expressed its appre- donors’ conference in Cairo next (QF) should be made a no- College-Qatar (WCMC-Q) Dr Javid Sheikh, Dean, sees traffic between the two ciation to all those who contrib- month. Norway has called for this smoking zone. and Vodafone Qatar have been WCMC-Q, said the campus has enemy countries but the distance uted to reaching the agreement conference. Responding to a survey by involved in campaigns, Qatar a strong anti-smoking campaign. between the two warring adver- and said it is ready to contribute Leading Qatari charitable Qatar Foundation Telegraph, 87 Foundation Telegraph said. He said there is also the danger saries’ posts is some 200 metres. to the reconstruction of the Gaza organisations have launched fund- percent of students asked QF to “As part of our activities, of improperly discarded cigarette Israel closed off the area Strip as early as possible. raisers to support the people of be made a no-smoking zone, espe- health education and awareness butts which could cause fire. “We around Quneitra after an officer Qatar has been the major con- Gaza since the beginning of the cially to combat health problems are important to ensure health believe that public health would be was wounded by stray fire. tributor to reconstruction of Gaza Israeli aggression. caused by passive smoking. and safety in Education City,” the best served by making a smoke- “From what we know, opposi- after the wars launched by Israel Sheikh Eid bin Mohammad However, 13 percent of the report quoted Dr Yousuf Noman free zone and we will support any tion forces overran the Syrian over the past few years. Al Thani Charitable Association respondents said smoking is a Al Shammari, Health Manager, such initiative. WCMC-Q’s ‘Your regime forces on the Syrian side Lately, the Qatari commit- will today launch an urgent relief personal choice and should be HSSE, as saying. He said around health first’ is working to discour- of the Quneitra crossing, some of tee for rebuilding Gaza allocated campaign, ‘We are All Gaza’, to allowed in designated places. one in 100 deaths in the world is age smoking among Qataris and those including Al Nusra Front, $10m in the first phase and began raise QR100m to support the peo- QF has taken steps to combat due to passive smoking. expatriates, particularly young which leaves the crossing in the to pay amounts to owners of resi- ple of Gaza. THE PENINSULA effects of passive smoking through HSSE, QF’s Health people.” THE PENINSULA opposition forces’ hands,” the dential units damaged during the See also page 5 awareness campaigns. Department, Recreation Services Continued on page 3 Israeli army said. AGENCIES Freed US scribe thanks Qatar CAMBRIDGE: US writer Peter Theo Curtis the backdrop of efforts to free other US hostages in freed this week after being held captive for two Syria as the US considers possible options, including years by Syrian insurgents yesterday thanked air strikes, to target the Islamic State. Qatar and all those who had worked for his His parents said in television interviews that they release. were relieved. Their son’s return came just days after Curtis, who was held by Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s rivals of Nusra Front, the militant group Islamic official wing in Syria, said he had no idea while he State, last week said it killed journalist James Foley was imprisoned that there had been hundreds of and threatened to kill Steven Sotloff, another jour- people around the world pushing for his release. nalist being held hostage. Matt Schrier, an American In a written statement, he thanked the govern- photojournalist held captive with Curtis, told CBS’ 60 ment of Qatar and US officials for working to free Minutes programme in 2013 that their captors sus- him. “I am just overwhelmed with emotion,” the pected Curtis was an agent for Central Intelligence 45-year-old told reporters outside his mother’s home. Agency, possibly because he spoke Arabic well. Curtis arrived in the US late on Tuesday after Schrier escaped after more than six months in a flight from Tel Aviv, meeting his mother at captivity. REUTERS Boston’s Logan Airport. His release comes against See also page 7 FINA winner on day one Saudi court jails 23 more for militant attacks RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian court sentenced 23 men to jail terms of up to 22 years for their role in militant attacks, state media said yesterday, part of a security crackdown in which scores of peo- ple have been imprisoned over the past week. On Tuesday, state media said 17 men had been jailed for terms of up to 33 years. Those jailed have been convicted of espousing a militant ideology, travel- ling to fight in foreign conflicts, setting up cells to attack foreigners and manufacturing explosives. Iraq forces gear up to break jihadist siege of Shia town KIRKUK: Iraq was massing forces yesterday to break a two-month jihadist siege of a Shia Turkmen town north of Baghdad. The counter- offensive around the Salaheddin province town of Amerli comes amid reports that US President Barack Obama is weighing a decision to author- Swimmer Chad le Clos of South Africa shows one of ise air strikes and aid drops to help of trapped his two gold medals he won on day one of the 2014 civilians. Thousands of Shia militiamen from FINA World Cup series opener at Hamad Aquatic groups, including Asaib Ahl Al Haq and Badr Centre in Doha yesterday. The event ends today with Organisation, were gathering in Tuz Khurmatu, finals starting at 6pm. See also page 28 north of Amerli for the operation. AGENCIES THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QTA names Graffiti throws winners of light on Qatar’s raffle draw DOHA: Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) has announced more than 30 win- trading past ners of the first raffle draw of the Shopping Fun activ- ity, which is a part of Qatar Summer Festival 2014. European, Indian boats in etchings The weekly draws run until September 13 and will give away DOHA: Qatar was a centre for Professor Dionisius Agius spent prizes worth QR2.5m. international trade in the 18th a year studying the enigmatic The first raffle draw was century, recent analysis of graf- depictions of boats etched on the held at Hyatt Plaza Mall on fiti found by archaeologists on wall plaster of buildings at the One of the etchings found on 250-year-old buildings at the Al Zubarah archaeological site.