ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER QE index up 1.02pc in past week Business | 13 Friday 14 November 2014 • 21 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6249 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 FIFA clears Qatar, no 2022 re-vote • 2018 tournament to stay with Russia • UK football association slams criticism in report Al Thawadi: Qatar PARIS: Football’s world gov- Netherlands and Portugal/Spain. never doubted erning body FIFA has cleared The report says that in an Qatar and Russia of any mis- A clean chit for attempt to “curry favour” with its clean record conduct and ruled out a re-vote Trinidad and Tobago official Jack for 2018 and 2022 World Cup Bin Hammam Warner, believed to control a RIYADH: Qatar has never tournaments. PARIS: The FIFA eth- block of FIFA executive votes, the doubted the “clean” record by An exhaustive report by the ics committee report again England bid team contravened which it won the bid to host FIFA ethics committee said there probed the role of Qatari bidding rules. The FA rejected the 2022 World Cup, Hassan was not enough evidence to justify Mohammed bin Hammam, a the criticisms. Al Thawadi, Secretary- reopening the process. former member of the FIFA The report also said that in General, Qatar 2022 Organising “The report identified certain executive committee banned Australia’s bid for 2022 “there are Committee, said yesterday. occurrences that were suited from football activity in 2012. certain indications of potentially “We were confident that any to impair the integrity of the In June, Britain’s Sunday problematic conduct of specific impartial investigation was to 2018/2022 bidding process,” said Times had alleged that he individuals in the light of relevant show that our record was clean the 42-page report released by had paid over $5m to officials FIFA Ethics rules.” and contains no irregularities,” Hans Joachim Eckert, Chairman around the world before the In a break with FIFA tradition, he said. of the committee’s adjudicatory vote to drum up support for both tournaments were awarded “We were confident of ourselves chamber. Qatar. at the same time, in 2010, leading and of the work we had done,” Al “... the occurrences at issue But the report says pay- to claims of horse-trading in the Thawadi said in Riyadh where were, in the chairman’s assess- ments were designed to bolster bidding process. world football leaders, including ment, only of very limited scope. his bid for the FIFA presidency As concerns grew, FIFA FIFA President Sepp Blatter, “The assessment of the in 2011 rather than to manipu- appointed Michael Garcia, a were gathered for the open- 2018/2022 bidding process, there- late Qatar’s 2022 World Cup former US federal prosecutor, ing evening of the Gulf Cup of fore, is closed for the ethics com- hopes. Qatar has always main- to head up the inquiry into the Nations. mittee,” he added. tained that he played no part tournaments. Meanwhile, Shaikh Salman Russian Sports Minister in its bid. AGENCIES His 350-page report was bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Head, Vitaly Mutko, member of FIFA’s handed to FIFA on September 5, Asian Football Confederation Executive Committee, told TASS Association (FA) was accused based on interviews with over 75 (AFC), said: “I am satisfied that news agency: “I was sure that this of “violating bidding rules” in its witnesses and a dossier of more Qatar has been absolved of any is what would happen — our bid- attempt to win the right to host than 200,000 pages and audio misconduct.” ding campaign was honest.” the 2018 event which included interviews. AGENCIES THE PENINSULA The English Football joint bids from Belgium/the Edit on page 6 Continued on page 8 GCC-wide entry ban on deported expats IS ‘expanding in DOHA: Expatriates deported and Foreign Affairs in the emir- the names of smugglers, their expert told Gulf News. from a member country of ate. A report in the September modus operandi and other data. Citing cases, she said a man the Gulf Cooperation Council issue of Manafez Dubai said, the Gulf News, however, quoted an implicated in a drug case in Saudi 5 Arab countries’ (GCC) cannot enter any other new law is based on the GCC official from a legal consultancy Arabia was deported from the member states. security pact. firm as saying that the GCC-wide UAE without a trial, based on the BEIRUT: Islamic State (IS) leaders of ISIL” is not a new The GCC countries have begun “Moreover, the country which entry ban on deported expatri- judgment issued by a Saudi court. leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi phenomenon. It is a reminder to applying a law that bans foreign deports an expatriate will be ates is not automatic, except in Another man in South Africa, yesterday called for attacks in everyone in the region and the workers deported from any of the allowed to take the deportee’s fin- drug-related cases. “Otherwise, it who defaulted on alimony in Saudi Arabia in a speech pur- world of what their intentions six member states from entering ger prints and share information is applied on a case-to-case basis,” the UAE, wanted to relocate to ported to be in his name, saying are,” Psaki told reporters. the other member countries. with the other GCC countries,” the official said. Bahrain. his self-declared caliphate was Al Baghdadi urged supporters The Dubai-based English- said the newsletter. The security pact of 1994 of He had read about the law, expanding there and in four in Saudi Arabia to join the fight language daily, Gulf News, has It added that the GCC coun- the GCC was amended in 2012 so he found out if there was an other Arab countries. as the kingdom has joined the reported the above, citing a report tries are coordinating efforts and implemented to tackle major arrest warrant against him in the He said the US-led military US-led coalition in mounting air in an official newsletter of the to control drug trafficking by crimes such as drugs, money UAE and got his name cleared, campaign against his group in strikes against the IS group in General Directorate of Residency exchanging information, including laundering, murder, etc., another she added. THE PENINSULA Syria and Iraq was failing and Syria. Since IS began an offensive called for “volcanoes of jihad” in Iraq in June, Saudi Arabia has the world over. The authenticity sent thousands of troops to the Qatar, Saudi draw 1-1 in Gulf Cup of the speech, an audio recording border area. carried on IS-run social media The speech was not dated Libya: Blasts near could not independently con- but carried a reference to a firmed. The voice sounded simi- November 7 US announcement Egypt, UAE missions lar to a speech delivered by Al that President Barack Obama Baghdadi in July in a mosque in had approved sending up to 1,500 TRIPOLI: Bombs exploded the Iraqi city of Mosul, the last more troops to Iraq. Obama has near the Egyptian and the UAE time he spoke in public. said the US aims to degrade and embassies in the Libyan capi- The speech follows contradic- destroy IS. tal, Tripoli, yesterday but there Action from Qatar’s tory accounts out of Iraq after The jihadists have seized were no reports of casualties. match against hosts US air strikes last Friday about swathes of Syria and Iraq and in The UAE embassy was par- Saudi Arabia in their whether he was wounded. US offi- June declared a caliphate over tially damaged. The blasts fol- opening game of 2014 cials said on Tuesday they could territory it controls. Al Baghdadi low car bombs on Wednesday in Gulf Cup at King Fahd not confirm whether Baghdadi said he had accepted oaths of alle- towns under the control of the International Stadium in was hit in a strike near Falluja giance from supporters in Libya, internationally-recognised gov- Riyadh yesterday. The in Iraq. Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and ernment and elected House of match ended in a 1-1 In Washington, State Algeria. Representatives, based in the draw. Qatar play Yemen Department spokeswoman Jen “We announce to you the eastern city of Tobruk, which is Psaki said she could not confirm expansion of the IS to new coun- on November 16 and facing a challenge from a rival the video’s authenticity and said tries, to the countries of the Bahrain on November 19. government set up in Tripoli. the US and others were likely Haramayn, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, See also page 8 Story, more pictures to increase efforts to counter IS Algeria,” Al Baghdadi said. The on page 21 claims to represent Islam. speech was transcribed in Arabic Oil hits four-year “Clearly, the brutality, the and translated into English. low, at $78 rhetoric, efforts to incite, by any REUTERS NEW YORK: Oil prices fell about 3 percent yesterday to four-year lows after govern- ment data showed US crude stockpiles surged at the delivery 17,819 court cases involved dud cheques in 2013-14 point for crude futures. The declines compounded losses DOHA: A fifth of the cases Qatari courts It cited yesterday the Annual heard and settled 7,846 cases. percent, of them. The misdemeanour court from Wednesday after comments heard in 2013-14 involved cheques issued Achievement Book released by the The traffic court heard 3,037 cases and of appeals heard 6,286 cases and settled 86 by the Saudi oil minister raised by people and entities without sufficient Secretariat-General of the Cabinet for settled 2,817 or 93 percent.