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DOHA: Chaotic scenes were wit- rates at will. The demand for nessed at the Central Livestock the porters was so much that Market abattoirs on the first day the going rate at one time of Eid Al Adha here yesterday reached even QR200 per sheep as people at times jostled with as against the municipality- one another to get their sheep approved carriage rate of QR15. slaughtered for sacrifice. The Public representative body, More than 5,000 sheep — mostly the Central Municipal Council Australian — were slaughtered (CMC), cried foul, claiming that during the day at the automatic many of the illegal porters were as well as manual abattoirs of the runaway workers and needed to central market as people began be nabbed. crowding the place right after Eid “Many of these illegal workers prayers. were actually runaway workers. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani performing Eid Al Adha prayers at the Al Wajbah prayer ground yesterday. The abattoirs are managed There was no official monitor- and operated by Qatar Meat and ing so they had a field day,” CMC Livestock Company (Mawashi), chief Saud Al Hanzab said. which was accused by people for Meanwhile, Mawashi refused Emir receives sheikhs, well-wishers not making shaded enclosures as to allow customers to take waiting areas. live Australian sheep to other DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin relatives, strictly adhere to the rulings of People, including women and slaughter houses and made it Khalifa Al Thani performed Eid Al Adha Islamic religion and follow the Sunnah of children, could be seen standing for mandatory for any such sheep prayers in the morning at Al Wajbah prayer Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and called for long hours waiting for their sheep sold by it to be slaughtered at ground. love for the homeland represented by hard to be slaughtered for sacrifice so one of its central market-based The Emir was joined by the Heir Apparent work and love for citizens. they could carry the meat home. abattoirs. H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, H After the prayers, the Emir received at Al Many people complained of nausea This is because, the company H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Wajbah Palace well-wishers including their as a strong stench of sheep hung in said, it had signed an agreement Personal Representative of the Emir, and H Excellencies the Sheikhs, the Ministers, the the air around. with the Australian government H Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Advisory Council Speaker and his deputy, The chaos was made worse not to permit a buyer to carry Private Adviser of the Emir, and a number the undersecretaries, the Advisory Council with a number of illegal porters Australian sheep out of their of their excellencies the Sheikhs, Ministers members and the citizens. The Emir also having descended on the market premises as a respect for animal and citizens. received their Excellencies the heads of the to take advantage of the situation rights. In his Eid Al Adha sermon, Sheikh Dr diplomatic corps accredited to Qatar fol- as people needed their services The demand for Australian Thaqil Sayer Ash-Shammari, a judge at lowed by Army and police officers and the to carry the sheep for slaughter sheep was high this year, par- the Court of Cassation and member of the directors of state departments and national from the point of purchase and ticularly because the prices of Supreme Judiciary Council, called on the institutions. later transfer the meat to their other sheep have been soaring worshippers to be pious, righteous and con- All the well-wishers expressed their heart- waiting vehicles. beyond QR1,400 and QR1,500. template the sublime meanings of the holy felt greetings and felicitations to the Emir on Few licenced porters and An Australian sheep was, on occasion which involves adherence to Sunnah, the happy occasion, asking the Almighty for The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad huge crowds of people wait- the other hand, sold by Mawashi sacrifice and its advantages. the happy recurrence of such a blessed occa- Al Thani with a child from the Qatar Foundation ing to get sheep slaughtered for between QR300 and QR350 Sheikh Shammari also urged the worship- sion to the entire nation. for the Care of Orphans (Dhreima) at Al Wajbah encouraged the unlicenced, depending on its weight. pers to take advantage of the blessed days THE PENINSULA Palace yesterday. not-uniformed porters to quote THE PENINSULA and do acts of righteousness, connect with See also page 3 Only 500 emergency cases on Eid day Car bomb shatters Syria truce DOHA: Some 500 cases were intake of sheep’s meat which to tackle medical emergencies. reported to the emergency unit is quite fatty. The Al Sadd emergency centre BEIRUT: A powerful car by international peace envoy hopes of celebrating Eid. “We are of Hamad Medical Corporation The HMC emergency unit handled some 400 cases yester- bomb exploded in Damascus Lakhdar Brahimi. Violence not celebrating Eid here,” said a (HMC) on the first day of Eid received 127 calls during the day day, many of them being flu, res- yesterday and forces loyal to was less intense than usual and woman in a besieged Syrian town Al Adha yesterday with doctors with 45 of these cases request- piratory infections and asthma Bashar Al Assad clashed with activists reported no air strikes, near the Turkish border, speak- saying this was a low patient ing immediate attention. These attacks. rebels across Syria as a truce but dozens of people were killed ing above the noise of incessant turnout on an Eid day. cases included at least seven Some 25 cases were trans- intended to mark Eid Al Adha including 26 troops, according gunfire and shelling. “No one is in Children’s emergency cen- road accidents. ferred to the intensive care unit holiday unravelled and activists to the Syrian Observatory for the mood to celebrate. Everyone tres in Al Saad and Al Rayan No deaths or serious injuries of HMC for treatment. reported at least 70 deaths. Human Rights, which monitors is just glad they are alive.” The and the section at HMC, on the were reported in these acci- The turnout at Al Rayan chil- State television said the “ter- the bloodshed in the country. Imam of Makkah’s Grand Mosque other hand, had a relatively dents. The helicopter ambu- dren’s emergency centre was rorist car bomb” had killed five The Syrian military said it called on Arabs and Muslims to high turnout, but thankfully, lance section of the emergency roughly 200 yesterday and none people and wounded 32, accord- had responded to attacks by take “practical and urgent” steps most cases related to seasonal unit received three calls during of them was a serious case. ing to “preliminary figures”. insurgents on army positions, in to stop bloodshed in Syria. ailments like flu and respira- the day. Doctors have advised peo- Opposition activists said the bomb line with its announcement on The heaviest fighting took place tory complaints. The emergency section has, ple to restrict their red meat had gone off near a makeshift Thursday that it would cease mili- around an army base at Wadi Al As is always the case dur- meanwhile, has set up a helipad intake during the Eid holidays children’s playground built for the tary activity during the four-day Daif, near the Damascus-Aleppo ing Eid Al Adha when sheep in the Sealine area where the and instead opt for fish and Eid holiday in the southern Daf Al holiday but reserved the right to highway, which rebels have been are sacrificed as a religious camping season is on so that white meat as eating red meat Shok district of the capital. react to rebel actions. trying to seize from the army for ritual in large numbers, most helicopter ambulance can land in large quantities and regularly Fighting erupted around Violence appeared to wane in two weeks. Nine soldiers were of the people who came over there in the event of emergency. can cause serious problems like Syria earlier as both sides vio- some areas, but truce breaches by killed by rebel bombardment of to HMC’s emergency com- Besides, four-wheel ambu- high blood pressure, high cho- lated the ceasefire arranged both sides swiftly marred Syrians’ the base and four rebel fighters plained of stomach upsets due lances have also been pressed lesterol and serious digestive were killed in clashes around to overeating caused by large into service at the Sealine area disorders. THE PENINSULA Wadi Al Daif. Four people were killed by tank fire and snipers in Harasta, a town near Damascus. Rebels in the northern town Obama votes early Iran’s Panahi, Sotoudeh 64 dead as unrest near the Turkish border said a sniper had killed one of their in presidential poll bag Sakharov prize rocks Myanmar fighters. “We don’t believe the ceasefire will work,” rebel com- CHICAGO: US President STRASBOURG: Iranian rights SITTWE: Surging sectarian mander Basel Eissa told Reuters. Barack Obama joined thousands activists, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh violence in western Myanmar “There’s no Eid for us rebels on of fellow American voters in and film-maker Jafar Panahi, has left at least 64 people dead the front line. The only Eid we casting an early ballot yesterday, yesterday won the European and scores more wounded, cast- can celebrate will be liberation.” stopping in at a polling center in Parliament’s Sakharov prize. The ing a shadow over the govern- Assad was shown on state tel- his hometown of Chicago. Several prize “is a message of solidar- ment’s reform drive. People have evision attending Eid prayers American states allow voting ity and recognition to a woman fled their homes in droves follow- at a Damascus mosque. Assad, before election day and polling and a man who have not been ing the latest clashes in Rakhine smiling and apparently relaxed, data suggests the Democratic bowed by fear and intimidation state, where months of communal shook hands and exchanging Eid incumbent has built a lead over and who have decided to put the tensions have torn apart commu- greetings with other worship- Republican challenger Mitt fate of their country before their nities and left tens of thousands Syrians inspecting the site of a car bomb attack in the Daf Shawk district pers afterwards. Romney among early voters in own,” said parliament president of mainly Muslim Rohingya liv- of Damascus yesterday. REUTERS the run-up to November 6. Martin Schulz. ing in squalid camps. See also page 5 See also page 8 See also page 5 See also page 10 SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Katara celebrates Eid with a bang!

In celebration of Eid Al Adha, Katara Cultural Village lit up the sky with a spectacular fireworks display yesterday. The celebrations will continue tonight and tomorrow night at 8:30pm. Dr Emad Sultan, Cultural Affairs Deputy Director commenting on the occasion, said: “In celebration of Eid Al-Adha, we welcome people to come and experience the exciting festivities at Katara. Last night saw hundreds of people join us at the Cultural Village to enjoy the outstanding firework display on the beach front. We look forward to welcoming more visitors tonight and tomorrow.”

Al Jazeera signs up Redi BRIEFLY Tlhabi for new talk show Qatar plays major role in

DOHA: Al Jazeera English has announced that they world economy: Envoy have snapped up one of South Africa’s hottest talents to front a new weekly talk show on the channel. ‘A balanced oil price will improve the lives of people’ Redi Tlhabi (pictured) is already well-known for her tel- DOHA: Qatari Ambassador Thursday in Washington. them their energy needs. The evision and radio conversations to the US Mohammad bin Ambassador Al Rumaihi said Ambassador said keeping the RAF istributes in her native country, where her Abdullah Al Rumaihi stressed Qatar in collaboration with prices of oil balanced needs coop- charm and character have won the important role of Qatar in different countries is making eration of both producers and her legions of fans. supporting other economies huge efforts to develop produc- consumers as balanced prices is meat to needy Her Al Jazeera programme especially countries with lim- tion capacity in energy sector for the interest of both parties will be a mix of politics, culture, ited energy resources as he using latest technology, one of to improve the life of the peo- families in 61 music, health and science. spoke at the National Council the important ways to keep the ple and the future of the coming A studio is being specially on US-Arab Relations on economies developing providing generation. countries constructed for the show in “Producers and consumers Johannesburg. Guests will appear have common interest that’s why DOHA: The Sheikh Thani there, while Redi will also travel we need to work together and Bin Abdullah Al Thani worldwide for interviews. Al invest to face the future chal- Foundation for Humanitarian Jazeera said that the show being but those who live their lives out lenge,” he said. Services (RAF), a social serv- anchored in South Africa further of the spotlight and have still He said economy of importing ice organisation in Qatar, has demonstrated their commitment achieved the impossible and have countries will be affected in case distributed Qurbani meat to truly global programming. done the admirable. oil producers halt the produc- (sacrificial meat) to needy Paul Eedle, Al Jazeera English’s “I’m on the record in the past tion and that oil prices will never families in 61 countries for director of programmes said: “The as having said that if I went back come down again to $15 or $17 Eid Al Adha. show is based in South Africa, to television that I’d want to do per barrel because this will pave The countries from four con- but is global in reach. Redi and something trusted, and give a way to oil shock. tinents (Africa, Asia, Europe the entire production team are voice to the voiceless. I want The ambassador expressed and South America) which from the region. We’re deliber- this show to build understanding his displeasure of sensitivities have been facing starvation, ately hosting the show outside of between people across the world, against Arab investment in national disasters and civil the ‘traditional centres’, further and there’s no better platform for Washington. wars such as Palestine, Yemen, strengthening our global offering. this than Al Jazeera.” He said: “Instead we should Syria, and Myanmar were cho- Forty percent of Al Jazeera’s out- Redi already has a strong talk- work together to ensure the sen for the distribution of sac- put is programming, and with our show pedigree, having interviewed future of international market rificial meat by the Foundation. dedication to exposing viewers figures like Nelson Mandela, Colin by developing resources in dif- The countries which are to cultures worldwide, this is an Powell and Bono. ferent parts of the world such as hosting Syrian refugees such as important addition to our lineup. She is already well known in East Africa, South China and the Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon “Viewers will love Redi’s South Africa for her morning Philippines.” were also on the list. approach and style. It’s always show on Radio 702, and to tel- Speaking about alternative The Foundation said that it great to attract talent and to put evision viewers from having been energy, he said this is not the had launched a campaign titled them on the global stage.” a regular on SABC3, then on the right time to talk about it and ‘They are waiting for your sac- Redi Thlabi said: “I’m passion- eNews Channel where she was that it is still early and imprac- rificial meat’ to raise funds for ate about conversation and hear- the co-anchor of the news chan- tical. “We have heard people this purpose. It is part of the ing peoples’ stories. The show will nel's flagship weekday news show talking about alternative energy RAF’s yearly social service be about people and for people all News Night with Jeremy Maggs. since the 80s saying it would activities. around the world. It is there to The show will commence before replace oil and gas but until now The Foundation also received highlight extraordinary people, the end of this year. Qatari Ambassador to the US Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi. it has not happened.” funds from donors through its not only those who are famous, THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA official website.

Charity distributes Dhreima kids take meat among 1,200 part in media training needy families DOHA: A group of 19 children DOHA: Sheikh Eid Bin from Dhreima (Qatar Orphan Mohammad Charitable Foundation) have participated Establishment in asso- in a Media Literacy programme ciation with the Mawashi, launched by the Doha Centre for Qatar’s Meat and Livestock Media Freedom. Company, has distributed The aim of the course was for the Qurbani meat (sacrificial children to develop analytical skills meat) to 1,200 needy families and critical thinking, and under- in Qatar for Eid Al Adha. stand the role of media in their Abdullah Bin Nasser Al lives. Nasser Alali, from the Doha Kaabi, Director of the estab- Center for Media Freedom, said lishment, said that all those that this course lasted two days 1200 families including in the headquarters of Dhreima orphans, widows, unemployed and focused on media techniques, and limited income have teaching the participants to make already registered with their interviews and report news. organisation. A total of 42 schools are par- The families consisting of ticipating in this media education three to seven members were program. On November 20 there given away the Qurbani meat will be another training workshop An illustration showing the closed roundabouts and lanes at Industrial Area. of half sheep, while the families which will include a larger number having more than eight mem- of participants. bers received full sheep meat. According to the statistics pub- The cost of each slaughtered lished by Doha Centre for Media sheep is QR400. Freedom, 80 percent of Qatari Ashghal announces partial road closures at Industrial Area The Director added that schools don’t give any type of media the Charity will distribute the education, although 90 percent of DOHA: The Public Works row. The closure will be tempo- roundabout on Street number 15 The temporary closure comes Qurbani meat to 1,500 needy the students use media in their Authority (Ashghal) yesterday rary, Ashghal said. and the Agencies road. as part of completion of the families in the country next daily life, and they spend more announced a partial closure The traffic on this road will be Ashghal also announced the Eastern Road in the Industrial year. time with electronic media than of the roundabout on Street allowed to take north and south closure of Street number 17 in the Area which is part of a highway THE PENINSULA they spend in school. number 10 in the Industrial directions only. Users of the north Industrial Area from tomorrow project. THE PENINSULA Area with effect from tomor- direction will have to take the until November 6. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving heads of the diplomatic corps during a reception to celebrate Eid Al Adha at Al Wajbah Palace yesterday.

The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with children from the Qatar Foundation for the Care of Orphans (Dhreima), who called on the Heir Apparent to greet him on Eid Al Adha, at Al Wajbah Palace yesterday. Festive mood as people celebrate Eid Al Adha Haniyah calls on Arab DOHA: Qatar was in a festive mood yesterday as people cel- ebrated Eid Al Adha with rela- leaders tives and friends and shared the spirit of the joyous occasion. to follow Eid prayers were held at vari- ous mosques and special prayer Emir’s lead grounds across the country at 5.55am yesterday, the Ministry GAZA: Head of the of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has Palestinian government said. Islamil Haniyah termed The Ministry had arranged a the visit of the Emir H H total of 277 mosques and prayer Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa grounds in different parts of the Al Thani, to the impover- country for the early morning ished Gaza Strip as a good prayers. Of these 21 places had and advanced step toward special arrangements for women. breaking the blockade Some expatriate groups had imposed on the Strip, while also organised Eid prayers, with calling on Arab and Muslim translation of the Eid sermon in leaders to adopt similar their native languages. A large steps and visit the Strip . number of expatriates from the In his Eid Al Adha sacri- respective communities were seen fice sermon he delivered at attending these congregations. Nusairat refugee camp here Well-known places such as the yesterday, Haniyah said: “We Corniche, Souq Waqif and Katara have lived good, blessed and as well as parks, museums and happy days on the soil of Gaza malls pulsated with much life as despite the difficult circum- people thronged to these places to stances and the blockade the watch shows organised mainly by people of Gaza are suffering in the Qatar Tourism Authority and the West Bank and the holy enjoy the first day of a long break city of Ql Quds (Jerusalem) from work. and the territories of 1948. The souqs were also busy The Emir of the State of with many customers purchas- Qatar visited us and launched ing things they need for the Eid several projects beneficial to holidays and the slaughterhouses our people in the strip.” witnessed long queues with the The head of the Palestinian increased demand in sheep for the government renewed appre- festival. ciation to Qatar, the Emir, Meanwhile, the emergency unit Eid Al Adha prayers held at the Abubacker Siddique Independent School in Muntaza, Doha, yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT the government and the peo- of Hamad Medical Corporation ple for what they offered to (HMC) announced that it was and specialists, are being deployed a particular specialist who is not director of Mowasalat, Ahmed Al the reviewed distribution plan. Gaza and highly lauded the gearing up to handle an increas- on duty at the emergency unit on duty at the time we need him, Mansuri, said that the company According to this new plan, there visit as breaking all barriers ing number of cases during Eid Al during the Eid holidays. we would be immediately calling has set a plan for Eid Al Adha. are more taxis in areas where including the Israeli siege and Adha holidays. These doctors will be actively him,” said Al Nuaimi. Al Mansuri added that during families live, as well as hotels and to reiterated that Gaza is the The unit had a taste of what lies supported by a well-trained nurs- According to him, more acci- the last Eid, the company’s taxis commercial centres. heart of the nation. ahead in terms of patient turnout ing staff, he said. The shift of the dent and stomach upset cases are and buses carried about two mil- The service of Al Ijara Holding Earlier, the Arab League during the holidays as some 1,200 doctors and nurses will be chang- reported for emergency medical lion passengers. The executive will start during Eid with 100 of asserted that the visit of cases, mostly of stomach upsets, ing every eight hours. care during the Eid holidays. director said that taxis will be the total 500 taxis the company the Emir accompanied by a were reported on Wednesday This means that 20 to 25 “That is the reason why we are available outside malls, near mar- will put in service later. number of senior officials, to alone. doctors will be present at the increasing the number of doctors kets and in public areas. The cars will have a blue roof Gaza Strip as historic and an Dr Saad Al Nuaimi, consultant emergency unit round-the-clock at the emergency department,” He also said that the number and use the same meter system important initiative to break at the unit, said that some 20 to during the Eid holidays. he said. of complaints about these taxis as Karwa. the siege on the Strip. QNA 25 doctors, including consultants “And, if we need the services of Meanwhile, the executive has been reduced thanks to THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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COLOURFUL CELEBRATIONS

id Al Adha was celebrated in the country with Etraditional fervour yesterday. The Cultural Village at the Corniche marked the first day of Eid Al Adha with a host of colourful events, some of which highlighted key aspects of the Qatari culture and society. A highlight of the celebrations at the Cultural Village was the large presence of members of various expatriate communities. Most enjoyable was a dance performance by Qatari youth to the accompaniment of traditional drumbeats. SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 World must act to stop Syria bloodshed: Cleric War and destruction should be stopped, says Saudi imam

MINA: The imam of Makkah’s people from nearly 190 countries. fierce as the days pass,” he added. Grand Mosque called on Arabs “The world should bear Assad’s forces announced and Muslims yesterday to take responsibility for this prolonged a conditional Eid ceasefire on “practical and urgent” steps to and painful disaster (in Syria) Thursday evening, responding to stop bloodshed in Syria that and the responsibility is greater an appeal by international media- has killed some 30,000 peo- for the Arabs and Muslims who tor Lakhdar Brahimi, though by ple, and urged world states to should call on each other to sup- early yesterday it had begun to assume their moral responsibil- port the oppressed against the unravel with fighting breaking out ity towards the conflict. oppressor,” said Sheikh Saleh in various places. Muslims from around the Mohammed Al Taleb in his ser- “The world should take moral world celebrated Eid Al Adha, mon during Eid prayers. and legal responsibility against which marks the end of the “The solution should be prac- the massacres and the oppression annual Haj pilgrimage that tical and urgent because the that the Syrian people are sub- attracted some three million oppressor becomes even more jected to as well as the continuing violations in Palestine,” Taleb, one of the most senior clerics in the kingdom, said. “The war and destruction should be stopped and the higher inter- ests should be ahead of personal interests in order to stop the spill of the Muslims’ blood,” he added. In his Haj message to pilgrims on Thursday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that bloodshed in Syria could spill Syrian refugee children queue as they wait to receive their dinner meal in a refugee camp in Atimeh, on the Syrian- across borders in the Middle East. Turkish border of the Idlib Governorate. AFP Nowhere left to run for Syrians under siege

ATAREB, SYRIA: For two and past collapsed buildings while topple President Bashar Al Assad. vendors lay out their vegetables for months, Dana and her 12 chil- children play soccer in the street. The shelling has not stopped sale along charred storefronts in dren fled from village to village Farmers pick cotton in the since then, but many residents marketplace, the rooftops riddled trying to escape bombardment surrounding fields, ignoring the say they are tired of fleeing, only by sprays of shrapnel. by Syrian forces. Finally, she gave scorch marks left from mortar to find their next refuge becoming Several houses have collapsed, up and took them back home. bombs around them. a target as well. Across the coun- spewing their contents out and “Everywhere we went, the Outside the cracked walls of her try, Syrians have become weary leaving a trail of destroyed lives - bombs found us. If we’re going to grey concrete home, Dana, a small at the 19-month revolt that has a baby’s shirt, tattered papers, a die, I want it to be in our own woman in a yellow veil, has stacked turned into civil war, and some spoon. Dana’s family is the only one house,” she says, rocking two piles of shrapnel that she and her are starting to head home instead on her street. A third of the houses young daughters in her lap. children sweep out of her house of escaping across the borders. are now only dusty piles of rubble. After months of relentless each day. “You’d think I’d be used With the economy in ruins, most Many blame the army, but others shelling across Syria’s northern to it by now, but I still cry if I hear are jobless and cannot afford to accuse the rebel Free Syrian Army provinces, many Syrians like a fighter jet come. My kids and I travel. Turkey is now letting in only for bringing them trouble. Dana have given up trying to flee all know our place - some behind Syrians with passports, and condi- “The situation speaks for itself. It and instead have tried to live a life the fridge, or behind the washer, in tions at the ramshackle displace- is up to God’s will now. Any moment, under the bombs. the backroom,” she sighs. ment camps inside the country are we could be next,” she says. “But Despite the shudders of artil- Atareb, a town of about 20,000 so bad that many poorer Syrians I won’t leave my country, and I lery fire in the distance, young in Aleppo province, became a prefer to risk staying at home. won’t leave home. We are half-dead Hajis throw stones at the symbolic devil represented by a Jamarat during women in Syria’s northern town ghost town two months ago when Locals estimate about 30 per- already. At some point, your hope is of Atareb stroll their babies in the army began bombardment to cent of residents have returned just to die with some dignity.” the Haj pilgrimage in the tent city of Mina near Makkah yesterday. prams along cratered pavements try to root out rebels fighting to to Atareb. Bakeries are open and REUTERS

Over 50,000 pray at Al Aqsa for Eid Bahrain policeman Iran’s Panahi, Sotoudeh dies of burns bag Sakharov prize in April attack DUBAI: A Bahraini policeman STRASBOURG: Iranian rights campaigner known for represent- has died from severe burns after activists, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh ing opposition activists thrown a “terrorist” attack in April in and film-maker Jafar Panahi, behind bars after Iran’s disputed a Shia village close to Manama, yesterday won the European June 2009 presidential elections, the authorities said yesterday. Parliament’s Sakharov prize, as well as juveniles facing the The policeman “succumbed to his just days after the EU tightened death penalty, and women. injuries” on Thursday after being sanctions against Tehran. After being sentenced to 11 “sent abroad to receive treatment The prize “is a message of years in January 2011 and banned for his burns,” the Information solidarity and recognition to a from practising law for 20 years Affairs Authority (IAA) said. woman and a man who have not for conspiring against state secu- On October 19, a 19-year-old been bowed by fear and intimida- rity, she recently went on hun- policeman also died from injuries tion and who have decided to put ger strike to protest harassment sustained when a home-made the fate of their country before against her family. bomb exploded during clashes their own,” said parliament presi- Amnesty said that for the past with protesters in the Shia village dent Martin Schulz. three months she “has only had of Akar. Regular unrest and dem- Schulz urged the Iranian visits from her children while onstrations have shaken Bahrain authorities to allow the pair to behind a glass screen—ever since since it crushed Shia-led popular collect their prize in person in the authorities discovered she protests in March last year. December at a parliament sit- had been using a tissue to write According to the International ting in Strasbourg. In London, her defence for an upcoming Federation for Human Rights, Amnesty International said court hearing.” a total of 80 people have been Sotoudeh was in ill health due to a “The Iranian authorities have killed in Bahrain since the vio- hunger strike and had been trans- imposed a travel ban on her lence began on February 14, 2011. ferred to the medical facility of daughter and on one occasion More than 1,500 policemen have Tehran’s Evin prison on Monday. held her husband overnight in also been wounded in Bahrain, the The rights award comes on prison for their peaceful advocacy Worshippers pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s old city on the first day of Eid Al Adha IAA said yesterday. the heels of tough new European on her behalf,” Amnesty said. yesterday. More than 50,000 people flooded the mosque compound, reports said. AFP Union sanctions against Iran, Panahi, who is free, is a aimed at forcing a breakthrough 52-year-old film-maker repeat- in talks between global pow- edly acclaimed at major inter- ers and Tehran on its disputed national festivals for gritty and nuclear programme. socially critical movies that are Welcoming the first award of the banned in Iran. He was arrested Netanyahu, Lieberman join forces for Israel poll Sakharov prize by Iranian rights for a documentary he tried to activists, centrist MEP and former make on the unrest following JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister negotiations before announcing their sur- headed by Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt the 2009 election and after being Benjamin Netanyahu and ultra-nationalist prise alliance which will allow them to present holds 66 seats, but a poll published earlier said it came at the right time. “In placed under house arrest, he was Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman have themselves as the most likely grouping to head this month in Haaretz newspaper showed that light of current developments it later sentenced to six years in jail agreed to join forces for a general election in the next coalition government. even without Barak’s faction, Netanyahu and is also a timely moment,” he said. and banned from making more the new year, boosting the premier’s posi- Likud currently has 27 seats in the 120-seat his allies looked set to increase their number “This award sends a strong mes- films for 20 years. tion as favourite. Knesset or parliament, and Yisrael Beitenu of seats to 68. sage of support to all those fighting Last year, his “This Is Not A Netanyahu and Lieberman said on Thursday has 15. Polls show both parties should at least By comparison, the opposition — com- persecution in Iran every day: we Film” had to be smuggled out that they will present a joint list for the retain or even boost their representation in prising centrist, left-wing and Arab parties recognise your struggle, we support in a USB key inside a cake to be January 22 election without merging their the chamber. Parliament voted overnight on — would win just 52. The leader of the oppo- your fight for basic human rights screened at the Cannes film festi- respective parties, Likud and Yisrael Beitenu. October 15 to dissolve itself ahead of elections sition Meretz party, Zehava Galon, mocked and we award your courage.” val. The Cannes, Berlin and Venice “Israel needs to unify its forces to govern by 100 votes to none in a third reading follow- the latest development as “future government The two Iranians were short- festivals invited him to sit on their and face security and economic challenges... ing a nearly nine-hour session. Biberman,” referring to Netanyahu’s nickname listed for the prestigious ¤50,000 juries in 2010 and 2011 but because The Likud and Yisrael Beitenu will therefore Netanyahu has blamed the need for early Bibi and Lieberman, saying “it will be stuck at ($65,000) prize — whose past he was barred from leaving the present a common list in the next election,” elections on a coalition deadlock over the pas- the social level just as it is in the peace proc- winners include Nelson Mandela country, organisers left a symbolic Netanyahu told reporters. sage of a budget packed with austerity meas- ess” with the Palestinians. and Kofi Annan — along with the empty chair for him to remind Lieberman said he intended to “contribute ures, but commentators say it was a move to Direct Israel-Palestinian peace talks have jailed members of Russian all- film-goers of his plight. to the stability of the next government.” “De capitalise on his current standing in the polls, been frozen for two years, with Palestinian girl punk band Pussy Riot, and Cannes film festival president facto, we have already established a change in which put him as the sole realistic contender President Mahmud Abbas rejecting talks Belarus dissident Ales Beliatsky. Gilles Jacob yesterday welcomed the political system, which ensures stability” for the premiership. for as long as Israel continues to build and Sotoudeh, a 47-year-old mother the parliament’s award for Panahi. of power, he said. Israel’s current ruling coalition, which approve new Jewish settlements. of two, is a leading human rights AFP Netanyahu and Lieberman held secret includes the centrist Independence party AFP SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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When she fell, Pakistan The other side stood and the world rose. This is a turning point. Quote of Ziauddin Yousafzai We gave pollies the job - the day Father of Pakistani girl Malala now they should do it Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban

S THE eurozone sick list grows, the US grapples with 12 million people unemployed, and China worries about getting old before it Agets rich, Australia basks in the economic sunshine. But are our politicians equipped to handle any gathering storm clouds? On Wednesday the Business Council of Australia handed back a job the government had foolishly outsourced to it: outlining the cuts and revenue measures that would allow the government to cut the company tax rate by a percentage point. The day before, the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, needed to conjure every trick in the accountant’s kit bag to keep the budget in surplus. The invitation to the Business Council arose from the government’s failure to secure a cut in the company tax rate to 29 per cent. The Coalition and the Greens blocked the move in the Senate, albeit for dif- ferent reasons. The government asked the council to join the gang - the razor gang - but on Wednesday it threw up its hands. The council ‘’was always of the view that the terms of reference given to the group made it hard to produce an outcome that made good overall economic sense’’, said its president, Tony Shepherd. As pointed out on this page on Tuesday, the economy may yet prove a friend to the Labor government. But five years after taking office, and with Australia still buoyant by world standards, Labor struggles to persuade the business community that it is anywhere like being on the ‘’same page’’. There is discontent in business circles at the government’s penchant for re-regulating industrial relations - even the name, Fair Work Australia - and the slowdown in productivity gains. The government sets its store on industrial reforms that business chafes against. The Qantas shutdown and the protracted dispute at the Grocon construction sites in Melbourne stem from this kid-glove approach, say the more gung-ho elements of the industrial relations conversation. Less partisan elements accuse Labor of being asleep at the wheel on tax strategy, with a dismal record of implementing only a handful of recommendations from the Henry review, which was meant to guide us into the next two decades. On Monday the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, presenting the midyear economic update, eked out a $1.1 billion surplus by pulling some painful levers - cutting the private health insurance rebate and also the baby bonus for second and subse- quent children - while slicing a billion dollars from higher education. THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Europe is turning away from Turkey – and the rest of the world

BY ORHAN PAMUK and constant. Turkey were to join the EU. Back entry into the union was grow- put it simply, modernity. As our expansion has slowed down, very I come from one of the many in October 2005, relations between ing increasingly vocal, especially trusted history books have taught few of us still bother to think HAVE spent my entire life upper-middle-class Istanbul Turkey and the EU had reached in Germany and France. I found us, modernity is the product of and talk about these issues. And at the borders of continental families who wholeheartedly their peak. Turkish public opin- myself caught in this debate, and such quintessentially European unfortunately, the positive inter- IEurope. From the window of embraced the westernising, secu- ion and most of the press seemed began to ask myself (and others developments as the Renaissance, est surrounding Turkey’s possi- my home or office, I’ve looked out larising reforms introduced in the happy that talks between the EU too) about what Europe really the Enlightenment, the French ble future membership has also over the Bosphorus to see Asia on 1920s and 30s by Kemal Atatürk, and Turkey had officially begun. means. If religion marks the Revolution and the Industrial waned. This is partly because free- the other side; and so, in think- founder of the Turkish republic. Some Turkish newspapers spec- boundaries of Europe, I thought, Revolution. Crucially, the forces dom of thought remains regret- ing about Europe and moder- For us, Europe was more than ulated optimistically that things then Europe is a Christian civi- behind these paradigm shifts were tably underdeveloped in Turkey. nity, I have always felt, like the somewhere we could go to find might move very quickly indeed, lisation – in which case Turkey, not religious, but secular. But the biggest reason is undoubt- rest of the world, just a little bit a job, a place to trade with, or that Turkey might enjoy full mem- whose population is 99% Muslim, A few years ago, whenever the edly the large influx of Muslim provincial. whose investors we could seek to bership of the EU by 2014. Other may be geographically European, topic of the EU came up for dis- migrants from north Africa and Like the many millions who attract: it was primarily a beacon papers wrote fairytale accounts but has no place in the EU. cussion, I used to say that Turkey Asia into Europe that, in the eyes live outside the west, I have had of civilisation. of the privileges Turkish citizens But would Europeans be sat- should join the EU provided it of many Europeans, has cast a to understand my own identity At this point I should highlight would finally gain once full mem- isfied with such a narrow defi- could respect the principles of dark shadow of doubt and fear while observing Europe from afar, an important fact: historically, bership was secured. Most impor- nition of their continent? After liberty, equality and fraternity. over the idea of a predominantly and so, in the process of working Turkey was never colonised by any tantly, investments would be made all, it is not Christianity that has “But does Turkey respect these Muslim country joining the union. out my identity, I’ve often won- western power, never oppressed and untold treasures would find turned Europe into an example principles?” people would rightly It is clear that this fear is lead- dered what Europe could repre- by European imperialism. This their way to Turkey from the EU’s for people living in the non-west- ask me – and so the debate would ing Europe to put up walls at its sent for me and for us all. This allowed us later to nurture more various funds so that, like the ern world, but rather a series of resume. When I look back at those borders, and to gradually turn is an experience I share with the freely our dreams of European- Greeks, we too would collectively social and economic transforma- days now, I can’t help feeling nos- away from the world. As the slo- majority of the world’s population, style westernisation, without take a step up the social ladder tions, and the ideas that these talgic about how passionately we gan of liberté, égalité, fraternité is but because Istanbul, my city, is dredging up too many bad memo- and be able to live as comfortably have generated throughout the debated – both in Turkey and in slowly forgotten, Europe will sadly situated just where Europe begins ries or guilty feelings. as other Europeans. years. This intangible force that Europe – the values that Europe turn into an increasingly conserv- – or maybe where Europe ends – Seven years ago I used to try At the same time, the European has made Europe such a mag- should stand for. ative place dominated by religious my thoughts and my resentments to persuade audiences how won- chorus of conservative, nationalist net for the rest of the world Nowadays, as Europe strug- and ethnic identities. have been a little more pressing derful it would be for us all if protest against Turkey’s possible over the past two centuries is, to gles with the euro crisis, and EU THE GUARDIAN SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Who will be the face of The malaise in Ukraine Italy’s third republic? But some of the VIPs in attend- President Viktor ance were obviously not satis- BY TOBIAS JONES fied by the status quo, including rallies, he screams into the micro- Yanukovych was First Deputy Prime Minister phone as he bemoans the epic Valeriy Khoroshkovskiy, Economy t’s almost exactly a year since salaries, perks, criminal records Minister Petro Poroshenko, and Silvio Berlusconi resigned as and acts of collusion of the tradi- lucky to win the Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Italian prime minister, and tional elites. Although he eschews Tigipko. All are billionaires Ion Wednesday he confirmed the mainstream media, he’s got presidency in and major business leaders. that he has no intention of stand- a large online following and isn’t Although they all still belong to ing for office in 2013. Many in averse to pulling off stunts, such Yanukovych’s party, they seemed Italy suggested then that the cur- as his swim, last week, across the the first place. more eager to accommodate for- tain had finally come down on the strait of Messina to start his cam- eign politicians and businessmen. country’s bizarre second republic. paign in Sicily (where he’s moving BY ANDERS ASLUND In their remarks, they acknowl- It was, they said, the end of an around in a campervan). edged the current governance era in which a media mogul could Grillo’s movement – he prefers ver the past two- problems in Ukraine, and all turn elections into a personality “movement” to “party” – is called and-a-half years, called for closer cooperation cult. Now, the thinking went, we the Five Stars Movement (M5S). Ukraine has been with Europe and faster economic were entering the third republic. To general astonishment, it took transformed, but reforms. The past 12 months seem more than 20 percent of the vote not for the better. In It’s not hard to understand why to have confirmed the theory. in some parts of the country last OFebruary 2010, Viktor Yanukovych these officials are turning against Some of the major players and May, even winning the prized — whose previous “victory” in the the president. A few days earlier parties from the previous two mayoral position in Parma. M5S 2004 election was overturned at a public meeting, Yanukovych decades have been obliterated. is currently polling ahead of in what became known as the had threatened to “rip off” Berlusconi has, by his standards, Berlusconi’s party in regional Orange Revolution — was elected Poroshenko’s head amid a tech- kept a low profile and his party, elections in Lazio, meaning that president with a slight margin in nical dispute over the implemen- in the regional elections of May the sans-culottes satirist is now a free and fair election. This ex- tation of car fees. “Well, thank 2012, plummeted from 30 per- taken very seriously. Another convict from Russian-speaking you. We’ll operate without your cent to just 14 percent of the vote. pretender is Matteo Renzi, the eastern Ukraine has quickly con- help,” the unfazed Poroshenko Umberto Bossi of the Northern 37-year-old Tuscan who has solidated power. Increasingly, his responded. League has resigned, caught up already been president of the family loyalists, primarily repre- These thuggish antics won’t in an embezzlement scandal. In province of Florence and mayor sented by his son, the business- exactly endear Yanukovych to those same elections last May, of the city. He is now running man Oleksandr, dominate the already sceptical foreign govern- only two of 12 Northern League against the leader of the left-wing Ukrainian government. ments. Deflecting criticism that mayors were returned at the first Democratic Party in upcoming On October 28, Ukraine is he is too close to the Kremlin, he ballot. Respected leaders on the primaries and is nicknamed the holding critical parliamen- Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych lights candle in a church in Kiev, has claimed European integra- left, too, are falling like cards: last rottamatore(scrapper), because tary elections. These elections tion as his main goal, and last fall week Walter Veltroni announced of his disdain for Italy’s gerontoc- Ukraine, yesterday. will be either the final step in Ukraine inked a major free trade his retreat from frontline politics, racy and for the way in which the Yanukovych’s consolidation of agreement with the European and Massimo D’Alema has offered same old faces play parliamentary power or his opponents’ last agreement with Russia while she further undermined. Union, a monumental document to do likewise. musical chairs. On the left, too, chance to disrupt his family rule. was prime minister. This year, I had a chance to of 1,000 pages that had been nego- But if certain parties from the is Nichi Vendola, currently pres- This time, however, the most Yanukovych has also taken observe the dissatisfied Ukrainian tiated for four years. But the EU second republic seem to have ident of the Puglia region. Gay, palpable threat to his rule comes steps to increase his control over opposition up close. Each year, has refused to sign the documents imploded, the nature of the third communist, with an earring and not from the crowds on the street television. In particular, the stub- Victor Pinchuk, a highly respected as long as Tymoshenko remains republic is still extremely elusive. slight lisp, Vendola has frequently but the elite businessmen he has bornly independent cable channel international Ukrainian business- in prison on spurious charges. For better or for worse, everyone been a refreshingly honest voice alienated. TVi has been refused licences and man, organises a major interna- Yanukovych has threatened knew what the first republic was in a bland landscape. The only Yanukovych was lucky to win is gradually being ousted from tional conference in Yalta. In to turn to Russia if the EU cold- about: from roughly 1948 to 1992, doubt is whether he could ever the presidency in the first place. various cable services through mid-September, the ninth Yalta shoulders him, but his threat Italy was dominated by loquacious, become sufficiently mainstream Ukraine was hit hard by the global pressure from the authorities. European Strategy took place, lacks credibility because Russian patrician Christian Democrats. It for national elections. financial crisis in 2008 under the In the run-up to these elections, attracting the whole Ukrainian President Vladimir Putin almost was crystal-clear what they stood The real vacuum is on the tenure of Prime Minister Yulia television is firmly in the hands political elite as well as foreign refuses to see him. On July 12, for (Catholicism) and what they right. Berlusconi and Umberto Tymoshenko, who was running of the incumbent. luminaries, including Americans Putin arrived in Crimea and lin- opposed (communism), although Bossi, who has resigned as leader against him for the presidency. But pure repression can’t save Condoleezza Rice, Newt Gingrich, gered for hours with a group of there were plenty of grey areas of the Northern League, leave big The uneasy Orange coalition the president if his support among Robert Zoellick, and William Russian nationalist bikers from when it came to corruption and boots to fill, and in their absence government led by Tymoshenko Ukraine’s most powerful busi- Daley. Moscow until he finally went to crime. The second republic, from anyone else looks like a political and President Viktor Yushchenko ness interests continues to erode. Yanukovych attended as usual, Yanukovych at the Livadia Palace. 1993 to 2011, was dominated by pygmy. Berlusconi has, officially was consumed by infighting and Yanukovych initially appointed a but in sharp contrast to previous At the meeting, he spent 20 min- Berlusconi and by his conflation at least, handed over the reigns eventually collapsed. Yushchenko government dominated by nine years, he no longer seemed to be utes talking to his associates, of liberty with libertinism: he of his party to Angelino Alfano, now leads an officially sanctioned big business groups, each of in a mood to placate his foreign ignoring Yanukovych and avoid- warped the country’s democracy a bald Sicilian who, born on splinter group that is taking votes which was represented by one or guests. Last year, he promised ing all discussion of substance. into a strange sort of videocracy, Halloween, looks like something away from the real opposition. more ministers in his cabinet, but to work to get Tymoshenko out Desperately seeking friends, complete with showgirls in parlia- from the Addams family. Luca Yanukovych already had a their number has quickly dwin- of prison, where she lingers still. Yanukovych is now warming up ment and bunga-bunga at home. Cordero di Montezemolo, an parliamentary majority when dled. Instead, Yanukovych family This time, both he and the audi- to China. After mutual visits, Quite what comes next is still aristocrat, former Confindustria he came to power and was thus members and his loyalists now ence seemed to realise that no the Chinese have offered several unclear. The presence of an apo- (CBI) chief and now chairman quickly able appoint his govern- dominate the government. They new promise of reform would be multibillion-dollar contracts, but litical tecnocrat, Mario Monti, as of Ferrari, has an “association” ment. He also managed to gain control all the law enforcement credible, and he ignored the issue so far none of several announced PM disguises the fact that there is called Italia Futura, but it has control over the Constitutional bodies, the central bank, and the entirely. agreements between the two a political vacuum in the country explicitly endorsed Mario Monti Court, which abolished consti- Finance Ministry, while the busi- His loyalists displayed the same countries has come to fruition. and, with a general election next for a second term in office. tutional amendments passed in nessmen complain that they are attitude. Prime Minister Mykola The Ukrainian business environ- year, various politicians are now In many ways the situation is 2004 and returned the country being squeezed out by Oleksandr Azarov answered my question on ment is so tough that not even fighting to fill it. remarkably similar to the unsta- to its 1996 constitution, which Yanukovych. As a consequence, the increasing sleaze and graft the Chinese government wants The most pugnacious is Beppe ble period between the first and included stronger presidential Ukraine has fallen even deeper on under his watch by claiming anything to do with it, and the Grillo. A diminutive comedian second republics. As happened powers. Meanwhile, Tymoshenko the Transparency International’s that reports of corruption had Chinese pose specific conditions in his mid-60s with hair like a then, a tidal wave of corruption was sentenced in a blatantly polit- Corruption Perceptions Index to been exaggerated. (According to on their workers carrying out shredded sheep, Grillo is a furious scandals have disgusted, if not ical prosecution to seven years in No 152 out of the 183 countries, recent surveys, 59 percent of the construction work. orator who represents the anger surprised, the electorate. prison for an allegedly shady gas and property rights have been Ukrainian public disagrees.) 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No-fly zone along Turkish border would ease situation in Syria BY FRANÇOIS of self-defence. This would allow and unlike in Iraq, intervention HEISBOURG Turkey to request military assist- would enable the rebellion, not be ance from its Nato partners. The a substitute for it. uccessful military inter- burden of proof would then be on In military terms, this would be ventions are sufficiently Russia and China, if those coun- achieved by establishing a 50-mile rare as to induce utmost tries sought to override Turkey’s no-fly zone along the Turkish- Scaution when contem- Article 51 claim in the Security Syrian border. No allied aircraft plating the use of force in Syria, Council. would need to fly in Syrian air- a country as populous as Iraq or Politically speaking, the United space, as air-to-air and surface- Afghanistan and no less divided States is likely to recover room to-air missiles fired from Turkish along religious and ethnic lines. to manoeuvre after November 6, airspace and territory would have Yet the legal, political, strategic whether President Barack Obama the necessary range to shoot down and military conditions for an is reelected or a president-elect Syrian bombers or helicopters in international operation are being Mitt Romney is working in the exclusion zone. Allied AWACS fulfilled, which is in turn creat- tandem with the incumbent. radar aircraft, operating well out ing an opportunity to bring down Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet of range of Syria’s extensive air Bashar Assad’s bloody dictator- Davutoglu has been clamouring defences, would provide full real- ship and its regionally destabilis- for active Nato support, remind- time information on any regime ing repression. ing the alliance of the high human aircraft approaching the no-fly In legal terms, Syria’s border cost of its slowness to intervene zone. violations have created a new sit- in the Balkans 20 years ago — a The zone would include Aleppo, uation, one in which the Russian disturbing but compelling par- which means that the regime’s and Chinese vetoes at the UN allel. As with last year’s inter- bombardment of Syria’s largest Security Council would no longer vention in Libya, many Nato city would cease. Its fall, along prevent the legitimate use of members would be neither will- with unimpeded access to logis- force by Turkey. These Syrian ing nor able to support forceful tical support from Turkey, would violations have been denounced action, but the ones that count give the insurgency the upper in strong terms by Nato and an the most, France and Britain, hand. unusually unanimous Security would probably join. The French And with no boots on the Council; yet Syrian attacks con- president has been broadly sup- ground, this intervention would tinue, leading to daily exchanges portive of Turkey’s approach to not require an exit strategy. of artillery fire. the Syrian crisis. Several Arab Such an intervention is becom- Turkey’s security is further states (including Saudi Arabia) ing desirable as well as feasi- imperilled by an unabated flow may also participate. ble, for want of a better option. of refugees prompted by the From a strategic standpoint, Letting the civil war fester will Assad regime’s mindless repres- the civil war in Syria is in a stale- lead to further destabilisation Syrian refugees and local residents shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar al Assad after performing sion. The regime has simultane- mate, with Assad’s forces unable in Syria and the wider region — prayers for Eid al-Adha outside their embassy in Amman yesterday. ously created the conditions for a to crush the rebellion and the some of which is already visible sharp rise of cross-border attacks insurgency militarily incapable in Lebanon and Jordan — and by Kurdish activists against of overthrowing the regime. A a radicalisation of the conflict. control the ultimate destination stable outcome in Syria, any more also know that a heavy “boots on Turkish army and police person- realistic objective of intervention Providing the rebels with weap- of such transfers. than the overthrow of Moammar the ground” approach — as in Iraq nel. Turkey could credibly invoke would be to tilt the balance in onry, notably anti-aircraft mis- Of course, even an interven- Gadhafi meant that milk and or Afghanistan — is to be strenu- Article 51 of the UN Charter, favour of the rebel forces, to help siles, raises the dread prospect of tion of the kind suggested here honey were to flow in Libya. But ously avoided. entitling it to exercise its right expedite Assad’s fall. As in Libya, blowback, given our inability to won’t guarantee a positive and the alternatives are worse. We WP-BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL UK restates opposition Berlusconi gets to military 4-year jail term strike on Iran LONDON: Britain yester- day reiterated its opposition to for tax fraud a military strike on Iran “at this moment” over its disputed nuclear programme, arguing Former PM ordered to pay $13m sanctions were having an effect and diplomacy should be given time. MILAN: Former Italian Prime funds. The investigation focused The comments followed a Minister Silvio Berlusconi was on television and cinema rights report by Britain’s Guardian sentenced to four years in jail that Berlusconi’s holding company newspaper which said Britain had yesterday for tax fraud in con- Fininvest bought via offshore com- rebuffed US plans to use its bases nection with the purchase panies from Hollywood studios. to support the build-up of troops of broadcasting rights by his The court also ordered damages in the Gulf, due to legal advice Mediaset television company. provisionally set at ¤10m ($13m) warning that a pre-emptive strike The 76-year-old billionaire, who to be paid by Berlusconi and his would be illegal. was convicted three times dur- co-defendants to tax authorities. The legal advice says Iran cur- ing the 1990s in the first degree The flamboyant Berlusconi, rently does not represent a “clear before being cleared by higher who is still on trial in a sepa- and present threat”, according courts, has the right to appeal the rate prostitution case, resigned to the Guardian, which cited US President Back Obama arrives for a campaign rally at the Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport later Thursday night. ruling two more times before the as prime minister a year ago as unnamed sources. sentence becomes definitive. He Italy faced a Greek-style debt “The government does not will not be jailed unless he loses crisis, handing the reins of gov- believe military action against the final appeal. ernment to economics professor Iran is the right course of action Obama, Romney wage bitter Ohio duel The ruling comes two days Mario Monti. at this moment, though no option after Berlusconi confirmed he Angelino Alfano, secretary of is off the table,” Prime Minister would not run in next year’s elec- the PDL, said the ruling proved David Cameron’s spokeswoman CLEVELAND: In a spectacu- in 2008. The remarks by Sununu, Defiance, accusing the incum- tions as the leader of his People once again “judicial persecution” told reporters, declining to com- lar finale to a 40-hour campaign who is known for fiery media bent Democrat of waging a nasty, of Freedom (PDL) party, ending of the media magnate, while ment on the legal advice. sprint, US President Barack appearances, could inject race negative, diminished campaign almost 19 years as the dominant political rival Antonio Di Pietro, “We want to see the sanctions, Obama launched a searing into a campaign Romney has drained of new ideas. politician of the centre-right. a former magistrate, hailed the which are starting to have some attack on Mitt Romney in Ohio, tried to keep focused on the “This is a time for big chal- Milan judge Edoardo d’Avossa decision, saying “the truth has impact, working, and also engag- the state that may decide their economy. lenges, and a time of big oppor- told a packed court that between been exposed”. ing with Iran,” she said. election duel. Earlier on Thursday, Obama tunities, we have a big choice. 2000 and 2003, there had been Should the ruling be confirmed The Guardian said Britain had But Romney, rallying lambasted Romney for opposing And frankly we’re going to elect “a very significant amount of tax on appeal, Berlusconi would also not received a formal US request Republicans in the state’s aptly his bailout of the auto industry a president that’s willing to make evasion” and “an incredible mech- be forbidden from holding pub- to use its bases for a military named town of Defiance, mocked as he campaigned in Ohio, a per- big changes, and I will,” Romney, anism of fraud” in place around lic office for five years, and from build-up. Obama’s “incredibly shrinking” ennial battleground in which car a former Massachusetts governor, the buying and selling of broad- being a company executive for Cameron and Western dip- campaign and stole the presi- manufacturing supports one in said. cast rights. The court’s written three years. lomats believe harsh sanctions dent’s 2008 mantra, promis- eight jobs. Romney blames Obama for four ruling said Berlusconi showed a “This is not a sentence, but an imposed on Iran by the West are ing “big change” if he wins on “I refused to walk away from years of lackluster US growth, “natural capacity for crime”. attempt at political homicide,” beginning to weaken Tehran’s November 6. those workers, I refused to walk while the president warns that Berlusconi lawyers Piero Longo Fabrizio Chicchito, the PDL’s resolve and to stoke public dis- The latest sharp exchanges away from those jobs. I bet on Americans have come too far out and Niccolo Ghedini said the the chief whip in the Chamber of content, and that military action came as polls showed the White American workers. I would do of recession to risk reversing the ruling was “totally divorced from Deputies, said referring to the would reverse the trend and rally House up for grabs, with Romney it again because that bet always progress under Republicans. all judicial logic”, adding that they ban from holding office. Iranians to the government. ahead by a nose nationally, but pays off,” Obama roared, in a pop- Earlier, Obama became the first hoped the “atmosphere” at the Now that Berlusconi has said Israel and the West believe Iran Obama standing firm in the key ulist pitch for blue collar votes. sitting president to cast an early appeals courts would be different. he will pull out of politics, he is trying to achieve nuclear weap- swing states that could hand him Obama ended an eight state vote, in a successful grab for news Berlusconi, one of Italy’s richest may be focusing more on his ons capability. a second four-year term. tour of more than 7,000 miles coverage also designed to mobilize men, became prime minister for a business empire, which includes Tehran says its programme The president on Thursday won with 11 days to go before he asks his supporters to register their second time in 2001 after winning Mediaset, AC Milan soccer club, is for purely civilian, energy the endorsement of Colin Powell -- Americans to defy the omens of ballots early. a landslide election victory. Even and Internet bank Mediolanum. purposes. an African-American Republican a weak economy and high unem- In a slightly incongruous scene while he was prime minister, he Shares in Mediaset, Italy’s big- Years of diplomacy and sanc- who served in both Bush presi- ployment by voting to renew his Obama, possibly the most famous remained in effective charge of gest private broadcaster, fell as tions have failed to resolve the dencies -- sparking controversial lease on the White House. man in the world, returned to a Mediaset even though he had much as 3 percent after the rul- dispute, raising fears of Israeli remarks by a Romney surrogate The president’s aides are pri- neighborhood near his vacant handed over control of day-to-day ing, and are down about 50 per- military action against its arch who suggested race was a factor. vately signaling increasing con- Chicago home in a presidential operations, the court said. cent in the last year. foe and of a new Middle East war. “When you have somebody fidence that he will prevail. But motorcade and presented his ID The four-time prime minis- The broadcaster has been Talks between the West and of your own race that you’re Romney has sought to convince for scrutiny. ter and other Mediaset execu- struggling against rivals like News Iran could take place after the proud of being president of the his supporters that he has the Then he stood behind a touch tives stood accused of inflating Corp’s broadcaster Sky Italia and November 6 United States presi- United States, I applaud Colin for momentum in the final stretch. screen machine to cast his vote, the price paid for TV rights via a host of online media, while its dential election, following three standing with him,” top Romney “We want change. We want big in a move designed to convince offshore companies controlled by core advertising revenues are inconclusive rounds this year. advisor John Sununu said about change. We’re ready,” Romney supporters to also go to the polls Berlusconi and skimming off part feeling the pinch of the recession. REUTERS Powell, who also backed Obama told a 12,000 strong crowd in early. AFP of the money to create illegal slush REUTERS

Nigerian president says floods won’t Canadian embassy in Washington cause hunger evacuated over suspicious letter ABUJA: Nigerian President Goodluck WASHINGTON: The Jonathan sought to allay Canadian embassy in fears yesterday that the Washington was evacuated nation’s worst floods briefly yesterday because of a in at least five decades suspicious letter, forcing out would trigger a food cri- employees for more than an sis because of damage to hour, officials said. crops. US Secret Service and local Jonathan, who this emergency responders inves- month toured some parts tigated the incident but found of Africa’s most populous nothing dangerous. nation that have been sub- “It was found to be non-hazard- merged by floods he has ous,” Secret Service spokesman described as a ‘national Max Milien said of the letter. disaster’, spoke to journal- Embassy spokesman Chris ists and other visitors to Plunkett said the embassy’s 325 the presidential villa. employees were evacuated at “People should not be around 9:30am after a suspicious afraid that there will be letter was found in the mail room. hunger in the land ... We Workers spilled onto have enough grains in our Pennsylvania Avenue, a major US Secret Service officers stand outside the Canadian Embassy in reserves,” he said, when artery that leads to the White Washington, yesterday. asked about the impact House just 2.4km away, which was of the floods on food partially blocked off before the embassy staff were allowed back gave no other details about the production. all-clear was given. Plunkett said in at around 10:35am. Officials contents of the letter. REUTERS “Some selfish people are already hoarding grains ... but they are doing that to their disadvantage,” he said. At least 140 people have been killed, hundreds Briton to strike US plea deal in Iran missiles case of thousands displaced and tens of thousands of LONDON: The wife of a British His wife Elaine, who suffers judge, it is likely to be several hectares of farmland have businessman who is set to strike from the chronic lung condition weeks before a sentence is passed. been submerged since the a plea deal with US prosecutors Churg-Strauss syndrome, said Tappin, from Orpington in start of July, emergency over charges he sold missile that while a plea deal was “upset- southeast London, would have officials say, after several components to Iran said yester- ting”, it signalled the beginning faced a jail sentence of up to 35 major rivers burst their day it was the beginning of his of attempts to bring her husband years if convicted, but it is likely banks. “swift and safe return” home. back to Britain. to be substantially reduced under Flooding in the oil rich Christopher Tappin, 65, has “From the moment Chris was the terms of any plea deal. Niger Delta, where Africa’s always denied that he tried to sell put on a plane all we ever wanted In April, Tappin told the BBC: third longest river flows batteries for surface-to-air mis- was his swift and safe return,” she “I’m not a terrorist. into the Atlantic ocean, has siles, saying he believed they were said. The case stemmed from an disrupted oil production to for vehicles. A family spokeswoman said investigation in which US agents the tune of around 500,000 Tappin, who was extradited to Tappin, who is on bail, is due to asked technology providers about bpd -- more than a fifth of the United States in February appear in court in El Paso, Texas, buyers who might have raised Nigeria’s output -- accord- after a two-year legal battle, is on Thursday to hear prosecu- concerns. The customers were ing to the Department of expected to reach a deal with US tors outline the terms of his plea then approached by undercover Petroleum Resources. authorities on Thursday, days bargain. companies set up by US govern- REUTERS before he was due to go on trial. If the terms are agreed by the ment agencies. AFP SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Australia to back Aquino on Mindanao plan PM Gillard says reforms in trade would ensure that economic growth would be sustained over time

CANBERRA: Australian she said. Gillard cited the long- Australia, opportunities for trade Prime Minister Julia Gillard standing alliance between the and investment to lift the living has assured President Aquino Philippines and Australia and standards and create jobs,” she that her government would that Australians “have admired” said. stand with the Philippines in the Filipino people’s struggles for “We share a determination ensuring the successful imple- freedom in recent decades. to ensure that the dividend of mentation of the framework “Australians watched the peace is true human progress. agreement between his admin- events of February 1986 in awe We share a determination to istration and the Moro Islamic and admiration. My predecessor, work for economic growth in our Liberation Front (Milf). Australia’s then Prime Minister region underpinned by security Gillard also said during the offi- Bob Hawke, was one of the first and peace. We cooperate closely cial dinner she hosted for Aquino foreign leaders to visit Manila fol- in regional forums, including on here Wednesday night that the lowing those days. He still speaks the East Asia Summit, and we economic achievements of the with deep respect of your mother, consult on important security Philippines at this time were recalling their meeting and your issues affecting the region such something to be proud of. family’s generation of patriotic as the South China Sea,” Gillard “We applaud your leadership, service,” Gillard told Aquino. said. Mr President, in seeking to bring “And, today, the Australian gov- For his part, Australian Sen peace and stability to Mindanao... ernment and Australian people George Brandis took the oppor- We share your hope that a peace greatly admire your efforts and tunity to pay tribute to Aquino’s agreement will end this dec- the efforts of your government “illustrious mother” Corazon, ades-long conflict and we will and people to bring prosperity who restored democracy to the work with you and the people of and peace to the Philippines. At Philippines in 1986 and gave us Mindanao to ensure the benefits a time of significant global eco- the term “people power.” of peace are felt as real progress nomic uncertainty, yours is the “That concept resonated for all,” Gillard said. second fastest growing Asean around the world and fed the “Mindanao is where around economy and that’s something to hunger for democratic change in half of Australia’s development be very proud of,” she said. countries near and far. Filipinos assistance to the Philippines is Gillard said the reforms in have much to be proud of in delivered. The work we are doing trade, including important indus- advancing the cause of freedom,” together – particularly in educa- trial sectors like tourism and Brandis said. tion, training teachers, building mining, would ensure that eco- The senator also cited the eco- classrooms, developing curricu- nomic growth would be sustained nomic progress in the Philippines lum for Islamic and indigenous over time and the benefits felt by and the preliminary peace deal children, training out-of-school a majority of the people. with the Milf, which “we all hope youths to give them an alterna- “And these same reforms will will finally bring to an end the tive to conflict, supporting social create new opportunities to long running rebellion in the Philippine President Benigno Aquino speaks after unveiling a statue of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal protection programs for the poor- expand the bilateral commercial southern Philippines.” (background) in Rosemeadow near Sydney yesterday. est families – is vital to this end,” ties between the Philippines and THE PHILIPPINE STAR

PDEA, NBI working closer Drug ring Sans TRO, Arroyo to be arraigned leader falls in against drug syndicates MANILA: Unless the Supreme she did not commit, denying any Medical Centre (VMMC) because Court (SC) issues a temporary involvement in the alleged misuse of aggressively worsening health Bulacan bust restraining order (TRO), former of funds of the Philippine Charity problems. Arroyo’s principal con- MANILA: The Philippine value targets and quality opera- President and now Pampanga Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) dur- gressman-ally, Minority Leader MANILA: Operatives of the Drug Enforcement Agency tions and to advocate a culture Rep Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ing her presidency. Danilo Suarez, said Arroyo could Philippine Drug Enforcement (PDEA) and the National of cooperation with all stakehold- will be arraigned on Monday, Director Diosdado Calonge, be physically fit to attend her Agency (PDEA) arrested a Bureau of Investigation (NBI) ers,” Cacdac said. according to Sandiganbayan head of the Ombudsman’s pros- arraignment on Monday, but only suspected drug ring leader and have strengthened collaborative “We need to help one another. spokesman Renato Bocar. ecution team, agreed with Bocar if the hearings would take only his two cohorts during a raid efforts in combating the pro- What I feel is the need for a holis- As of yesterday, the anti-graft that Monday’s arraignment an hour. in Bulacan province, an official liferation of illegal drugs in the tic approach to counter the drug court’s First Division had issued no should push through unless a “I’m not a doctor and I really said yesterday. country. The close partnership problem. We need more consulta- order cancelling the arraignment, TRO is issued. don’t know her physical capability PDEA director general Arturo between the PDEA and the NBI tions, coordination and coopera- Bocar said. This means that the Former PCSO board member to go to court, but if the hearing Cacdac Jr identified the suspects was sealed after PDEA Director tion to find solutions to problems scheduled arraignment on Monday Manuel Morato, also a respond- lasts for just an hour, I think she as 46-year-old Gonzalo Bautista General Arturo Cacdac Jr paid related to drugs,” he added. “will proceed unless restrained by ent in the criminal charge, is also can,” he said. Suarez said he and of Hildik, Barangay Malhacan, a courtesy visit to NBI Director As the country’s prime inves- the Supreme Court,” he said. scheduled for arraignment on 16 other Arroyo allies recently Meycauayan, Bulacan; 56-year- Nonnatus Caesar R Rojas on tigative organisation, the NBI Arroyo filed a petition for certi- Monday. However, it is uncertain visited the former president at old Elisabeth Borbe; and her October 24. lends valuable support to PDEA orari before the SC on Wednesday if Morato would be able to appear her VMMC suite. 58-year-old husband Ernesto The two agencies vowed to deal through cooperation in investiga- questioning her indictment before since he underwent heart surgery “It was an occasion that was fes- Borbe, both of JJ Compound, “decisive and crippling blows to tive concerns and by undertak- the Sandiganbayan. Arroyo, at the St Luke’s Medical Centre tive, meaning, the president was Malhacan Road, Barangay organise local and international ing actual anti-drug operations through her lawyer Anacleto earlier this week. happy because her colleagues paid Malhacan, Meycauayan, Bulacan. drug syndicates in the country.” in support of the supply reduction Diaz, is seeking a TRO from One of his lawyers, Dennis her a visit. We were joking about Cacdac said that about 3pm “The courtesy visit to the NBI program. the SC in an effort to stop the Manicad, said yesterday that those who are running unopposed,” last October 24, anti-narcotics director is my first of a series of “The NBI and PDEA will be Office of the Ombudsman and the Morato is still recuperating in Suarez said. “But if you look at her agents simultaneously imple- visits to counterpart law enforce- closely working together to run Sandiganbayan from proceeding the hospital’s intensive care unit. body language, you will see that she mented two search warrants on ment agencies. This is consistent after and neutralise big time drug with the plunder case. Arroyo herself is under hos- has moments of pain, she didn’t feel the houses of Bautista and the with our current operational syndicates,” Cacdac said. Arroyo claimed she was pital arrest, having been con- well,” he added. Borbe couple. thrusts to neutralise priority high THE PHILIPPINE STAR wrongly prosecuted for crimes fined at the Veterans Memorial THE PHILIPPINE STAR PDEA agents confiscated a total of 12 plastic sachets of shabu and assorted drug paraphernalia Filipinos celebrate Eid from the suspects, Cacdac noted. Archbishop Tagle ‘terrified’ $121K reward by elevation to cardinal for car thief’s head: Duterte MANILA: To be named careful study of developments in a cardinal of the Catholic society and the Church, includ- MANILA: The vice mayor of Church is a source of solace ing the intensification of the a southern Philippine city has and at the same time terrify- mission of the Archdiocese of offered a $121,000 reward for the ing, said Manila Archbishop Manila and the Church in the decapitated head of the alleged Luis Antonio Tagle. Philippines, and even outside the leader of a gang of car thieves. “To be called to collaborate country, especially in Asia. Davao City Vice Mayor Rodrigo with the Pope as a cardinal Benedict’s announce- Duterte, known for being tough both consoles and terrifies me. ment came at an auspicious on criminals, told a news confer- I am consoled by the trust and time, considering that Pedro ence in Davao on Wednesday that love that the Pope shows to me, Calungsod had just been canon- he would give P2m ($48,400) if to the Archdiocese of Manila ised last Sunday. The Catholic suspect Ryan Yu is arrested and to the whole Church in the Church is also observing the and P4m ($96,800) if he’s killed. Philippines. Year of Faith as the Synod He said he’d add another P1m He wants to hear us and to of Bishops discusses the New ($24,200) if Yu’s decapitated head benefit from our experiences of Evangelisation. is delivered to him “in ice.” faith and mission,” Tagle, who “These events fill me with Davao police chief Ronald de was among the new cardinals much courage and joy, I bow la Rosa said yesterday that many named by Pope Benedict XVI, before the God of mercy and interested parties had sent text said. entrust our people and our messages wanting assurance they In an interview Wednesday Church to the loving protection would receive the reward. evening over Vatican Radio, of Mary Our Mother,” Tagle said. Human rights commission Filipino Muslims conduct morning prayers to celebrate Eid Al Adha, also called ‘Feast of the Sacrifice’ on a street Tagle expressed his gratitude to He said that with his assump- chairman Loretta Rosales said in Taguig city, south of Manila, yesterday. the Pope for his trust and confi- tion to the rank of cardinal, he Duterte violated the law for dence in him and the church in would be bringing with him making a judgment without due Manila and the Philippines. “optimism and hope.” process. Malacañang yesterday Two govt workers die in sea mishap “I take this not only as a gift “I hear a number of times the appealed to Davao City Vice but also a call for the Church in fear of some churches that have Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to let the Philippines to take seriously been used to being the majority due process takes it course in MANILA: Two employees of when the mishap occurred off a DepEd employee, died in the our mission especially in Asia. and very influential in society. the case of a wanted carjacker the Department of Education Puyo, Calatrava Island at around hospital when they were receiving Nowadays, especially through They are afraid of the waning in the city. (DepEd) died while 55 other 12:10pm yesterday. treatment. The other survivors our migrant Filipino workers numbers.” “We, in this country, believe passengers and nine crew mem- The PCG said that all the pas- were in good condition and went all over the world, the Christian “But that has been the story of in due process. [President bers survived after the motor- sengers and the crew members home. faith is made present and spread the church in Asia for the past Benigno Aquino III] has already boat they were riding on sank were rescued by Coast Guard per- PCG were still verifying the all over the world.” 2,000 years. We don’t panic. You mentioned this that we have to off Romblon yesterday after- sonnel at about 2:30pm. report that certain Ana Adarlo, “Maybe this is a time for us live with it. You trust that the accord every person the right of noon, the Philippine Coast However, the agency said, also a DepEd employee, was miss- to thank the Lord and take Lord is risen and that the Holy his day in court. We have to go Guard (PCG) said. two of the passengers, identi- ing, the agency said. It is also seriously our mission,” said the Spirit continues to blow in spite through the legal processes of fil- PCG said that the boat “MB El fied as 66-year-old Eve Fajutag, a investigating the cause of the 55-year-old cardinal-designate. of us and, many times, because ing a case and prosecuting that Padre” was on its way to Romblon, DepEd Romblon superintendent, accident. Tagle said he would have to of us too,” Tagle said. person,” Lacierda said. Romblon from Semara Island and 55-year-old Grace Mallorca, THE PHILIPPINE STAR broaden his horizon and make a THE PHILIPPINE STAR THE PHILIPPINE STAR SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA Death toll in Myanmar unrest surges to 112 Violence poses a stern challenge to the international image of the reformist government

SITTWE: At least 112 people released in Yangon. the violence, with US State have been killed and thousands “If this is not done... the reform Department spokeswoman of homes torched in Buddhist- and opening up process being cur- Victoria Nuland urging both sides Muslim violence in western rently pursued by the government “to exercise restraint and imme- Myanmar, casting a shadow is likely to be jeopardised.” diately halt all attacks”. over the reformist government’s President Thein Sein has been Security has been stepped up in attempts to remake the coun- widely-praised for overseeing affected areas, including around try’s international image. sweeping reforms in the former the state’s main tourist attraction People have fled their homes in junta-ruled nation, including of Mrauk U and Kyaukpyu, where droves following the fresh wave of the release of hundreds of politi- a major pipeline to transport clashes in Rakhine state, which cal prisoners and the election of Myanmar gas to China begins. was rocked by communal vio- opposition leader Aung San Suu Tun Tun, an ethnic Rakhine lence in June that split commu- Kyi to parliament. resident in Mrauk U from Yangon nities and left tens of thousands But the Rakhine violence poses said the situation in his township of mainly Muslim Rohingya living a stern challenge to the reform had calmed yesterday. in camps. process. “The situation is calm now. We “Up until this morning, 51 State media yesterday took the heard that more security forces men and 61 women have died,” a rare step of acknowledging the were sent from Sittwe (the state spokesman for Rakhine state Win damage the resurgent violence is capital) to Mrauk U,” he said, Myaing said, doubling an earlier causing to the nation’s image at a adding some shops have been toll. pivotal moment in its transition closed since violence flared. The dead were from both sides, from authoritarian rule. Journalists visiting Rakhine he added, while scores more were The violence comes as the just before the renewed unrest saw wounded as violence engulfed four “international community is thousands of Muslim Rohingya townships. watching”, a statement signed by trapped behind barbed wire and More than 200 people have now the president’s office said in gov- armed guards in a ghetto in the been killed in the state since June, ernment mouthpiece New Light centre of the capital. according to the authorities, who of Myanmar. Tens of thousands more are have imposed emergency rule in Myanmar’s 800,000 Rohingya housed in camps beyond the city the face of continued explosive are seen as illegal immigrants limits as segregation between the tension in the region. from neighbouring Bangladesh two communities becomes more The United Nations responded by the government and many pronounced. to the bloodshed yesterday with Burmese -- who call them There have been a number Injured Rakhine Buddhist men lie on beds at a hospital in Sittwe, the capital of Myanmar’s western Rakhine state a stark warning that Myanmar’s “Bengalis”. of anti-Muslim protests by yesterday. reforms are under threat from The latest violence, which Buddhists recently. the continued violence between prompted Myanmar’s main The stateless Rohingya, speak- the ethnic Rakhine and the Islamic organisations to cancel ing a Bengali dialect similar to mobilised extra patrols along its of Rohingya, mainly women and it fears large numbers of Rohingya Rohingya. celebrations for the four-day Eid one in neighbouring Bangladesh, river border with Myanmar amid children, after the June violence. will attempt the perilous sea jour- “The vigilante attacks, targeted al-Adha holiday that began yes- have long been considered by reports of dozens of boats carry- But the nation said it would not ney south over the coming weeks threats and extremist rhetoric terday, is seen as serious challenge the United Nations as one of the ing Rohingya Muslim refugees accept any new refugees because to escape violence in Rakhine and must be stopped,” a spokesman to the government. most persecuted minorities on the fleeing the clashes. it was already dealing with an the sprawling refugee camps in for UN Secretary-General Ban Washington joined the United planet. Dhaka drew criticism from the estimated 300,000 Rohingya. Bangladesh. Ki-moon said in a statement Nations to swiftly condemn Bangladesh on Thursday UN after it turned back boatloads The UN’s refugee arm has said AFP

Canadian, Australian China clears way for S Korea suspends rocket launch tourists found dead

SEOUL: South Korea sus- date. But since we have to bring get its commercial launch pro- in Bangkok hotel Bo Xilai prosecution pended its third attempt to send the rocket down, it will be delayed gramme up and running. a satellite into orbit by at least at least three days,” Cho said, Seoul’s space ambitions were BANGKOK: A Canadian and three days yesterday, after a adding that engineers were inves- restricted for many years by its an Australian tourist have been BEIJING: Disgraced Chinese The report also said that Bo helium leak was detected in the tigating the precise cause of the main military ally the US, which found dead in a Bangkok hotel politician Bo Xilai has been had “borne major responsibil- rocket just hours before sched- problem. feared that a robust missile or after a suspected drug over- expelled from the country’s par- ity” for the murder of a British uled launch time. “We may not be able to launch rocket programme would accel- dose, Thai tourist police said liament and stripped of his legal businessman that resulted in his With only a five-day launch during this window, in which case erate a regional arms race, par- yesterday. immunity, clearing the way for downfall, without elaborating. window that ends October 30, we will have to shut it down and ticularly with North Korea. A maid found the bodies of the his prosecution, state media The focus will now shift to any further delay could result in fix a new window,” Cho said, with- South Korea’s space budget for two men, who are believed to be said yesterday. when Bo will face trial for a a much lengthier postponement, out offering a possible alternative 2012 is around $200m, according aged 31 and 27-years-old respec- The announcement follows litany of alleged crimes, with officials at the Naro Space Centre timeframe. to the Science Ministry -- a pal- tively, slumped in a room in the intense speculation on the fate most commentators suggesting told reporters. As with the two previous failed try sum compared to the billions Park Plaza, a hotel in one of main of the former party boss of the the court case will be after the After two previous failures in attempts, the KSLV-1 has a first being pumped in by the govern- the tourist drags of the Thai capi- southwestern city of Chongqing in Communist Party Congress next 2009 and 2010, the current launch stage manufactured by Russia, ments in Beijing, Tokyo and New tal late Thursday. the lead-up to a once-in-a-decade month at which new leaders will is considered critical for South combined with a solid-fuelled Delhi. Their bodies were found along- leadership transition set to begin be selected. Korea’s efforts to join an elite second stage built by South Korea. In a recent paper for the side an unknown white powder on November 8. Li Xiaolin, a lawyer who had space club that includes Asian In 2009 the rocket achieved Council on Foreign Relations, and drug taking paraphernalia. State news agency Xinhua said been appointed by the Bo family, powers China, Japan and India. orbit but faulty release mecha- James Moltz, a professor at the “At the initial autopsy the the Standing Committee of the told the reporters yesterday that The 140-tonne Korea Space nisms on the second stage pre- US Naval Postgraduate School, forensic doctor said they died 11th National People’s Congress he did not expect the court case Launch Vehicle (KSLV-I) had vented proper deployment of the said South Korea had little option from a drug overdose,” the tour- (NPC) removed Bo from his post to be held until after the party been scheduled to blast off from satellite. but to pursue an expensive catch- ist policeman, who wanted to late last month, but made the congress. the Naro site on the south coast A second effort in 2010 saw the up strategy. remain anonymous said, adding announcement only yesterday at Party chiefs are set to meet yesterday afternoon. rocket explode two minutes into “As a middle-sized power, Seoul tests will be carried out on the a bi-monthly session. for the Communist Party Central But Deputy Science Minister its flight, with both Russia and has to invest a higher percent of powder. “According to the law on the Committee’s 7th Plenary Session Cho Yul-Lae said a helium leak South Korea pointing the finger its resources into space activity if Thailand’s reputation as a tour- deputies to NPC and to local on November 1 to formally in the rocket’s Russian-built first of blame at each other. it hopes to develop a sustainable ist paradise has been tarnished people’s congresses, his post was approve the convening of the stage would require the carrier Success this time around will niche position among Asia’s larger recently after the deaths of sev- terminated,” Xinhua said, quot- congress and confirm the deci- to be removed from the launch mean a huge boost for South and more established space pow- eral holidaymakers including two ing a statement from the standing sion made last month to remove pad and returned to the assembly Korea -- a late entrant into the ers, which are decades ahead of Canadian sisters on the resort committee at the end of a four- Bo from the party. facility. high-cost world of space technol- it,” Moltz said. island of Phi Phi in a suspected day meeting. AFP “We will set another launch ogy and exploration, desperate to AFP poisoning case in June. In August, a British and a French tourist died in a night- Eid in Indonesia club blaze on Phuket island in another blow to Thailand’s image US offers apology -- already tarnished over recent Sri Lanka minister says top years by deadly political unrest, over Japan rape devastating floods, and concerns about violent crimes against TOKYO: The United States judge violated constitution foreigners. yesterday issued its most high- level apology yet to Japan over COLOMBO: A top minis- in May, reports say that it has 5.5 magnitude quake the alleged rape of a woman in ter accused the head of Sri been irked by his statement last Okinawa by two servicemen. Lanka’s Supreme Court of month that there was a “con- strikes off Taiwan US Assistant Secretary violating the constitution over spiracy to destroy the inde- TAIPEI: A 5.5-magnitude of State Kurt Campbell told a key judicial appointment, pendence of the judiciary”. earthquake hit the Kaohsiung an audience in Tokyo of escalating tensions yesterday Tilakaratne, who is also a and Pingtung area Thursday Washington’s sorrow, the latest between the government and high court judge, has not spoken evening. move to soothe anger at a time judiciary. publicly since he was stabbed No damage or casualties were of heightened anti-US feeling on Foreign Minister GL Peiris by unidentified attackers in a immediately reported, though the the island. said Chief Justice Shirani suburb of Colombo last month. Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit “I need to begin, if I may, with Bandaranayake had overlooked The government has denied network was halted for 90 min- a heartfelt apology and (the 29 more senior judges when it was behind the attack, utes to check for any damage to expression of) deep commitment naming Manjula Tilakaratne as which it “strongly condemned”. the tracks and stations, Taiwan to Japanese friends,” Campbell, secretary of the Judicial Service Police say there has been no news reported. the US point man on East Asia, Commission in May, accusing breakthrough in finding the The tremor hit an intensity of said in a symposium on the him of overstepping his remit. attackers. five in the Kaohsiung City area. Japan-US alliance in Tokyo. Tilakaratne was stabbed last Bandaranayake was The quake struck at 6:31 pm “These incidents are pro- month after he alleged there appointed by President with its epicentre located about foundly, deeply regrettable and was a plot to destroy the inde- Mahinda Rajapakse in May 22.1 kilometres southeast of the the United States takes them pendence of the judiciary. 2011 but tensions between the Kaohsiung City Government, 33 very seriously,” he said. “The constitution has been government and judiciary have kilometres under the coast area The United States put all clearly violated in making this been growing. of Pingtung County, the Central 47,000 military personnel under appointment of JSC secretary,” The Supreme Court shot Weather Bureau said. an indefinite nighttime curfew Peiris said in a statement to down a bill this month that Buildings in Taiwan’s second in response to the alleged rape, parliament late Thursday. sought to take away some of city shook considerably but the following the arrest of two serv- “The Supreme Court has no the powers of local government local fire department said that icemen last week. discretion to appoint any judge, bodies and transfer them to initially, no damage or injuries Okinawa is home to around it must be the senior most judge central government’s Economic were reported in the area. half of the US forces stationed from courts of first instance.” Development Minister Basil An aftershock measuring 4.2 in Japan under a treaty signed Indonesian Muslims perform the Eid Al Adha prayers on a street Although the government Rajapakse -- the president’s hit the same area at 7:05 pm, after World War II. of Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. did not raise objections to brother. according to the weather bureau. AFP Tilakaratne’s appointment back AFP AGENCIES SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Suicide bomber kills 40 at Afghan mosque No immediate claim of responsibility for bombing

KABUL: A suicide bomber A member of parliament for Karzai strongly condemned slaughtered more than 40 peo- Faryab, Naqeebullah Fayeq, who the attack, calling the perpetra- ple, including five children, was present during the attack put tors “the enemies of Islam and when he struck at a mosque in the death toll at 47. humanity”. northern Afghanistan after Eid Barez, like many other pro- “Those who take the happiness al-Adha prayers yesterday, offi- vincial officials, was also at the of Muslims during Eid days can- cials said. scene at the time of the bombing not be called human and Muslim,” It was the worst death toll in a and described the horror of the he said. single attack in Afghanistan since blast in the midst of a religious The United States embassy said 80 died on December 6 last year in celebration. the “attack against innocent wor- a suicide blast at a shrine in Kabul “We had just finished Eid al- shippers further demonstrates on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. Adha prayers and we were con- the insurgency’s lack of respect At least 50 others were gratulating and hugging each for religion, faith and its disre- wounded as the bomb -- report- other,” Barez said. gard for the safety and security edly stuffed with ball-bearings “Suddenly a big explosion took of the Afghan people”. -- ripped through the crowd of place and the area was full of The commander of Nato’S worshippers in Maymana city in dust and smoke and body parts of International Security Assistance Faryab province. police and civilians were all over Force, General John Allen, con- There was no immediate claim the place. It was a very powerful demned “this heinous act” and of responsibility, but suicide explosion.” offered ISAF’s resources to “help bombings are a favourite weapon One eyewitness, Sayed Moqeed, however we can”. of Taliban Islamists trying to top- described the bomber as appear- Northern Afghanistan is rela- ple the Western-backed govern- ing to be in his early teens. tively peaceful, with the Taliban, ment of President Hamid Karzai. “Suddenly I heard a very big who were ousted from power in The attacker was wearing a explosion,” he said. “Everywhere a US-led invasion in 2001, con- police uniform when he blew were pieces of bodies, hands and centrating their operations in the Afghan policemen carry the body of a civilian after a bomb blast in Faryab province yesterday. himself up at the entrance to the limbs. The suicide attacker was south and east of the country. city’s packed Eid Gah mosque, in police uniform, he looked to be But they have recently stepped deputy provincial governor Abdul around 14 or 15 years old.” up their activities in the north, of Balkh, near Faryab, killing 19 3,021 civilians died in the war, The foreign combat troops are Satar Barez said. The four-day Eid al-Adha despite the presence of more people and wounding 16 others. according to UN figures. due to withdraw by the end of “We have 42 dead -- more than holiday is a celebration in which than 100,000 Nato troops in the The United Nations says 1,145 But Afghan police and govern- 2014 and there are fears that the 20 are security forces and the rest Muslims slaughter animals for country. civilians were killed in the war in ment officials have increasingly Taliban will extend their activities of them are civilians, including feasts and distribute a portion of Last week, a huge roadside the first six months of this year, become targets as local forces across wider swathes of the coun- five or six children,” he said. the meat among the poor, and the bomb ripped through a minibus blaming 80 percent of the deaths take on more responsibility for try against ill-prepared Afghan “Around 51 are wounded, some first day draws large crowds to carrying guests to a wedding on insurgents. the fight against the insurgents forces. 15 of them critically injured.” mosques around the Islamic world. party in the northern province Last year as a whole, a record as Nato prepares to pull out. AFP

Gunmen kill two Shot Pakistani girl ‘will rise again’: Father anti-Taliban elders

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND: told reporters, his voice breaking out against the group and praised since she was shot. intention of keeping up with her in Swat Valley The father of a Pakistani girl with emotion. US President Barack Obama. “It’s a miracle for us,” her studies,” Rosser added. PESHAWAR: Gunmen shot shot in the head by the Taliban Malala has become a power- A cheerful schoolgirl who wants father said. “She was in a very Malala’s father said he and dead two members of an anti- for advocating girls’ education ful symbol of resistance to the to become a politician, Malala bad condition ... She is improving his family cried when they were Taliban peace committee in said yesterday she would “rise Taliban’s efforts to deny women Yousufzai began speaking out with encouraging speed.” finally reunited with her on Pakistan’s northwestern Swat again” to pursue her dreams education. Public fury in Pakistan against the Pakistani Taliban British doctors say Malala has Thursday. valley, where militants tried after hospital treatment. over her shooting has put pres- when she was 11, around the time every chance of making a good “I love her and of course last to murder schoolgirl activist Malala Yousufzai, 15, was flown sure on the military to mount when the government had effec- recovery at the special hospital night when we met her there Malala Yousafzai, police said from Pakistan to Britain for spe- an offensive against the radical tively ceded control of the Swat unit, expert in dealing with com- were tears in our eyes and they yesterday. cialist treatment after the Oct. Islamist group. Valley to the militants. plex trauma cases. It has treated were out of happiness,” he said, The shooting will heighten 9 attack, which drew widespread “When she fell, Pakistan stood She has been in critical condi- hundreds of soldiers wounded in adding that Malala had asked him fears of a campaign of targeted international condemnation. ... this is a turning point,” her tion since gunmen shot her in the Afghanistan. to bring school textbooks from killings in Swat, as in the last The father Ziauddin Yousufzai father said. “(In) Pakistan for the head and neck as she left school Dave Rosser, the hospital’s Pakistan so she could study. four months, two businessmen and other family members arrived first time ... all political parties, in Swat, northwest of Islamabad. medical director, said she would “She told me on the phone, and outspoken anti-militant in Britain on Thursday to help the government, the children, the She could be at risk of fur- be strong enough to travel back please bring me my books of Class campaigners have been shot her recovery. elders, they were crying and pray- ther attack if she went back to to Pakistan in a few months’ time 9 and I will attempt my examina- dead and two others wounded. “They wanted to kill her. But ing to God.” Pakistan, where Taliban insur- but it was unclear whether the tion,” he said. The latest incident took place she fell temporarily. She will rise The Taliban have said they gents have issued more death family would choose to do so. “We are very happy ... I pray for in the Charbagh area, a former again. She will stand again,” he attacked her because she spoke threats against her and her father “She’s certainly showing every her.” REUTERS militant stronghold some 10 kilometres (six miles) north of Mingora. Eid Al Adha prayer It is the main town of Swat valley, where Taliban shot 15-year-old Malala in the head Violence against women for promoting the right of girls to go to school. Police said gunmen opened fire on the rise in Peshawar on Tajim Gul late Thursday, in front of a mosque while Sardar PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s province as FIRs of 65 percent Mohammad was gunned down north-western metropoli- of the cases were reported dur- at his home. tan of Peshawar is among 14 ing the first six months of the “In both incidents the attack- districts in the country with year. ers managed to flee. We have high incidence of violence According to the report, FIRs registered a case against the against women over the first were registered for 184 VAW unknown attackers,” Liaqat Ali, six months of the current cases but no FIR was registered an official in Charbagh police year, according to an Aurat for 82 cases. station said. Foundation report. There is no information about Daidar Ghani, another Other districts are Lahore, the status of FIR for 17 cases in police official, confirmed the Okara, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. incident. Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Gujrat, DG Statistics show 60 per- Mohammad’s five-year-old Khan, Pakpattan, Muzaffargarh, cent of women who were sub- son was injured in the shooting Sahiwal, Mirpurkhas, jected to violence in Khyber Residents said both victims Sheikhupura and Ghotiki, said Pakhtunkhwa were married. were members of local peace the ‘Violence Against Women “A total of 1,170 married and committee and they blamed In Pakistan Monitor (Jan-June 62 unmarried women were vic- Taliban for the killing. 2012) report released here said. tims of violence of women in All four victims before Malala According to the report, the province during the Jan- were senior members of an anti- women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa June 2012 period. There is no militancy group. are at a high risk of subjugation information available about the Malala, who won interna- but culture and societal norms marital status of 51 victims of tional recognition for a blog in the province make it harder violence against women,” it said. about the horrors of life under for women to report violence The report said there was no the Taliban and a campaign against them. information about the age of 69 for the right to an education, During January and June percent of VAW victims from is the highest-profile target of this year, 283 VAW cases Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. militants in Swat for more than were reported in Khyber It added that 47 women sub- Two Afghani children refugees offer Eid Al Adha prayers in Kacha Gari refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, three years. Pakhtunkhwa but the number jected to violence were aged yesterday. AFP is six percent of the countrywide below 18 years, 33 between 19 incidence of such crimes. and 36 years and seven over 36 Around 55 percent of VAW years. incidents reported in Khyber According to the report, dur- Pakhtunkhwa in six months ing the Jan-June 2012 period, Two Americans killed in Afghan insider attack were of murder totalling 157, the country reported 1,086 while the province registered cases of women’s abduction and KABUL: Two American sol- The unprecedented number US military in Afghanistan said. The attacks have created deep nine cases of abduction and kid- kidnapping, 792 of women’s diers were killed by a man of so-called “green-on-blue” It is believed to be the first distrust between the allies, and napping during the period. murder, 435 of women’s rape in an Afghan police uniform killings comes at a critical such attack since September have rocked Nato’S plan to train Overall, 32 cases of domestic or gang rape, 349 of suicide by on Thursday, the US mili- moment in the 11-year war, as 30, when a firefight between Afghan forces to take over the violence, 23 of honour killing women, 346 of honour killings, tary said, the latest in a series Nato forces try to hand security Nato troops and their Afghan fight against the Taliban when and 30 of suicide were reported 298 of domestic violence against of insider attacks that have responsibility to the Afghans allies killed five people, includ- foreign troops leave. in the province between Jan and women, 50 of sexual assault seriously undermined trust before the withdrawal of foreign ing one US soldier and a civilian Nato top brass have taken June 2012. against women, 46 of throwing between the allies. combat forces by the end of 2014. contractor. the issue very seriously, with In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the acid on women, 32 of burning The Afghan conflict has seen Thursday’s attack happened in Most insider attacks are ISAF commander General John prevalence of sexual violence women and 1,160 of other kinds an alarming surge in insider the central province of Uruzgan. blamed on cultural differ- Allen saying that just as home- was reportedly low as seven of VAW. attacks this year, with more “Two US Forces-Afghanistan ences and personal grievances made bombs were the signature cases of rape or gang rape were It said the VAW numbers than 50 soldiers from Nato’s service members died after an between soldiers working closely weapon of the Iraq war, “the sig- reported in six months. are based on media reports and US-led International Assistance individual wearing an Afghan together against Taliban insur- nature attack that we’re begin- The rate of the registration the actual incidence of VAW is Force (ISAF) killed by their col- National Police uniform turned gents, but Nato attributes some ning to see is going to be the of first information report for much higher. leagues in the Afghan army and his weapon against them in 25 percent of the incidents to insider attack”. VAW was reportedly high in the INTERNEWS police. Khas Uruzgan, Uruzgan,” the Taliban infiltrators. AFP SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

President, PM Krishna quits greet people on Eid Al Adha

NEW DELHI: President clearing way Pranab Mukherjee, Vice President Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yester- day greeted the people on the occasion of Eid Al Adha, for reshuffle wishing the festival would resolve to build a peaceful, harmonious, fraternal and Young blood set to join Cabinet progressive society. In his message, the presi- dent said: “The festival of Eid NEW DELHI: India’s veteran the election if he works for the Al Asha epitomises the noble Foreign Minister S M Krishna party in the state.” Krishna hit values of sacrifice, trust and announced his resignation yes- the headlines in 2010 when he forgiveness.” terday in a move that clears read out parts of the Portuguese “Let us today remind our- the way for a long-awaited foreign minister’s speech at a selves of the spirit of sacrifice reshuffle of Prime Minister meeting of the United Nations in the cause of goodness that Manmohan Singh’s beleaguered Security Council in New York. alone can lead to peace and government. His impact on foreign policy harmony. May this unique The gaffe-prone Krishna, was seen by analysts as being festival inspire us to sacrifice whose political career stretches marginal, with Singh and his King of Spain Juan Carlos I chats with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a meeting at the Hyderabad House our selfish interests in the back nearly half a century, said he senior advisers taking the lead in New Delhi, yesterday. larger interest of the coun- wanted to make way for a younger on crucial issues such as relations try as a whole,” the president generation while a senior member with Pakistan. said. of the main ruling Congress party He was severely embarrassed Greeting the people, said he would be playing a leading in 2010 at talks in Islamabad with Ansari said: “The celebration role in an upcoming election cam- his Pakistan counterpart Shah Spain enters into strategic of this festival reminds us of paign in his traditional fiefdom of Mehmood Qureshi who accused the cherished human values Karnataka. him during a press conference of compassion, sharing and “I am a loyal party worker,” the of having to take his orders by sacrifice.” 80-year-old Krishna said in brief phone from New Delhi during defence deal with India “On this joyous occasion, comments on the NDTV news their negotiations. let us all firmly resolve to channel. “Krishna never had a grip on build a peaceful, harmoni- “I will continue to work for the diplomacy. All the policies had to NEW DELHI: Amid the fester- of around 7 percent when the king, an Indophile with an abiding ous, fraternal and progressive Congress party. I am making way be spoon-fed. He is not a natu- ing Eurozone recession, Spain, growth rates in the developed interest in Indian art and culture. society,” the vice president for younger people.” ral when it comes to diplomacy,” a trillion dollar-plus economy world have plummeted sharply. “We are carrying out far-reach- said. The resignation takes effect said S R Rajan, a professor of hit by the downturn, yester- The Indian side pitched for ing economic policy measures, In his message, prime immediately and a senior official international relations at Delhi day sought increased trade Spanish investments in sectors and these have already begun to minister said the festival in the prime minister’s office said University. and investment with India and like infrastructure, transport bear fruits,” he said, while invit- celebrates the spirit of sub- Krishna has cancelled a sched- Widespread reports have said sought to give a strategic cast and energy, areas in which Spain ing Indian businesses to scale up mission to the will of god. uled visit to Laos, where he was that Singh is on the verge of shuf- to bilateral ties by signing five boasts of proven prowess, said investment in Spain. “The festival reminds us of to have accompanied Singh, who fling his ministerial team with pacts, including a key defence official sources. Bucking the eurozone down- the importance of charity and is also aged 80. Rahul Gandhi, son of the slain one. Spain, one of the bigger turn, bilateral trade burgeoned to sacrifice. On this occasion we Krishna was appointed foreign prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan European economies affected $5bn in 2011, which represents a should reaffirm our resolve minister in 2009 after Singh was widely tipped to be given a seat Singh held delegation-level talks by the sovereign debt crisis, has growth of almost 18 percent over to strengthen the bonds of re-elected prime minister. in cabinet. with Spain’s King Juan Carlos I, prioritized India as an important 2010. brotherhood,” he said. It was his first position in cab- Singh’s coalition government who is currently on a four-day opportunity for Spanish busi- Spanish investment in India is “May Eid Al Adha this inet after having held a host of lost its parliamentary majority visit to India. nesses who are struggling for new over $1.3bn. India’s total invest- year usher in happiness and senior positions in the state gov- last month after a key ally, the After the talks, the two sides markets outside the eurozone. ment in Spain is valued around prosperity for all,” he said in ernment of Karnataka since the Trinamool Congress, quit over a signed five pacts, including a pro- The king has brought in a large ¤605m. a statement. 1960s. He served as chief minister series of economic reforms. tocol on amending an earlier con- business delegation, comprising Seeking to give a strategic cast Eid Al Adha is celebrated of the southern state from 1999 Having secured the support of vention on the avoidance of double CEOs of leading Spanish com- to bilateral ties, India and Spain by Muslims across the to 2004. a regional party which does not taxation, a key pact that will spur panies, to underscore the India signed a defence pact that entails, globe in honour of Prophet Polls in Karnataka are due to sit in cabinet, the government collaboration between defence focus. among other things, exchanging Ibrahim, who was even will- be held in May next year and the is in no immediate danger of industries of the two countries Speaking to a galaxy of Indian defence-related experience, infor- ing to sacrifice his son Ismail battle for control of one of India’s collapsing. and four other pacts in areas of business leaders in Mumbai mation, encouraging visits of per- to please Allah. largest states is expected to be However the reshuffle, which sustainable transport and high Thursday, Juan Carlos I had sonnel, collaboration in defence It will be celebrated across fierce. reports say could be as early as speed railways. lauded India’s rising global stat- industry and other similar areas the country today. “He wants to go back to his this weekend, is seen as an oppor- With Spain’s economy reeling ure and pitched for greater trade of cooperation. According to Muslim home state and work for the tunity for Singh to bring in new from the eurozone downturn, the and investment between the two The pact was signed by Defence belief, Allah replaced Ismail Congress party,” said a senior blood and thus revive his party’s Spanish side sought to scale up countries. Minister A K Antony and his with a sheep just as Ibrahim Congress leader in New Delhi. prospects in the countdown to trade and investment with India, “India is a great nation with Spanish counterpart Pedro was about to slit his throat “He has a stronghold in state national polls due in the spring an emerging economy which is growing influence in this increas- Morenes Eulate. - hence the tradition of sac- politics and the Congress can win 2014. AFP still growing at a healthy clip ingly globalised world,” said the IANS rificing an animal. IANS

Curfew continues in Faizabad, four Fifth accused in Pune officials suspended LUCKNOW: serial blasts arrested Curfew continued for the third consecutive day NEW DELHI: A suspected Their plan had the approval of in Faizabad where communal Indian Mujahideen (IM) opera- Bhatkal brothers, he said. clashes broke out Wednesday, tive who is the fifth accused in Since Bhatkals wanted to police said. the August 1 Pune serial blasts avenge the death of Quateel Though no violence was case has been arrested, Delhi Siddiqui, an IM operative who reported yesterday, restrictions Police said yesterday. Four oth- was killed in Yerawada Central were not relaxed as the adminis- ers were arrested earlier. Jail in Pune June 8, they decided tration did not want to take any Sayed Maqbool alias Zuber, 35, to carry out bomb blasts in Pune chances ahead of Eid. who was arrested, had trained his first, he said. Faizabad Senior associates to manufacture impro- Police said that on Riyaz Superintendent of Police (SSP) vised explosive devices (IED) to Bhatkal’s direction, Maqbool Rimat Sharma told IANS that carry out the blasts, police said. helped Imran do the recce of the situation was under control Maqbool, a resident of Nanded Dilkush Nagar, Begum Bazar but as a matter of abundant cau- in Maharashtra, was held by Delhi and Abids in Hyderabad about a tion, the curfew was continuing Police’s Special Cell from his hide- month before Ramzan. and security forces continued to out in Hyderabad on October 23. Maqbool began his career in be deployed. No violence has been The other accused - Asad crime with Azam Gauri alias reported since Thursday. Khan, 33, and Imran Khan, 31 Aleem of Andhra Pradesh, who Security forces, including the - were held from south Delhi was killed in a gunbattle with Central Reserve Police Force on September 26, Sayed Feroz police in 2000. (CRPF) and the Provincial Armed alias Hamza, 38, was arrested “Maqbool is involved in three Constabulary (PAC), have been British business tycoon Richard Branson, sitting on top of a black-and-yellow city taxi, plays a traditional drum on October 1 from Nizamuddin murder cases,” said Srivastava. deployed in areas where violence Railway Station in Delhi, and Maqbool also helped set up during a photo opportunity parade in Mumbai yesterday. broke out Wednesday evening. Langda Irfan Mustafa, 30, was terror group Indian Muslim Many vehicles and shops were caught in Jaipur on October 10, Mohammadin Mujahidin torched after an idol procession police said. (IMMM) with Gauri and Roshan going for immersion was alleg- Maqbool was closely associated Baig in 1999 and they worked edly pelted with stones and a man Give me a ring if India needs with the other four, police said. as social workers campaigning was stabbed and succumbed to his He first came in contact with against dowry, corruption and injuries later. Imran through a common friend pornographic films, he said. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and later met Asad and Irfan. Gauri mentored Maqbool Friday ordered suspension of four high speed railways: Branson Maqbool then taught the four at and taught him how to prepare officials, including the additional Asad’s farmhouse in Aurangabad IEDs for bombing theatres that district magistrate (ADM), city NEW DELHI: British trans- said he has the experience to system, the world’s second larg- how to make bombs by using urea, screened pornographic films. magistrate and the city super- port mogul Richard Branson upgrade the crumbling network est under a single management, diesel and fire cracker powder, Maqbool was involved in four intendent of police. Two people said yesterday he would love to as his Virgin Rail Group has oper- is desperately in need of upgrad- police said. bomb blasts in 2000, Srivastava were arrested on suspicion of help set up high-speed trains in ated a service along the west coast ing to ensure the country’s infra- In April, Imran introduced said. instigating the flare-up. India at a time when the nation’s of Britain for more than a decade. structure keeps pace with its Maqbool to brothers Riyaz and “The first blast was done in A total of 13 first information creaking railway system des- “We would love to help,” said economic growth. Iqbal Bhatkal, the chiefs of Indian Kaketiya Hotel in Hyderabad reports (FIRs) have been lodged, perately needs new investment. Branson. Branson, who also runs his own Mujahideen (IM). while two other blasts were in Inspector General of Police (Law State-run Indian Railways, “In Britain we took over a airline, was furious when Virgin Before the August 1 Pune serial Sharda and Lamba theatres in and Order) Badri Prasad Singh the world’s biggest employer, is dilapidated part of Britain’s net- lost its franchise to operate the blasts, Maqbool, Irfan, Imran and Nanded. However, the fourth said and added that the role of the studying the feasibility of attract- work about 15 years ago and we West Coast Main Line in Britain Asad discussed their plans to blast took place at Gauri’s house senior district officials was under ing private investment for high- transformed it. in August. carry out a suicide attack on a where they were preparing an the government scanner. speed trains for six routes and has “If you wanted high-speed However the government has Buddhist shrine in Bodh Gaya in IED,” said Srivastava. “Anybody and everybody found been studying various options of trains in India, just give me a ring since put its decision to hand the Bihar in retaliation for atrocities Maqbool is also close to Abdul involved or guilty of callousness attracting funding. and we will be happy to send a licence to a rival operator on hold on Muslims in Myanmar, said S N Rauf, leader of All India Majlis will be punished,” a senior home In an interview with India’s team to have a look.” after irregularities in the licence Srivastava, Special Commissioner Itehad-ul Muslimi (AIMIM), a department official said. IANS NDTV news channel, Branson India’s crumbling railway tender process. AFP of Police (special cell). political party. IANS SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

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180,146 8.96 183,747 26.35 217,439 149.30269,600 15.49 9,522 76.60 187,419 28.35 40.-62 25.00 226,867 72.30 9,926 51.90 World’s spare oil capacity grows: Report Saudi Arabia, US, Iraq and Libya pump more; consumption wanes; Brent rises to $108.81 a barrel

WASHINGTON: The world’s Reuters ahead of its publication, have reduced Iran’s exports to an exception. But the law also markets increasingly concerned three analysts expected Brent to spare oil production capacity included a steep downward revi- around 860,000 b/d compared to allows the administration dis- over a possible loss of supply from average less than $100 in 2013, outside of Iran rose in last two sion in spare capacity in July and 2.2m b/d in 2011, according to the cretion to ensure cuts are not so the Middle East. and three of 20 analysts expected months as petrol demand waned August from 2.4m b/d to 1.8m b/d Paris-based International Energy great that they backfire, pushing Investors worry that a military the same level for Brent in 2014. in the United States and oil use due to upward revisions of out- Agency. While Iran had “precipi- oil prices high enough to benefit conflict between Iran and Israel Harry Tchilinguirian, head of for power generation fell in the put from Opecc members Saudi tous declines” in crude exports, the Iran and hurt allies. could cut off supplies from the key commodity market strategy at Middle East, the US govern- Arabia and the UAE. situation has eased in September A Reuters poll showed that oil producing region. “We believe BNP Paribas, said he saw the ment said in a bimonthly report. Still, the cushion is relatively and October as most of its custom- supply risks and loose monetary supply worries driven by produc- potential for a sharp rise in oil In September and October, thin compared to previous years. ers found ways to insure shipments policy are likely to support oil tion/export disruptions due to geo- prices and forecast Brent averag- spare oil production capacity was “The current level of surplus after the European Union banned prices over the next year. politics and/or operational issues ing $120 in 2013. 2 million barrels per day, the EIA capacity is quite modest by his- reinsurance, the EIA said. Reuters monthly survey of ana- have for the most part edged US crude is seen averaging $98.5 said, up from 1.8m b/d in the pre- torical standards,” the EIA said, “Preliminary data show a very lysts forecasts North Sea Brent out fears over a more significant in 2013 and $100.7 in 2014. Barclays vious two months, said the report, adding that it averaged 3.6m b/d small increase in global imports crude oil will average $108.80 drop in demand and continue to had the highest Brent price fore- which is required by last year’s from 2009 to 2011 and 2.7m b/d in of Iranian crude oil since July,” per barrel in 2013, up $1.90 pose upside risk to the market,” cast in the poll for 2013 and 2014, Iran sanctions law. September and October last year. the report said, noting the assess- from Reuters’ last oil price poll Deutsche Bank analysts said. with $125 and $130, respectively. The slightly larger cushion While demand fell, global pro- ment was based on early tanker in September. “Supply risks are The injection of hundreds of Raymond James had the lowest gives room for the Obama admin- duction outside of Iran rose, the data and press reports, and could likely to push oil prices higher and billions of dollars into financial forecasts for 2013 at $80 while istration to continue pressuring report said. Libya, Iraq and Saudi be revised. The report comes ultra-loose monetary policy by markets by the world’s central Capital Economics offered the low- Tehran over its disputed nuclear Arabia pumped more crude and ahead of key decisions faced by major central banks should also banks is also likely to boost com- est projection for 2014 at $85. programme through sanctions the United States continued to the Obama administration in increase liquidity in commodity modity prices and oil, analysts say. Meanwhile, oil prices were that target Iran’s oil revenues. draw more oil from its vast shale December on whether to extend markets and boost demand,” said “Financial investors will seek mixed yesterday. Brent North Sea The sanctions require global reserves. Saudi Arabia, which six-month “exceptions” or waivers Carsten Fritsch, senior commod- refuge in real assets to protect crude for delivery in December importers to buy less Iranian holds most of the world’s spare to the sanctions to China, India, ity analyst at Commerzbank. themselves against loss of pur- gained 32 cents to $108.81 a barrel crude or risk being cut off from output capacity, pumped at 9.8m South Korea and other importers. Oil markets have been bal- chasing power and currency in late London trade. New York’s the US financial system. Tehran b/d over the last 60 days, up about The sanctions law requires anced this year between supply devaluation,” Fritsch said. main contract, light sweet crude has said its nuclear programme is 100,000 b/d from the previous two importers to make “significant” and demand-side worries, with Four of the 29 analysts sur- for December lost 24 cents to strictly for civilian purposes. months, the EIA said. reductions to oil purchases, meas- slowing global economic growth veyed expected Brent to average $85.81 a barrel. The EIA report, obtained by The US and European sanctions ured by volumes and price, to win holding back consumption but $120 or higher next year. Only AGENCIES

Morocco eyes US economy picks investments from Gulf to up steam in Q3 offset slowdown WASHINGTON: The US econ- the report shows the 13th straight omy picked up steam in the third quarter of GDP growth. “While RABAT: Morocco, facing slower quarter, led by a surge in gov- we have more work to do, together growth and effects of the eco- ernment spending, but remains with other economic indicators, nomic crisis in European part- stuck in the doldrums, official this report provides further evi- ners, aims to attract investments data released yesterday showed. dence that the economy is mov- from the the Gulf which King The world’s largest economy ing in the right direction,” said Mohammed VI has toured. grew at an annual pace of 2 Alan Krueger, chairman of the The North African nation is percent in the July-September president’s Council of Economic accustomed to growth rates of quarter following the second Advisers. between four and five percent, but quarter’s slump to 1.3 percent, Josh Bivens at the Economic will have to make do with a figure the Commerce Department said. Policy Institute highlighted of three percent for 2012, accord- But the pace of expansion in that the third-quarter pace was ing to official forecasts. gross domestic product (GDP) -- roughly the same rate the econ- The budget deficit reached a measure of the nation’s goods omy has been growing since the over six percent of GDP in 2011, and services output — was mod- beginning of 2010. against a backdrop of 30 percent est, and only half that seen in the Third-quarter GDP growth youth unemployment in a country final quarter of 2011. was bolstered by a massive jump where an Islamist parliamentary “The report provides nothing to in federal government spend- election win amid Arab Spring- suggest that US activity is break- ing, mostly due to a 13 percent related upheaval in the region has ing out of the modest growth increase for national defense; raised fresh hopes of change. environment in either a positive increases in household spending; In search of new partnerships, or negative direction,” Barclays and investment in homes amid an A woman walks past a billboard advertising tablets by Samsung Electronics. Mohammed has completed a analyst Peter Newland said. improving housing market. week-long tour of Gulf and Arab The department’s first estimate “Without considerable, tem- states, visiting Jordan, Saudi for the third quarter was slightly porary help from government Samsung net profit rises to $5.97bn Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab stronger than the 1.9 percent spending, GDP would have grown Emirates and Kuwait. The tour expected by most analysts. at the same disappointing 1.3 per- SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Senior Vice President Robert Yi. Increasing demand for panels amounted to “the opening of a It came 11 days ahead of the cent pace in Q3 it did in Q2,” said said yesterday that net profit The third quarter net profit fig- for smartphones and other high new chapter in historic and stra- November 6 presidential elec- Chris Low at FTN Financial. almost doubled to a record ure was well up from the 3.4 tril- valued-added products, such as tegic relations between Morocco tion. President Barack Obama Growth in part was offset by a 6.6 trillion won ($5.97bn) in lion won net profit posted a year LED panels for TVs and LCD pan- and these countries,” Les Echos and Republican nominee Mitt severe drought that gripped the the third quarter, powered by ago and beat the previous record els for tablets, offset weak demand newspaper said in a column on Romney remained locked in a Midwest, reducing farm invento- strong smartphone sales and of 5.19 trillion won set in April- for laptop and monitor panels. the “diplomatic offensive.” tight race, with Obama’s fate ries and slashing 0.4 point from huge demand for display panels. June. Sales surged 26.4 percent Samsung’s operating profits Trade and investment with tied in part to how voters judge the growth rate. Housing invest- The world’s largest technol- on-year to an all-time high of 52.2 have risen every quarter since the region has “lost steam,” said his record in restoring economic ment added 0.3 point to GDP ogy firm by revenue also saw a trillion won. the first three months of 2011, as Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a French growth. growth, but that contribution was record operating profit in July- Analysts expect the technol- booming smartphone sales helped university professor and Maghreb As expected, both sides pounced offset by a decline in exports amid September of 8.12 trillion won, ogy giant to see a marginal fall it leapfrog Apple as the world’s specialist. Official figures showed on the news. “Slow economic a weakening global economy and up 91 percent from the same in income in the final quarter, biggest maker of the devices. that none of the Gulf and Arab growth means slow job growth a drop in inventories. period last year. Samsung said as sales to retailers peak in the According to research firm countries were among the king- and declining take-home pay. This Headline consumer prices rose its mobile communications third quarter ahead of the holiday IDC, Samsung sold 56.3 million dom’s top 10 trading partners is what four years of President 1.5 percent, led by energy prices, business took in 26.25 trillion season and technology companies smartphones in July-September, in 2010 except for Saudi Arabia, Obama’s policies have produced,” but core inflation, stripping out won in revenue for the quarter, ramp up spending on marketing representing 31.3 percent of the in fifth place with $2.1bn of Romney said. “Americans are food and energy, was essen- accounting for more than half for the year-end rush. global market, more than twice investment. ready for change — for growth, tially unchanged at 1.3 percent. the company’s total. The company said its display the 15 percent share taken by “Each Gulf country has its for jobs, for higher take-home pay. “Growth was fairly resilient, with “The business environment panel business helped drive its Apple. The bitter rivals are cur- history with Morocco,” Mohsen- Paul Ryan and I will deliver it,” he inventories relatively unchanged,” remained difficult with global record, with a 1.1 trillion won rently involved in a legal duel Finan said. In mid-2011, the six- said, referring to his vice presi- said Christopher Vecchio, a cur- economic uncertainties persist- operating profit in the third quar- being fought in 10 countries over nation GCC invited Morocco and dential running mate. rency analyst at DailyFX. ing amid the fiscal concerns in the ter, compared to a 90 billion won alleged patent infringements. Jordan, the two non-Gulf mon- The White House pointed out AFP US and Europe,” said Samsung loss the previous year. AFP archies in the Arab world, to join the club, closed to outsiders since its creation in 1981. The move was welcomed by Rabat. But Morocco carefully reiter- ated its “natural and irreversible commitment” to building the Arab UBS ‘rogue trader’ in tears as he defends $2.3bn loss Maghreb Union (AMU), formed to strengthen economic cooperation LONDON: Kweku Adoboli, the UBS Adoboli stands accused of faking hedge false accounting, to which he also pleaded Hughes was left as the senior trader, with between several North African and trader accused of gambling away $2.3bn, deals, leaving UBS exposed to huge losses not guilty. He first broke down with just Adoboli alongside him. Sahel countries. Under the new sobbed in a London court yesterday, say- when the market turned against him. emotion when his lawyer noted that his Adoboli said it might seem “crazy” that rapprochement with the GCC, a ing he had spent every waking hour work- He denies two charges of fraud and two father, now retired, had been at the court as a 26-year-old with just five years’ experi- strategic partnership was signed ing for the bank he considered his “family”. of false accounting in the period between to support him since the start of the trial ence he had been in charge of a $50bn port- to finance development projects in Taking the witness stand for the first October 2008 and September last year. on September 10. While at university in folio but “that’s how it was”. “Our book was Morocco worth more than $5bn time in his trial at Southwark Crown Court, Characterising his relationship with the England, he secured an internship with massive. A tiny mistake leads to a huge loss. over five years. Adoboli denied his actions were fraudulent. bank, he said: “UBS was my family, and every UBS, which then offered him a job. “After about six months, they realised, to Director of UAE holdings The 32-year-old said Switzerland’s biggest single thing I did for them. If I wasn’t so He rose to join the exchange traded be fair, we were struggling,” Adoboli said. company Al Maabar, Yusef Al bank was “everything I lived for” and he proud to work for UBS... I would never have funds (ETF) desk in September 2006, “We were just losing so much money it Nuwais, said “renewable energy, was only ever trying to generate profits for put in so much effort. To find yourself in working under desk chief Mike Foster and was mental. “The markets had gone into tourism, industry and real estate” them at a time when the global financial Wandsworth Prison for nine months because alongside trader John Hughes. “The book the crisis that we are ultimately still in. were the most promising areas of crisis plunged the markets into turmoil. all you did was to work so hard for this bank,” was so big and so complex the two of them We needed help.” Welling up, he said he potential investment, according He became emotional as he recounted his he said of his time in custody following his just couldn’t do it on their own,” he said. had been forced to miss his grandmother’s to Moroccan news agency MAP. struggle to keep his massive $50bn “book” arrest, before he broke down in tears. Under Foster, profits grew from $5m in funeral because “during this period, you Tourism agreements signed with of trades afloat. “It is not fraudulent: It is Before beginning his defence, Adoboli 2005 to $65m in 2007. When he left that couldn’t leave the desk”. Gulf countries have amounted to finding a way to do your job,” he said. was charged with two further counts of year, it was a “huge blow”, Adoboli said. AFP $5.7bn over 10 years. AFP SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

NEC swings to first-half profit Spanish jobless rate bursts past 25 percent 5.78 million people in search for work

MADRID: Spain announced yes- biting cuts have prompted growing terday that its jobless rate broke street protests and unions have called the 25-percent barrier for the a general strike for November 14. first time in modern history as But the jobs figures, the latest austerity cuts squeezed the reces- chapter in a long, grim economic sion-struck economy. story for Spain, had little impact Tens of thousands of jobs were on the stock exchange where the destroyed in the third quarter as IBEX-35 index eased just 3.30 Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s points to 7,775.90 in the afternoon. government raised taxes, cut spend- A total of 5.78 million people A man looks at NEC Corp’s computer displayed at an electronics store in Tokyo. NEC turned an operating loss of 7.88bn yen ($98m) in the first ing and pondered whether to snatch searched in vain for work in the quarter into a profit of 47.4bn yen for the first half. a eurozone rescue line. July-September quarter, up 85,000 The unemployment rate rose to from the previous three months, the 25.02 percent in the third quar- official data showed. The number of ter — the highest since General Spanish households in which every Francisco Franco’s death in 1975 — member is out of work climbed to 1.74 from 24.63 percent in the previous million. The jobless rate was “eye- three months, official data showed. catching” but the biggest concern US businesses fleeing slumping Europe Among workers aged 16-24 the was the cumulative fall in employ- jobless rate towered at 52.34 percent ment over the past 17 quarters, said NEW YORK: Some of the biggest names about world growth, not necessarily US operations—particularly in Europe,” said in the third quarter, only slightly Raj Badiani, London-based economist in US industry are cutting back staff and growth but Europe and Asia as well,” said chief executive Andrew Liveris. down from 53.27 percent in the pre- at analytical group IHS. Job losses shutting plants in Europe as the continent economist Joel Naroff. “They don’t fore- Kimberly-Clark, which makes Kleenex vious quarter, the National Statistic since the third quarter of 2007 now is buffeted by grinding recession and a see growth in Asia and Europe in the tissues and other popular personal-care Institute said. “They are very neg- stand at 3.19 million, equivalent to a never-ending financial crisis. short term,” said Gregori Volokhine of brands, said it would be paring 1,300-1,500 ative figures,” said Soledad Pellon 15.6 percent drop, he said. Releasing quarterly earnings reports over Meeschaert New York. “The only market jobs in Europe, citing a sharp decline in sales Bannatyne, market strategist at Spain’s jobs drama is being fed the past two weeks, US industrial giants say where there is still a little bit of growth is in the region. Evariste Lefeuvre of Natixis brokerage IG Markets. by a recession that is now moving they are feeling the squeeze everywhere, cit- the United States.” said companies made deep adjustments to “We are talking about the highest into a second year, according to ing the slowdown in China and uncertainty Even in the US, Volokhine added, busi- their US operations in 2007-2008, cutting unemployment rate in the history of the Bank of Spain. The economy at home in the United States. nesses are on edge: They do not know how staff and production capacity when the US Spain. It’s beating new records and has been shrinking since mid-2011 But with the eurozone crisis, businesses taxation and spending policies might change plunged into recession. that is perhaps the worst part of and is expected to decline again are singling out that region especially for after the November 6 presidential election. Now it is Europe’s turn, he said, where what this crisis is leaving us.” in the third quarter of 2012 at a cuts, aiming to boost savings and lower expo- Much of the belt-tightening is in Europe. “the prospects for growth are deplorable.” She said the economy needed to rate of 0.4 percent, the same as sure to markets marked by overcapacity and Facing a $1.5bn loss in Europe this year, Ford Besides the fall in business turnover, the grow by more than 1.5 percent in in the previous three months, the falling prices. Motor announced it would close three plants, US multinationals have suffered unfavora- order to generate new jobs but even central bank said this week. But Ford, Dow Chemical, and Kimberly-Clark two in Britain and one in Belgium, and cut ble exchange rate shifts as the dollar has the government’s optimistic forecast “to the person on the street, the all announced cutbacks specifically in Europe 6,200 posts. Dow Chemical announced that strengthened against the euro for the past was for a economic contraction of 0.5 destruction of several million jobs this week, while DuPont, Colgate-Palmolive it would let 2,400 workers go as it shut 20 year, diminishing the value of the revenue percent in 2013. “With that 0.5-per- since late-2007 coupled with an and computer chip maker AMD said they facilities worldwide, including at least four on the continent. cent fall there won’t be a single job unemployment rate at 25.0 per- would be scaling back workforces or capacity plants in Europe. American firms expect a deep downturn created. More than that, with that cent are a more relevant guide without saying exactly where. Dow said sales in Europe fell 10 percent in Europe. Construction equipment maker 0.5-percent fall we will carry on to the depth of recession, and Coca-Cola two weeks ago said it was mov- in its third quarter, and prices fell 12 per- Caterpillar said it foresees improving condi- destroying jobs,” the economist said. even suggest that Spain is being ing the offices of its huge bottler, Coca-Cola cent. “The reality is we are operating in a tions in the US, China and other developing After more than a year of reces- engulfed by near-depressionary Hellenic Bottling, out of crisis-mired Greece, slow-growth environment in the near term countries over the next year, but said chal- sion, the soaring jobless figures and conditions,” Badiani said. AFP sparking fears of coming layoffs there. and, while these actions are difficult, they lenges would persist in Europe. “Undoubtedly businesses are concerned demonstrate our resolve to tightly manage AFP

QATARI MARKET Ireland determined Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P European stocks rebound; gold up to exit EU bailout: Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 106.31 0.74 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.06 1.64 % Aa2 AA LONDON: European stocks steam in the third quarter after a while the Nasdaq Composite gave Foreign minister Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 126.38 2.15 % Aa2 AA rebounded yesterday on figures tepid second quarter, growing at a up 0.27 percent to 2,978.10 points. Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 119.25 2.34 % Aa2 AA BERLIN: that showed a pick up in the US better-than-expected annualised While European stocks mar- Irish Foreign Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.50 2.71 % Aa2 AA growth rate, after having taken pace of 2.0 percent as consumer kets cheered the US growth Minister Eamon Gilmore said Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 181.50 3.51 % Aa2 AA a hit on the Spanish unemploy- spending and home sales rose, the figures, analysts cautioned the yesterday that his country ment rate breaching 25 percent government said. headline figure hid some con- aimed to be the first of the Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 140.50 3.96 % Aa2 AA for the first time, traders said. US stocks failed to get much of cerning trends. “Third quarter struggling eurozone nations to Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 128.88 4.05 % Aa2 AA London’s FTSE 100 index of top a boost however, with Wall Street US GDP has come in at 2.0 per- exit a bailout programme as Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.75 1.35 % Aa2 AA companies closed up a marginal still under the shadow of earnings cent - a bit stronger than expec- his German counterpart hailed Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 116.88 2.58 % Aa2 AA 0.03 percent to 5,806.71 points, disappointments on Thursday from tations – but the reading is not Ireland’s “success story”. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 107.00 1.54 % A1 A- while Frankfurt DAX 30 gained tech giants Apple and Amazon. nearly as good as it looks at first Speaking after talks in Berlin, 0.44 percent to 7,231.85 points, Apple lost 1 percent after report- glance,” said ING bank analyst Gilmore said: “We are determined Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.13 2.39 % A1 A- and in Paris the CAC 40 climbed ing a quarterly profit of $8.2bn but Rob Carnell. to be the first country to success- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 105.13 2.05 % NR NR 0.69 percent to 3,435.09 points. missing expectations. While consumer spending grew fully exit from such a programme QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.13 1.73 % Aa3 A+ Madrid’s IBEX 35 ended down Amazon stunned with a loss, strongly, Carnell noted that busi- and we are on our way to achiev- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 105.25 2.10 % Aa3 A+ 0.05 percent. mainly from a writedown of its ness investment was flat and that ing that goal.” Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 103.88 2.56 % A2 A- In foreign exchange trading, stake in LivingSocial and higher much of the overall growth was Ireland’s EU-IMF bailout pack- the euro was flat at $1.2931 from operating costs, but the online due to a surge in government age worth ¤85bn ($107bn) is due Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.63 1.89 % A2 A $1.2930 in New York on Thursday. retailer’s shares rose 2.2 percent. spending that was unlikely to last. to expire at the end of next year Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.00 2.87 % A2 A On the London Bullion Market, The Dow Jones Industrial Asian stock markets closed and the country hopes to regain Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.63 3.02 % A2 A gold prices climbed to $1,716 an Average was down 0.13 percent to lower as dealers looked ahead to full access to the financial mar- Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 113.63 3.67 % A2 A ounce from $1,715.50 an ounce on 13,086.80 points in midday trad- the release later in the day of US kets at that point. Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 108.50 1.01 % Aa3 A Thursday. ing. The broad-based S&P 500 lost economic growth figures. Both ministers also reaf- The US economy picked up 0.40 percent to 1,407.38 points, AFP firmed comments at the week- Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 110.13 3.07 % Aa3 A end made by their respective Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 112.75 3.45 % Aa3 A leaders that Ireland should be SOVEREIGNS considered a special case when applying for banking aid from Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P the eurozone’s new bailout Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 107.19 0.48 % Aa2 AA Anglo American chief steps down fund, the European Stability Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.38 2.18 % Aa2 AA Mechanism (ESM). Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.75 2.86 % NR NR “Our economy returned to Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 106.38 3.37 % NR NR JOHANNESBURG: Global operations. Earlier this week, her performance, so she had to growth last year but we are car- miner Anglo American, hit Carroll urged South African go,” said Major. rying a very heavy burden of bank Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 120.88 4.58 % NR NR by violent strikes at platinum authorities to restore order, as But he hailed Carroll for play- debt because our taxpayers were Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 112.25 4.83 % NR NR mines in South Africa, said yes- violent mining strikes raged. ing a major role in strengthening required to shoulder the full cost Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 106.19 1.18 % Aa2 AA terday that its first female chief Last week, she met South relations between the firm and of the bank bailout,” said Gilmore, Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.88 3.70 % NR BBB executive Cynthia Carroll would Africa’s mining and finance min- the state, in the face of radical who is also deputy prime minister. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 107.38 4.33 % NR BBB step down for personal reasons. isters as a mass strike for wage calls for nationalisation of mines. “In view of these unique cir- “It is a very difficult decision increases crippled production at Anglo American is the biggest cumstances, we appreciate the Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 103.25 5.22 % B2 B to leave, but next year I will be Anglo American’s platinum unit. private sector employer in South commitment of Germany and Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 99.75 4.54 % NR BBB- entering my seventh year as “It has been a great honour to Africa, with 76,000 workers. our other EU partners to exam- *Periodic Distribution Amount chief executive,” Carroll said in a lead Anglo American,” Carroll Apart from platinum, its oper- ine Ireland’s special situation,” IMPORTANT NOTE: company statement. “I feel that said in the statement that made ations include iron ore, thermal he added. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which the time will be right to hand no reference to the current coal and diamonds through a 45 For his part, German Foreign is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services over to a successor who can build problems in South Africa. “I am percent shareholding in De Beers. Minister Guido Westerwelle said Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary further on the strong founda- extremely proud of everything we Labour union Solidarity that Ireland was “an excellent data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising tions we have created.” have achieved during my period as described Carroll’s resignation example that you can make it out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds Anglo American said that chief executive and I will always as a loss to local mining, saying with discipline, with hard work can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant Carroll, a 55-year-old US citizen, retain enormous admiration and she “championed South Africa’s and that you can work your way liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not would remain in the post until affection for this great company mining industry abroad”. “Carroll out of this debt crisis.” a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and the appointment of a successor. and its outstanding people.” was never afraid to make and to “We are full of respect for the consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. The announcement of her deci- Mining analyst Peter Major carry out the right decisions— Irish efforts. We are grateful for sion to stand aside comes a day said Carroll’s resignation was not whether they were popular or not. your efforts and your pro-Euro- after Anglo American slashed its a surprise as the firm has been Her legacy is undoubtedly one for pean views and we admire the forecast for annual platinum pro- battered by falling share prices which she will be remembered in success story you are writing,” duction amid deadly strikes at the under her watch. “Obviously the the industry,” the union said in a added the minister. group’s troubled South African shareholders weren’t happy about statement. AFP AFP

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September 22, director Nicolas Heller said. Union (UCI) this week effec- limitation.” A report and recommenda- 2010 shows Armstrong’s image still appears tively erased Armstrong from The UCI added: “The com- tions from this commission are Lance Armstrong, on street posters promoting the the cycling history books when mittee also called on Armstrong expected to be published no later Founder and November 14-15 event in the it decided not to appeal sanc- and all other affected riders to than June 1, 2013. Mexican capital, whose speakers Chairman of tions imposed on the American return the prize money they had Pending those findings, the UCI include former Colombian presi- Livestrong by the United States Anti-Doping received.” froze its legal case for defama- dent Alvaro Uribe. Agency (USADA). It is estimated that Armstrong tion against Irish journalist Paul attending the But the forum decided to drop A damning report by USADA earned prize money of 2.95m Kimmage, the former Sunday annual Clinton Armstrong last week and replaced last week concluded that euros for his Tour de France Times reporter who accused the Global Initiative him with former American foot- Armstrong helped orchestrate victories. body of corruption. (CGI) in New ball star Joe Montana, the quar- the most sophisticated doping The UCI justified its decision “UCI is determined to turn York. Armstrong terback who led the San Francisco programme in the history of not to re-attribute podium spots around this painful episode in the must pay back 49ers to four Super Bowl wins. sport. on the Tour as a point of principle. history of our sport,” McQuaid all his winnings WOBI Mexico director general An UCI management com- “The UCI Management said. following the Gustavo Barcia said in a state- mittee yesterday “acknowledged Committee acknowledged that a “We will take whatever actions decision to ment that keeping Armstrong on that decisive action was needed cloud of suspicion would remain are deemed necessary by the rescind all his the speakers’ roster would have in response to the report”. hanging over this dark period - independent commission and we results since sent a “confusing message” since Armstrong will now lose all of but that while this might appear will put cycling back on track. August 1, 1998, the company promotes “the high- his results from 1998, the year harsh for those who rode clean, “Today, cycling is a completely in the wake of a est ethical standards and social he resumed racing after success- they would understand there was different sport from what it was doping scandal, responsibility” in business. fully battling cancer, and a year little honour to be gained in real- in the period 1998-2005. world cycling The regular price for an indi- before the first of his seven con- locating places,” it said. “Riders are now subject to vidual ticket to attend the forum chiefs said secutive yellow jersey wins from The UCI, whose president Pat the most innovative and effec- is 33,000 pesos ($2,500), accord- yesterday. 1999-2005. McQuaid and predecessor Hein tive anti-doping procedures and ing to WOBI’s website. Heller said “With respect to Lance Verbruggen have come under regulations in sport. Nevertheless, the fees paid to speakers were Armstrong and the implications increasing scrutiny over their we have listened to the world’s confidential. of the USADA sanctions which stance on doping, also announced reaction to the Lance Armstrong The International Cycling it endorsed on Monday October the establishment of an inde- affair and have taken these addi- Union (UCI) stripped Armstrong 22, the management committee pendent external commission “to tional decisive steps in response to of his seven Tour de France titles decided not to award victories to look into the various allegations the grave concerns raised.” AFP this week. AFP

MotoGP: Stoner sets early pace Red Bull’s Vettel dominates practice in Australia GREATER NOIDA, India: team-mate Mark Webber Championship leader Sebastian anchored a Red Bull one-two in Vettel set an ominous practice the later session. Alonso was third PHILLIP ISLAND, pace at the Indian Formula One in both. German Formula Australia: Home hero Casey Grand Prix yesterday, dominat- “The track conditions, which One driver Stoner dominated practice in ing both sessions with a best change rapidly lap after lap, Sebastian Vettel front of record crowds yesterda- lap half a second quicker than make it even more complicated (left) of Red Bull yas he chases a sixth consecutive Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso. to understand the situation relat- Racing listens to Australian MotoGP victory this Red Bull’s 25-year-old German, ing to the hierarchy down the pit Red Bull motorsport weekend in his farewell season. who leads Alonso by six points lane,” said the Spaniard, who had chief Austrian The Repsol Honda rider, recov- with four races remaining, con- a problem-free day. Helmut Marko ering from serious right leg inju- tinued to gather momentum as Button had a gearshift problem (right) during ries in a crash in August, was he limbered up for what could in the afternoon, two laps into a the first practice fastest by just under a second as be a fourth win in succession long run on heavy fuel, and strug- session at Buddh the bikes took to the high-speed tomorrow. gled to get the tyres to work as International Circuit and blustery Phillip Island circuit Winner of last year’s inaugural he wanted. ahead of tomorrow’s race. race at the hot and hazy Buddh “I’m not sure our race pace on the outskirts of Stoner again mastered his International Circuit south of is that good actually,” the 2009 New Delhi, India, home track and was the only New Delhi, where the double champion told reporters. “Over yesterday. rider to go under 1min 30sec in world champion set a best time one lap I think there’s quite a bit posting a best lap time of one of one minute 27.619 seconds in of work to do, I think we’re just minute 29.999 seconds, ahead the morning and 1:26.221 in the struggling for general grip.” of Spanish world championship afternoon. The top three in first practice contenders and Honda team-mate The latter time was comfort- were in the same order as last Kimi Raikkonen, third in car’s balance had been compro- with the older Mexican mov- Dani Pedrosa (1:30.884) and Jorge ably inside his race lap record of year’s podium finishers at the the championship with Lotus, mised by an incorrect setting. ing to McLaren to take over Lorenzo (1:31.005). 1:27.249. inaugural Indian Grand Prix, improved from 10th to fifth fast- Mexican driver Esteban from Hamilton when he goes to Stoner is battling the effects “It was dusty to start and which Vettel dominated after hav- est on his first day on the track. Gutierrez replaced compatriot Mercedes. of recent surgery on torn liga- improved lap by lap so I wouldn’t ing already clinched his second Last year’s race was before he Sergio Perez at Sauber for the With the little-used track ments and fractures to his ankle, be surprised if tomorrow the championship. began his comeback after two first session, after the regu- dusty at the outset, teams took tibia and fibula he suffered in order is different,” said Vettel. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was seasons’ absence. lar race driver was reported to their time to progress beyond a crash during qualifying for “But we’ve had worse Fridays so fourth and sixth on the timesheets The team again used their new be unwell, and was 20th. Perez installation laps in the morning the Indianapolis MotoGP in I’m happy.” and more positive than his team ‘Coanda’ exhaust system. returned for the afternoon, look- and then focused on gathering mid-August. McLaren’s Jenson Button was mate after being told from the pit Alonso’s Brazilian team mate ing far from sickly. data and testing updates before The Aussie’s hopes of defending second fastest before lunch, 0.310 wall that he was “the fastest guy Felipe Massa had two spins in the Gutierrez is widely expected tyre work in the afternoon. his world title were ruined by the slower, while Vettel’s Australian on high fuel”. afternoon with Ferrari saying the to replace Perez next season, REUTERS track mishap and he is out of con- tention, well back in third spot on the championship standings with two races left this season. Lorenzo leads Pedrosa by 23 Ecclestone open to two races in India points in the championship and can take his second MotoGP GREATER NOIDA, India: with tomorrow’s race cater- they haven’t got it” - and hoped Hamilton is effectively out of world title with victory tomorrow. India can hope to host two ing for the capital at the Buddh a new contract would be agreed the picture and has said he does Stoner’s final Australian Formula One races within the Circuit some 45km south of New for 2014. not expect to win much with MotoGP appearance is draw- next decade but the country Delhi, he grinned mischievously: Sitting in front of a backgam- Mercedes, who have been off the ing huge crowds down to Phillip faces plenty of competition on “Probably is, actually.” mon set - having just concluded pace for most of the season, in Island with the highest-ever a crowded calendar, accord- Next year’s calendar will have a ‘board meeting’ with old friend 2013 as the team prepares for a attendance at the track yesterday, ing to the sport’s commercial 19 races, a reduction from 20 this and playing partner Karl-Heinz radical shift in the rules for the almost 30,000 packed the stands. supremo Bernie Ecclestone season, with New Jersey’s debut Zimmermann - Ecclestone was year after. He was fastest in both practice (pictured). postponed to 2014 and Valencia open-minded about the Formula Ecclestone had no doubt that sessions. In a conversation ranging from now alternating with Barcelona. One championship as it entered his arrival, in place of the retiring “I’ve been improving every day, sacred cows on India’s roads Russia is due to make a first the decisive last four races. seven times champion Michael but today helped me with some to Lewis Hamilton’s move to appearance in 2014, with a race Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, Schumacher, would be beneficial confidence,” said Stoner, who Mercedes next season, the Briton following on from the Winter who is close to Ecclestone and for the team. walks with a noticeable limp. told reporters at the Indian Olympics in Sochi, and Mexico occasionally joins him for a “I think it’s good for Mercedes. “I’ve got to move on this track Grand Prix that a second race and Thailand are among those game of backgammon, is chas- If they are going to really get a lot less than (his comeback in the country was a possibility. countries also pushing to be raced for Ferrari in the 1960s, in ing his third title in a row with their act together they need race) in Japan and Malaysia (last “We’ve got too many races now included. 1992. “They haven’t got a circuit a six points lead over Ferrari’s someone like Lewis that’s going week), so I’ve had a lot less issues either in the championship or Ecclestone said next year that’s ready,” said Ecclestone, who Fernando Alonso - also a double to do a bit of inspiring to people with the ankle on the bike.” about to go in. So, later on maybe. would be too soon for Mexico, shook his head when asked about champion. that want to go and work there,” Lorenzo, runner-up behind Three or four years,” he said. whose interest in the sport is the old one. “That’s the problem. “I don’t mind who wins. I he declared. Pedrosa at the last three Ecclestone doubted it would likely to soar with Sergio Perez It’s the old one. It just needs sort- think the guy that deserves to “Nobody wants to work for a MotoGPs, found the notorious be in Mumbai, home of the replacing Hamilton at McLaren. ing out a bit.” win eventually will win,” said the team (when) they don’t look as windy Phillip Island conditions ‘Bollywood’ film industry and The country last hosted a grand The Briton, looking in good Briton, whose grip on Formula if they are doing well but now difficult to adjust to after the the country’s financial capital, prix at Mexico City’s Autodromo shape ahead of his 82nd birth- One remains as firm as ever maybe they will. I think his name Malaysian tempest last weekend. but “one of the other big places” Hermanos Rodriguez, a circuit day tomorrow, said New Jersey’s despite legal troubles in Germany is enough... which is what every- “It’s been really tough so far, instead. Asked whether Mumbai named after the late brothers decision to postpone had not cost over the past sale of a stake in one expected of Michael.” the conditions are quite difficult,” would not be the obvious place, Pedro and Ricardo who both local organisers money - “because the sport. REUTERS Lorenzo said. AFP SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Football fixtures (all timings in GMT) English Premier League Today Liverpool, Newcastle win Aston Villa vs Norwich City (1145) Arsenal vs Queens Park Rangers (1400) Reading vs Fulham (1400) Spurs draw against Maribor; Atletico Madrid maintain perfect record Stoke City vs Sunderland (1400) Wigan Athletic vs West Ham United (1400) PARIS: A second half goal a second straight home win which “The second half was extremely Manchester City vs Swansea City (1630) from Stewart Downing ensured keeps the Magpies in charge of good, the first half was not so Tomorrow Liverpool avoided an unwanted Group D. good,” Villas-Boas opined Everton vs Liverpool (1330) record on Thursday night as Alan Pardew’s men now lead “The group is completely open. the English Premier League Bordeaux, already dismissed What we face now is two games Newcastle United vs West Bromwich Albion outfit edged Russia’s Anzhi emphatically at Saint James’ at home and I think we are in a (1500) Makhachkala 1-0 at Anfield to Park, by three points after the good position in the group.” Southampton vs Tottenham Hotspur (1500) bolster their Europa League Girondins - Obertan’s former club Elsewhere, holders Atletico Chelsea vs Manchester United (1600) hopes. - could only draw at Portugal’s Madrid thanked goals from Scottish Premier League Downing’s well taken 53rd- Maritimo. Diego Costa and Turkish mid- minute strike means Liverpool But there was frustration for fielder Emre Belozoglu for a third Today avoided two straight European another English side, Tottenham, straight Group B triumph over Aberdeen vs Dundee (1400) home losses for the first time in who had to settle for a third Portugal’s Coimbra. Celtic vs Kilmarnock (1400) their history after their recent straight draw in Group J, held Turkey’s Fenerbache top Group Hearts vs Ross County (1400) hiccup against Italy’s Udinese and 1-1 at Slovenia’s Maribor. C after a 1-0 success at Cypriot Inverness Caledonian Thistle vs St. they now lead Group A with six Midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson side Limassol while Germany’s Johnstone (1400) points from three matches. rescued a point to keep the Borussia Moenchengladbach St. Mirren vs Dundee United (1400) Better still for the Merseysiders, Londoners in touch with Group moved level second with Marseille who now lead the Russians and J leaders Lazio, who produced the after defeating the French 2-0. Ligue 1 the Italians by two points, Udinese same scoreline at Panathinaikos. A surprise in Group F saw Today went down to a shock 3-1 loss Spurs trail the Italians by two Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk beat Lille vs Valenciennes (1500) at unheralded Swiss side Young points after a poor showing at the Serie A’s Napoli 3-1 for a third AS Nancy vs Paris St Germain (1800) Boys, throwing away a chance to Stadion Ljudski, where last season win on a roll while the Italians are go top of the section. Maribor were not good enough now third behind PSV Eindhoven Sochaux vs Evian Thonon Gaillard FC (1800) Anzhi came to Liverpool boast- to see off second tier English after the Dutch drew at home to Montpellier HSC vs Nice (1800) ing former Barcelona and Inter Championship side Birmingham. AIK Solna of Sweden. Stade de Reims vs ES Troyes AC (1800) Milan Champions League winner Robert Beric fired in from close Former European champions Toulouse vs Stade Brest (1800) and Cameroon international star range for Maribor while Spaniard Inter Milan lead Group H after Tomorrow Samuel Eto’o in their ranks but Iago Falque crossed after the Rodrigo Palacio netted the only he had a quiet night. break for Sigurdsson to convert goal against Partizan Belgrade FC Lorient vs Ajaccio (1300) “Stewart Downing scored in a goalmouth melee. but Russia’s Rubin Kazan edged Bastia vs Girondins Bordeaux (1600) a brilliant goal. He has had a Of some consolation to Spurs Neftci of Azerbaijan by the same Olympique Marseille vs rough ride here, it’s been a tough was Jose Verdu Nicolas’s last-gasp score to stay level on points with Olympique Lyon (2000) time, but he is a good guy,” said leveller for Panathinaikos which seven from three games. La Liga Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers. denied Lazio a win that looked French side Lyon thanked a “He’s an important member of likely after Georgios Seitaridis Jimmy Briand goal four minutes Today our team and he got a good recep- had put through his own goal in from time for a third straight suc- Espanyol vs Malaga (1400) tion from the Kop.” the first half. cess -- 2-1 over Group I tailenders Real Betis vs Valencia (1600) Liverpool’s Stewart Downing celebrates his goal during the Europa League Also flying the flag for England Spurs’ boss Andre Villas-Boas Athletic Bilbao and Sparta Prague Celta Vigo vs Deportivo Coruna (1800) match agaisnt Anzhi Makhachkala at Anfield, Liverpool, Britain on Thursday are Newcastle, who thanked a insisted afterwards Spurs were are second after a 3-1 win over Rayo Vallecano vs Barcelona (2000) goal from French winger Gabriel still set fair to advance to the last Israel’s Hapoel Kiryat Shmona. night. Tomorrow Obertan just after the restart for 32. AFP Real Zaragoza vs Sevilla (1100) Europa League results Stricken Metsu Levante vs Granada CF (1500) Group A Athletic Bilbao vs Getafe (1650) Liverpool (ENG) 1 Anzhi Makhachkala (RUS) 0 Atletico Madrid vs Osasuna (1845) Young Boys (SUI) 3 Udinese (ITA) 1 steps down as Chelsea not finished Group B Real Mallorca vs Real Madrid (2030) Hapoel Tel-Aviv (ISR) 1 Viktoria Plzen (CZE) 2 Al Wasl coach Monday Atletico Madrid (ESP) 2 Real Valladolid vs Real Sociedad (2030) Academica Coimbra (POR) 1 Serie A Group C DUBAI: article, says Giggs Today AEL Limassol (CYP) 0 Fenerbahce (TUR) 1 Bruno Metsu Moenchengladbach (GER) 2 Marseille (FRA) (pictured) LONDON: Ryan Giggs you play Third-placed Manchester City Siena vs Palermo (1600) 0 has stepped (pictured) lit the fuse on Chelsea, will also look to get back on track AC Milan vs Genoa (1845) Group D down as Manchester United’s potentially and it will after a 3-1 defeat at Ajax in mid- Tomorrow Maritimo Funchal (POR) 1 Bordeaux (FRA) 1 coach of explosive clash with Chelsea by always be week left their Champions League Catania vs Juventus (1130) Newcastle (ENG) 1 Club Brugge (BEL) 0 Dubai first claiming the Premier League tough at challenge hanging by a thread. Bologna vs Inter Milan (1400) Group E division club leaders aren’t the finished arti- Stamford The English champions have VfB Stuttgart (GER) 0 FC Copenhagen Al Wasl and cle yet. Bridge.” spluttered so far this season and Fiorentina vs Lazio (1400) (DEN) 0 has been While Chelsea have made a United City midfielder James Milner Pescara vs Atalanta Bergamo (1400) Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 2 (Chiriches 30, hospitalised flying start to their title chal- would wants his team to be more ruth- Sampdoria vs Cagliari (1400) Rusescu 32) Molde (NOR) 0 since October lenge with seven wins from eight dearly love less against Swansea at Eastlands Torino vs Parma (1400) Group F 9 with an undisclosed illness, matches to open up a four-point to win tomorrow. Dnipropetrovsk (UKR) 3 Napoli (ITA) 1 rumoured by the local press to lead over second-placed United, a league Like City, Arsenal, who host AS Roma vs Udinese (1945) PSV Eindhoven (NED) 1 AIK Solna (SWE) 1 be cancer. Giggs believes it is too early to game at the bottom of the table QPR, are in Napoli vs Chievo Verona (1945) Group G In a statement the club said crown the west London club as Bridge for the first time since need of a morale-boosting win fol- Bundesliga Genk (BEL) 2 Sporting Lisbon (POR) 1 thay “have accepted the depar- champions elect. 2002 as they try to close the gap lowing successive defeats against Today Videoton (HUN) 2 Basel (SUI) 1 ture of Metsu due to personal rea- Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat at Shakhtar on Chelsea, but to do that Giggs Norwich and Schalke. Fortuna Duesseldorf vs Group H sons,” adding that assistant coach Donetsk in the Champions League knows they must find a way to “We have great players with VfL Wolfsburg (1330) Inter Milan (ITA) 1 (Palacio 88) Partizan Gilles Morisseau will take over as on Tuesday underlined Giggs’ cure their defensive woes. great potential but at the moment Belgrade (SRB) 0 interim head coach. belief that the rebuilding job Alex Ferguson’s team have you cannot feel we are a strong Mainz vs Hoffenheim (1330) Rubin Kazan (RUS) 1 (Kasaev 16) Neftci PFK Metsu replaced Diego undertaken by Blues boss Roberto conceded the first goal in eight squad,” Arsenal defender Per Greuther Fuerth vs Werder Bremen (1330) (AZE) 0 Maradona in July after a series of Di Matteo after the departure of matches out of 12 this term and Mertesacker said. Freiburg vs Borussia Dortmund (1330) Group I poor results and the 58-year-old several senior stars is still a work they were at it again on Tuesday Tomorrow, Liverpool manager Schalke 04 vs Nuremberg (1330) Lyon (FRA) 2 Athletic Bilbao (ESP) 1 has been flooded with tributes in in progress. when Braga stunned Old Trafford Brendan Rodgers gets his first Tomorrow Sparta Prague (CZE) 3 a country where he was national “Chelsea are a talented team. by taking a 2-0 lead in the taste of the Merseyside derby as Hapoel Kiryat Shmona (ISR) 1 coach between 2006 and 2008 and They have changed the person- Champions League before United the Reds make the short trip to VfB Stuttgart vs Eintracht Frankfurt (1430) Group J led them to their first Gulf Cup of nel a bit with Oscar, Hazard and hit back to win 3-2. Goodison Park to face Everton. Bayern Munich vs Bayer Leverkusen (1630) Maribor (SLO) 1 Tottenham (ENG) 1 Nations title. Mata, who play in those little Meanwhile, Chelsea goalkeeper Everton midfielder Marouane Hanover 96 v Borussia Moenchengladbach (1630) Panathinaikos (GRE) 1 Lazio (ITA) 1 The well-travelled Frenchman pockets and are so hard to pick Petr Cech is confident his team’s Fellaini hopes to recover from a Dutch championship Group K had a 14 year career as a mid- up,” Giggs said ahead of tomor- slip-up in Donetsk will prove knee injury in time to feature and Rapid Vienna (AUT) 0 Bayer Leverkusen (GER) fielder before turning to coaching row’s clash between the top two a valuable lesson ahead of the his team-mate Kevin Mirallas Today 4 in 1987 and most famously had a at Stamford Bridge. United match. said: “It’s good to have Marouane ADO Den Haag vs Willem II Tilburg (1645) Rosenborg (NOR) 1 Metalist Kharkiv (UKR) 2 spell with Senegal between 2000 “Only time will tell if they are The Blues have lost four of their available because he is scary for NEC Nijmegen vs Roda JC Kerkrade (1745) Group L and 2002 when he led the “Lions better. But it doesn’t really mat- last five meetings with United, but the other team. People in the VVV-Venlo vs NAC Breda (1845) Levante (ESP) 3 FC Twente (NED) 0 of Teranga” to the 2002 World ter because you know you are up Cech expects a strong response opposition fear him.” Tomorrow Helsingborgs (SWE) 1 Hanover (GER) 2 Cup quarter-finals. AFP against a very good team when after the European setback. AFP Feyenoord vs Ajax Amsterdam (1130) Heracles Almelo vs Heerenveen (1330) Qatar Stars League round five matches today PEC Zwolle vs PSV Eindhoven (1330) RKC Waalwijk vs Twente Enschede (1330) Vitesse Arnhem vs AZ Alkmaar (1530) Belgian championship Today Charleroi vs Anderlecht (1600) Ghent vs Mons-Bergen (1800) Beerschot vs OH Leuven (1800) Mechelen v Lierse (1800) Waasland-Beveren vs Zulte Waregem (1800) Tomorrow Kortrijk vs Racing Genk (1330) Club Bruges vs Lokeren (1700) Qatar Stars League Week 5 match schedule Today’s schedule Al Sadd vs Eljaish at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, 6.00pm Al Khor vs Lekhwiya at Al Khor Stadium, 6.00pm Al Gharafa vs Umm Salal at Thani bin Jassim Stadium, 6.00pm Al Rayyan vs Al Sailiya at Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, 8.00pm Qatar Sports Club coach Sebastiao Lazaroni (right) and goalkeeper Mohamad Mubarak Budawud before a press conference at Qatar Football Association on Wednesday. Qatar SC take Al Wakra vs Qatar SC at Soud bin on Al Wakra in the round five match of the Qatar Stars League (QSL) at Soud bin Abdalrahman Stadium, today at 8.00 pm. RIGHT: Al Khor SC coach Loslo Boloni (left) and player Osman Abdalrahman Stadium, 8.00pm Mohammed at QFA on Wednesday. Al Khor take on Lekhwiya at Al Khor Stadium, at 6.00pm. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL/SALIM MATRAMKOT Al Arabi vs Al Kharaitiyat at Grand Hamad Staduim, 8.00pm SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Lost medal Sharapova cruises to third posted back to British consecutive win in Istanbul Olympian LONDON: A British hockey player, whose Olympic bronze WTA Championships: Russian avoids Serena in today’s semi-final clash medal was allegedly stolen on a night out, has had it posted back to her. ISTANBUL: Maria Sharapova WTA Championships Two bronze medals, belonging advanced her hopes of a tri- Results in the $4.9m WTA Championships, to Hannah Macleod and rower umphant end to a self-defining played indoors at the Sinan Erdem Dome Alex Partridge, went missing as year by delivering a table- yesterday (x denotes seeding): they visited a London nightclub topping third win at the WTA White Group after a reception at Buckingham Championships yesterday. Maria Sharapova (RUS x2) bt Samantha Palace on Tuesday to celebrate French Open champion Stosur (AUS x9) 6-0, 6-3 the achievements of the 2012 Sharapova completed an improb- athletes. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x4) bt Sara able career Grand Slam during But a 31-year-old man was Errani (ITA x7) 6-7 (5/7), 7-5, 6-4 2012, and now an emphatic vic- arrested on Thursday in connec- tory over former US Open cham- unfortunate Stosur, a slightly off- tion with the thefts and bailed pion Samantha Stosur guaranteed the-pace late substitute for the until November 23. that she gets the less difficult of unwell titleholder Petra Kvitova, Less than 24 hours later, the two semi-finals today. who was overwhelmed in a first a police spokesman revealed That’s because the Russian’s set lasting only 20 minutes. Macleod’s medal had been posted 6-0, 6-3 win over the Australian During that time Stosur won anonymously to the England enabled her to avoid Serena a mere five points, and although Hockey head office yesterday. Williams, the unofficial favourite she played better in the sec- Macleod, 28, had taken to for the season-ending title. ond set, there were only a cou- Twitter earlier in the week to ask Williams completed her third ple of games where she seemed whoever took the medal to post it win on Thursday to finish top of capable of delaying the outcome back to the hockey headquarters. the other group. significantly. On Wednesday she tweeted: “Especially after my injury I’ve These happened at 2-2 when “I’m not after punishment. If got a lot better at accepting losses Stosur reached break point, only you picked up a Bronze Olympic as well as wins,” Sharapova said, for Sharapova to launch a dan- medal that isn’t yours pls just referring to the badly damaged ger-averting first delivery, and in send anonymously back to GB shoulder which has required a the following game when Stosur hockey-Bisham Abbey.” four-year rebuilding of her career. fought hard and well to hold serve She also told the Sun newspa- Few thought then that she and keep her nose in front. per that she had been scouring could win another Grand Slam But Sharapova increasingly Maria Sharapova of Russia serves the ball to Samantha Stosur of Australia during their match at the round-robin eBay to see if it was on the auc- title, as she did in Paris in June. showed that her ground strokes stage of the WTA Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. tion website. Few thought either that she these days produce more disguise, “I want it back so much. I had would recover from a set and 2-4 better angles and cleverer com- a look on eBay in case it ends up down as she did during a three- binations than in her pre-injury but I didn’t want to lose. I wanted Meanwhile, Serena said she is reckons she can next year. Hence there,” she said. hour struggle on Wednesday days. to do the right things today and aiming to capture another Grand Williams already seems to have “I’ve hardly slept since. I’ve just against Agniezka Radwanska, the When she broke serve to love in I did them.” Slam. Serena is within sight of lateral vision of an increasing been standing by the phone, wait- Wimbledon finalist from Poland. the seventh game, she accelerated Sharapova was made to wait to capping a tremendous come- opportunity to add another Grand ing for news.” So though Sharapova may to an energy-conserving result. learn who she plays in Saturday’s back year by winning the WTA Slam title to her total of 15, at The police spokesman said be more inured to defeats, she “After a really long match in semi-finals with her opponent due Championships. Melbourne starting in little more officers were holding on to the remains one of the toughest my previous round, I was just try- to be the winner of a match in The Olympic, Wimbledon and than two months time. medal while they continue their resisters of them, and on Friday ing to be really aggressive today the other group between Victoria US Open champion has finished “I can’t wait to get to Australia,” inquiry but that they would reu- showed herself better than she and not spend as much time as Azarenka, the world number one top of her group without ever she said of the country where she niting Hannah with her treasured has ever been at making oppor- I did the other day,” Sharapova from Belarus, and Li Na, the achieving her best, but aims to has won five of her Grand Slam prize shortly. tunities count. said. “I knew coming in I was former French Open champion do that in today’s semi-finals. titles. “I wish it started next Meanwhile, Partridge’s jacket Sharapova imposed that on the already going to be in the semis, from China. Even if she can’t, she says, she month.” AGENCIES was handed in to a London police station on Thursday, but police are still searching for the 31-year- old’s medal. Detective Chief Inspector Del Potro struggles to set up Gasquet clash James Harman said: “We are still looking to recover the sec- BASEL, Switzerland: Juan weekend.“It was tough to find my Swiss Indoors “I’m not thinking about London Gasquet broke three times ond medal, and we stress that our Martin del Potro struggled into way into the match, he played well Results from the fifth day of the ATP Swiss yet, only about trying to play a in his straightforward win over inquiries remain active. the Swiss Indoors semi-finals at the start,” said Del Potro, who Indoors tournament yesterday (x denotes couple of more matches here,” Youzhny, a fellow former top 10 “Our appeals for information yesterday by beating South added that his back was not a real seeding): said the South American. player. The loss in one and three- stand and I take this opportunity African Kevin Anderson 3-6, 7-6 problem. Quarter-finals “I’d love to be in the finals here. quarter hours denied the Russian to reiterate them - if the public (7/3), 6-2, a day after qualifying “I was lucky to stay in the Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG x2) bt Kevin But I need to play better tomor- his 400th career match win. can help we ask them to do so. for the year-ending World Tour match in the tiebreaker. But the Anderson (RSA) 3-6, 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 row if I want to win.” Gasquet pronounced himself “Alex’s medal has yet to be Finals. third set was a lot easier than the Gasquet trails three rivals confident after a solid victory, traced, and he is understandably Richard Gasquet (FRA x3) bt Mikhail The second seed was pushed all first two. I played really well then, in the points chase to the sea- his third in seven meetings with keen to be reunited with it as soon Youzhny (RUS x6) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) the way by his opponent, who used broke him twice and got some son wrap-up in London from Youzhny. as possible.” AFP his big serve to good advantage confidence. secure one of the two remaining November 5, standing adrift of “I fought a lot and played a during a match which stretched “I stayed calm in the third set, places in the World Tour Finals conpatriot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, good match,” said the winner. over two hours. that was the key to this match, with his 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) defeat of Serb Janko Tipsarevic and Spain’s “I’m excited to try for a place in Farah, Ennis Del Potro, playing only his sec- trying to remain calm all the time sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny. Nicolas Almagro. Of the three, London. It’s been five years since ond event since coming back from on court.” Del Potro has beaten the Tsonga and Tipsarevic quit first- I played the year-end finals (in named Britain’s a month off to heal a left wrist The Argentine will take a 4-1 French player twice in 2012, round matches due to injuries in Shanghai). It would be really nice problem, seemed to be feeling his record into his today’s semi-final including the Estoril final on clay Valencia while Almagro reached to be a part of it again, but I need athletes of year back on occasion, a legacy from against French third seed Richard last May and indoors in Marseille the quarter-finals but lost to to win some more matches this when he won the Vienna title last Gasquet, who kept alive his bid to in February. David Ferrer yesterday. week and next in Paris.” AFP LONDON: Britain’s Olympic champions Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis were named ath- letes of year by the British Athletics Writers’ Association Tendulkar gears up for Test yesterday. Inverarity urges Farah did the distance dou- ble, winning the 10,000 and 5,000 men’s metres titles at London 2012 while Ennis won the wom- series against England en’s heptathlon gold for the host doosra caution nation. Farah won the first of his NEW DELHI: Record- runs and has also compiled an with the PL as this is the best gold medals on the same night breaking Indian batsman Sachin unprecedented 100 international time for us to bring back some SYDNEY: Australia’s chairman of selectors John Inverarity yes- Ennis clinched the heptath- Tendulkar will make a rare centuries. international cricket to Pakistan,” erday urged caution over producing a generation of chuckers by lon title and long-jumper Greg appearance in domestic four-day The selectors also named Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) teaching the doosra to the country’s aspiring spin bowlers. Rutherford, who was runner-up cricket next week to gain match India’s left-arm paceman Zaheer chairman Zaka Ashraf said. The doosra, the difficult-to-bowl leg-spinner delivered with an to Farah in the men’s category, practice ahead of the home Test Khan in the Mumbai side. South African turned down a off-spinning action, has been a key weapon for leading sub-continent also won gold. Christine Ohuruogu series against England. England open their tour with a request from the PCB to adjust slow bowlers in Test cricket, including Sri Lanka’s retired world- was runner-up to Ennis in the The 39-year-old, the world’s three-day practice match against the dates for Pakistan’s tour from record holder Muttiah Muralitharan. vote after winning a silver medal leading scorer in both Test and India ‘A’ in Mumbai on October January to March next year as Muralitharan claimed last month that Australia’s failure to produce over 400 at the London Games. one-day cricket, was named yes- 30. It will be followed by two more the tour ends on March 24th, a top-line spinner since Shane Warne’s retirement from Tests in 2007, Meanwhile, Alberto Salazar erday in a 13-man Mumbai squad warm-up games before the four- about the same time the Premier can be attributed to the regimented attitude of the nation’s coaches. But caoch of Farah said the Olympic for a four-day Ranji Trophy Test series starts in Ahmedabad League is to be launched. former Test batsman Inverarity, 68, has cautioned against the clamour double winner could attempt a match against Railways starting on November 15. The Indian Premier League, among Australia’s spin fraternity to embrace the doosra. 10,000 metres-marathon double in Mumbai on November 2. The tourists, who also play two the most successful T20 compe- “That’s a question of integrity for Cricket Australia (CA),” at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. Tendulkar, whose last Ranji Twenty20 internationals on the tition amid a raft of new tourna- Inverarity told a cricket luncheon in Melbourne yesterday. Farah thrilled a home crowd appearance was in 2009, struggled first leg of their tour, will go home ments in south Asia, is set to start “If you’re going to bowl a doosra, that’s how you do it,” Inverarity at the London Games in August in a home Test series against New for Christmas and return for a around April 4. said in fielding a question from a luncheon guest about whether the when he became only the seventh Zealand in August-September five-match one-day series starting “We just need a two week win- doosra constituted chucking. man to complete the 5,000-10,000 when he scored just 63 runs in on January 11. dow to have our first event and “It’s a serious issue. We’ve got to keep our integrity,” he said. metres Olympic double. three innings. we can manage that despite the “We’ve got to teach our bowlers to bowl properly. Salazar told BBC Sport that Legendary Indian opener Pakistan to launch South African tour,” Ashraf said, “I’m all for them learning it but it has got to be within the rules, Farah, who will be 33 in four Sunil Gavaskar even suggested adding that five franchises with a for the integrity of the game and Australia’s cricket heritage. years’ time, could have lost a “lit- during the second Test against T20 league in March pool of 30 overseas players were “We should always run a measure over them to make sure they’re tle speed” over the 5,000 by then. New Zealand in Bangalore that LAHORE: Pakistan will launch in the pipeline. bowling legitimately (according to the 15-degree threshold rule for “My guess is he will do a Tendulkar’s reflexes were on its Premier League Twenty20 Meanwhile Ashraf has ruled elbow flexion).” 10-marathon double. At Rio, that the slide after the batsman was tournament in March as it out any plans to hire former test Inverarity’s comments are likely to be met with scepticism in would be a good shot. We will have bowled in all three innings. bids to lure more international captain Salim Malik as the next Asia, where most bowlers of the ‘doosra’ originate. a look at the schedule but if the Tendulkar has made a record cricketers back to the country. batting coach of the national Pakistani offspinner Saeed Ajmal, the highest-profile bowler of 10 is first, he would go 10,000 and 51 Test centuries but has now Touring sides have shunned team. Malik, who was banned for the delivery today, was cleared by the International Cricket Council marathon,” Salazar said gone 25 innings without a hun- Pakistan since a militant attack life in 2000 by a judicial inquiry in 2009 after his action was thoroughly tested by an Australian Farah will attempt to replicate dred in the five-day game since on Sri Lanka players in 2009 but commission for his role in match- University. Australia World Twenty20 captain George Bailey his Olympic double at next year’s making 146 against South Africa last weekend an International fixing, has applied for the batting returned from the World T20 in Sri Lanka this month calling for world championships in Moscow in Cape Town in January 2011. World XI took on a Pakistan All coach position after stating that CA to look closely at coaching young spinners to bowl the doosra. and could then make his mara- He has scored a world record Star team in two T20 games. the supreme court had cleared AFP thon debut in the 2014 London Test (15,553) and one-day (18,426) “We have decided to go ahead him in the case. AGENCIES race. AGENCIES SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Asian Tour Garrigus on top in Malaysia wants more places in CIMB Classic: Woods struggles on the greens, five shots behind Garrigus expanded KUALA LUMPUR: Tiger Woods, matched the effort on Woods had another day of near the par-five third but dropped his PGA event misses on the greens as the first shot of the day on the next 14-times major winner fired a after his approach from the trees KUALA LUMPUR: The second round four-under-par on the right landed in a muddy expanded 2013 CIMB Classic 67 on a stifling day at the CIMB bank next to a water hazard short will not lead to an increase in Classic yes- of the green. invites for Asian Tour play- terday to trail CIMB Classic round two scores The American ers, the PGA Tour said draw- leader Robert Scores after round two of the CIMB Classic, clambered down ing a sharp response from the Garrigus by five co-sanctioned by the US PGA and Asian and clubbed his regional body yesterday, who shots. Tour, at the par-71 Mines Resort and Golf ball onto the said numbers had yet to be After another Club yesterday (USA unless stated): green, receiving agreed. thunderstorm a face full of mud The 48-man, co-sanctioned struck the 128 Robert Garrigus 64-64 for his troubles, event will add 30 players to the Malaysian capi- 130 Jbe Kruger (RSA) 66-64 and then stroked field next year and be part of the tal on Thursday his 20ft par putt 2013-14 FedEx Cup series. 132 Troy Matteson 63-69, Greg night, the PGA just to the right Currently, the $6.1m event Chalmers (AUS) 66-66 Tour brought in of the hole. played in Malaysia features 10 preferred lies for 133 Brendon de Jonge (ZIM) 68-65, “I had a good players from the Asian Tour the second round Kevin Na 67-66, Tiger Woods 66-67 enough lie that I and two from the PGA Tour of of the 48-man 134 Brian Harman 64-70, Jeff Overton knew I could get Malaysia, who both sanction the field event which 64-70, Ben Crane 68-66 it out, I knew I event. led to low scor- couldn’t control “The eligibility next year is ing on the rela- 135 Kevin Stadler 67-68, Bill Haas 70- it but at least I going to be 60 PGA Tour players tively short and 65, Pat Perez 67-68, Martin Laird could get it on off our FedEx Cup list and then it wet Mines Golf (SCO) 68-67, Trevor Immelman the green and will be 10 Asian players off their Course. (RSA) 72-63, Charlie Wi (KOR) 69- give myself a order of merit and then eight Woods, though, 66, Bo Van Pelt 70-65, Tom Gillis putt,” Woods sponsor exemptions,” the PGA was left with the 65-70, Chris Kirk 69-66 said of his fortu- Tour’s co-chief operating officer feeling of what 136 Nick Watney 71-65, J.B. Holmes nate escape. Ed Moorhouse said. might have been 66-70, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 69- Woods then “We just think with the weather as for the sec- 67 knocked in a 12ft at this time of year, if you try and ond consecu- birdie effort - his play more than 78 players it is tive round, he longest putt of going to be difficult to finish the watched good putts trickle by the the day - at the fifth to get back tournament on Sunday,” he said hole as temperatures at the $6.1 to six-under for the tournament, World number one golfer Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland smiles at the eighth tee during the second round of the referring to the seasonal heavy million event reached 33 degrees with his putter redundant on the BMW Shanghai Masters golf tournament at the Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai yesterday. thunderstorms in the Malaysian Celsius with 50 percent humidity. par-three seventh as he chipped capital this week. “It was just one of those days in from off the green to pick up The Asian Tour were surprised where I didn’t make enough bird- another shot. to hear of Moorhouse’s comments ies,” Woods, who had six birdies His prodigious length guaran- and said yesterday that there and two bogeys in his round, told teed a birdie at the par-fifth 11th McIlroy two shots off lead were meetings planned over the reporters after finishing the day after he easily reached the green coming days to discuss the invite tied for fifth on nine-under 133. in two, only to see his 20ft eagle SHANGHAI: World number “It’s amazing how many good the year as strongly as possible. breakdown. REUTERS The American’s playing part- putt sail by. one Rory McIlroy shut out rounds come together after a “If I can get away with a big win ner Jbe Kruger suffered no such A sliced drive on the long, noisy distractions to move to bogey on the first,” he told report- one of these four weeks I would be BMW Masters scores problems reading the greens par-four 12th led to his second within two shots of leader Peter ers. “After starting with a bogey I very, very happy taking a break Leading scores yesterday after the second on the Robert Trent Jones Jr dropped shot of the day before Hanson on day two of the BMW got it straight back with a birdie for Christmas.” round of the BMW Masters at Lake Malaren designed course as he fired a more short-game wizardry Masters golf yesterday. on three.” Hanson, however, will have to Golf Club, Shanghai (Par 72) brilliant 64 to end the day alone resulted in two further birdies Despite constant sounds of Hanson, the world number 25, fend off McIlroy over the closing in second on 12-under 130, two for the sweat-soaked American nearby building construction, captured a fifth European Tour two rounds. Last year, the Briton 130 Peter Hanson (SWE) 66-64 behind Garrigus. dressed in black. sirens and even fireworks, along victory a fortnight before the captured the Shanghai Masters 132 Rory McIlroy (NIR) 67-65 The diminutive South African, “It is playing where it could be with the distraction of on-course Ryder Cup in winning the KLM exhibition match on the same who credits his long hitting to a had out there, guys are shooting mobile phones, McIlroy did not Open at Hilversum. course and he has won four times 135 Robert Karlsson (SWE) 71-64 quirky fitness regime of running good scores, a bunch of 65s and drop a shot in a round of seven- “I’ve been fighting really hard this season, including a second 136 Shane Lowry (IRE) 72-64, Justin up and down hills at home drag- lower today,” said Woods, who under-par 65 to move into second with my game after the Ryder Major Championship title. Rose (ENG) 68-68, Alexander Noren ging a tyre, rolled in a 30-foot missed a seven-foot effort on the place on 12 under par. Cup to get back the motivation “The more you put yourself in (SWE) 68-68, Jamie Donaldson birdie putt on the par-three sec- last for birdie. Sweden’s Hanson, McIlroy’s because it is hard after such a big this position, the more comfort- (WAL) 62-74 ond to kickstart his round. Garrigus, who has three sec- double-winning Ryder Cup team week and you prepare for so long able you become with it,” McIlroy 137 Luke Donald (ENG) 70-67, Nicolas Kruger, who played most of ond-place finishes on Tour this mate, posted an eight-under par to try and qualify for the team,” told reporters. “I like the fact that Colsaerts (BEL) 69-68, David Lynn his opening first round one club year, was one of those to take 64 to lead the $7m event by two Hanson, 35, added. most weeks I tee it up, I can get (ENG) 69-68, Charl Schwartzel light after he bent his eight-iron advantage of the preferred lies strokes on 14 under par on the “I’ve got four events left this myself in contention,” he added (RSA) 69-68, George Coetzee (RSA) on the fourth hole on Thursday, rule to fire eight birdies in his Lake Malaren course. year, three on the European yesterday. 69-68, Martin Kaymer (GER) 68-69, continued to roll in the putts with round for a second consecutive Hanson started his round with Tour and the Nedbank Challenge Sweden’s Robert Karlsson shot Louis Oosthuizen 68-69, Michael further birdies on the third, sixth 64 to take command of the co- a first-hole bogey before getting (South Africa), so I’ve set some a 64 to move into third place on Hoey (ENG) 67-70 and eighth. sanctioned event. REUTERS eight birdies in 16 holes. high goals and I want to finish nine under par. REUTERS Al Zaman Exhange sponsors Skia football team Buccaneers thrash hosts Vikings 36-17

MINNESOTA: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers upset the Minnesota Vikings with an impressive 36-17 win at Mall of America Field in Minneapolis yesterday, their first road win since September 2011. Having given up a big lead against the New Orleans Saints last week, the Buccaneers ensured there would be no repeat by keep- ing the foot on the gas after rush- San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval laughs with first base coach Roberto ing out to an early 13-0 advantage. Kelly (left) after being intentianally walked by the Detroit Tigers in the eighth Quarterback Josh Freeman inning during Game 2 of the MLB World Series baseball championship in completed 19 of 36 passes for San Francisco, yesterday. 262 yards and three touchdowns Players of South Kerala Islamic Association (Skia) football team pose with their sponsored team jerseys in Doha. but it was rookie running back Al Zaman Exchange will sponsor Skia football team in their sixth KIF season. Skia Team General Secretary Doug Martin who caught the eye, Sidheek Sainudheen and team manager Muhammed Shiyaz were also in attendance for the occasion. notching up two touchdowns with 135 yards on the ground and 79 Giants take 2-0 lead yards from three pass receptions. “It feels nice but I just did my SAN FRANCISCO: The San Championship Series, gave up job,” Martin told reporters. Francisco Giants moved a step only two hits over seven innings Stern to retire in 2014 after 30 “We just wanted to come out closer to claiming a second title to earn the victory. and play good Buc football and in three years by blanking the The Giants managed only five that includes running the ball. punchless Detroit Tigers 2-0 hits against four Tigers pitchers “The line did a good job of open- yesterday to extend their World but were able to take full advan- years as NBA commissioner ing holes and staying on blocks Series lead. tage of their few chances. as well as the receivers staying Detroit was held to two hits Detroit’s Doug Fister continued NEW YORK: David Stern said yesterday that 1978 and became an executive vice president in on blocks. It opened up nicely for by Giants starter Madison his brilliant postseason pitching, he will retire as commissioner of the NBA on 1980. He replaced Larry O’Brien as commissioner me.” Bumgarner and relievers Santiago but was forced to absorb the loss February 1, 2014, exactly 30 years after taking in 1984. Freeman paid tribute to Martin Casilla and Sergio Romo, fail- after giving up four hits and one the job and guiding the league and its superstar “It has been a great run and it will continue for but made sure to spread the love ing to reach second base after run over six innings. players to worldwide fame. another 15 months,” said Stern. “The league is in to all of his team-mates, to jump the second inning as the Giants He surrendered that run in the Stern, who announed his decision at an NBA terrific condition. to second in the NFC South. opened a 2-0 advantage in the seventh but pitched to only one Board of Governors meeting, will be replaced by “I would like to think that I did an adequate job, “Doug is a gamer, I mean he best-of-seven series. batter when Pence had a lead-off current NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver. but one of the things I did best was to provide a practices extremely hard and pre- Hunter Pence was involved in single. “Adam is going to take us to the next level,” said successor ... that will be able to take things to the pares extremely hard but when both Giants runs, racing home Gregor Blanco followed with a new NBA board of governors chairman Peter Hart. next level.” the game comes the moment is from third on a double-play in the bunt to load the bases. Crawford, “Adam was a no-brainer. He has been there over The NBA expanded from 23 to 30 clubs dur- never to big for Doug. He is a tre- seventh inning and then lofting a the third left-handed hitter in a 20 years. He has been involved in every aspect of ing Stern’s tenure but made huge leaps in global mendous addition to our team,” sacrifice fly in the eighth to score row, then hit into a double-play the NBA. Continuing the way the NBA is growing popularity after NBA talent began playing in the he said. Angel Pagan. An inning later, three walks around the world is paramount and Adam is the Olympics starting with the 1992 Barcelona gold “I thought it was great how our Bumgarner, who was yanked loaded the bases, allowing Pence one who can do it.” medal US “Dream Team” of superstars that fea- guys rebounded after the tough from the starting rotation in to hit his run-scoring sacrifice fly Stern joined the NBA as its general counsel in tured Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley. AFP loss last Sunday.” REUTERS Game One of the National League to right. REUTERS SATURDAY 27 OCTOBER 2012 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

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