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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Saturday 27 October 2012 11 Dhul-Hijja 1433 - Volume 17 Number 5500 Price: QR2 World’s spare Sharapova oil capacity cruises to third grows: Report win in Istanbul Business | 13 Sport | 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Chaotic scenes at abattoirs in central market More than 5,000 sheep slaughtered 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.