SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013 SHAWWAL 5, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Debate about Malians pick Typhoon blows Bolt regains e-cigarettes president in closer to world 100m burns on3 crucial 7run-off Philippines12 title20 in style Morsi loyalists gear Max 45º Min 28º for final showdown High Tide 02:53 & 14:59 Low Tide Egyptian forces to besiege sit-ins today 04:29 & 17:53 40 PAGES NO: 15895 150 FILS CAIRO: Egyptian security forces will besiege two sit-ins by supporters of the country’s ousted president within 24 hours, police officials said yesterday, setting up a possible confrontation between the military-backed government and the thousands gathered there. One police official suggested action against the sit-in protests by supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi could begin as early as daybreak today. Officials, who spoke anonymously in line with regulations, said they are also preparing for possible clashes that might erupt in reaction to the cordons they will set up barring anyone from entering. Morsi’s supporters have said they will not leave the sit-ins until the president, ousted in a popularly sup- ported coup July 3, is reinstated. Efforts by the interna- tional community to end the standoff and find a peace- ful resolution to the crisis failed. Egypt’s prime minister warned just ahead of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday that ended yesterday that the government’s decision to clear the sit-ins was “irreversible.” Egypt’s new leadership says that the sit-ins and protests have frightened residents of Cairo, sparked deadly violence and disrupted traffic in the capital. Leaders of the sit-in say their protests have been peace- ful and blame security forces and “thugs” for violence. The Arab world’s most populous country is readying itself for more potential bloodshed. Already more than 250 people have killed in violence since Morsi’s ouster. A last-ditch effort over the weekend by the religious institution, Al-Azhar, also failed to push the two sides closer to reconciliation. Mass rallies two weeks ago called by military leader Gen Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi showed that a large segment of Egypt’s population backs action by the armed forces. CAIRO: Egyptian women from the Muslim Brotherhood hold portraits of ousted President Mohammed Morsi as they march in his support yesterday in Cairo. — AFP Continued on Page 13 US reopens Israel boosts settlements, embassies DUBAI: A number of US diplomatic missions closed fuelling Palestinian fears on August 4 over an Al-Qaeda security alert reopened yesterday, while others stayed shut for the JERUSALEM: Israel approved building Bereaved relatives held up large pho- Muslim holidays following the Ramadan holy month. nearly 1,200 more settlement homes yes- tos of their loved ones during a Supreme The embassy in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, and terday and prepared the release of more Court hearing on an appeal against the the US consulate in Dubai reopened, as the holiday than two dozen long-held Palestinian upcoming release. “Why are we releasing marking the end of the fasting month came to a prisoners - highlighting an apparent set- butchers now? What for?” asked Gila close in the southern Gulf state. tlements-for-prisoners trade-off that got Molcho, whose brother, lawyer Ian The embassy in Libya also reopened yesterday. In both sides back to peace talks after a Feinberg, was stabbed to death by Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh embassy and the consulates five-year freeze. Palestinians who broke into a European in Jeddah and Dhahran remained closed, as did the Yet concerns were mounting, espe- aid office in Gaza City in 1993. US embassy in neighboring Qatar. They are due to cially among Palestinians, that the price Israelis and Palestinians are to launch reopen on August 14, when the holidays end in is too steep. Yesterday’s announcement talks on Wednesday in Jerusalem, follow- those two nations. In Bahrain and Kuwait, the was Israel’s third in a week on promoting ing a preparatory round two weeks ago American embassies are due to reopen today. Jewish settlements on war-won lands the in Washington. The US envisions an Washington closed of its 19 missions in the Palestinians want for a state. It fueled agreement within nine months on the Middle East and Africa last week following a security Palestinian fears of a new Israeli con- terms of a Palestinian state alongside alert. Communications intercepts reportedly includ- struction spurt under the cover of US- Israel, including drawing a border, agree- ed an attack order from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al- sponsored negotiations. ing on security arrangements and decid- Zawahiri to Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian In Israel, the most vocal protests came ing the fate of Palestinian refugees. Peninsula. The United States said on Friday that all of from relatives of those killed in attacks The Palestinians want a state to the embassies it shut would reopen this week, Palestinian workers cross a section of a separation barrier between the Jewish carried out by Palestinians slated for include the West Bank, Gaza and east except the mission in Yemen. — AP settlement of Modiin Elite and the west bank village of Harbeta to return home after the day’s work in Israel. — AP release. Continued on Page 13 Gitmo braces for unrest US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba: The end of Ramadan has left authorities at the Guantanamo Bay military jail preparing for Bahrain deports an uptick in unrest at the controversial prison, US officials say. The annual fast is traditionally regarded as an unofficial truce at Guantanamo, where some inmates have been held for around a American teacher decade without trial. However officials expect the end of Ramadan and the festival of Eid ABU DHABI: Bahrain has deported a US nursery school teacher it says Al-Fitr will be the cue for trouble at Guantanamo, which has witnessed wrote articles on social media sites linked to radical groups and for vio- an unprecedented six-month hunger strike this year. Some inmates at lating the terms of her work permit as the kingdom intensifies its crack- Guantanamo have taken advantage of a tailored menu to observe the down on dissent. Eid holiday. This weekend inmates were offered halal chicken, halal The Ministry of State for Communications did not identify the beef, lamb, dates, honey, says kitchen manager Sam Scott. woman but said she wrote under a pen name and had broken the law Continued on Page 13 SANAA: Yemeni soldiers man a checkpoint on a street leading to the US and by working as an unaccredited journalist. The teacher wrote articles for British embassies in Sanaa, Yemen. — AP online publications including As-Safir newspaper, which is linked to Lebanon’s Iran-backed Shiite group Hezbollah, and the outlawed Bahrain Center for Human Rights newsletter, the state news agency said Al-Qaeda men kill 5 Yemeni on Saturday. No one at the Bahrain Center for Human Rights was avail- able for comment. The ministry had received a complaint about the troops guarding LNG plant woman who used Twitter and other social media to write articles “deemed to incite hatred against the government and members of the ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants evacuate some staff from Yemen. Royal family, as well as spreading misinformation and encouraging divi- killed four Yemeni soldiers in their sleep The official said the gunmen infiltrat- sions in Bahraini society based on religious sect”, it said. Bahrain has early yesterday in an attack on forces ed a checkpoint guarding the Balhaf LNG been buffeted by unrest since the start of the Arab Spring uprisings in guarding the country’s only liquefied terminal in the southern Shabwa 2011, with mostly Shiite Bahrainis agitating for democratic reforms and natural gas (LNG) export terminal, a local province, killed one soldier and then more say in government. official said. The assault follows an esca- entered a cargo container where four The island, which is home to the US Fifth Fleet and sits between top lating campaign of drone strikes by the more troops were sleeping and shot oil exporter Saudi Arabia and Iran, has expelled several foreigners for United States over the past two weeks them dead. The attackers fled in a vehi- involvement in documenting unrest. In February 2012, two American and warnings of militant attacks that cle, he said. A Yemeni government rights activists were deported for trying to report on events marking the prompted Washington to close spokesman said last week that the $4.5 first anniversary of demonstrations for democratic reforms. — Reuters A US naval medic holds liquid food supplement force fed to hunger embassies across the Middle East and Continued on Page 13 strikers at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.— AFP MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013 LOCAL Majority of tenants not happy with their harises Harassed by the haris By Nawara Fattahova though I can’t guarantee all the tenants will plained. 30-year-old Samar living with a room- sign. We suffer and the owners don’t even know mate in Salmiya is glad to have a new haris as KUWAIT: Haris or concierge is not a very popu- about it,” concluded Fadi. the old one was rude and inconsiderate. “The lar concept in the West while it’s a must in Another tenant in Salmiya said the haris is previous haris was rude especially because I’m Kuwait in each residential building. Tenants demanding additional payment which is not a woman expat. I have been living there for sev- have different opinions about the haris of their mentioned in the contract. “We’re paying him en years but when I first came, all the services building, and for some he represents a control KD 20 for washing three cars and throwing the were free and even when the boiler was freak or a dictator with enough power to con- garbage.