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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2011 SHAWWAL 7, 1432 Newsline Nationline Businessline Lifeline Sportsline VOL. 6 NO. 1827 QR 2 Breast cancer major cause of death among Arab women

Reluctance to undergo early screening raises mortality rate in Qatar Qatar was 12.9/100,000. (10.4/100,000) and the UAE Exclusive “This rate of death is close (10.9/100,000) which have JOSEPH VARGHESE humans are women, men can of the project named ‘Study QT to the Middle East countries lowest incidence of breast DOHA also develop breast cancer. exploring breast cancer with higher incidence of the cancer in the M-E.” The reluctance of Arab screening practices amongst will be completed in 2013. disease such as Kuwait According to the professor, BREAST cancer is one of the women to undergo screening Arab women living in Qatar’. Donnelly said according to (15.3/100,000) and Bahrain breast cancer is the most biggest causes of mortality has been identified as the The first phase of the three- the World Health (18/100,000). common form of malignancy among Arab women as well as major reason for this. This phase study has been complete Organisation (WHO) statis- Qatar’s breast cancer mor- prevalent among women men in Qatar. While the over- was stated by Tam Truong and the findings will be pub- tics published in 2008, the tality rate is high compared  whelming majority of cases in Donnelly, the lead researcher lished this month. The study breast cancer mortality rate in Tam Truong Donnelly to Saudi Arabia CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

DOW JONES 11,328 QE 8,441 2017 IAAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS -165 +89 PTS PTS S Korean firm SENSEX 16,821 CURRENCY +144 Indian Rupee 12.57 PTS Philippine Peso 11.57 bags $434mn HOT & HUMID 0 0 WEATHER HIGH: 41 C | LOW: 32 C The race is between contract to build Newsline Qatar museum ASIF IQBAL DOHA 24 killed in Syria crackdown Doha and London HYUNDAI Engineering & Construction AT LEAST 24 people were killed (HDEC) has bagged the $434million con- in violence across Syria on tract to build the National Museum of Qatar Sunday, reports said as the visit- in Doha. ing Red Cross chief sought access Announcing this on Sunday, the South to those detained in more than Korean construction firm said it had five months of anti-regime secured the final contract from the Qatar protests. As more bloodletting Museums Authority (QMA) to build the gripped the country, Arab League museum on a 46,000-square- metre site in chief Nabil al Arabi said Syria has Doha. The construction of the museum was agreed to host him for a visit, to expected to be completed in 33 months, the help push for a peaceful outcome company said. to the crisis. (PGS 2 & 12) In recent years, Qatar has been invest- ing billions of dollars in an effort to become a cultural 20 die in Japan typhoon hub in the Gulf. The The South new National Korean A TYPHOON that pummelled Museum of Qatar, construction western Japan left at least 20 peo- designed by Jean firm said it ple dead and more than 50 miss- Nouvel, will open in had secured ing, reports said on Sunday, after December 2014, the final swollen rivers swept away build- according to the contract ings and landslides crushed hous- QMA’s website. from the es. Streets were submerged in Qatar already QMA to scenes that rekindled memories of boasts the IM Pei- build the the March 11 tsunami disaster. designed Museum museum on a Thousands of people were left of Islamic Art and 46,000-sq m stranded. Typhoon Talas, which Mathaf. site in Doha. made landfall on Saturday and is Valentin Balakhnichev, president of the All-Russia Athletics Federation, waves the IAAF flag during a handover ceremony at the end of the It has been report- one of the deadliest in recent final day of the IAAF World Championships, in Daegu, on Sunday. (AFP) ed that Qatar is keen to buy London auction years, packed gusts of up to 108 house Christie’s. kilometres per hour as it cut across REUTERS bid, IAAF spokesman Nick on an athletics track being August 27 and ended on The former chairman of Christie’s the island of Shikoku and the main DAEGU Davies said. The IAAF Council maintained in the 2012 Sunday. Moscow will hold the International Edward J Dolman left the island of Honshu. (AFP) will choose between Doha and Olympic Stadium. “If they event in 2013 and Beijing in privately-owned auction house in June to DOHA and London will go London at its November meet- have no stadium, they have no 2015. join the board of directors of the QMA. The head-to-head to host the 2017 ing in Monaco. chance,” Diack said in an inter- Diack also repeated his com- QMA administers collections of Islamic art, UAE election campaign begins world athletics champi- Doha, in a bid to avoid some view on Saturday. ments that the one-and-you- Oriental paintings, natural history, photog- onships, IAAF chief Lamine of its hottest weather, would Davies said British officials are-done false start rule would raphy, Islamic coins, costumes and jew- CANDIDATES in the United Arab Diack said on Sunday. like to hold the championships had assured the IAAF there not change. The rule, in effect ellery. Emirates began campaigning on “Barcelona is no longer a in September rather than the would be a track in the stadium. since 2010, gained worldwide Established in 1947 by its founder and Sunday for the second-ever elec- candidate,” the International traditional August date. The The bid has been clouded by a attention when Jamaican current Honorary Chairman of the Hyundai tions to choose half the members Association of Athletics IAAF will consider the request row over the Olympic Stadium, world record holder Usain Bolt Business Group, Ju Yung Chung, the HDEC of the purely consultative Federal Federations president told a in the coming weeks. with Premier League soccer was disqualified in the 100 would bring to the construction of the National Council. A total of 468 news conference on the last “It is possible that a date can club Tottenham Hotspur seek- metres final on the champi- National Museum of Qatar its vast experi- candidates, including 85 women, day of the Daegu world cham- vary,” Diack said, noting there ing a judicial review of the deci- onships’ second day. “But that ences in building and designing. are running in the polls on pionships. was no fast rule the champi- sion to allow West Ham United is not going to make us HDEC’s initial major role was in rebuild- September 24. Candidates had “There are only two candi- onships must be in August. to take over the facility after change,” Diack said. ing Korea’s infrastructure. Growing rapidly already tapped into social net- dates, Doha and London.” “The last half of September is next year’s Games. IAAF officials also said these during the early 1960s, HDEC built dams, working websites such as Twitter Barcelona had expressed something I have nothing West Ham has said it would have been a clean champi- bridges, buildings, and tunnels, as well as and Facebook, which they used to interest in the global meeting against,” he said. retain a track in the stadium. onships with no positive dop- industrial plants that were desperately introduce themselves to the elec- but did not submit an official London’s chances depend The Daegu meet began on ing tests. needed. torate. (PG 12)

Bolt stars in 4x100 record

SPRINT superstar Usain Bolt brought the world championships Prayer beads getting popular among Qatari youth to a thrilling climax on Sunday as his Jamaican team smashed the IHSAN YOUSSEF buying them, not only due to the without the beads,” says Shahir world 4x100m relay record on the DOHA growing religiosity among the al Murri, a beads’ trader at Souq last night of action in Daegu. It youth but also because it’s being Waqif. was Bolt’s second gold of the QATAR is witnessing a signifi- increasingly used as a fashion Beads are made of bone or worlds after winning the 200m cant growth in the prayer beads’ accessory. stones such as jade and emerald crown and marked a fairytale end- market in recent times. Much of and come in different colours. ing for the sprinter, who on only this growth is, however, attrib- Exclusive Many of them are imbued with the second day of the champi- uted to the growing popularity of QT the fragrances of oud, rose, jas- onships saw his 100m dream the sibah (bead strings) among mine, sandalwood, Arabian and shattered when he false-started. A the youth of the country and As of now, most of the young mint that last long. Earlier, the delighted Bolt danced on the other Gulf nations. people, both men and women, sibah used in Qatar were also track and pretended to strip his The usage of the sibah is no carry it as an item of adornment. made of pearls. These days, singlet off in front of a packed longer confined to old people, as “The elegance of Qatari garments  crowd. (PG 28) more and more youngsters are and the Abaya is not complete CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 The sibah as seen at Souq Waqif, in Doha, recently. (QT PHOTO) Monday, September 5, 2011 02 www.qatar-tribune.com GULF / MIDDLE EAST Troops siege NTC troops set 24 killed as ICRC Sanaa to for assualt on prevent anti-Saleh Qadhafi bastion chief visits Syria protests AFP interim interior minister SHISHAN Ahmed Darrat told AFP he AFP AFP was confident the town’s DAMASCUS SANAA FIGHTERS advanced on capture was imminent. “We one of Moamer Qadhafi’s expect Bani Walid to be freed AT least 24 people were killed TROOPS loyal to Yemeni last remaining bastions on today or tomorrow,” he said. in violence across Syria on President Ali Abdullah Saleh Sunday, as Libya’s new The deputy chief of the Sunday, reports said as the vis- deployed in force in Sanaa on leaders called for the oust- military council in the town iting Red Cross chief sought Sunday after opposition ed strongman to stand of Tarhuna, north of Bani access to those detained in groups called new mass trial in his homeland when Walid, said a last round of more than five months of anti- demonstrations demanding captured. negotiations would be held regime protests. his ouster, an AFP correspon- A commander of the with tribal leaders to try to As more bloodletting gripped dent reported. fighters said talks aimed at secure the peaceful entry of the country, Arab League chief The security forces closed off securing the peaceful sur- the new government’s Nabil al Arabi said Syria has all access to the capital from render of Qadhafi’s forces troops. “We are waiting for agreed to host him for a visit, to Saturday afternoon while in Bani Walid had been them,” Abdulrazzak Naduri help push for a peaceful out- armed civilians loyal to the abandoned and an assault told AFP come to the crisis. president also took to the on the oasis town southeast “Everything depends on But Russian Foreign streets, the correspondent said. of Tripoli was imminent. the negotiations. If they Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Sanaa has been without “We are getting ready,” refuse (to surrender), we will that the five-nation BRICS electricity since Saturday said Mohamed al-Fassi, advance, If the negotiations group of emerging powers, afternoon, while most fuel checkpoint commander in go well, we will enter and who have criticised Western stations in the capital shut the village of Shishan, 70 kilo- hoist the flag without a fight. sanctions on Syria, are deter- their taps suddenly, causing metres north of Bani Walid. It’s the last chance, we can’t mined not to allow a Libyan- chaos at the few outlets which “Negotiations between extend our ultimatum again.” style solution in that country. were still serving motorists. Qadhafi’s men and our On Saturday, Naduri said Activists said security forces The massive deployment by forces have ended. These Qadhafi’s son Saadi was cracking down on democracy Saleh loyalists came in people aren’t serious. Twice still in Bani Walid, along protesters killed 12 people on response to an opposition call they promised to surrender with other senior figures of Sunday during operations in for an intensification of only to go back on their the fallen regime, while northwestern and central Souvenir plates with portraits of Syrian President Bashar al Assad displayed at a shop, in Damascus, protests against his rule amid word,” he said. prominent son Seif al- Syria, including a woman. on Saturday. (AP) a deadlock in the political A local spokesman for Islam had fled the town. The state news agency process in the face of the pres- the National Transitional Preparations for the SANA also gave a toll of 12 town of Khan Sheikhwan. the Syrian Observatory for also witnessed violence ident’s long absence abroad. Council (NTC) now govern- offensive appeared to be dead — including six troops — On Friday, SANA reported Human Rights advocacy Sunday as 15 people were Saleh has been receiving ing Libya said the frontline well underway even though when an “armed terrorist that gunmen in Khan group reported. wounded when troops and medical treatment in neigh- stood 15 to 20 kilometres NTC chairman Mustafa group” ambushed a bus in Sheikhwan had kidnapped a Meanwhile SANA quoted a security forces raked gunfire bouring Saudi Arabia for (10 to 12 miles) north of Abdel Jalil said in Benghazi central Syria. corporal with Syria’s internal military source saying six in the central city as part of an wounds sustained in a June 3 Bani Walid and that troops on Saturday that a truce Omar Idlibi, spokesman of security services, Wael Ali. troops, including an officer, operation launched Saturday bombing in his palace. were poised for an advance. declared until September the Local Coordination According to the LCC, secu- and three civilians were killed night, the Observatory said. “We have called for intensify- “We are waiting for 10 remained in force. Committees (LCC) which rity forces backed by soldiers in Maharda on Sunday when The unrest came as ing the challenge in order to orders to go into the city,” “We are in a position of groups anti-regime activists raided Khan Sheikhwan and gunmen fired on a bus “carry- International Committee of move towards a peaceful solu- Mahmud Abdelaziz said. strength to enter any city but on the ground, said “four encircled hospitals “to pre- ing soldiers and labourers the Red Cross chief Jakob tion,” said Huria Machhur, “Last night the Qadhafi we want to avoid any blood- martyrs fell in Karnaz near vent the wounded from being going to work”. Kellenberger met Foreign spokeswoman of the opposition forces tried to move out. shed, especially in sensitive the (central) town of brought in for treatment.” Three assailants were also Minister Walid Muallem for a National Council, an umbrella Our fighters responded and areas such as tribal areas,” Maharda.” Last Sunday nine people killed in a shootout with briefing on Syria’s efforts to group of anti-Saleh forces. there were some clashes he said, adding military He also reported eight oth- were killed by heavy troops, while 17 people were “restore order” and introduce “The political process has lasting a few minutes.” deployments would contin- ers people killed in the north- machine-gun fire in the town wounded in the attack, SANA reforms, blaming “armed reached an impasse because of The new government’s ue during the ceasefire. western Idlib province, when three tanks and three said. groups” for the unrest, SANA Saleh’s refusal to sign the Gulf including two people in the security vehicles stormed it, The protest hub of Homs said. plan,” she said, adding that popular protests which began in January should continue “until the fall of the regime.” The Gulf plan proposes that Saleh transfer power to the 2 fugitive prisoners held, vice president within 30 days in exchange for a promise of immunity from prosecution. 4 found dead in Iraq Saleh vowed last month to return “soon” to his impover- AFP Nineveh police said on Thursday that ished country. “We hope that MOSUL 35 prisoners charged with terrorism- forces loyal to Saleh do not use related offences had tried to escape weapons to disperse the peace- IRAQI police have arrested two fugi- that day, 14 of whom were successful. ful marches of young people,” tive prisoners and found four others Machhur said, warning that drowned out of a group of 14 who Police on Saturday found army units which defected to escaped from jail in the city of Mosul another escaped the protest movement “are on using a tunnel, a security official said detainee from the prison alert to defend the protesters if on Sunday. in the northern city of they face acts of violence.” Security forces on Sunday found Mosul. “We hope that there is no two prisoners drowned in the Tigris challenge... to avoid an armed river during their escape, said “The prisoners dug an 80-metre confrontation with dangerous Abdulrahim al-Shammari, the (yard) tunnel to reach the bank of the consequences,” she said, urg- Nineveh provincial council member (Tigris) river,” Nineveh operations chief ing the Gulf countries, the responsible for defence and security. Lieutenant General Hassan Karim said, United States and the Police on Saturday found another adding the escapees had “received help European Union “to increase escaped detainee from the prison in from inside and outside the prison.” pressure on the regime” to the northern city of Mosul, capital of Jailbreaks and prison unrest are not avoid a civil war. Meanwhile, Nineveh, who had also drowned, uncommon in Iraq. armed tribesmen clashed Shammari said. And on Friday, secu- Officials said on August 6 that four with Saleh loyalists in the elite rity forces arrested two fugitives and prisoners and a guard were killed in Republican Guards at dawn found one drowned, leaving eight clashes at a prison in the central city of on Sunday both in the south prisoners still at large, he said. Hilla during which eight inmates and in Taiz, Yemen’s second- Colonel Mohammed al-Juburi of escaped. largest city, residents said. Larijani puts off China visit AP TEHRAN

IRAN’S parliament speaker has postponed a visit to North Korea and China, state media reported on Sunday. The US has accused North Korea of providing Iran with advanced missiles capable of targeting European capitals. The report by Jam-e Jam daily quoted Hossein Sobhaninia, a member of parliament, as saying a visit by Ali Larijani to Pyongyang and Beijing has been postponed. He did not elaborate. But another member of parliament told The Associated Press that the Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, in Tehran, recently. (REUTERS) postponement came after Larijani was not scheduled to meet with suffi- Iranian parliament speaker since Both Iran and North Korea are ciently high-ranking North Koreans. 1980s, when Akbar Hashemi under UN Security Council sanctions The lawmaker spoke on condition of Rafsanjani visited Pyongyang. the North for its nuclear and missile anonymity because he was not Iranian and North Korean officials tests, and Iran primarily for refusing authorized to talk about the case. have said in the past that the two to stop nuclear enrichment despite The visit to North Korea would countries are in “one trench” in the concerns that it could turn the pro- have been the first visit by an fight against the US and the West. gram toward making weapons. Monday, September 5, 2011 UNITED KINGDOM / EUROPE www.qatar-tribune.com 03 Italy warns Brown could not Merkel under pressure against purging of read meltdown in home state vote ex-Libya correctly: Darling AFP officials BERLIN AGENCIES AP LONDON GERMAN Chancellor Angela CERNOBBIO (ITALY) Merkel’s conservatives were FORMER British prime min- hoping to cling on to power in THE West must not repeat the ister Gordon Brown thought her home state on Sunday as same mistake in Libya as it did the financial crisis would only voters went to the polls in a in Iraq, Italy’s foreign minister last six months, according to regional election dominated said on Sunday, warning a new book by the country’s by the ongoing eurozone debt against a full-scale purging of finance minister at the time. crisis. military officials and bureau- Brown, who was prime Some 1.39 million voters crats from Moamer Qadhafi’s minister from 2007 to 2010, were called to the ballot box authoritarian regime. spanning the height of the cri- in the northeastern state of “Why destroy all the struc- sis, also ran a “fairly brutal Mecklenburg-Western ture, all the apparatus in Libya regime”, according to Alastair Pomerania, the sixth regional like we have done in Iraq, Darling, who was finance Former British prime minister election in 2011, a so-called making a big mistake,” Franco minister under him. Gordon Brown “super election” year that has Frattini told reporters at an At the height of the crisis in proved disastrous for economics forum in the Lake 2008, Brown told Darling the cial crisis in 2007, so much so Merkel’s party. Como resort town of crisis would only last six that Darling wanted to force it In March, her Christian Cernobbio. “We shouldn’t months, and that Darling was to take action, he writes in the Democrats (CDU) suffered a multiply, we shouldn’t double being “too cautious.” book. humiliating defeat to a resur- this mistake.” In an interview to promote Unlike King’s counterparts gent German Green party in Frattini, whose country kept the book on the BBC, Darling at other central banks, the the wealthy southwestern strong economic and diplo- also said other Labour party Bank’s governor was at first state of Baden-Wuerttemberg matic ties with Gadhafi’s politicians should have “done reluctant to respond when that they had governed for regime, suggested that lessons something” about Brown’s markets seized up in August nearly six decades. be learned from the period in leadership before he took the 2007. Some critics blamed In Mecklenburg-Western Iraq after the US-led war party to election defeat in the delay for the run on Pomerania, once part of for- drove Saddam Hussein from 2010. Northern Rock, Britain’s first mer communist East The top candidate Helmut Holter of left-wing Die Linke party, in Schwerin, on Sunday. (REUTERS) power. He was referring to the At the time Brown was in more than a century, which Germany, polls show the wide-scale purging of Iraqi credited with coordinating led to the lender’s nationali- CDU is likely to garner Greens at eight percent. it would show that the chan- crisis but a debt crisis.” soldiers and bureaucrats. an early G20 response to the sation. between 26 and 28 percent of Depending on the exact cellor doesn’t have a strong Merkel cancelled a final Militant extremists quickly collapse of Lehman Brothers “The Bank was slow to the vote, behind the Social result, the SPD could also voice, even in her home rally on Saturday after her capitalised on the resulting and the subprime mortgage recognise the nature of the Democratic Party (SPD), choose to govern with the region,” he told AFP. father died at the age of 85. discontent and power vacu- crisis in the US, as it spread crisis,” Darling writes in his which is expected to win Linke or head a three-way During campaigning in the Profiting from the econom- um. through the world economy. memoir of the financial crisis, around 35 percent. coalition of the Linke and the region, which suffers from ic malaise in Mecklenburg- But Frattini also warned Tony Blair, Brown’s prede- according to an excerpt pub- If the surveys are correct, Greens. unemployment nearly twice Western Pomerania, the far- against possible infiltration by cessor as prime minister, has lished in the Sunday Times the most likely outcome is a Nils Diederich, a political the national average of seven right NPD has historically extremists in the future gov- also criticized his successor. newspaper. continuation of the “grand expert at Berlin’s Free percent, Merkel focused on done well in the state, enter- ernment of Libya, after rebels, In his autobiography last He says he wanted the coalition” of CDU and the University, said the election, the problems faced in faraway ing the regional parliament aided by NATO’s airstrikes, year, he described Brown - Bank to pump more money centre-left SPD that has gov- in one of Germany’s most Greece, Italy and Spain. in 2006 with 7.3 percent ended Qadhafi’s 42 years of whose perceived lack of into markets to unfreeze erned the region, bordered by thinly populated states, “You shouldn’t be worried. of the vote. iron-fisted rule. charisma with voters saw the lending between banks but the Baltic Sea to the north and would make few waves at The euro is a stable curren- However, polls show the “A very important point is to party struggle in opinion polls King disagreed, arguing that Poland to the east, since national level, but was signifi- cy,” she told a campaign rally party could fail to clear the eradicate any kind of infiltra- - as having “zero emotional such an intervention would 2006. cant as it occurs in Merkel’s in Schwerin, the region’s cap- five-percent hurdle for repre- tion of extremist organizations intelligence.” let the banks off the hook for The far-left Linke party is own constituency. ital. sentation this time around, into the structure of govern- The Bank of England led by their failure to hold enough seen winning around 17 per- “A defeat would have a “The crisis that is going on scoring 4.5 percent in the ment of the future Libya,” said Mervyn King was also slow to capital and so create “moral cent of the vote, with the symbolic importance because in the eurozone is not a euro most recent surveys. the minister. grasp the nature of the finan- hazard.” Strauss-Kahn back in France

AFP their arrival at the airport and again barred from leaving the United PARIS declined to comment when mobbed States. He was also forced to resign by media as they got to their home as the International Monetary DOMINIQUE STRAUSS-KAHN in the Marais area. Fund’s managing director. returned to Paris on Sunday for the Strauss-Kahn, dressed in a dark But late last month he walked free first time since a New York hotel suit and white shirt, boarded the when a judge dismissed charges maid accused him of attempted rape flight at New York’s JFK airport late against him after prosecutors said in a sensational sex scandal that tor- Saturday, less than two weeks after they could not pursue the case pedoed his shot at the French presi- sexual assault charges against him because the accuser’s lies had made dency. were dropped. it impossible to prove her accusa- The former IMF chief and his Three and a half months ago tions beyond a reasonable doubt. journalist wife Anne Sinclair arrived police hauled the Socialist politician DNA evidence indicated that a at dawn at Charles de Gaulle airport off a plane that was about to leave sexual encounter did occur between on an Air France flight and were for Paris from the same airport and the two in the Sofitel hotel in whisked off in a black Peugeot to charged him with the sexual assault Manhattan, but Strauss-Kahn’s their apartment in the chic Place des and attempted rape of the hotel defence team insists that it was con- Vosges. maid Nafissatou Diallo. sensual. They smiled and waved but said The 62-year-old spent nearly a Strauss-Kahn’s legal travails are nothing to the horde of journalists week in jail and was then put under however far from over. and handful of supporters awaiting house arrest for six weeks and Diallo is pursuing a civil suit against him, seeking unspecified damages, while in France, 32-year- old novelist Tristane Banon has filed a complaint alleging he tried to rape her after luring her to a Paris flat in 2003. He has said he will sue Banon for defamation, alleging she invented the story to help publicise her writ- ing. Banon’s mother, Anne Mansouret said on Sunday that the media storm surrounding Strauss-Kahn’s homecoming was “indecent”. “Let’s hope he won’t leave for Morocco to escape police interroga- tion” in the case involving her daughter, Mansouret, a Socialist party official, told BFM television. Chantal Brunel, the head of France’s national watchdog on sexu- al equality, said Strauss-Kahn would remain “an indelible stain on the Socialist party” and that the drop- ping of charges against him was a step backwards in the fight to stop violence against women. But Jack Lang, a former Socialist minister and a neighbour of Strauss- Kahn on the Place des Vosges, wel- comed his return, and said he hoped his great political and economic tal- ent would soon be put to use again. “I’m eager to return to my coun- try,” Strauss-Kahn had told reporters outside his home in Lower Manhattan on August 23 after the charges against him were dropped, Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn (centre) and his wife Anne Sinclair calling the legal saga a “terrible and (left) arrive at Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy, near Paris, on Sunday. (EPA) unjust ordeal”. Monday, September 5, 2011 04 www.qatar-tribune.com INDIA

Modi eyes bigger DRIVING IN THE RAIN national role, Commuters wade through a flooded road after heavy rains, in Ahmedabad, on Sunday. India receives the annual monsoon rains from June to September. (AP) WikiLeaks reveals IANS make him the party figure- NEW DELHI head and next choice of PM,” says a cable sent after Modi GUJARAT Chief Minister was denied a US visa in 2005. Narendra Modi is eying a big- The cable also claims that ger national leadership role the BJP’s move to make Modi and is positioning himself for the prime ministerial candi- a power struggle in the date would unite the secular Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), parties. say US diplomatic cables “In a BJP beset by internal made public by online struggle, Modi’s revival sets whistleblower Wikileaks. him up nicely to influence the “Modi is using his strong kingmaking when the time base in Gujarat to position comes. Having recovered himself for the BJP power from the crisis invoked by our struggle and to crow about visa revocation and his tyran- Gujarat’s investment-friendly nical management style, Modi (but certainly not minority- is positioning himself as a friendly) record,” says one of national leader by reminding the cables which were people that Gujarat has done a uploaded earlier this week by fine job of economic gover- Wikileaks. nance, notwithstanding the The cables sent by US diplo- black stain the (2002) riots mats in New Delhi focus on left,” a cable says. Modi’s rising stature in the “At present, Modi appears BJP and claim that “Modi has stronger than at any time,” a his eyes on bigger things”. cable says. In an assessment going Modi was a star campaigner back to 2005, the cables sug- for the BJP in the 2009 elec- gest Modi could be the most tions which the Congress and popular BJP leader and a its allies won. potential PM candidate. Alluding to the cancellation “Anecdotal evidence suggests of the visa application, the Modi could be the most popu- cables say Modi bears perma- lar leader in the BJP and there nent resentment against the Mumbai is increasing momentum to US for the “humiliation”. Legislators to decide party airport’s main runway Cong expects early stand on Afzal: Omar not yet IANS functional SRINAGAR polls in Gujarat IANS JAMMU and Kashmir Chief MUMBAI PTI tion of the Assembly, like it Minister Omar Abdullah on AHMEDABAD did in 2002,” he said. Sunday said lawmakers of MUMBAI airport’s “In the wake of corruption the ruling National main runway is yet to THE Congress has started charges against them (BJP), Conference (NC) would reopen as the authori- making preparations for the they fear that if they continue decide on the party’s stand if ties on Sunday contin- Assembly polls in Gujarat, to remain in power more alle- a resolution seeking clemen- ued the massive effort of expecting that the elections gations will rise, therefore, for cy for Afzal Guru, on death retrieving a Turkish scheduled to be held by saving their face, the cabinet row for the 2001 parliament Airlines aircraft that December next year could be can demand early polls,” said attack, is put to vote in the skidded off on Friday, advanced by six months. Vaghela. state assembly. officials said. The party has decided to The Congress has proposed The officials added focus on the issue of corrup- to launch its poll campaign in that no timeline can be tion in the state as its cam- Gujarat from Kutch district “The speaker shall given as to when the air- paign agenda. on September 28. decide whether craft will be retrieved off “The Assembly elections in “We shall begin the cam- the same should the main runway of the Gujarat could be held six paign by organising a maha- be put to vote or Chhatrapati Shivaji months earlier than the rally at Bhuj in Kutch, not,” Omar said. International Airport schedule, so we have begun because the region has (CSIA) as heavy rains making preparations. This emerged as the epicentre of Speaking to mediapersons made recovery opera- would ensure that our home corruption of BJP-led govern- on the sidelines of a function tions difficult. work is done well in time,” ment in Gujarat,” Vaghela in Srinagar, the chief minis- “The aircraft recovery chairman of Gujarat Congress said. On September 30, I will ter also said that the assem- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah (right) meets people, in Srinagar, recently. (PTI) is under progress. A safe Election Campaign address a maha-rally at bly speaker has the powers to timeline will be Committee 2012 Shank- Palanpur in Banaskantha,” decide whether the resolu- put to vote or not,” he added. Janata Party has criticised er seeking clemency for informed to all. Most ersingh Vaghela said. Vaghela said. tion, submitted by an inde- Omar defended his tweets Omar Abdullah for his tweet Guru, who belongs to the flights are running on Congress president Sonia “In the garb of develop- pendent lawmaker, should be on the Tamil Nadu assembly in which he said if the state Valley. time and no flight diver- Gandhi had recently ment, grazing (gouchar) land put to vote. resolution seeking clemency assembly passed a resolution Assembly Speaker sions have happened approved Vaghela’s name as for animals in Kutch have “If put to vote, the NC legis- for the three men on death seeking clemency for Afzal Muhammad Akbar Lone has since morning. the chairman of the election been given to industrialists,” lature party headed by party row in the assassination of Guru as the Tamil Nadu said he finds nothing consti- However, a Singapore campaign committee of he alleged. He also a released patron Farooq Abdullah former prime minister Rajiv assembly had done by seek- tutionally wrong in allowing Airlines flight has been Gujarat for the upcoming a booklet on the occasion, would decide what course the Gandhi. ing clemency for the Rajiv the resolution to be put to cancelled,” an official of Assembly polls. titled ‘Ghotala Hi Ghotala’, party should take on the res- “The BJP cannot silence Gandhi killers, the reaction vote.The state legislature has the Mumbai Intern- “My apprehension is that describing the alleged corrup- olution,” Omar Abdullah me on this issue. It is the peo- would not have been as been convened here by ational Airport Ltd Assembly polls could be held tion in Gujarat by chief minis- said. ple of my state who have the muted. Independent MLA Governor N N Vohra on (MIAL) said. in June 2012, once the state ter Narendra Modi and his “The speaker shall decide right to silence me if they so Engineer Rashid has submit- September 26 for a short rou- The aircraft skidded government opts for dissolu- cabinet. whether the same should be choose.” The Bharatiya ted a resolution to the speak- tine autumn session. off the runway and got stuck in the soft mud on Friday following heavy rains. All 104 passen- gers, including 11 crew Mamata not to members, were safely accompany evacuated. Don’t send a wrong message: Anna “MIAL has deployed all resources and com- PM to Dhaka pleted construction of IANS PTI Arvind Kejariwal “for so government to leave the the pavement to remove KOLKATA RALEGAN SIDDHI called non payment of vindictive attitude and the aircraft from the income tax was given after unite Indians for making site. The next steps are WEST Bengal Chief Minister CAUTIONING the govern- India a super power” subject to an assess- Mamata Banerjee on Sunday ment against sending a He warned that After Kiran Bedi, two ment of suitability of decided not to accompany ‘wrong message’ after privi- “attempts to har- more Team Anna members ground and weather Prime Minister Manmohan lege and income tax notices rass other civil lawyer Prashant Bhushan conditions,” the official Singh on his two-day trip to were slapped on members society members and activist Arvind Kejriwal added. Dhaka beginning on Tuesday of his team, Anna Hazare will raise ques- on Saturday received Normal operations at in protest against the purport- said undue harassment of tions about the breach of privilege notices CSIA were severely ham- ed final draft of the Teesta civil society members may intention and spirit for their remarks against pered on Sunday morn- river water sharing agree- cause unrest in the country. of the government. Parliam-entarians. ing. Earlier on Sunday, ment. Asking the government to Kejriwal was also issued airport officials said the “No, she is not going,” said a give up its “vindictive” atti- notices on August 5 by the main runway would be senior state government offi- tude, the Gandhian said it he left the civil services and Chief Commissioner of functional by 12 noon. cial. Banerjee’s decision to opt “must try to create trust initiated people’s move- Income Tax (CCIT) Delhi But strong winds and out of the trip has been con- and bridge the gap in the ment.... The nation knows for clearance of his dues of heavy rain hampered the veyed to the Prime Minister’s hearts after the nation-wide the reason of this notice,” Rs 9.27 lakh. The dues had recovery operations. Office by Chief Secretary agitation for Jan Lokpal Bill Hazare said. accumulated over the According to an airport Samar Ghosh, the official instead of sending out a He warned that “attempts alleged violation of bond official, there were about said.Banerjee’s unhappiness wrong message.” to harrass other civil society clauses under which 45 and 55 minutes of stemmed from the amount of Hazare, 74, was speaking members will raise ques- Kejriwal, an Indian delay in the arrival and water sharing of the river to reporters after coming tions about the intention Revenue Service officer, departure of flights Teesta in the final draft. out of his room at and spirit of the govern- had gone abroad on study respectively. “There was difference Padmavati temple at his vil- ment. leave for two years All normal flight oper- between the initial draft of the Anna Hazare (left) waves a tricolour during a meeting, in lage here. “This would create unrest between November 2000 ations have been shifted agreement and the final ver- Ralegan Siddhi village, in Maharashtra, recently. (PTI) The notice to his aide in society... I request the and 2002. to the secondary runway. sion,” the source said. Monday, September 5, 2011 PHILIPPINES / EAST ASIA www.qatar-tribune.com 05 Moro rebels slam splinter group for anti-US threats AP group’s vast mountainous Manila, on August 29. the government which he said MANILA strongholds in southern “Whoever dares a super- have gone nowhere. He also Maguindanao province. He power will make news head- accused rebel leaders of THE Philippines’ largest has warned he would target lines,” Musa said in a state- involvement in kidnappings Muslim rebel group criticised his former comrades, ment posted in the main rebel and drug trafficking. a breakaway commander on Philippine troops and US mil- The 11,000-strong main rebel Sunday for threatening US itary personnel if they attack Philippine officials group officially ousted Kato troops in the country’s volatile his jungle encampment. have expressed after failing to woo him and his south. US troops have been provid- deep concern that men back. In an August 19 letter Moro Islamic Liberation ing training, weapons and intel- the rebel infighting Kato said he has formed a new Front information officer ligence to Filipino soldiers bat- could affect ongo- group called the Bangsamoro Khaled Musa said radical com- tling Al Qaeda-linked militants ing peace talks. Islamic Liberation Movement mander Ameril Umbra Kato, in the southern Philippines to fight for Muslim self-rule. who recently broke off with since 2002. But they are barred group’s website. He said Kato The main Moro group has about 200 fighters from the from actual combat. could get in trouble “when said it remains open to Kato’s rebel group, could face trouble US military officials have that superpower starts to use return but warned him to stop for issuing such threats. not issued any reaction to its vast power against him.” accusations that undermine Philippine officials have Kato’s threats. US special “He loves limelight and the the rebel organisation. expressed deep concern that forces and Philippine troops flare of cameras,” Musa said, Kato, who is in his 60s, has the rebel infighting could began two weeks of joint mili- adding that Kato talks “with- been sought by Philippine affect ongoing peace talks. tary training in Maguindanao, out using his head.” troops for allegedly launching Kato maintains his base in a violent area about 590 miles Kato split from his former attacks on Christian commu- Moro Islamic Liberation Front rogue commander Ustadz Ameril Umbra Kato at a Muslim rebel camp, in part of his former rebel (950 kilometers) southeast of group to protest its talks with nities in 2008. Maguindanao province, Philippines, recently. (REUTERS) Myanmar govt Thai Ex-PM pushed terror pledges fair payments for law used against him AP BANGKOK railroad land THE man responsible for pushing through an anti-ter- rorism measure in Thailand DPA owners,” Aung Min said. at the behest of the United YANGON He said the government States was later charged was negotiating s contract under the very same law. MYANMAR’S government with state-owned China Former Prime Minister has pledged to adequately Railways Engineering Thaksin Shinawatra, under compensate landowners Corporation. Construction pressure from the Bush along a 800-kilometre could begin in December. administration after the route for a rail link from Aung Min is a member of September 11, 2001, terrorist China to the Bay of Bengal, the cabinet that started attacks, adopted the reports said on Sunday. work on April 1, following Southeast Asian nation’s first Minister for Railways the November 7 general counterterrorism legislation Aung Min said the govern- election. by executive decree in 2003. ment was determined to Construction of the After being ousted in a ensure that citizens “are not Kyaukpyu-Muse railroad is bloodless military coup in cheated” by the 20-billion- expected to take five years 2006, the former telecommu- dollar project. The railroad to complete under a build, nications billionaire fled over- would link a deep seaport in operate and transfer con- seas to escape a two-year Rakhine State on the Bay of tract. prison sentence for graft, Bengal with Muse on the “It will cost about 20 bil- after having been charged Chinese border, the lion dollars,” Aung Min with corruption, abuse of Myanmar Times reported. said. “We might give China power and disrespect to Railways Engineering Thailand’s revered King Construction of Corporation the right to Bhumibol Adulyadej. the Kyaukpyu- operate the line for 50 A sharp split between Muse railroad is years.” Thaksin’s rural “Red Shirt” expected to take The single-track line supporters and his “Yellow five years to com- would operate with electric Shirt” opponents left plete under a trains capable of travelling Thailand in political turmoil. build, operate at about 200 kilometres The Yellow Shirts seized the and transfer con- per hour, with a capacity prime minister’s office for tract. for 4,000 tons of cargo plus months and closed Bangkok’s passengers. two airports for nearly a week “We are negotiating in The railroad will follow the in 2008 to help bring down a detail with the Chinese side same route as oil and natural Thaksin-friendly govern- on all issues, including gas pipelines from the Bay of ment. Monthslong Red Shirt compensation for the land Bengal to the Myanmar- demonstrations last year in One of anti-government protesters fires a slingshot towards Thai soldiers during a demonstration, in Bangkok, Thailand, recently. (AP) needed to construct the China border, which is being Bangkok then culminated in line,” Aung Min said last built by another state-owned violence that left 91 people Information Act of 1997. defense lawyer for pro- mer intelligence officials. bombings that killed 202 peo- week. “We are doing every- Chinese company. Both proj- dead and more than 1,800 Thirty-nine suspects are pro- Thaksin leaders charged with Thai security forces and the ple in 2002. thing to protect our people ects are designed to cut injured. Thaksin and 15 are Yellow terrorism, says the law is CIA worked together to catch Thaksin now resides in so they are not cheated.” transportation costs for Leaders of the demonstra- Shirts, dedicated to preserv- purely political, declaring, terror suspect Hambali in Dubai. In a reversal of for- Human rights groups China. tors are now facing terrorism ing the monarchy’s power. “Political demonstrators can- August 2003 in the ancient tunes, his sister Yingluck have raised concerns about “With this railroad China charges. Thaksin was charged Yet in southern Thailand, not be terrorists.” Thai city of Ayutthaya, 50 Shinawatra was elected the rail link, noting that can get access to the sea in abstentia with inciting the where more than 4,700 peo- Thailand has been a miles (80 kilometers) north Thailand’s first female prime mega-projects in Myanmar and transport their goods demonstrations via videos ple have been killed since an Washington ally in the war on of Bangkok. He is now being minister and took office in have led to land expropria- without having to pass shown on large screens before Islamist insurgency flared in terror, allegedly allowing the held in the US detention cen- August. She has repeatedly tion, forced labour and through the Malacca a sea of Red Shirt supporters. 2004, no one has been CIA to use waterboarding ter at Guantanamo Bay, said that reconciliation in the other abuses in the past. Strait,” Aung Min said. Fifty-four people have been charged with terrorism. This techniques on Al Qaeda sus- Cuba. Hambali, an politically divided country is a “If the land is privately The government is also charged with terrorism and has led human rights activists pect Abu Zubaydah at a secret Indonesian whose real name priority for her government, owned, we will evaluate the considering a plan to build a could face from three years to to declare the law has been prison in its territory in 2002. is Riduan Isamuddin, was including an amnesty for all value with the local authori- railroad linking Dawei on life in prison, according to fig- used to thwart political dis- CIA contractors also water- allegedly operations chief of demonstrators charged with ties and the Chinese compa- the Bay of Martaban to ures obtained by The sent, not actual terrorism in boarded USS Cole bombing the Islamic militant group terrorism. Her ultimate goal ny will pay that price to the Kanchanaburi in Thailand. Associated Press through the mostly Muslim south. plotter Abd al-Nashiri twice Jemaah Islamiyah, accused of is believed to be Thaksin’s Thailand’s Official Karom Poltaklang, the in Thailand, according to for- carrying out the deadly Bali return to Thailand. Apprehensions for Asia’s endangered anteaters rise AFP in seizures are mind-boggling. al campaigns have been from children’s hysterical cry- unfounded. said seizures of scales bound BANGKOK No species can survive this launched to save them from Tigers are also ing to eyelashes curling “Unless efforts are taken to for Asia from Africa suggested level of extraction for long,” extinction. killed for their body inwards, according to address both the demand for, a developing trade. TIGER poaching gets the said Kanitha Krishnasamy Trading in pangolins is parts, mostly for researcher and pangolin and supply of pangolins, they Likened in appearance to a press but wildlife groups in from the wildlife trade watch- banned under international use in traditional expert Dan Challender. will go extinct in Asia in the globe artichoke, the pangolin Asia are increasingly fearful dog Traffic. law, yet Traffic’s Asian sur- Asian medicines, Today, reports suggest the short term future,” he told AFP. curls up hedgehog-like into a for the future of a smaller, “Unfortunately, this scaly veys show they are frequently and major interna- scales are used in an attempt Of four species found in Asia, ball when under threat, mak- scalier and “less sexy” crea- animal does not invoke as poached from the wild, main- tional campaigns to reduce swellings, cure asth- two are “endangered” and two ing them easy for humans to ture: the pangolin. much attention from the pub- ly in Indonesia and Malaysia, have been launched ma and even in some cases “near threatened”, according to catch. So prized are the meat and lic, and by extension from the exacerbating the threat from to save them from cancer, but a lack of solid the International Union for Steve Galster, director of supposed medicinal proper- authorities, as pangolins are rapid deforestation. extinction. analysis means “all uses seem Conservation of Nature, which the anti-trafficking Freeland ties of this reclusive anteater considered to be less sexy They are transported unfounded to date”, he said. says it is unknown how many foundation, said the shy crea- that it is now thought to be than their larger mammalian through Southeast Asia, Challender, at Britain’s of the secretive, nocturnal ani- tures were the “unknown the most heavily trafficked counterparts,” she added. mostly ending up in China are ground into a powder for University of Kent, added that mals are left. problem” of Asia’s illegal mammal in the region, rapid- Tigers are also killed for and Vietnam, where pangolin medicinal purposes. the supposed health benefits Two of four species found in wildlife trade, sometimes ly being driven towards their body parts, mostly for flesh is a delicacy and its Historically, this ingredient of eating the meat include Africa are also “near threat- fetching more than 1,000 US extinction. use in traditional Asian medi- scales — it is the only mam- was used in Chinese medicine nourishing the kidneys, but ened”, and all have decreasing dollars each on the black “The volumes we are seeing cines, and major internation- mal known to have them — to try to cure a range of ills, these are also probably populations, while Challender market. 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ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI ADEL ALI BIN ALI CHAIRMAN MANAGING DIRECTOR War For Oil? DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI AJIT KUMAR JHA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF EDITOR The dust in Libya has not yet settled, but the UK & French firms are fighting to share the spoils PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS

TERRY MACALISTER |GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE Westside Israel Must Apologise To Turkey Ankara & Tel Aviv should have used UN report to improve their ties

UNITED Nations report on Israel’s Israel’s ambassador and announced that Aattack last year on a Gaza-bound aid it was freezing military ties until Israel ship should have been a chance to ease apologised for the deaths and compensat- fraught relations between Israel and ed the victims’ families. It has also been Turkey. Instead, both sides dug in their demanding that Israel end the blockade heels. The United Nations has long pum- and that the United Nations shelve the melled Israel, and Israeli leaders initially report. Foreign Minister Ahmet resisted an independent investigation into Davutoglu warned that Ankara “will take the raid that killed eight Turks and one every precaution it deems necessary” to Turkish-American. The report issued on protect its shipping in the eastern Friday seemed evenhanded. It said that Mediterranean. He didn’t explain, but it is Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is legal and irresponsible to even hint that Turkey, a that Israeli commandos boarding the ves- NATO ally, might look for opportunities sel had to defend themselves against to confront Israel militarily. Israel accept- “organised and violent resistance.” But it ed the findings by the United Nations and said that the force used by the Israelis was said that it hoped to mend ties with “excessive and unreasonable.” Most of Turkey, but it reiterated that it would not HE Libyan conflict has been a preparing to re-enter the country. the NTC desperately needs, even if it those killed were shot multiple times. apologise. Two weeks ago, Secretary of war about oil if not “for” oil. The Clearly, the role of Vitol, never mind means sharing the spoils. The flotilla, which sailed from a Turkish State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged country’s economy is almost the RAF jets, will require some recogni- Whatever deal is reached, it is unlike- port with the acquies- Prime Minister totally dependent on hydrocar- tion in the new Libya that emerges - at ly to be all or nothing: nationalisation or cence of the Turkish Benjamin Netanyahu of bons and a key objective for the least in the eyes of the UK political and capitulation. What the new government government, was fault- Israel to apologise to transitionalT government will be to get oil establishment. will certainly want to do is exact much ed for acting “recklessly” Turkey. US officials are the wells up and running again as soon tougher terms for western oil company in running the blockade. going to have to keep as possible. Western independent oil involvement. The idea that a third of The report also said that trying with both sides. The British and French, meanwhile, Libya’s oil would be simply turned over “more could have been We don’t blame Israel are worried about future energy sup- companies have the to the French, as the Liberation story done” by Turkey to per- for wondering if Turkey plies. They are already pushing and most modern technology, suggested, is surely nonsense. It would suade organisers to is keeping this conflict shoving over who should get what of the be political suicide for the NTC. avoid a clash with Israeli going to burnish its energy proceeds before the political easy access to capital What happened in Iraq is instructive. forces. Turkey rejected standing in the Arab dust has even settled in Tripoli (just as market money and a Although BP and others have been the findings, expelled world. BP and Shell are once again sitting pret- can-do spirit, but they given access to reserves in Iraq, they are ty in Iraq following western military not on the terms they would ideally intervention there). are also on the defensive have chosen. The auctions there have The UK government has been work- because they are being resulted in “technical service agree- Eastside ing hand in glove with parts of the oil gradually muscled out ments”, where the likes of BP act as con- industry to bring about regime change tractors and get $2 on each barrel of oil in Libya. London crude trader, Vitol, globally by state-owned produced but do not “own” the reserves held meetings with Britain’s interna- national oil companies in in the way they do in the North Sea - or tional development minister Alan places such as did in Iraq before they were removed by The Hidden Brazilian River Duncan (a former consultant to the Saddam Hussein. firm) and played a key role in keeping Venezuela, Brazil and Western independent oil companies It’s a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth’s crust the rebels well-supplied with petrol Russia. have the most modern technology, easy while others tried to starve Moamer access to capital market money and a Qadhafi’s troops of fuel. Was this a And the prospects look good. An can-do spirit, but they are also on the HE world’s largest underground ‘ocean’ the earth’s crust in Brazil. If the slowing practical operation to undermine executive from the rebel oil company, defensive because they are being gradu- T— a water-body about the size of the down of certain seismic waves caused by Qadhafi’s military logistics or a potent Agoco, has already said the interests of ally muscled out globally by state- Arctic Ocean and located 700 to 1,400 km the damp spot helped uncover the under- symbol that western politics and oil Britain, France and Italy will all be owned national oil companies in places below the ground and extending from ground ocean, the unusual temperature are so closely intermeshed that the treated favourably compared with those such as Venezuela, Brazil and Russia. Indonesia to the northern tip of Russia — variation with depth measured in inactive agendas of both are indistinguishable? who equivocated, such as Russia and The desperate - and now failed - has found its match. Scientists have discov- oil wells helped locate the subterranean Certainly the French blew the gaff China. recent attempt by BP to tie up a share- ered in Brazil the longest underground river. Except for the flow direction, the on Thursday. Foreign minister Alain But won’t the NTC want to reorganise swap deal with Russian state-owned river — running for a length of 6,000 km at Amazon and the Hamza have very different Juppe was trying to bury a story run its oil industry differently, and perhaps Rosneft, despite all the problems it has a depth of nearly 4 km. It flows all the way characteristics. The most obvious ones are in Liberation that suggested that do without the West completely? had in that country, was just another from the Andean foothills to the Atlantic their width and flow speed. While the for- Paris had tied up an agreement to be Qadhafi originally kicked out western sign of this. coast in a nearly west-to-east direction like mer is 1 km to 100 km wide, the latter is given 35 percent of all the country’s oil oil firms but then invited it back in after With the North Sea and other mature the mighty Amazon River. 200 km to 400 km in width. But the flow in future in return for military help. He UN sanctions over the Lockerbie bomb- basins fast running out of oil and a fail- The discovery was made public at a speed is five metres per second in the said it was “fair and logical” to him that ing were lifted. The problem for the ure to fully invest in lower carbon alter- recent meeting of the Brazilian Geophysical Amazon and less than a millimetre per sec- Libya’s new interim government, the NTC is that oil provides virtually all of natives, western ministers are also des- Society in Rio de Janeiro. The river ond speed in the Hamza. Several geological National Transitional Council would the country’s income. Even if nationali- perately worried about future crude ‘Hamza,’ named after the discoverer, an factors have played a vital role in the forma- turn to France in the reconstruction of sation was their preferred option, get- supplies. Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal tion of these subterranean water bodies. Libya. ting production back up and running as It was a war around oil in Libya - but Hamza who is working with the National The underground ocean has been formed The British have not been so public quickly as possible is the imperative. the new interim government in Tripoli Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and when the plate carrying the Pacific Ocean about their expectations but we know Libya used to produce 1.6m barrels of could yet win that, too. geologically unusual instance of a twin- bottom gets dragged and ends up under the that BP has already held talks with the oil a day - worth an almighty $1.3bn a (Terry Macalister is the river system flowing at different levels of continental plate. new opposition leaders and are week at today’s crude prices, and money Guardian’s energy editor.) (The NYT / The Hindu) Space Debris a Growing Concern We need reliable technologies to clear the fragments, else they will pose danger to future satellites

HE US National Research ity for even the smallest fragment to JONATHAN AMOS | BBC-NYT SYNDICATE ated more than 3,000 trackable objects the growth in space debris over coming Council’s report on space debris become a damaging projectile if it strikes and an estimated 150,000 debris parti- decades. And in the next few years we’re is not the first of its kind. A wide an operational space mission. Gravity built for launch between 2011 and 2020. cles larger than 1 centimetre. It was with- likely to see a number of robotic space- range of space agencies and inter- ensures that everything that goes up will A good part of this will be the deploy- out question the biggest single debris- craft demonstrate the rendezvous and governmental organisations has eventually come back down, but the bath ment of communications constellations generating event in the space age. It was capture technologies that would be takenT a bite out of this issue down the is currently being filled faster than the – broadband relays and sat phone sys- estimated to have increased the known needed in these selective culls. The years. The opinion expressed is always plug hole and the overflow pipe can tems. These constellations, in the case of existing orbital debris population at that German space agency, for example, is the same: The problem is inescapable, empty it. the second-generation Iridium network, time by more than 15 percent. working on such a mission called DEOS and it’s getting worse. It’s also true the Man and nature are also conspiring in can number more than 60 spacecraft. By A couple of years later, of course, we that is likely to fly in 2015. tone of concern is being ratcheted up. unexpected ways to make the situation and large, everyone operating in orbit saw the accidental collision of the These approaches are quite complex, There is now a wild jungle of debris over- worse. The extra carbon dioxide pumped now follows international mitigation Cosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 satellites. however, and therefore expensive. head – everything from old rocket stages into the atmosphere down the years has guidelines. Or tries to. These include Taken together, the two events essential- Reliable low-tech solutions will also be that continue to loop around the Earth cooled some of its highest reaches – the ensuring there is enough propellant at ly negated all the mitigation gains that needed. There is a lot of research cur- decades after they were launched, to the thermosphere. This, combined with low the end of a satellite’s life so that it can be had been made over the previous 20 rently going into deployable sails. These flecks of paint that have lifted off once- levels of solar activity, have shrunk the pushed into a graveyard orbit and the years to reduce junk production from large-area structures would be carried by shiny space vehicles and floated off into atmosphere, limiting the amount of drag venting of fuel tanks on spent rocket spent rocket explosions. There are lots of satellites and rocket stages and unfurled the distance. on orbital objects that ordinarily helps to stages so that they cannot explode (a ideas out there to clean up space. Many at the end of their missions. The sails It is the legacy of more than half a cen- pull debris from the sky. In other words, major source of the debris now up there). of them, I have to say, look far-fetched would increase the drag on the space- tury of space activity. Today, it is said the junk is also staying up longer. The goal is to make sure all low-orbit- and utterly impractical. craft, pulling them out of the sky faster. there are more than 22,000 pieces of Leaving aside the growth in debris from ing material is removed within 25 years Ideas such as deploying large nets to Somehow attaching these sails to objects debris actively being tracked. These are collisions for a moment, the number of of launch. I say “by and large” because catch debris or firing harpoons into old already in space is one solution that is just the big, easy-to-see items, however. satellites being sent into space is also there has been some crass behaviour in satellites to drag them back to Earth are sure to be tried. Moving around unseen are an estimated increasing rapidly. The satellite industry the recent past. What the Chinese were nonstarters. If nothing else, some of “There are a number of technologies 500,000 particles ranging in size launched an average of 76 satellites per thinking when they deliberately these devices risk creating more debris being talked about to address the debris between 1 to 10 centimetres across, and year over the past 10 years. In the com- destroyed one of their polar orbiting than they would remove. issue – both from past space activity perhaps tens of millions of other parti- ing decade, this activity is expected to satellites in 2007 with a missile is any- It has been calculated that just taking and from future missions,” says Dr. cles smaller than 1 centimetre. grow by 50 percent. one’s guess. It certainly defied all logic away a few key spent rocket stages or Hugh Lewis, a lecturer in aerospace All of this stuff is travelling at several The most recent Euroconsult analysis for a nation that professes to have major broken satellites would substantially engineering at Southampton University kilometres per second – sufficient veloc- suggested some 1,145 satellites would be ambitions in space. The destruction cre- reduce the potential for collision and cap in the UK.

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Hypertension Linked Indecision On Syria To Lack of Deep Sleep THE BOSS IS NOT May Prove Costly EN who get the least deep sleep each night For Barack Obama Mhave a higher risk of hypertension, new research shows. Earlier studies have tied chronic sleep disor- HE campaign waged by major leaders of the ders and low levels of sleep to greater risks of ALWAYS RIGHT TRepublican Party against the foreign policy heart disease and obesity, and even reduced life pursued by Democratic President Barack span. But the new study, published in the jour- Obama may be marred by excessive one-up- nal Hypertension, is one of the first to find that People look for leaders to make informed decisions, not to be infallible manship. But ignoring it or treating it with con- it’s not just how much you sleep, but the quali- descendence, motivated by the achievements ty of your nightly slumber that can affect your in Libya, would cost Obama dearly, especially if risk for high blood pressure. AM not always right. I can anyone else trying to build a signif- problem, get the right people work- he fails to take decisive action in Syria or pro- The goal of the study, carried out by admit this without embarrass- icant market share in the digital ing on fixing it. In this situation, vides Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon — as well researchers at Harvard Medical School and ment, because it is true of all music business. And yes, I did honesty is the only policy. If you as the regime in Damascus — with a way out. elsewhere, was to look specifically at the slow- other business leaders and freely admit that I was wrong; that speak openly and bluntly about True, Europe is the United States’ current wave stages of sleep, which make up about 90 entrepreneurs. It can be a dif- helped us to exit the market within why you had hoped a strategy partner in the new alliance alarming Iran minutes to two hours of a normal night’s rest ficultI thing for an executive or man- two years, before we lost even more would work, why this proved to be today, which includes effective Arab countries and represent the deepest hours of sleep. To ager to acknowledge to employees money. wrong, and how you and your team such as those in Gulf Cooperation Council study the effect of deep sleep on health, the sci- – never mind put in print – but it is It can be very hard to own up to arrived at the solution you want to (GCC), alongside Turkey the NATO member- entists followed 784 healthy men who were something that anyone who accepts your mistakes when a big invest- put in place, then your people will state. Nevertheless, there is a great deal of dis- part of an ongoing sleep study and did not have a leadership position should keep ment is not salvageable – especially be better able to implement it. This parity between the American and European signs of high blood pressure at the start of the in mind. when it is a cause you alone have is not the time to hold back infor- stances, because their interests diverge, and research. During the three-and-a-half year As a leader, your decisions will be championed. This fear of embar- mation or pass the blame. This may also because the dynamics of Europe’s relation- study, the men had their blood pressure carried out, but that doesn’t mean rassment prevents many chairmen be one of the more difficult ship with the countries of the region differ from checked at various times, and their levels of they will always be the best ones – and bosses from doing their jobs moments of your career, but you those of their American counterpart. slow-wave sleep were monitored at home by a or that changing circumstances properly and addressing the situa- will not lose people’s trust and If Barack Obama is not to fall into a pitfall machine. won’t turn a good call into a bad tion when it is most urgent. If the respect by taking responsibility for here or a trap there, he must pay the utmost After controlling for a number of variables, one overnight. business is disappearing, you the problem and admitting to your attention to the American-European relation- the researchers found that the men who spent My management team says must face your team and start look- mistakes. People look for leaders to ship with Iran, and immediately start figuring the least time in slow-wave or deep sleep were 2003 wasn’t exactly a vintage year ing into what is going on – and the make informed decisions, not to be out what’s required in terms of dealing with the most likely to develop high blood pressure. for our group. Around the time infallible. Lebanon at the present stage, until the regime Although a night of normal sleep should con- Apple introduced its iPod personal If you discover that the problem in Damascus collapses, through regime sist of about 25 percent slow-wave sleep, the music player in 2001, a couple of It can be very hard to was in the implementation of a change, radical defeat or a coup d’état. men in the study who were at highest risk for very bright people from Palm sold own up to your mis- service or product, do not make the Second, Obama must try to fully compre- hypertension managed to enjoy deep sleep for me on their own funky version of beginner’s mistake of firing those hend the nature and geography of Iran’s no more than 4 percent of their total sleep each the MP3 player and a range of takes when a big responsible. Blame and recrimina- inevitable revenge for the defeat it would have night. accessories. Virgin’s management investment is not sal- tions may offer a spiteful sort of suffered as a result of the downfall of its ally in The researchers found that the men with the team strongly argued the financial vageable – especially short-term comfort, but they will be Damascus, which was otherwise central to the least deep sleep were more likely to have sleep analysis did not stack up and that toxic to your company and will ambitions of the regime of the Islamic Republic apnea and tended to sleep less over all. that we would have to sell a very when it is a cause stunt your recovery or the launch of of Iran. “But those conditions did not completely high number of units to make it you alone have cham- future enterprises. Clearly, Lebanon was, until recently, barely explain their lack of slow-wave sleep,” said Dr. work. I insisted we push on and pioned. This fear of It’s unlikely that you will even on the administration’s radar. Today, however, Susan Redline, an author of the study and a launch our very own MP3 player, need to talk to those employees in the wake of the popular uprising in Syria, it professor of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical Virgin Pulse! I felt the product fit embarrassment pre- about where they went wrong; if has once again come under its microscope. The School and Brigham and Women’s hospital. well with our brand, our music vents many chairmen you provide all the information reason for this is not just the relationship with Redline said that although the study followed business and our heritage. necessary, they will know what they the tripartite alliance among Bashar al Assad’s only men, she believes the results would also We spent $20 million designing and bosses from did and be very eager to prove that regime in Damascus, the regime of the mullahs apply to women who fail to get enough deep our MP3 player and bringing it to doing their jobs prop- they can get it right. If you keep in Tehran and Hezbollah’s regime in Lebanon. sleep. market. Though that product and erly and addressing your team together, you will close Nor is it Israel, which represents a major ele- During slow-wave sleep, the brain’s electrical its successors were critically the door on rivals who might bene- ment of American policy, locally, regionally activity slows down, as do a person’s heart rate, acclaimed in the United States, the the situation when it fit from your mistakes by hiring the and internationally. But rather, the reason is adrenaline levels and blood pressure. The aver- Virgin Pulse bombed, and we had is most urgent. If the very people who have just learned the geopolitics that makes Lebanon, with the age person’s blood pressure falls about 10 mil- to write off our investment. business is disappear- the lesson the hard way. kind of government it has today, an artificial limetres of mercury during slumber, a dip that Why didn’t our product work? Innovation is about change – and lung for both Iran and the regime in Damascus largely occurs when deep sleep sets in. Because Apple had an unbeatable ing, you must face when your plans to introduce a new to breathe through. This nightly fall in blood pressure is a “good strategy. your team and start product or service don’t work out, The Obama administration has finally thing,” said Redline. When blood pressure For Apple, 2003 was notable looking into what is sometimes you have to adapt to acknowledged that regardless of whatever doesn’t fall at night, the condition is called because it launched its iTunes changing circumstances instead of bilateral or multilateral UN sanctions it impos- “nondipping,” and it’s a risk factor for heart store that year - as the company going on – and the forcing your competitors to play es against major figures of the regime in disease. “Not having that nightly dip might simultaneously pushed down iPod sooner, the better. catch up. As I’ve written before: Damascus and in Tehran, they will remain of directly influence daytime blood pressure,” prices very quickly. If a company Move on. If that means taking a hit, little use as long as the Syrian and Iranian said Redline. drives down the retail price of an sooner, the better. Only by leaving then take it on the chin. Don’t even regimes can still find air to breathe through It’s also known that the areas of the brain innovative new product fast the safety of your office and sam- think about it again. Just move Lebanon. The administration consequently that regulate sleep patterns have “a lot of cross enough when it is still the domi- pling the product or service your- forward. recognised that Lebanon was the decisive ele- talk with areas of the brain that release hor- nant player in the new market, no self, studying the competition’s (Richard Branson is the ment for completing the task — the task of mones and other mediators that influence one else can catch up because they offerings and generally turning founder of the Virgin Group shutting off the life support system sustaining blood pressure,” Redline said. When those can’t make enough money from your operation upside down will and companies such as Virgin Damascus and Tehran. This will require sanc- areas of the brain are not entering slow-wave their new products. When Apple you get to the bottom of what has Atlantic, Virgin America, tions that are not restricted to Syria and Iran, sleep, she added, it may interfere with various introduced the cheaper, smaller gone wrong. Virgin Mobile and Virgin but which also include leaders in the govern- brain signals that influence blood pressure. iPod nano, it slammed the door on When you have uncovered the Active.) ment of Lebanon. The sanctions currently explores far from the spotlight are not restricted to the banking sec- tor, clamping down on money laundering, drug trafficking and their links to terrorism. Nor do they only affect individuals involved in partner- ships and corporations inside and outside Lebanon, in particular with the major figures of the regime in Syria. The sanctions the Have Americans and the Europeans are considering at present seek to strike a blow against the very Well done, QT! Flood in Pakistan “Europe has done the infrastructure of Damascus and Tehran’s artifi- your say right thing by slapping cial lung, starting with Lebanon’s airport which APROPOS the front-page story REFER to the edit-page report is under Hezbollah’s control. “Arab Spring gives an opportunity “Flood threat to Pakistan” pub- an oil embargo Barack Obama does not want to repeat the to innovate and grow” published lished on Saturday. on Syria.” Libyan scenario in Syria, with air-strikes car- on Saturday. My heartiest congrat- I am concerned that several parts ried out by NATO; he even fears an indirect SOHEB ALAM Is there an issue you feel ulations to Qatar Tribune on its of Pakistan have been already hit role for NATO in ground operations. The last strongly about, or an article fifth birth anniversary. Just like by heavy downpours and flooding. DOHA thing Obama wants is “American boots” on the the Al Jazeera English channel, And if the torrential rain contin- ground, especially during an electoral cycle. you want to comment on? QT this paper has been giving wide ues for a few more days, the situa- Therefore, shutting off the Lebanese lifeline coverage to the Arab Spring. I tion is bound to worsen. to the Syrian and Iranian regimes is very will carry your voice to the appreciate the editor’s effort in Though it is difficult to say that tempting, especially as it would achieve two public and to places where it changing the editorial priorities the damage will be as great as wit- other things in the process, namely stepping up and making M-E pages the first nessed last year, when huge floods the siege on Hezbollah and providing Lebanon matters. Write to us at two pages of the edition. had swept across the country. with an opportunity to breathe normally. The QT spotlight pages in the But the biggest problem is that If Lebanon’s airport is indeed a launching Nation section also gave wide cov- people are already suffering in pad for unlawful operations at various levels, erage to the expatriates’ views on parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, then blockading it with cumulative sanctions the Arab democracy movement. Punjab and Sindh on account of would shackle the tripartite alliance among the ADDRESS The move to enlist readers’ opinion flash floods and canal breaches. regimes in Damascus and Tehran and on the Arab unrest, is a way of But the need of the hour is to take Hezbollah in Lebanon. PO Box 23493, Doha, Qatar empowering them and getting their immediate measures to provide “Well done to the South There are many means of achieving this, be TELEPHONE views on the news. All these efforts succour to the flood-hit and initiate Africa 4x400 relay team, they exclusively American or joint American- +974.44422077 have boosted the Arab youth’s anti-flood measures. they got a silver. Was really European sanctions, and they do not require FAX quest for democracy. Chained for The government must learn from international resolutions. They are effective years under the regime of autocrat- its past mistakes and should not hard watching knowing I means that would shackle irregular free trade +974.44416790 ic rulers, they are not ready to bear repeat the apathy it demonstrated through the airport and other crossings, which EMAIL the insult any more. And QT has last year. It must realise that the deserved to be part of it. Off would pull the rug from under the feet of the [email protected] done the right thing by highlighting affected people must not be denied to my bed, nyt all.” tripartite alliance without the need for military their grievances. official support. 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DPA der during the Eid al Fitr hol- prime importance. The boys, aged 10 of tribal elders, to negotiate attacks on Pakistan border who fled a similar operation ISLAMABAD iday and mistakenly crossed Ehsanullah Ehsan, a to 18, were kid- with the militants. security posts in recent by Pakistan army in Swat dis- into Afghanistan border spokesman of Tehrik-e- napped on Thurs- They have also approached months. trict. PAKISTAN’S Interior province of Kunar. Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an day when they the tribal elders from Kunar Bajaur was controlled by These militants regrouped Minister on Sunday asked “I request Afghan presi- umbrella organisation of were visiting the for help. Taliban before Pakistan and have conducted several Afghan President Hamid dent Hamid Karzai and my more than a dozen militant Ghaki Pass area, a A intelligence official said launched a major offensives attacks on security posts and Karzai to help in the release counterpart there to help the outfits, on Saturday took scenic hill resort. that Pakistan had increased in 2009 and 2010, forcing pro-government tribesmen. of at least 20 Pakistani boys release of Pakistanis held in responsibility of the kidnap- the security on the border hundreds of militants led by Last week, hundreds of kidnapped by the Taliban Afghanistan by Taliban,” ping. at the behest of the govern- along Kunar after the inci- local TTP commander, Taliban from the Afghan from the restive north-west- Rehman Malik said. “The parents of these chil- ment to fight the militants in dent of the kidnapping. Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, to province of Nuristan ern tribal region. The minister said that he dren have allied themselves their area. Pakistani security officials flee to Afghan border area to attacked seven Pakistani The boys, aged 10 to 18, was not concerned at this with the government and The Mahmood tribesmen believe that the boys were find refuge in the territory border posts in the Chitral were kidnapped on Thursday point whether they were they are fighting Taliban,” are also using their tribal being held in Kunar, where under control of Afghan district of Khyber- when they were visiting the abducted by Pakistan mili- said Ehsan. The group were connections for the release of the Taliban have several Taliban. Pakhtunkhwa, killing 36 Ghaki Pass area, a scenic hill tants or Afghan militants, as from the Mamoond tribe, their offspring and had strongholds and from where They were joined by hun- Pakistani soldiers and resort, in Bajaur on the bor- their safe release was of which set up a private militia already sent a jirga, a group they have also launched dreds more Taliban fighters policemen.

Party EKING OUT A LIVING NATO kills A girl child carries mud while working with her family in a brick factory on the outskirts of Islamabad, on Sunday. Child labour is one of the biggest problems facing blocks the country due to lack of educational institutes and poor attendance level. (AFP) ex-Gitmo Nepal PM’s peace bid detainee in IANS Afghanistan KATHMANDU AP A WEEK after coming KABUL into power on the crest of high hopes NATO AND Afghan forces and best wishes from have killed a former people at home and Guantanamo detainee who abroad, Nepal’s returned to Afghanistan to Maoist Prime become a key Al Qaeda ally, Minister Baburam international officials said on Bhattarai now faces a Saturday. thorny, uphill road The militant’s death was a with his own party reminder of the risks of trying blocking his bid to to end a controversial deten- push the obstructed tion system without letting peace process for- loose people who will launch ward. attacks on Americans. The scholar from Sabar Lal Melma, who was India’s prestigious released from Guantanamo in Jawaharlal Nehru 2007, had been organising University, who attacks in eastern Kunar unveiled an ambitious province and funding insur- 45-day peace plan to gent operations, NATO rehabilitate his party’s spokesman Capt Justin guerrilla army with its Brockhoff said. nearly 20,000 com- batants, is now facing Another former stiff resistance from detainee who the hardliners in his joined the Al own party. Qaeda franchise in Last week, Bhattarai Yemen was killed had announced that in a recent US the People?s Libe- airstrike there. ration Army (PLA), barracked in 28 can- A NATO statement tonments across described Melma as a “key Nepal, would hand affiliate of the Al Qaeda net- over the keys to the work” who was in contact containers in which with senior Al Qaeda mem- their weapons have bers in both Afghanistan and been locked up since Afghan Taliban free four Pakistan. the Maoists signed a Another former detainee peace accord in 2006. who joined the Al Qaeda fran- Though it was large- chise in Yemen was killed in a ly a symbolic gesture, recent US airstrike there. it has still met with Troops surrounded fierce resistance from Melma’s house in Jalalabad the hardliners? fac- Turkish engineers city on Friday night and shot tion within the party, him dead when he emerged who called it a “suici- AFP name only as Imam, said no from the building holding an dal bid.” GHAZNI ransom was paid and “we AK-47 assault rifle. Several Mohan Baidya, one were not tortured” while in other people were detained, of the three deputy FOUR Turkish engineers captivity, before being NATO said. chiefs of the party who kidnapped by Afghanistan’s rushed to Ghazni city. A guard at the house, has been blowing hot Taliban more than eight Authorities refused to give Mohammad Gul, said a and cold towards months ago were freed on details but Haji Zahir, a group of American soldiers Bhattarai, heads the Saturday night after inter- Ghazni province tribal elder scaled the walls of the com- faction that is vention by tribal elders. who facilitated the release, pound around 11 pm and demanding that the The men, taken captive in told AFP that the Taliban stormed the house, shooting gesture be revoked. December in eastern Paktia freed the four “only on the Melma in the assault. Three Baidya’s supporters province, were handed to the occasion of Eid.” others were detained, Gul have already staged International Committee of Eid al Fitr is a major said. Melma joined a long list public protests in the the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Muslim festival which marks of detainees believed to have capital last week, forc- neighbouring province of the end of the fasting month reconnected with Al Qaeda. ing the party to Ghazni, an AFP reporter in of Ramadan. The release of In 2009, the Pentagon said resume fresh discus- the area said. prisoners at this time is an Turkish engineers after they were released by their Taliban captors, in Ghazni province, on 61, approximately 11 percent, sions among its lead- “We were kidnapped by Afghan tradition. Saturday. (AFP) of the detainees released from ers on Sunday. the Taliban eight-and-a-half “Yes, we freed the four Guantanamo had rejoined But the meeting months ago. We’re released Turkish engineers on the Afghanistan, in a deadly Afghan prisons before free- north of Kabul, in December the fight. Experts have ques- failed to iron out wrin- on the occasion of Eid by occasion of Eid,” Taliban decade-long conflict. ing hostages. Most the 2009 and freed in July. tioned the validity of that kles and now, the Ameer ul Momineen Mullah spokesman Zabihullah Kidnapping of foreign hostages are, however, One of the two, Herve number. About 520 party has called a sec- Mohammad Omar,” one of Mujahed told AFP. nationals is part of the released only after a ransom Ghesquiere, recently told the Guantanamo detainees have ond round of talks on the captives told AFP, refer- Turkey has hundreds of Taliban insurgency. The is paid. Two French BBC that he suspected a ran- been released from custody or September 18. ring to the Taliban leader. troops operating under the rebels often seek the release reporters were abducted by som was paid for his free- transferred to prisons else- The differences over The Turk, who gave his US-led NATO force in of their jailed comrades from Taliban in Kapisa province, dom. where in the world. the keys handover gave the largest oppo- sition party, the Nepali Congress, a handle to raise fresh doubts about the new Bangladesh for framework pact on transit with India PM and his party’s commitment to peace. PTI draft on a framework agree- National Security Adviser Mongla ports. work agreement first ahead of outlined in a 1972 treaty Citing a feeling of DHAKA ment on transit which is likely Shivshankar Menon here, his The source said Dhaka was protocols detailing the nitty- between the two countries. insecurity, Nepali to be presented for discussion second such trip in five days, unwilling to sign the protocol gritty issues,” Tariff Bangladesh and India had Congress chief Sushil AHEAD of Indian Prime during the meeting of our to review the last-minute as the issues of transit routes Commission Chairman a 25-year Treaty of Koirala demanded at a Minister Manmohan Singh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina preparations ahead of Singh’s and fees were yet to be settled Mojibur Rahman, who was Friendship, Cooperation and public programme in September 6-7 visit, and India’s Manmohan September 6-7 tour. while the ministries of Foreign tasked to lead a committee to Peace signed on March 19, the capital on Sunday Bangladesh on Sunday said it Singh,” a senior official famil- Mass circulated Prothom Affairs, Commerce and suggest transit fees, earlier 1972, but the two govern- that given the dissent preferred a framework agree- iar with the process told PTI Alo newspaper reported Communication and the told newsmen. ments declined to renegotiate within the Maoists, ment on transit between the preferring anonymity. Sunday quoting a “responsi- Tariff Commission and The transit issue has raised or renew the treaty when it not just the keys but two sides instead of a revised He said that the agreement ble source” that New Delhi Revenue Board earlier fresh debates among experts approached expiry in 1997. the entire PLA arsenal Indian proposal for inking a could be signed if the two last week sent a revised draft opposed the idea due to lack and independent think tanks Transit through Bangladesh, should be handed over protocol on using this coun- Prime Ministers agreed to it. of a protocol seeking to use of preparedness. as the government here said for India in particular, to the government. try’s two seaports. His comments came a day Bangladesh’s southeastern “Due to practical reasons we the arrangements for the remained a contentious “Bangladesh has prepared a after the unscheduled visit of Chittagong and southwestern need to sign a broad frame- bilateral connectivity was issue. Monday, September 5, 2011 11 Monday, September 5, 2011 12 www.qatar-tribune.com WORLD Arab League Storm Lee hits chief may visit Syria Louisiana coast REUTERS CAIRO REUTERS sea level and is protected by NEW ORLEANS a system of levees and flood ARAB LEAGUE chief Nabil al gates. Araby said on Sunday he may TROPICAL Storm Lee The levees can process visit Syria this week to voice crawled onto southern about 1 inch of rainfall per Arab worries about violence Louisiana’s coast on hour and the storm’s slow- there after Damascus sent Sunday as New Orleans moving nature remained a troops and tanks to crush prepared for one of the worry, officials said. There protests against President biggest tests of its flood were isolated reports of Bashar al Assad’s rule. defenses since Hurricane flooding in roads and “The Syrian government Katrina devastated the city homes. No injuries or fatal- told me that it welcomes the in 2005. ities were reported. visit of the secretary-general at The National Hurricane New Orleans officials any time, and it will probably Center said Lee’s center were cautiously optimistic be this week,” al Araby told a was about 125 miles west- that the pump system news conference at the southwest of New Orleans, would stay ahead of the league’s headquarters in Cairo. with maximum sustained rainfall, as residents awoke “I did not ask for guaran- winds of 45 mph at around on Sunday to the arrival of tees and will communicate 11 am EDT, and tropical a heavy band of rain. the Arab worries about the storm-force winds extend- “There’s not a whole lot incidents in Syria and listen ing 275 miles. of flooding anywhere, so Emirati women walk past election banners at a registration centre, in Dubai, on Sunday. (AFP) to the opinion of the Syrian Winds were expected to things are OK,” said Jerry authorities,” he said. weaken gradually in the Sneed, deputy mayor of The Syrian government has next couple of days and up public safety. “We’re ready sent in troops and tanks to to 20 inches of rain was for the next round.” crush over five months of expected to fall on south- Low-lying parishes UAE poll campaign begins street protests demanding east Louisiana, the Miami- around New Orleans did Assad steps down, killing at based center said. not fare as well, as Lee’s AFP since the UAE federation was 6,000 in the first elections in eration’s seven rulers. least 2,200 protesters accord- In New Orleans, the winds drove a tidal surge DUBAI established upon its inde- 2006. Candidates also The National Council can- ing to the United Nations. storm recalled Hurricane over levees and onto roads. pendence from Britain in should come from this cho- not overturn or block laws or On August 28, Arab foreign Katrina, which flooded 80 “For a while we got some CANDIDATES in the United 1971. sen electoral college. decrees issued and ratified ministers agreed to send al percent of the city, killed false hope that we might be Arab Emirates began cam- Candidates had already Only half of the seats in the by the Supreme Council. Araby to Damascus to push 1,500 people and caused out of the woods, but we paigning on Sunday for the tapped into social network- National Council are elected, Campaigning is bound by a for political and economic more than $80 billion in realized overnight we second-ever elections to ing websites such as Twitter while the rest are appointed set of rules and regulations reforms and asked Syria to damage to the popular would get more rain,” choose half the members of and Facebook, which they by the rulers. dictated by the National end months of bloodshed tourist destination. Lee has Lafourche Parish the purely consultative used to introduce themselves The Council has no legisla- Election Council and include “before it’s too late”. dropped nearly 11 inches of spokesman Brennan Federal National Council. to the electorate. tive powers and acts merely campaign finance restric- The EU governments rain on New Orleans since Matherne said. “We’re get- A total of 468 candidates, Only 129,000 people as an advisory board to the tions that limit candidate agreed on Friday to ban it developed late last week. ting call after call about including 85 women, are named by the rulers of the Federal Supreme Council, expenditures to a maximum imports of Syrian oil in a Half the city lies below street flooding.” running in the polls on seven emirates are allowed the country’s highest govern- of two million dirhams move to put economic pres- September 24, the second to vote, compared with only ing body made up of the fed- ($545,000). sure on Assad government. Breast cancer major killer of Arab women in Qatar Prayer beads getting

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The project is scheduled to be ate and effective intervention popular among youth completed by November 2013. strategies and services to meet living in Arab countries and a Besides Donnelly, a profes- the breast cancer care needs of CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 For more than two cen- leading cause of death among sor in the Calgary University in Arab women living in Qatar turies, Souq Waqif was the women. She added, “Although Qatar (CU-Q), the other mem- with a view to bringing down however, beads are made first destination for those the incidence of breast cancer bers of the team are Dr al the rate of occurrence as well mainly of amber. wanting to buy the prayers is still relatively low in Qatar as Hareth al Khater, chairman of as mortality from breast can- Beads may have acquired beads. compared with some Western Hamad Medical Corporation’s cer among them. the trappings of a fashion item Besides Muslims, prayer countries, it is steadily rising. Medical Research Centre, Dr Phase three will aim to eval- among the youth in recent beads are also used by Furthermore, Arab women in Mohamed al Kuwari of the uate, facilitate and sustain the times but it remains primarily Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Qatar are often diagnosed at Supreme Council of Health, Dr participation of Arab women part of a religious ritual that is Sikhs and followers of the Bahai an advanced stage of the dis- Nabila al Meer, executive in breast cancer screening in more widespread during faith to count the repetition of ease and, consequently, the director of HMC’s Department the country.” Ramadan in the Muslim prayers or chants like dhikr mortality rate in Qatar is pro- of Nursing, Dr Salha Donnelly urged the people world. No wonder, the (chanting of the Allah’s differ- portionally higher. Early Bujassoum, senior consultant afflicted with cancer to have a demand for the sibah in ent names by the Muslims). detection and treatment of of haematology/oncology at Al positive attitude and do not Qatar, as also in other Gulf They are also used for medi- breast cancer can significantly Amal Hospital, Dr Maryam give up easily. countries, increases during tation, protection from nega- reduce morbidity and mortali- Abdul Malik, director, Primary She said, “One must keep the Holy Month of Ramadan. tive energy or for relaxation. ty. However, the participation Health Care at Supreme fighting the disease, make Beads’ trade in the Gulf coun- Talking to Qatar Tribune rate in breast cancer screening Council of Health, Dr Rajvir one’s life as meaningful as pos- tries exceeds $1 billion during Hussein Abdulraheem noted by Arab women in Qatar has Singh, senior consultant at sible, reach out/give support Ramadan, and this year was that the Holy Month of been found to be alarmingly HMC’s Medical Research to other cancer patients.” She no exception. Ramadan is the real season for low.” She suggested that the Center, Floor Christie-de also suggested to the cancer Mahmoud Issa, owner of a selling the prayer beads. “I pur- low rate of screening suggests Jong, research associate at the patients to seek support from beads’ shop at Souq Waqif chase the amber stones for that Arab women are at higher University of Calgary-Qatar, their family, friends, and com- said: “In the absence of an making beads 90 days before risk of getting the disease and and a team of research assis- munity members. She also exclusive market for the the start of Ramadan to avoid dying for lack of detection and tants. pointed out that a healthy sibah, Souq Waqif draws disappointment as the demand treatment of breast cancer in hope to have the survey find- was started in March 2011 fol- Donnelly said that there lifestyle would be helpful in large numbers of people look- of the stone goes up globally in early stages. ings by September. In October, lowing approval by both would be two more phases of preventing cancer as well as ing for different varieties — days before the arrival of According to Prof Donnelly, we will start data collection for Hamad Medical Corporation the research. “During second fighting it. She also suggested traditional as well as designer Ramadan,” Abdulraheem said. data was collected from 1063 our study from a sample survey Research Committee and the phase of the research, data everyone to be environment – in Ramadan as counting He pointed out that manu- Arab women living in Qatar. of Arab women, men and University of Calgary Conjoint from both the quantitative and conscious and try to create a prayers on the sibah is an facturers preferred using the She said, “Data analysis is cur- healthcare providers.” Data Health Research Ethics qualitative studies will be used healthy environment for important ritual during the transparent amber because of rently under progress. We collection for phase-one study Board—Canada, she added. to develop culturally appropri- everyone to live in. holy month.” its ease in cutting. 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