SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015 JAMADA ALAWWAL 10, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait honors Tributes pour vows on money in for Nimoy, laundering, aka Mr Spock terror finance2 in40 ‘Star Trek’ Kuwait reopens embassy Min 09º Max 28º in Aden instead of Sanaa High Tide 10:08 & 20:14 Kuwait seeking extradition treaty with UK Low Tide 03:33 & 14:40 40 PAGES NO: 16446 150 FILS KUWAIT/LONDON: Kuwait has joined its Gulf partners nd Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates and decided to Zain claims 2 place in Sailing Arabia leg reopen its Yemeni embassy in Aden, instead of the militia- controlled capital Sanaa. “In the framework of supporting By Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi constitutional legitimacy in Yemen represented in Vice Chairman, Zain Group President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi... the state of Kuwait has decided to reopen its embassy in the city of Aden,” the y recent sailing adventure with foreign ministry said, quoted by the official KUNA news Zain’s admirable team has giv- agency. The ministry said the decision was in accordance Men me and the participants a with an agreement by the foreign ministers of the six- grander perception of the importance nation Gulf Cooperation Council. of teamwork. My experience in the race Saudi Arabia and the UAE also announced last week was met with a lot of hard work and that they would reopen their Yemen embassies in Aden. determination. I have witnessed Hadi fled to the southern coastal city a week ago after through an all new perspective just how escaping house arrest in Sanaa, which the Shiite Houthi dependent the success of the team is militia overran in September before seizing power this on the way it’s operated and managed. month. The three Gulf nations were among many coun- Teamwork is as essential in sailing as it is tries, including Britain and the United States, that shut- within a company’s workforce. The right tered their embassies in Sanaa this month over security leadership coupled with a proper hier- fears. archy is vital to the performance of both Western-backed Hadi, who rescinded a resignation he companies and sailing teams in striking- offered last month and has declared all actions by the ly similar ways. Houthis to be illegitimate, has said he hopes to make Aden Being the captain of my own busi- secure for foreign diplomatic missions. Aden was the capi- nesses, I was looking forward to be able tal of an independent south Yemen before the two Yemens to put myself in the position of a team were united in 1990. player and receive instructions rather Separately, Kuwait is seeking to sign a memorandum of than give them. Much like the CEO of a understanding with the United Kingdom on extradition of company, the captain of the boat gives criminals, namely public fund embezzlers, a senior Kuwaiti the orders to the team and assigns cer- official announced. Due to a lack of such an accord tain members to take on certain duties between Kuwait and the UK, “some embezzlers of public that the captain deems fit given their funds have taken refuge in Britain”, revealed Kuwaiti respective skills and abilities. This Minister of Justice and Minister of Awqaf and Islamic recruiting process is crucial to ensure Affairs Yaqoub Al-Sane in a statement to KUNA. that the right person is chosen for each The Kuwaiti government is keen on sparing no effort to job and in turn creates efficiency and Bader Nasser Al-Kharafi, Vice Chairman of Zain Group, is seen on the Zain Sailing Team boat. ( See Page 19) tackle such legal shortcomings in coordination with the British authorities, stressed Sane as he emerged from a drives performance. ern us all. Without moral guidance, the tain to command his team ahead. The the values needed to excel and per- meeting with UK Secretary of State for Justice Chris My objective was clear; through structure of any team or company will heart and strength of the team, howev- form, be it in a race or in a company, are strategic teamwork our aim was to excel Grayling, held on the sidelines of the recent Global Law surely topple with time. It comes as no er, comes from the combined individual one and the same. Every contributing Summit in Britain. in the race. This task isn’t as easy as one surprise that Ernesto Bertarelli from the efforts of all the players. Moreover, the member of the team plays a pivotal role would presume since winning alone is Sane said the British official assured him during the Alinghi team is as triumphant a sailing team’s ability to interact with each other to its success and with this synergy the meeting that the Kuwaiti request in this regard would be not the entire purpose; teambuilding captain as he is an entrepreneur. professionally and in unity whether it’s whole is much greater than the sum of was our main focus. In line with what I referred to relevant justice departments, adding that the The captain has the most demanding in the comfort of the workplace or in its parts. Vince Lombardi, the American Kuwaiti and British sides agreed on forming a contact have learned from business school, a job and the qualities that make a good the harshest sailing conditions is the Football player, wisely noted that leader is to make sure that his team per- group for information swaps as a preliminary step toward captain are the same attributes that key driver to success. “Individual commitment to a group crafting a full-fledged agreement in this regard. forms the tactics and strategies he has make a good CEO. Foresight, leadership, I am genuinely pleased with the effort - that is what makes a team work, Kuwaiti-UK relationship at the political and economic set but with a commendable level of credibility and competence are but teamwork in the race and my unforget- a company work, a society work, a civi- levels is distinguished; however there is need to improve respect to the rules and ethics that gov- some traits that are essential for a cap- table experience has confirmed that lization work.” the cooperation in the judicial realm, particularly regarding Continued on Page 13 Egypt brands Hamas Eight dead in US PAGE Awesome Federer PAGE as ‘terrorist’ group shooting spree floors Djokovic Badie handed life in jail CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday new low. Hamas condemned what it Unmasking of ‘Jihadi branded the Palestinian Islamist move- called “a great disgrace which soils the ment Hamas a “terrorist” group over its reputation of Egypt”. alleged links with jihadists behind It came almost a month after a court deadly attacks on security forces in the on Jan 31 designated Hamas’s armed John’ shocks Britain Sinai Peninsula. The ruling took ties wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, between Hamas and the authorities a “terrorist” group. In a separate case which ousted Egypt’s elected Islamist earlier in the day, a court sentenced the president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 to a Continued on Page 13 Emwazi a Kuwait-born IT graduate LONDON: The unmasking of Islamic State militant “Jihadi John” as a Londoner who had repeatedly been questioned by security services sent shockwaves Debate on dress Vocal critic of Putin through Britain, with Prime Minister David Cameron stepping in to defend British spy craft. Cameron tried to killed near Kremlin defuse criticism of Britain’s intelligence community, color goes viral which had “Jihadi John” on its list of potential terror sus- MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin that “everything will be done so that pects for years but was unable WASHINGTON: It’s the dress that’s beat- yesterday vowed to punish the killers of the organizers and perpetrators of a to prevent him from traveling ing the Internet black and blue. Or should Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov as Russian vile and cynical murder get the punish- to Syria, where he has played a that be gold and white? Friends and co- opposition figures denounced what ment they deserve.” prominent role in grisly workers worldwide are debating the true they called a “political murder” Allies of Nemtsov, a long- beheading videos. hues of a royal blue dress with black lace and Western leaders called for time anti-corruption crusader Cameron did not mention that, to many an eye, transforms in one a full probe. The 55-year-old who served as deputy premier “Jihadi John” or refer to his real photograph into gold and white. Experts former deputy premier, a vocal under Boris Yeltsin, linked his identity: Mohammed Emwazi, are calling the photo a one-in-a-million Putin critic prominent at oppo- death to his political activities. a Kuwait-born computer sci- shot that perfectly captures how people’s sition rallies, was shot in the Hours before the killing, he ence graduate raised and edu- brains perceive color and process contrast back several times shortly went on air to urge Russians to cated in Britain. But he said the in dramatically different ways. before midnight Friday as he join an opposition rally today country’s spies make “incredi- “This photo provides the best test I’ve walked across a bridge a against the Kremlin stance in bly difficult judgments” daily ever seen for how the process of color stone’s throw from the Kremlin Ukraine. “There is already a list about how to pursue threats correction works in the brain,” said Daniel walls. Boris Nemtsov of unsolved political murders to national security and have Hardiman-McCartney, the clinical adviser The brazen assassination is the latest and attack in Russia,” Amnesty broken up plots that would to Britain’s College of Optometrists.