US Commandos Kill Top IS Leader in Syria Raid
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SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 RAJJAB 28, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net India’s Modi Mane destroys brings home Aston Villa with $22bn in fastest Premier China21 deals League20 hat-trick US commandos kill top Min 28º Max 39º IS leader in Syria raid High Tide 08:35 & 20:35 Low Tide Wife arrested • ‘Dozen’ militants killed • Yazidi ‘slave girl’ rescued 01:35 & 14:40 40 PAGES NO: 16523 150 FILS BEIRUT: US commandos killed a senior Islamic State Khamenei vows to group leader in a nighttime raid into Syria, US officials said yesterday, as IS jihadists seized the northern part of help ‘oppressed’ Syria’s ancient Palmyra. Across the borders, IS fought Iraqi army reinforcements in the western city of Ramadi, people in region while Turkey said its armed forces shot down a Syrian helicopter which violated its air space. DUBAI: Iran will help oppressed people in the region, US special forces raided Al-Omar in east Syria on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yester- Friday night to capture senior IS leader Abu Sayyaf and day, days after Gulf Arab leaders met US President his wife Umm Sayyaf, US officials said. The bold opera- Barack Obama and expressed concern about Iranian tion, with elite commandos striking at IS’s inner circle, expansionism. Khamenei also denounced Saudi was a rare use of “boots on the ground” by the United Arabia for its role leading a States, which has fought the jihadists almost entirely coalition of Sunni-ruled from the air. White House national security spokes- Arab states against Yemen’s woman Bernadette Meehan said Abu Sayyaf, who Houthi rebels, comparing it played a senior role in IS’s lucrative oil operations, “was to the pagans who ruled killed when he engaged US forces”. His wife was being the Arabian Peninsula before the advent of Islam held in military detention in Iraq. in the seventh century. Al-Omar, one of the largest oil fields in Syria, lies in His speech to a meeting oil-rich Deir Ezzor province. Like much of Deir Ezzor, Al- of Iranian leaders and Omar remains under IS control. US Secretary of Defence diplomats from the Muslim Ash Carter called the operation a “significant blow” to IS. world, reported by the Meehan said US forces based out of Iraq had conducted state news agency IRNA, the raid “with the full consent” of Iraqi authorities. US Ali Khamenei brought the issues of politi- forces suffered no casualties, American officials said, cal and religious legitimacy without giving details on the number of troops squarely into the struggle between the two regional involved. powers. “Yemen, Bahrain and Palestine are oppressed, Members of the elite Delta special operations unit and we protect oppressed people as much as we can,” descended on Sayyaf’s compound in Black Hawk heli- IRNA quoted him as saying at the event for the holiday copters and Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, a defence official of Lailat al-Miraj. told AFP. In a firefight, US troops killed “about a dozen” Gulf Arab leaders met with Obama on Thursday to armed militants, the official said, on condition of express their concern that Iran is trying to expand its anonymity. At one point, fighting took place “at very Continued on Page 13 SARAQEB, Syria: A man carrying the body of a child walks amid debris following an air strike by Syrian gov- close quarters, and there was hand-to-hand combat”. ernment forces in this rebel-held town southeast of Idlib yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Morsi sentenced to death Erdogan slams verdict • ‘Ultras’ banned CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other people to death for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising. Hours after the rul- ing, gunmen shot dead two judges, a prosecutor and their driver in the strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, in the first such attack on the judiciary in the region. Morsi, sitting in a caged dock in the blue uniform of convicts after already been sentenced to 20 years for inciting violence, raised his fists defiantly when the verdict was read. Other defendants, held in a courtroom cage separate from Morsi, flashed a four-finger salute symbolizing resistance to the state’s anti-Islamist crackdown. From VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis greets Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas during behind soundproof glass, they shouted: “Down with an audience at the Vatican yesterday. — AFP military rule!” Wearing white, red and blue prison jump- suits - identifying them respectively as awaiting sen- tencing, condemned to death, and sentenced to a lesser penalty - they seemed to form a choir momentarily, Pope calls Abbas with one prisoner leading others in protest chants. Judge Shabaan El-Shamy handed down the same sentence to more than 100 other defendants including Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badei, already ‘angel of peace’ sentenced to death in another trial, and his deputy Khairat Al-Shater. Morsi, elected president in 2012 as VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis met a private audience, which came a day the Brotherhood’s compromise candidate after Shater Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas before the head of the Roman Catholic was disqualified, ruled for only a year before mass yesterday, calling him “an angel of Church was due to canonize two protests spurred the military to overthrow him in July peace,” days after the Vatican said it was Palestinian nuns, who will become the 2013. He was among dozens of Islamist leaders preparing to sign its first accord with first Palestinian Arabs to gain saint- detained amid a crackdown that left hundreds of Morsi CAIRO: Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi raises his hands as he sits Palestine to the anger of Israel. Abbas hood. supporters dead. behind glass in a courtroom in a converted lecture hall at the national police met the pontiff for about 20 minutes at Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 academy yesterday. — AP Boston bomber handed death Certified Yacht Captain required BOSTON: A US jury on Friday sentenced 21-year-old The decision caps a 12-week trial that relived the hor- Requirement for a Qualified Captain for a Yacht Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 ror of the attacks through grisly videos and heartbreak- (88 feet) in Kuwait for immediate placement Boston Marathon bombings, one of the worst assaults on ing testimony from those who lost limbs and loved ones. American soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks. It US Attorney General Loretta Lynch called the sentence a • With good experience in Marine and Navigational took the jury more than 14 hours to choose death rather “fitting punishment,” while prosecutors and law enforce- Skills than life imprisonment for the ex pot-smoking college ment in Boston said they were satisfied, but urged com- student of Chechen descent, who came to the United memoration rather than celebration. The death sentence States as a child and took citizenship in 2012. The death was possible only under federal law. The state of •Excellent Maintenance and Technical/ Troubleshooting penalty decision on six of 17 counts handed a stinging Massachusetts outlawed capital punishment in 1947 and Experience, Engineering Skills are preferred defeat to the defense, who argued for a “lost kid” who opinion polls had suggested residents favored a life sen- would never have committed such horrors without being tence for Tsarnaev. •Must Possess Vigilant attitude to ensure that safety manipulated by his older brother. Some survivors, including the parents of the youngest procedures are followed The double bombing carried out by the brothers victim, Martin Richard, also publicly opposed the death killed three people and wounded 264 others, including penalty, worried that years, if not decades of prospective 17 who lost limbs, near the finish line at the northeastern appeals would dredge up their agony. There was com- •Fluent in English city’s popular marathon. Tsarnaev went on the run and plete silence in the court, packed with victims and sur- was arrested four days later, hiding and injured in a vivors including the Richard parents, law enforcement • Attractive salary grounded boat on which he had scrawled a bloody mes- and journalists. The clerk had warned that any outburst sage defending the attacks as a means to avenge US wars would be treated as contempt. • Residence (Article# 18) will be Transferred in Iraq and Afghanistan. He showed no emotion as the The 24-page verdict form showed overwhelmingly BOSTON: In this courtroom sketch, Boston Marathon court clerk took 20 minutes to read out the verdict form that the jury rejected the defense’s arguments that bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands as a death by that culminated in the death penalty verdict. He stood Tsarnaev was bullied by his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan, ase contact by below Number / Email for further Inquiry lethal injection sentence is read at the Moakley hands clasped before him, wearing an open-necked shirt who was shot dead by police while he was on the run. Mobile: 99094457/ Email: [email protected] Federal Courthouse on Friday. — AP and a dark blazer. Continued on Page 13 LOCAL SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2015 Local spotlight Amiri Diwan thanks mourners Challenges KUWAIT: On behalf of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Al-Sabah family members, the Amiri Diwan yesterday expressed deep thanks to all citizens and expatriates who offered condolences on the death of Sheikh Khaled Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah. — KUNA of education National Assembly Speaker By Muna Al-Fuzai concludes South Korea visit Kuwaiti MPs emphasize mission’s significance [email protected] SEOUL: Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker The ambassador urged Korean entrepre- welfth-grade students and parents are facing a Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem’s visit to South neurs to take advantage of a package of facili- tough time these days awaiting admission in Korea is a significant step forward for bol- ties offered by the State of Kuwait for foreign universities, whether in Kuwait or abroad.