SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2015 RABI ALTHANI 16, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Jordan hangs militants, Min 08º Max 25º vows to take battle to IS High Tide 00:01 & 13:52 UAE pulled out of IS fight: NYT Outrage over killing of pilot Low Tide • 07:37 & 19:42 40 PAGES NO: 16424 150 FILS AMMAN: Jordan executed two death-row Iraqi jihadists, from the editor’s desk including a woman, yesterday after vowing to avenge Leaders visit heritage fest the burning alive of one of its fighter pilots by the Islamic State group. Would-be suicide bomber Sajida Al- The Satanic State Rishawi and Al-Qaeda member Ziad Al-Karboli were hanged before dawn at a prison south of the capital, the government said. Jordan had promised to begin execut- ing Islamist extremists on death row in response to the By Abd Al-Rahman Al-Alyan murder of Muath Al-Kassasbeh, who was captured by IS when his plane went down in Syria in December. Jordan’s King Abdullah II cut short a visit to [email protected] Washington after a gruesome video of the airman’s killing emerged, describing Kassasbeh as a hero and vowing to take the battle to IS. The king was greeted by y deepest heartfelt condolences go to the large crowds at the airport before meeting with his secu- friends and families of Jordanian pilot rity chiefs. “The blood of martyr Muath Al-Kassasbeh will MMuath Al-Kasassbeh, Japanese journalists not be in vain and the response of Jordan and its army Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa and all those who after what happened to our dear son will be severe,” he have lost loved ones to these cowardly criminals. I said afterwards, quoted by the royal court. “We are wag- cannot imagine the pain and sorrow of watching a ing this war to protect our faith, our values and human loved one being killed in the most disgusting principles and our war for their sake will be relentless method. and will hit them in their own ground,” state television Words cannot describe the shock and horror we quoted the king as saying during a security meeting. all felt while watching the brutal murder of the Egypt-based Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious Jordanian pilot by the barbarians of IS or as I more seat of learning, called for the “killing, crucifixion or appropriately call them, the Satanic State. Lt chopping of the limbs” of IS militants, expressing out- Kasassbeh was placed in the center of a cage as he rage over their “cowardly act”. Rishawi, 44, was sen- watched his captors ignite a trail of fuel leading to tenced to death for her participation in triple hotel his cage. The doomed man was horrifically burned bombings in Amman in 2005 that killed 60 people. IS alive in the most cowardly, inhumane and disgust- had offered to spare Kassasbeh’s life and free Japanese ing method. journalist Kenji Goto - who was later beheaded - if she First, they killed truck drivers in Iraq, and then were released. they target the foreigners, then Christians of The prisoners were executed in Swaqa prison, 70 Mosul, then Shiites, then Sunnis and women, and km south of Amman, just before dawn, a security they promise to attack every country in the region source who was familiar with the case said. “They were and the world. They can call themselves religious both calm and showed no emotions and just prayed,” as much as they want but the truth is they are a the source added without elaborating. Rishawi, in her barbaric criminal militia devoted to spreading and mid-forties, was part of an Al-Qaeda network that tar- promoting evil and fear to secure a political target geted three Amman hotels in suicide bombings in for their sponsors. They may think of themselves as KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah holds a falcon as HH the Crown Prince 2005. She was meant to die in one of the attacks - the a country and create things like IS passports, ID Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and other officials look on at the national folk festival in worst in Jordan’s history - but her suicide bomb belt cards, currency, etc, but this is just a sick joke. Salmi yesterday. — KUNA (More pics on Page 3) did not go off. The question is if you plan to kill and make ene- Continued on Page 13 mies of the rest of the world, what use is your passport and where would it be accepted? And I also want to point out that if these cowardly sav- ages believed so strongly that they are acting in Nod to KD 34bn development plan the name of God, why cover their faces in the acts of execution? If they are doing what is right, why the need to hide your face? They hide their faces because they know what they are doing is evil and MP warns defense minister over Eurofighter deal wrong. But this is a mission that they have been By B Izzak and which earmarks KD 6.6 billion for proj- given and they know it’s temporary, not a state ects. The plan still needs to be debated they actually want to build. These are mercenaries KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s finan- and approved by the National Assembly to who will one day want to go back to live in civi- cial and economic affairs committee yes- become law. This will be the second five- lized countries around the world. terday approved the five-year develop- year plan in the current century, but the I do not want to open a long discussion about ment plan 2015/2016-2019/2020 which implementation of the first plan has been who could be behind them - I will leave that for envisages spending of around KD 34 bil- very weak. everyone to have his own conspiracy theory. All I lion on development projects, secretary of Jabri said the committee also approved will say is that the Satanic State has harmed and the committee said. MP Mohammad Al- a law calling to establish one or more live- threatened everyone except one country in the Jabri said the spending amount was cut by stock companies to import and sell sheep region, and that sure is suspicious. However, evil is KD 11 billion from the initial government to break the monopoly of the only govern- like a cancer - if you do not operate immediately, proposal for not including projects that ment livestock firm. New livestock compa- getting rid of it, it will spread and grow and would be completed after 2020. nies will be established on the basis of become harder to fight. The proposed spending will be used for build-operate-transfer (BOT). The commit- I wonder how long will the world wait before 521 projects - 421 projects are continuing tee also approved a proposal to activate a proper action is taken against this monstrous evil from the past plan and 92 are new proj- number of laws to boost the monitoring disease that is clearly getting better at what it ects, Jabri said. The committee also role of the Audit Bureau, member of the does, and why it is being allowed to carry on. approved the development plan for the committee MP Faisal Al-Kandari said. 2015/2016 fiscal year which starts April 1 Continued on Page 13 TAIPEI: This screen grab taken from video shows a TransAsia turboprop plane clipping an elevated motorway and hitting a taxi before crashing into the Gulf to give Jailed girl becomes Keelung River outside the capital yesterday. — AFP Egypt $10bn Palestinian symbol 25 killed as Taiwan BEITIN: A 14-year-old schoolgirl jailed for it was cold, but the judge refused to let her plane falls in river before meet trying to attack Israeli soldiers has become have it,” the distressed 50-year-old said. a symbol of Palestinian anger over the Israeli forces arrest about 1,000 children TAIPEI: At least 25 people were killed to be trapped, was still in the water. CAIRO: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab arrests of children in the occupied territo- every year in the occupied West Bank, yesterday when a passenger plane oper- TransAsia said 16 survivors had been Emirates will deposit $10 billion in Egypt before the ries. The two-month sentence for Malak Al- often on charges of stone-throwing, ated by TransAsia Airways clipped an pulled out of the wreckage after the tur- country holds an investment conference in March, Khatib, who was accused of stone-throw- according to rights group Defence for overpass soon after take-off and boprop plane crashed with 58 people the news website Al-Youm Al-Sabea reported. Egypt ing and possession of a knife, has Children International Palestine (DCI plunged into a river in Taiwan, the air- onboard. Many of the passengers were hopes the conference in the resort Sharm El-Sheikh unleashed a wave of solidarity and support Palestine). But the case of Malak has line’s second crash in seven months. As mainland Chinese tourists. Cold weather, will generate ventures worth billions of dollars, help- among Palestinians. “My heart broke when brought countless media organisations the rescue operation continued into the poor visibility and rising water levels ing to boost its economy, which has just started to I saw her in court, cuffed and shackled,” her flocking to her family’s door and attracted night, a crane lifted the rear and central were hampering the rescue, officials recover from political turmoil triggered by the 2011 mother Khawla Al-Khatib told AFP from her more public attention than most.