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SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013 SHAWWAL 14, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Archaeologists Wozniacki and race to save Gaza Stephens cruise 39ancient ruins in18 New Haven ‘No visit visas’ for Max 48º Min 31º High Tide Egyptians: Kuwait 00:07 & 11:29 Low Tide 05:42 & 18:37 40 PAGES NO: 15904 150 FILS Egypt arrests Brotherhood’s spiritual leader KUWAIT: Interior Ministry sources said a decision to stop family and business visas for Egyptians has been finalized. Sources said the decision is due to the current situation in Egypt, in addition to the sit-ins that took place in front of the American Embassy in Bayan, and the Egyptian consulate in Rawdha. The sources added that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) did not set a date for resuming the issuance of visas for Egyptians, but it is expected as soon as the situation improves. Meanwhile, Egypt’s army-backed authorities detained the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader yesterday, signaling their determination to crush the group and silence protests against the ousting of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. The arrest of Mohamed Badie, 70, the Brotherhood’s general guide, followed the bloody sup- pression of rallies demanding the reinstatement of Egypt’s first freely elected president, who was toppled by the military last month. Egypt is enduring the worst internal strife in its modern history, with about 900 peo- ple killed, including 100 police and soldiers, after securi- ty forces broke up protest camps by Morsi’s supporters in the capital on Aug 14. A spokesman for a pro-Brotherhood alliance put the death toll amongst its followers at about 1,400. The tur- moil has alarmed the United States and the European Union, but Israel and some Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia have pressed the West not to punish Cairo’s new rulers. Qatar, the only Gulf state seen as sympathetic to Morsi, sent another tanker of liquefied natural gas to energy-strapped Egypt this week despite the army takeover. Badie was charged in July with incitement to murder in connection with protests before Morsi’s ouster and is due to stand trial on Aug 25 along with his two deputies. Footage shown on local media showed the bearded leader sitting grim-faced in a grey robe near a man with a rifle following his detention in Cairo in the early hours. The release of the images seemed designed to humiliate the Brotherhood chief, whose arrest means CAIRO: Vehicles drive on Tahrir Square after it has been partially reopened to traffic as tents of opponents to the group’s top echelon is now behind bars, with other Egyptian deposed president Mohammed Morsi remain on the center island. (Inset) Photo shows Mohamed Badie leaders dropping out of sight. the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, following his arrest yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 GCC blasts Hezbollah Israel behind Morsi Jordan’s king warns of sectarian ‘destruction’ ouster: Turkey PM RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council has criticized Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister But Erdogan’s accusation was furi- Yesterday, the office of Egypt’s new Hassan Nasrallah for threatening to send Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel ously rejected by Egypt, which said it Prime Minister Hazem Al-Beblawi more fighters to neighboring Syria after a yesterday of being behind the mili- had “no basis in fact”. The claims also said Erdogan’s latest words “have no car bomb hit his Shiite party’s stronghold. tary-backed ouster of Egypt’s Islamist drew criticism from the US, with the basis in fact and are not accepted by “At the same time that he calls for self president Mohamed Morsi last White House describing the com- any sane or fair person”. restraint, he threatens the Syrians that his month. “What do they say about ments as “offensive and unsubstanti- It said Erdogan’s comments were party will be more involved in fighting Egypt: democracy is not the ballot ated and wrong”. Morsi was sworn in intended to “target Egyptian national them,” GCC secretary general Abdullatif Al- box. Who is behind this? It’s Israel,” as Egypt’s first democratically elect- unity” and warned that Cairo’s Zayani said in a statement released late Erdogan, an outspoken critic of the ed leader in June 2012 but was over- “patience was reaching breaking Monday. Jewish state, told a meeting of his thrown by the military last month point”. Turkey has hardened its tone “This is a flagrant meddling in their Islamic-rooted Justice and with popular backing. towards Egypt’s new rulers after last (Syrians’) internal affairs and an obvious Development Party (AKP). “We have Erdogan’s AKP, which had devel- week’s bloody crackdown on Morsi violation of the Syrian sovereignty,” he the evidence,” he said, citing what he oped friendly ties with Morsi and the supporters, recalling its ambassador said, describing Nasrallah’s speech of said were comments by an Israeli jus- Muslim Brotherhood, has described to Cairo, prompting a tit-for-tat move being “irresponsible”. “Nasrallah continues tice minister to a 2011 forum in his ousting as a “coup”. Turkey’s stance by Egypt. Daily demonstrations in to boast about the participation of his France in which he allegedly said has infuriated Egypt’s military-backed support of Morsi have since taken militia in slaughtering children, women DAMASCUS: A handout image shows heavily damaged buildings Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood would interim government which last place in Turkey and the two coun- Continued on Page 13 in Zamalka, a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. — AFP not be able to remain in power even month voiced “strong resentment” at tries have cancelled joint naval exer- if it won elections. Erdogan’s pro-Morsi comments. cises planned for October. — AFP PAGE PAGE Saudis beheaded Musharraf charged with India anti-superstition Benazir Bhutto’s murder campaigner shot dead RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yesterday beheaded by the sword two nationals convicted of murdering a Syrian and of armed robbery, the interior ministry said. Ibrahim Al-Qanbar and Ahmed Al-Musalam were found guilty of attacking a labor camp and opening Cornered Hamas looks back at Iran fire at residents, killing Mohammed Al-Shuja and wounding another person, the ministry said in a state- ment carried by SPA state news agency. Qanbar was also charged with several acts of armed Palestinian group suffering cash shortage robbery, it said. The beheadings in the Qatif district, in GAZA: Stunned by turmoil in neighboring Egypt and But following the ousting of Morsi, removed by the small, densely populated Gaza Strip since 2007 after a Eastern Province, brings to 60 the number of people starved of funds, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is Egyptian military on July 3, political sources said Hamas brief civil war against its secular rivals. With the Muslim executed in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP looking to repair damaged ties with its traditional had had direct and indirect contacts with both Iran and Brotherhood in control of Egypt, Hamas felt it did not count. In 2012, the Gulf country executed 76 people, Middle East allies, Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah par- Hezbollah-anxious to revitalize old alliances and restore have to worry so much about its ties with Iran. Hamas’s according to a tally based on official figures. Human ty. An off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas cel- its battered funding. “Some meetings have taken place leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal abandoned his long- Rights Watch has put the number at 69. Rape, murder, ebrated when the Sunni movement’s Mohamed Morsi ... to clear the air. There is no boycott (of Hamas) but at time base in Damascus last year because of the civil war apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all was elected president of Egypt in 2012, believing the the same time, things have not yet got back to normal,” that pitted President Assad’s forces, backed by rein- punishable by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version vote would boost its own international standing and its said a Palestinian official, with knowledge of discus- forcements sent by both Iran and Hezbollah, against of sharia, or Islamic law. grip on the isolated Gaza Strip. sions, who declined to be named. mainly Sunni rebels. In another development, Saudi border guards killed In the meantime, outraged by the bloody civil war in Moussa Abu Marzouk, former deputy head of Shiite and Sunni are the main streams of Islam. There a Yemeni man and wounded another yesterday when Syria, the Palestinian group quit its headquarters in Hamas’s political office, saw Hezbollah and Iranian offi- are differences in their interpretations of the Koran and they opened fire on a group of Yemeni tribesmen who Damascus, snapping the Iran-led “axis of resistance” that cials in Lebanon last month, with other meetings taking some traditions. The majority of the world’s Muslims are attacked construction workers building Saudi Arabia’s challenged Israel and the West across the turbulent place subsequently. “It is in the interest of Hamas today Sunni. One of the veteran leaders of Hamas, Mahmoud security fence on the border with Yemen, a tribal chief region. Shiite Muslim Iran, which had for years supplied to revise its rapport with Iran and Hezbollah for many Al-Zahar, said there had never been a suspension of said. Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry, which is responsi- Hamas with cash and arms, was infuriated by what it reasons,” said Hani Habib, a political analyst based in the relations with Tehran and Hezbollah, suggesting that ble for border security, denied that any clash had taken saw as a betrayal of its close friend, Syrian President Gaza Strip.