Egypt Mulls Brotherhood Ban As Death Toll Mounts

SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2013 SHAWWAL 11, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net New NSA Area 51 landing Lies, damn lies, Villa thump revelations site for U-2, not and China’s Arsenal as stir concerns7 UFOs10 or aliens economic23 data EPL19 resumes Egypt mulls Brotherhood Max 48º ban as death toll mounts Min 28º High Tide 07:53 & 23:38 Churches destroyed; Brother of Qaeda leader detained Low Tide 02:08 & 16:05 40 PAGES NO: 15901 150 FILS CAIRO: Egyptian police cleared Islamist protesters from a Cairo mosque yesterday after a standoff that included exchanges of fire, as the death toll from four days of violence surpassed 750. Security forces dragged supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi from the Al- Fath mosque, passing through angry crowds who tried to beat the Islamists, calling them “terrorists”. Morsi supporters fought a gunbattle with security forces in a Cairo mosque, while army-backed govern- ment, facing deepening chaos, considered banning his Muslim Brotherhood group. Three Reuters witnesses saw gunmen shoot from a window of the Al-Fath mosque, where Brotherhood followers sheltered during ferocious confrontations in the heart of Cairo on Friday. Another gunman was shown on television shooting from the mosque’s minaret and soldiers outside return- ing fire. It was not clear if anyone died in the latest clash - the fourth day of violence in Egypt, which has killed almost 800 people. With anger rising on all sides, Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi proposed disbanding the Brotherhood, raising the stakes in a bloody struggle between the state and Islamists for control of the Arab world’s most populous nation. “We are not facing political divisions, we are facing a war being waged by extremists developing daily into terrorism,” presidential political adviser Mostafa Hegazy told reporters. If Beblawi’s proposal to disband the Brotherhood is acted on, it would force the group underground and could herald large-scale arrests against its members placed outside the law. CEBU: Volunteers search near the damaged cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete a day after it Many Western allies have denounced the killings, collided with a passenger ferry off the waters of Talisay city, Cebu province in central including the United States, alarmed by the chaos in a Philippines yesterday. (Inset) Navy personnel lift a victim from the sea during rescue opera- Continued on Page 13 tions. — AFP 32 killed, 170 missing in Philippine ferry disaster CEBU: Worsening weather and sea conditions yester- Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya told a news conference been recovered, and we expect the number of missing day forced the Philippines to suspend a search for sur- in Manila, after heavy rain brought by a typhoon and to decrease, and we expect the casualties to increase.” vivors of a ferry disaster that killed at least 32 people low pressure had reduced visibility at sea almost to Many of the survivors were sick from swallowing oil and and left 170 missing, authorities said. The ferry sank on zero. “Diving operations stopped because of weather seawater, disaster officials said. Scores, sometimes hun- Friday after a collision just outside the central port of conditions,” Abaya said, adding that 661 of the 831 pas- dreds, of people die each year in ferry accidents in the Cebu with a cargo vessel owned by a company sengers and crew on the ferry had been accounted for. Philippines, an archipelago of 7,100 islands with a noto- CAIRO: A wounded Egyptian receives treatment dur- involved in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disas- With 32 dead and 629 rescued, there are 170 missing. riously poor record for maritime safety. Overcrowding is ing clashes between security forces and supporters ter nearly 30 years ago. Just 17 of the dead have been identified. common, and many of the vessels are in bad condition. of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi in Divers will resume searching today, Transportation “But we’ve got information that some bodies have Continued on Page 13 Ramses Square. — AP PAGE PAGE Virus targeting Expats hit hard by rapid Hashish, heroin, cocaine social network increase in house rents seized at Kuwait prison New cyber fraud twist BOSTON: In the world of cyber fraud, a fake fan on Qaeda attacks Syria Kurdish town Instagram can be worth five times more than a stolen credit card number. As social media has become increasingly influential in shaping reputa- tions, hackers have used their computer skills to 211 killed in 48 hours create and sell false endorsements - such as “likes” 40 pythons found and “followers” - that purport to come from users BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda loyalists attacked a wider offensive by Al-Qaeda against sev- of Facebook, its photo-sharing app Instagram, mainly Kurdish town in northeastern eral Kurdish majority areas of northern Twitter, Google’s YouTube, LinkedIn and other pop- Syria sparking fighting in which 18 peo- and northeastern Syria that began on in Canadian hotel ular websites. ple were killed, two of them ambulance Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human In the latest twist, a computer virus widely used to crew, a watchdog said yesterday. The Rights said. Five Kurdish militiamen and steal credit card data, known as Zeus, has been mod- MONTREAL: Little more than a week vate menagerie of exotic animals assault on the strategic border town of 11 jihadists made up the rest of the dead, after a giant python crushed two young included the python. Animal experts ified to create bogus Instagram “likes” that can be Ras Al-Ain, from which the jihadists were the watchdog said. Havidar, a Syrian used to generate buzz for a company or individual, Canadian boys to death, police have expressed astonishment at the tragedy, expelled by Kurdish militiamen in July, Kurdish activist who declined to give his recovered 40 of the snakes from a hotel many of them noting that, while an according to cyber experts at RSA, the security divi- sparked an exodus of civilians into neigh- surname, said civilians had fled “in waves sion of EMC Corp. These fake “likes” are sold in batch- room. The reptiles were found in sever- African rock python is a dangerous ani- boring Turkey, an activist said. into villages in Turkey.” al plastic storage bins in a room in mal capable of killing large prey, it es of 1,000 on Internet hacker forums, where cyber The attack on the town was part of a Continued on Page 13 criminals also flog credit card numbers and other Brantford, Ontario, where a couple who would not normally attack humans. The information stolen from PCs. had been evicted from their home were initial police investigation found that According to RSA, 1,000 Instagram “followers” can staying, police said in a statement. the snake probably managed to break be bought for $15 and 1,000 Instagram “likes” go for Officers have opened a probe into the out of its terrarium and then nosed $30, whereas 1,000 credit card numbers cost as little incident but they did not say where the through a ventilation duct which led as $6. It may seem odd that fake social media couple were at the time or whether the into the boys’ bedroom. — AFP accounts would be worth more than real credit card pair would be charged with breaking numbers, but online marketing experts say some local laws that prohibit owning people are willing to spend heavily to make a splash pythons. on the Internet, seeking buzz for its own sake or for a The snakes, which ranged in length business purpose, such as making a new product from 30 centimeters to 1.4 meters, were seem popular. in poor health and have been taken in “People perceive importance on what is trending,” by the Canadian Society for the said Victor Pan, a senior data analyst with Protection of Animals, where a veteri- WordStream, which advises companies on online narian is monitoring them. The find marketing. “It is the bandwagon effect.” Facebook, comes 11 days after Connor and Noah which has nearly 1.2 billion users, said it is in the Barthe, aged six and four respectively, process of beefing up security on Instagram, which it died in the eastern town of bought last year for $1 billion. Campbellton, New Brunswick when an Instagram, which has about 130 million active African python escaped from its terrari- users, will have the same security measures that um and killed them. Facebook uses, said spokesman Michael Kirkland. The boys had been enjoying a sleep- 40 pythons were discovered in plas- DEIR EZZOR: Syrian rebels fighting pro-regime forces gather along a road in Continued on Page 13 over with a friend, whose father’s pri- tic storage bins. Syria’s eastern town of Deir Ezzor yesterday. — AFP SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 2013 LOCAL Iraqis in Saudi allowed to pass through Kuwait By A Saleh KUWAIT: Kuwait allowed Iraqi nationals living in Saudi Arabia to use its lands to travel to their home country as the Interior Ministry informed land border checkpoints to provide all facil- ities to ease their travel. The ministry’s announcement indi- cates that this exception only covers Iraqis with valid resi- dence visas in Saudi Arabia, and they are given a visa to enter Kuwait for only a 48-hour period. Meanwhile, Kuwait and Iraq reportedly agreed to hold the next meeting for the supreme joint committee at the begin- ning of next year, to discuss pending topics between the two neighboring countries. There were efforts to hold the meeting before the end of the year, but eventually was to no avail due to Kuwait’s preparations to host the Arab - African Summit in November and a Gulf Cooperation Council Summit a month later.

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