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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2016 THULQADA 12, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Palestinian Farah defends wedding season 10,000m gold, can hit the Phelps signs off wallet40 hard with19 23 golds Champion Deehani arrives Min 32º home to hero’s welcome Max 48º High Tide 08:29 & 22:59 Shooter dedicates gold medal to Kuwait’s leaders, people Low Tide 02:33 & 16:33 40 PAGES NO: 16963 150 FILS By Meshaal Al-Enezi Mustache! Rashidi KUWAIT: Kuwaiti champion shooter Fehaid Al-Deehani arrived in Kuwait yesterday to a hero’s welcome, with many wins fans’ hearts officials and a large crowd greeting him enthusiastically at RIO DE JANEIRO: From the beginning of the men’s the airport’s VIP lounge. Deehani won the gold medal in skeet semifinal on Saturday, there was something the double trap event of the Rio 2016 Olympics on about Abdullah Al-Rashidi that grabbed the Brazilian Wednesday. fans. Maybe it was his age, the oldest of the competi- “This achievement is for the sake of Kuwait and we were tors at 52. Maybe it was the fact that the Kuwaiti was able to get the world on our side,” said Deehani, dedicating competing under the Olympic flag, his country hav- his win to HH the Amir, HH the Crown Prince, HH the Prime Minister and the Kuwait people, seeing how happy they ing been banned from com- are over his victory. He said the medal is the best answer to petition by the International those who kept the Kuwait flag away from the award cere- Olympic Committee (IOC). monies, adding that everyone was calling him “Fehaid the For Brazilian spectator Kuwaiti”.This medal, he added, would carry the name of Daniel Grillo, it was simply Kuwait. “I was not representing the Olympic Committee; his “bigode”, Portuguese for rather I represented Kuwait,” the proud army officer said, mustache. “He looks so exot- adding he hoped to win again at the Tokyo Olympics four ic with that mustache,” said years from now. Grillo, a 24-year-old student. At the airport, many children wore t-shirts emblazoned With scores of other with Deehani’s image. His family was ecstatic too. “I thank Brazilians in the stands, he Allah for the success of my son and his winning the gold shouted “Bigode” in a chant medal, as this is what he hoped for and my prayers are with that would not be out of him wherever he goes,” his father said. place at the Maracana, the Information Minister and Minister of State for Youth Abdullah Al-Rashidi football cathedral down the Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al- road. Sabah said HH the Amir, the government and people And with a crowd-winning smile, Rashidi went on appreciate the achievements of Deehani and fellow shoot- to win the bronze in skeet, his first medal in six er Abdullah Al-Rashidi. Sheikh Salman added that every- Olympic Games. “I feel like I am from Brazil and not one is proud of their success, especially since the shooting Kuwait,” said a grateful Rashidi, who is also a falconer. federation has notched up many achievements during the past years. Rashidi won bronze in the men’s skeet event on “Thank you Brazil!” He thought it was a funny nick- Saturday. name, especially since his mustache used to be much Sheikh Salman added that despite Kuwait’s suspension bigger and is now just a finger-wide graying strip by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and other above his mouth. difficulties, Deehani, Rashidi and all participants at the Rio Continued on Page 13 KUWAIT: Olympic gold medalist Fehaid Al-Deehani is welcomed by officials and well-wishers at Kuwait airport’s Olympics had Kuwait’s name paramount, wishing Kuwaiti VIP lounge yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (More photos on Page 20) sport prosperity in the future. Coastguards arrest 10 Iranian infiltrators News in brief KUWAIT: Kuwait said yesterday its coast- southern Iran, as saying Iranian fisherman guard detained 10 Iranian “infiltrators”, but were detained in Kuwait because of a “quar- an Iranian official described them as fisher- rel”. He was quoted Saturday as saying the Kuwait is not borrowing men and denied they were detained for dispute happened on Kuwaiti soil and that money: Finance Ministry violating the border. One of the Iranian “their detention was not related to a border KUWAIT: The Ministry of Finance yesterday denied men was wounded after refusing coast- violation”. reports claiming that Kuwait had borrowed $55 billion guard orders to surrender, the Interior Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait, Alireza from domestic and external markets. These reports are Ministry said in a statement published by Enayati, told Iranian state television yester- totally false and baseless, the ministry said in a state- the state-run Kuwait News Agency. The day the embassy is trying to clarify the fate ment, adding that it was crafting a scheme and allotting ministry released a photo on its website of the detainees and determine their identi- funds for public debt bonds for the year, according to its showing nine of the men on their knees ties. “We hope to settle the case quickly” strategy and developments in the oil market. It called with their hands behind their backs. through mutual cooperation, he said. An on the media to avoid publishing inaccurate reports The infiltrators were spotted on the appeals court in Kuwait recently upheld the that are detrimental to the national economy and coastguards’ radars off Abul Hasaniyah, and death sentence for a citizen on charges of Kuwait’s image. they chased the Iranians till they reached communicating with Iran and the Lebanese the shore, where the Iranian captain told group Hezbollah to commit “hostile the officers that the passengers had actions” against the country. The case also Bronze for hijabi US descended, the statement added. includes an Iranian national tried in absen- fencer Muhammad Gulf countries have long accused Iran of tia and sentenced to death. Kuwait recalled RIO DE JANEIRO: Fencer meddling in regional affairs, primarily in its ambassador to Tehran in January after a Ibtihaj Muhammad came to Bahrain and Yemen. Iran’s semi-official Fars mob there ransacked the Saudi Embassy in the Rio Games determined KUWAIT: Alleged Iranian infiltrators are seen after they were arrested by the news agency quoted Ali Hajatpour, deputy protest against the kingdom’s execution of to show the world that Kuwaiti coastguard. — MoI chief of Bushehr province’s coast guard in a prominent Saudi cleric. — Agencies Muslim-American women could compete in elite sports. And the 30-year-old Imam, assistant gunned from New Jersey, the first Boko Haram video US Olympian to wear a down near NY mosque hijab - a headscarf worn by shows Chibok girls Muslim women - during NEW YORK: A gunman shot and killed a competition, came away with a bronze medal on KANO, Nigeria: Boko Haram yesterday The film was issued just days after New York imam and his assistant near Ibtihaj Muhammad released a new video purportedly embattled Boko Haram head Abubakar their mosque in the borough of Queens Saturday in the women’s showing some of the Nigerian school- Shekau denied claims he had been during a brazen attack in broad daylight team sabre event. The four-woman US team beat girls kidnapped from Chibok more replaced as the leader of the Nigeria- Saturday. Imam Maulana Akonjee, 55, Italy 45-30 to seal third place and the first than two years ago, and called for its based jihadist group. The mass kidnap- and his assistant, 64-year-old Thara women’s medal in fencing for the Americans in detained fighters to be freed. The gov- ping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in Uddin, were shot just before 2 pm in the Rio. “This has been a long journey for us,” said ernment said it was in touch with April 2014 provoked global outrage Ozone Park neighborhood, police said. Muhammad. “This is six years in the making. I’ll those claiming to be behind the and brought unprecedented attention The attack reportedly took place after the never forget this moment.” undated video, which shows groups of to Boko Haram and its bloody quest to two, dressed in traditional Muslim garb, girls in Islamic dress standing or sitting create a fundamentalist state in north- left the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque around a masked man armed with an eastern Nigeria. following Saturday afternoon prayers. Sudan floods kill 100, assault rifle. Continued on Page 13 The motive is unknown and no arrests destroy entire villages have been made, the authorities said. KASALA, Sudan: Thousands of houses have been “There is nothing in the preliminary destroyed and several villages submerged after flood- investigation to indicate that they were ing triggered by torrential rainfall killed 100 people targeted because of their faith,” police Imam Akonjee across Sudan, officials and an AFP photographer said told journalists. However, Muslim com- man wearing shorts and a dark polo yesterday. Thousands of people in the impoverished munity representatives pointed to grow- shirt. A sketch of the suspect released eastern state of Kasala bordering Eritrea fled their ing Islamophobia and anti-Muslim senti- early Sunday showed a dark-haired, homes after the river Gash burst its banks, flooding ment fueled by a series of deadly attacks bearded man wearing glasses. Police said entire villages inhabited by farmers. Many people were in the United States and abroad as well witnesses described him as having a sheltering in makeshift grass huts on hilltops, after as hostile statements by Republican medium complexion. floodwaters also cut off the main highway between east presidential candidate Donald Trump, Police said that Akonjee was carrying Sudan and the capital Khartoum.