UN Blacklists 2 KUWAITIS for SUPPORTING Militants
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014 SHAWWAL 21, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net MP demands Kurds fight Landslides, Swansea stun conjugal to retake floods kill 109, Manchester visits for Iraq’s displace scores United to ruin prisoners2 largest7 dam in11 Nepal, India Van20 Gaal bow UN blacklists 2 Kuwaitis Max 47º Min 33º for supporting militants High Tide 03:55 & 14:01 Low Tide Kuwait regrets curbs • Four others also sanctioned 10:46 & 22:52 40 PAGES NO: 16257 150 FILS UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council took aim at Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on Friday, Barrak: Govt blacklisting six people including two Kuwaitis and threat- ening sanctions against those who finance, recruit or incompetence supply weapons to the insurgents. The 15-member coun- cil unanimously adopted a resolution that aims to weak- en the Islamic State - an Al-Qaeda splinter group that has ‘clear as sun’ seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria and declared By A Saleh a caliphate - and Al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing, Nusra Front. Islamic State has long been blacklisted by the KUWAIT: Former MP Musallam Al-Barrak continued Security Council, while Nusra Front was added earlier criticizing the government for withdrawing the citi- this year. Both groups are designated under the UN Al- zenship of some citizens. Barrak criticized First Qaeda sanctions regime. Friday’s resolution named six Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- people who will be subject to an international travel Khaled for saying the reasons behind the with- ban, asset freeze and arms embargo, including Islamic drawals were “as clear as the sun”. “What’s as clear as State spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani, an Iraqi the sun is how your government has been flounder- described by UN experts as one of the group’s “most ing and incapable of running this country,” he said, influential emirs” and close to its leader Abu Bakr Al- adding that the government is being selective and Baghdadi. subject to political bargains. Hamid Hamad Hamid Al-Ali and Hajjaj bin Fahd Al- Meanwhile, MP Abdulhameed Dashti has called Ajmi, both Kuwaitis, were sanctioned for allegedly pro- for studying the remarkable increase of irresponsible viding financial support to Nusra Front. Ajmi’s fundrais- practices by some Kuwaiti youth abroad. “Such prac- ing includes at least one Twitter campaign, according tices are insulting to the Kuwaiti people who have UN experts. Already targeted by US sanctions, Ajmi is been known for respecting the traditions and laws of said to travel regularly to Syria from Kuwait to deliver the countries they visit,” he stressed, warning that money and installed Kuwaiti nationals in Nusra Front such practices might cause a lot of embarrassment leadership positions. Based in Kuwait, Ali has collected to foreign ministry officials. He also suggested with- large donations from Kuwait to support Nusra Front in drawing the passports of such violators and prevent- Syria, most notably for purchases of arms and equip- ing them from leaving for certain periods. ment. He also arranged travel for a number of foreign WASHINGTON: Demonstrators at a rally supporting Kurdistan hold placards protesting against the Islamic Continued on Page 13 fighters to Syria. State in front of the White House yesterday. — AFP Continued on Page 13 Protests reignite in Missouri town Slain teen was robbery suspect: Police FERGUSON, Missouri: Racially charged bottles at riot gear-clad police who had protests flared overnight in Ferguson, ordered the crowd to disperse. Screaming Missouri, in an eruption of fresh anger Tensions have been high since police over the fatal Aug 9 shooting of an officer Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown, unarmed black teenager by a police offi- 18, shortly after noon last Saturday as survivors in cer. Tensions had temporarily cooled on Brown and a friend walked down a street Thursday night but by Friday evening, that runs through an apartment complex UK container protesters were again swarming through where Brown’s grandmother lives. a residential and retail district in the small Emotions ramped up again Friday when TILBURY, United Kingdom: One man was found town outside St Louis that has become authorities finally gave in to days of pres- dead and 34 others still alive in a shipping container the site of repeated clashes between sure and released the name of the officer yesterday after staff at a British port heard banging black residents and mostly white police who shot Brown, but did so only after first ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan (left) and Canada- and screaming coming from inside. The men, women forces. saying that Brown was a suspect in the based preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri (right) are seen during anti-government rallies and children, all believed to be from the Indian sub- Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson, robbery of a convenience store at the yesterday. — AP/AFP continent, were discovered inside the container at an African-American who was named by time he was shot, a move that supporters Tilbury Docks, east of London, on a ship that came Governor Jay Nixon to lead security in the of Brown’s family called a “smear” cam- from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. All the survivors town on Thursday, said police fired a tear- paign. Friday night’s looting started at the Pak protests dwindle were taken to nearby hospitals; two were in a serious gas canister at a crowd near a food and store where Brown was accused of taking liquor store and broader violence and cigars, Johnson said. ISLAMABAD: Pakistani opposition figures to be dissolved because they were formed in but not life-threatening condition, while the others looting erupted. Some protesters threw Continued on Page 13 ramped up calls for the fall of Prime Minister “unconstitutional” manner, in a wide-ranging were suffering from dehydration and hypothermia. Nawaz Sharif’s government yesterday, but list of demands made yesterday. But the fiery Cases of immigrants trying to enter Britain illegally, failed to attract massive crowds of protesters rhetoric was not matched by manpower: Of often in dangerous circumstances, are not rare. promised at rallies in the capital. Addressing the million promised in Islamabad by Khan The local police have vowed to bring to justice protesters he had led from the eastern city of and Qadri, just thousands remained in the anyone involved in putting the people in the contain- Lahore, cricketer-turned-politician Imran capital by yesterday evening. Khan himself er, while the local lawmaker said the authorities need- Khan said he would stage a sit-in that would spent a portion of the day at his residence in ed to understand what was motivating people to go continue until Sharif leaves office, lashing out the suburbs of the capital, explaining he had to such lengths to reach Britain. Because a body was at the government he claims was elected to rest after the long journey while com- found, Essex Police has launched a homicide investi- fraudulently. manding his supporters to stay firmly put on gation. Of 64 containers aboard the P and O ship that Meanwhile populist cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri Islamabad’s streets. “We will not go back until arrived early yesterday, police have opened 30 so far demanded Sharif’s arrest over what he all our demands are accepted,” Khan said ear- to check for any other people. alleged was the murder of his supporters, lier, demanding that all the officials involved “Staff here at the port became aware of screaming and called for the installation of an interim in the alleged vote rigging should be tried and banging coming from a container,” police super- national government. “Nawaz Sharif and under the treason law. intendent Trevor Roe told reporters. “As a result of that Shahbaz Sharif have no right to sit in the gov- The May 2013 general election saw Sharif noise, staff were alerted and immediately breached ernment, their cabinets should be dissolved take power in a landslide, and international the container to find 35 persons within that unit. We and they should be arrested on murder observers who monitored the polls said they believe them to come from the Indian subcontinent.” charges,” Qadri said. Shahbaz is the younger were free and credible. The demonstration is P and O Ferries said the container arrived on the quay brother of Sharif and chief minister of largest the culmination of the “long march” - in reality in Zeebrugge around an hour before it was loaded Punjab province. a motorised cavalcade - that set off Thursday onto the ferry. Two hours later, the ship began the FERGUSON, Missouri: Demonstrators taunt police during a protest on Friday Qadri also called for all four provincial from Lahore, situated around 300 km away, eight-hour overnight crossing. — AFP assemblies and Pakistan’s national assembly to try to topple the government. — AFP over the shooting death of a black teenager. — AFP Animals in crossfire at Gaza zoo GAZA CITY: The lions sit dazed in the shade the animals’ cages, which have not been smuggled through tunnels that connected of their damaged pen, while nearby the cleaned for weeks. Shadi Hamad, the park’s Egypt to Gaza, before the passages were decayed carcasses of two vervet monkeys lie director, said the zoo was damaged and that shut last year with the ouster of Egyptian contorted on the grass of a Gaza zoo. The the animals died as a result of Israeli air president Mohamed Morsi, a key ally of the animals were caught in the crossfire in over strikes. An Israeli army spokesman told AFP Islamist movement Hamas. a month of fighting between Israel and that the military was looking into allegations Now, Al-Bisan is far from relaxing, with Palestinian militants that killed more than that it fired missiles in the Al-Bisan park area.