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Kuwaittimes 22-3-2018.Qxp Layout 1 RAJAB 5, 1439 AH THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 Max 34º 32 Pages Min 17º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17487 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Psychometrics: How Facebook American mother in Ghouta Zain supports Kuwait Guinness World Records 6 data helped Trump find his voters 10urges Trump to ‘do something’ 17 Investment Forum 2018 16 honors Kuwaiti policeman Kuwait plans $6.6 billion Al-Nayeem industrial city State to launch IPO of Al-Zour water and power project KUWAIT: The Public Authority for higher value-addition. It will be an innova- Industry (PAI) plans to set up a multipur- tive, green city development powered by pose industrial city in the state with total solar energy, and with smart buildings,” expected investments of $6.6 billion, an Taqi added. official said yesterday during a session of Meanwhile, Kuwait plans to begin selling the Kuwait Investment Forum. PAI Acting shares in its Al-Zour North Independent General Manager Abdulkareem Taqi said Water and Power Project to the public in that the government would put in place three months’ time, an official told Reuters the infrastructure for the city at an esti- on the sidelines of the forum. “We are wait- mated cost of $600 million and would ing for the regulators’ approval of the target around $6 billion in investments prospectus (in a month). Two months after from the private sector to develop the the approval, the subscription will start bulk of the project. according to the law,” said Mutlaq Al-Sane, The Al-Nayeem who heads the Kuwait industrial city, to be Authority for Partnership SEE PAGES 3 & 4 located 70 km west of Projects. the capital Kuwait City, The government will include industrial facilities as well as plans to offer 50 percent of Al-Zour North residential and leisure projects, Taqi said, One, which has a capacity of at least 1,500 adding that the city would be able to house MW, to Kuwaiti citizens. Those shares will 50,000 people. The official said that infra- come out of the 60 percent stake currently structure work for the project is expected owned by sovereign wealth fund, the to be completed by 2021. He said Nayeem Kuwait Investment Authority, the Public will offer easy access to the Mubarak Al- Institution for Social Security, and the Kabeer Port, and the possibility to attract Kuwait Authority for Partnership Projects. international expertise in establishing and The remaining 40 percent is owned by managing the city. France’s Engie, Japan’s Sumitomo Corp and “It marks our focus on shifting from cre- Kuwaiti firm AH Al Sagar & Brothers. ating industrial zones to smart integrated Kuwait and other Gulf states are promoting cities that complement the goals of Vision independent power projects, in which com- 2035. The Al-Nayeem industrial city will panies other than public utilities invest in KUWAIT: (From left) Cabinet Affairs Minister Anas Al-Saleh, Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah and KDIPA Director General focus on diversifying our industrial base, and operate power plants, to reduce the Sheikh Meshaal Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah attend the closing session of the Kuwait Investment Forum yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat bringing high-end technology and creating burden on state budgets. — Agencies powers and Iran to be changed or eliminated. struction. Syria has denied it was building a Israel admits 2007 US President Donald Trump, who met nuclear reactor. Netanyahu at the White House this month, has “On the night between September 5th-6th, said that the nuclear deal must be “fixed” by 2007, Israeli Air Force fighter jets successfully Syrian ‘nuclear May 12 or the United States will walk away. struck and destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor After yesterday’s acknowledgement, in development,” the Israeli statement says. reactor’ bombing Netanyahu said “the Israeli government, the “The reactor was close to being completed. (Israeli military), and the Mossad (intelligence The operation successfully removed an JERUSALEM: Israel admitted for the first agency) have prevented Syria from develop- emerging existential threat to Israel and to the time yesterday it was responsible for a top- ing nuclear capability, and they deserve every entire region - Syrian nuclear capabilities.” secret 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian credit for this”. “Israel’s policy has been and In 2008, less than a year after the strike, nuclear reactor, with Prime Minister Benjamin remains consistent - to prevent our enemies US officials accused Syria of having sought to Netanyahu pledging to prevent enemies from from acquiring nuclear weapons.” build a secret nuclear reactor and acknowl- obtaining atomic weapons. Israel has long been Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz was more edged Israel destroyed it in the raid. The UN assumed to have carried out the raid and had explicit, saying it showed Israel would never atomic watchdog declared in 2011 that the been named by other countries as being behind allow nuclear weapons to be obtained by Syrian site was “very likely” to have been a it, but it had never formally acknowledged the “countries like Iran who threaten its exis- nuclear reactor, adding that information pro- strike or divulged details. The admission along tence”. The declassified material includes vided to it suggested that it was being built with the release of newly declassified material footage of the strike and pictures of secret with North Korean assistance. Israel said in its related to the raid comes as Israel intensifies its army intelligence communiques about the site. new disclosures that secrecy surrounding the warnings over the presence of its main enemy A military statement lays out the case for why strike was necessary due to the sensitive Iran in neighboring Syria. Israel carried out the strike at the desert site security situation, noting there was the possi- Pictures provided by the Israeli army reportedly show an aerial view of a sus- Netanyahu has also repeatedly called for a in the Deir Ezzor region of eastern Syria on bility of it provoking war. pected Syrian nuclear reactor during its bombardment in 2007. — AFP landmark 2015 nuclear deal between world what it says was a nuclear reactor under con- Continued on Page 11 where two people were killed and sever- Texas parcel al others injured in the bombings that began on March 2. The suspect detonat- ed a device in his car and later died, Nod to citizenship bomber blows Austin police chief Brian Manley told an early morning news conference after the for 4,000 bedoons, himself up as dramatic end to the massive manhunt involving hundreds of federal agents and rights commission local police. police move in Police zeroed in on the suspect - By B Izzak AUSTIN: A white man suspected of believed responsible for five explosions - carrying out a series of deadly parcel over the past 24 to 36 hours as evidence KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday passed bombings in the Texas state capital came in from video footage and witness two key legislations: The first to grant citizenship for Austin blew himself up early yesterday accounts, Manley said. “The suspect is up to 4,000 stateless people known as bedoons dur- as police closed in - easing tensions in a deceased,” the police chief said. “It has ing 2018, and the second to establish a human rights city that has been on edge for weeks. been a long almost three weeks for the commission. The first law was overwhelmingly passed ROUND ROCK, Texas: Law enforcement officials search for evidence at the Police surrounded the man - identified community of Austin.” Police said the in the first and final readings and was sent to the gov- location where a suspected package bomber was killed in suburban Austin by US media as Mark Anthony Conditt - suspect was 24, but some reports citing ernment amid calls by lawmakers for the government yesterday. — AFP outside a hotel in the suburbs of Austin, Continued on Page 11 to speed up the naturalization of bedoons, especially the 34,000 people whom the government has said qualify for Kuwaiti citizenship. Head of the Assembly’s interior and defense com- Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa said in a statement Many members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood - mittee MP Askar Al-Enezi said the interior minister Saudis revamping yesterday. It also seeks to “ban books attributed to who advocate toppling rulers deemed unjust - sought has pledged to grant citizenship to bedoons who, or the Muslim Brotherhood from all schools and universi- refuge in Saudi Arabia after being persecuted in the their forefathers, were counted in the 1965 census and ties and remove all those who sympathize with the 1960s by then Egyptian president Gamal Abdel others who have contributed excellent services to the school curriculum group”, he added. Nasser. The Islamists were widely employed in the country. MP Riyadh Al-Adasani said the government The statement comes after Crown Prince education and public sectors, putting aside their pros- should grant citizenship to all those who deserve it RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is seeking to purge its school without a law and rejected that the legislation should Mohammed bin Salman told CBS television in an inter- elytism and submitting to Saudi Arabia’s official curriculum of any influence of the Muslim view Sunday that elements of the Muslim Wahhabi ideology that requires obedience to the be applied for political reasons. Brotherhood and dismiss employees who sympathize MP Safa Al-Hashem said citizenship should be Brotherhood, designated as a “terror group” by the ruler. Some of them helped to establish the Sahwa or granted only to those who were part of the 1965 cen- with the banned group, the education minister said.
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