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SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, MAY 29, 2017 RAMADAN 3, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Sheikh Jaber Amir, Crown Kerber in loss, Causeway Prince receive Kvitova wins nearing Ramadan ‘twice’ on French completion well-wishers Open return Imsak Fajr Shorook Duhr Asr Maghrib Isha 2 4 20 03:07 03:17 04:50 11:45 15:20 18:41 20:11 Assembly may wind up Min 31º Max 44º High Tide mid-Ramadan: Speaker 02:57 & 13:27 Low Tide Special panel meets with premier over grilling 08:16 & 20:08 40 PAGES NO: 17242 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouk Al- Ghanem said yesterday that the current term of the Cyber-attacks Assembly is likely to wind up by the middle of Ramadan ahead of the last 10 days of the holy fasting month. Al- Ghanem said that he will invite lawmakers to hold spe- cial sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week and the next to debate and approve the state budget and budgets of other government bodies. The Speaker said the Assembly office has not yet decided on By Badrya Darwish the closing date of the assembly but it is expected to be around the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, which falls around June 10. The assembly has already started to debate the [email protected] budgets of state institutions and approved about a dozen of them while rejecting two. The budgets com- mittee said yesterday that the government must pro- he recent cyber-attacks that affected many vide new budgets to replace the rejected one to allow countries around the globe made me think the assembly debate them again. In the meantime, a about the future of cybercrime, cyber war and special assembly panel formed after the grilling of the T prime minister yesterday hosted the premier and State our vulnerabilities. How serious can it reach in the future? One of the worst affected by the recent Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al- attacks was the NHS system in the UK. The ran- Abdullah Al-Sabah to follow up on the two grillings. somware caused a lot of chaos for doctors, hospi- Opposition MPs grilled Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- tals and patients. Thank God no one died, but it Mubarak Al-Sabah earlier this month over a variety of was chaos for a few days. Of course, other firms allegations. The assembly then formed a three-MP pan- worldwide were affected too. el to follow up on the issues raised during the two Now comes the serious point. First of all, who grillings. Rapporteur of the committee MP Rakan Al- are these hackers? No one knows. Do they belong Nasef said the panel has laid out a mechanism of opera- to one group? Who commands them? Accusations KUWAIT: Kuwaitis buy traditional sweet delicacies, popular during Ramadan, at a shop on the second day of the tion in order to quickly complete its report. were thrown left, right and center at certain gov- fasting month in Kuwait City yesterday. — Yasser Al-Zayyat Continued on Page 13 ernments and certain countries, but there was no full proof of who was behind it and I don’t buy it. It’s easy to cast aspersions without proof, and if 8 dead in Mississippi shooting rampage they had proof, we would know it. Could the cyber attackers be a bunch of super BROOKHAVEN, Miss: A man who appar- as he sat with his hands cuffed behind intelligent kids hacking the system for fun or profit? ently got into a dispute with his wife and his back on the side of a road. Godbolt Or could it be spy agencies working for certain gov- in-laws was arrested in a house-to-house said he was talking with his wife and ernments? If these super hackers can invade the shooting rampage in rural Mississippi members of her family when somebody US security system and the NSA, how safe should that left eight people dead, including a called authorities. we feel? Maybe this time, it was only certain tar- sheriff’s deputy. “I ain’t fit to live, not after “I was having a conversation with her gets. But this could lead in the future to bigger what I done,” a handcuffed Willie Corey stepdaddy and her mama and her, my issues. Godbolt, 35, told The Clarion-Ledger. wife, about me taking my children home,” How safe are nuclear weapons around the The shootings took place at three he said. “Somebody called the officer, world? And not only nuclear - there are many types homes Saturday night - two in people that didn’t even live at the house. of weaponry like biological weapons (germ war- Brookhaven and one in Bogue Chitto - That’s what they do. They intervene.” fare) owned by different governments and sold to about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of “They cost him his life,” he said, appar- troubled places that could be really vulnerable to Jackson, Mississippi Bureau of ently referring to the slain deputy. “I’m attacks by cyber hackers. This time it seemed to be Investigation spokesman Warren Strain sorry.” The slain deputy was identified as focused on criminals making money. But what if said. Strain said charges had yet to be William Durr, 36. The identities of the politics enters it? What if groups like Daesh start filed and it was too soon to say what the other victims were not immediately trying to engage in cyber-attacks? motive was. Authorities gave no details released. Godbolt said he did not intend Everything nowadays is computerized - from air- on the relationship between Godbolt for police to capture him alive. planes to ships to power plants to hospitals, elec- and the victims. However, Godbolt him- “My intentions was to have God kill tricity grids, gas plants, LNG facilities - you name it, BROOKHAVEN: Officers arrest suspect Cory Godbolt yesterday following several self shed some light on what happened me. I ran out of bullets,” he said. “Suicide it’s online. How scary and terrifying it is when you fatal shootings Saturday in Lincoln County, Mississippi, officials said. — AP in a video interview with the newspaper by cop was my intention.” — AP feel that there is no security left in any place in the world, except an African forest. We are entering a new era of global insecurity, unfortunately. 2,000 trapped as fighting Have a safe week. Anti-jihadist rages in Philippine city Ramadan ad MARAWI, Philippines: Two thousand fearful civilians were fled because of the fighting, but 2,000 remain trapped in trapped yesterday inside a southern Philippine city where areas controlled by the militants, according to Zia Alonto goes viral troops are battling Islamist militants, authorities said, as Adiong, spokesman for the provincial crisis management the death toll from almost a week of fighting neared 100. committee. “They have been sending us text messages, KUWAIT: A video advertisement that depicts a The military intensified a bombing campaign on parts of calling our hotline, requesting us to send rescue teams but would-be suicide bomber confronted by the faithful Marawi on Mindanao island, one of the biggest Muslim we cannot simply go to areas which are inaccessible to us,” has gone viral two days into the Muslim fasting The essence of Ramadan cities in the mainly Catholic nation, as it accused the gun- Adiong told AFP. month of Ramadan. “Worship your God with love, men of atrocities including murdering women and a child. “They want to leave. They are afraid for their safety. not terror” is the main message of the three-minute By Hademau Yatera The initial fighting prompted President Rodrigo Some are running out of food to eat. They fear they will be advert posted Friday online by Kuwaiti telecommu- Duterte to declare martial law on Tuesday across the hit by bullets, by airstrikes,” he said. The military announced nications giant Zain, which operates across the he word Ramadan is derived from the Arabic southern third of the Philippines to quell what he said was on Saturday, the start of the Muslim holy month of Middle East. root word ramida or ar-ramad signifying a fast-growing threat from terrorists linked to the Islamic Ramadan, that it would step up the bombing. “I will tell God everything,” says the voiceover of a Tstrong burning heat and dryness, especially State (IS) group. Most of the city’s 200,000 residents have Continued on Page 13 child at the beginning of the ad as a man is seen the ground. Thus, the word Ramadan indicates the preparing a bomb. “That you’ve filled the cemeteries warm sensation in the stomach as a result of with our children and emptied our school desks...” thirst. Spiritually, Ramadan burns out the sins with Continued on Page 13 good deeds, as the sun burns the ground. The hearts and souls of believers are more receptive to the warnings and remembrance of Allah during Ramadan, just as the sand and stones are recep- US may ban laptops tive to the sun’s heat. Fasting during the holy month is one of the five pillars of Islam, which also on int’l flights include prayer and charity. To fast, Muslims WASHINGTON: US Homeland Security John Kelly said abstain from eating, drinking, and intimate rela- tions from dawn to sunset. yesterday that he was considering banning laptop com- Muslims traditionally break their fast like the puters on international flights into and out of the coun- Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) did some 1,400 years try, amid signs of “a real threat.” ago, with a sip of water and some dates at sunset.