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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 18 June 2013 9 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5734 Price: QR2 Qatar Cool Qatar playing wins two for fans in awards at IDEA Uzbek clash Business | 18 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 QR2m food supplies for Syrians Death for two Children jump Kuwait cops over torture to safety as fire KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s supreme court yesterday sen- tenced to death two police officers convicted of torturing guts apartment a citizen to death, overturning life imprisonment handed by lower courts. It also jailed four officers for Fire alarm fails to work in complex 15 years each and a fifth for two years, and ordered their dis- DOHA: A six-member family, The fire reportedly started missal from the force. Two other including five children, had a from the hall, caused by a short policemen were each fined 75 miraculous escape from their circuit in the air-conditioner. A dinars ($260), while the remain- house on the second floor after seven-year-old girl was the first ing 11 defendants were acquitted, a blaze gutted the apartment to be woken up by the blaze and including two foreigners who in Barwa real estate compa- she opened the bedroom door to worked at a police station. ny’s affordable housing unit in the hall that was full of smoke and All defendants were charged Mesaimeer yesterday. flames. Her brother, who was with with torturing four detainees in The fire alarm in the house another sister in the same room January 2011. One of the victims, apparently didn’t work, exposing pulled her back. But by then she Mohammad Ghazzai Al Mutairi, loopholes in the safety system in had suffered burns in her hands, 35, died of his injuries. The four the sprawling complex. back and other parts of the body. Sheikh Eid bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association has sent a convoy carrying food supplies worth were tortured in the desert and A six-member Arab family All the three jumped out of the QR2m to Syria. The charity has implemented projects worth QR68m for the Syrian people. later at a police station, where was trapped inside the house for window and the elder sister sus- they were accused of merchan- several minutes and two chil- tained injuries on her leg, said a dising alcohol, a charge that was dren were injured, according to source close to the family. proved false. sources. When the fire broke out The mother and two children at around 11am, the mother and who were in the other room were Taliban opening Doha office today Defiant Snowden her six children were sleeping in rescued by neighbours using a two rooms. The fire alarm didn’t steel ladder. A Civil Defence team vows more leaks work and the sound of an explo- arrived and launched fire-fighting DOHA: A Taliban office, touted as a tool to help of any future peace deal involving the extremists sion from the main switchboard operations. All family members facilitate talks between the militants and the and the US. WASHINGTON: Rogue US in the hall woke them up to the were taken to the Emergency Afghan government, opens here today, Al Jazeera The militants refuse to have direct contact with intelligence tech Edward blaze, it was learnt. Department of the Hamad television reported. Karzai, calling him a puppet of the US which sup- Snowden issued a defiant rebuke The siblings — two girls and a Medical Corporation. Furniture Al Jazeera cited anonymous sources for its yes- ported his rise to power after the military operation to his critics in Washington boy — were sleeping in one room and other valuables in the house terday’s report and gave no details but a Taliban that toppled the Taliban in 2001. yesterday and warned more and the mother and other two were destroyed, though no other spokesman in Kabul said he was “unaware” of any But with US-led Nato combat troops due to with- leaks were on the way, declar- children were in another bed- houses in the block were affected such development. draw from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Karzai ing: “Truth is coming and it room. The father was in his office by the fire. In April, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said recently backed the proposed office in Doha. cannot be stopped.” when the fire broke out. A resident of the complex said that the opening of a Taliban office in Doha could Any peace talks still face numerous hurdles The 29-year-old former con- There are many apartment fire alarms were recently disabled “facilitate the peace process”. before they begin, including confusion over who tractor for the National Security blocks in the complex that has by the company that maintains He made the remarks in an interview with Al would represent the Taliban and Karzai’s insist- Agency dismissed allegations he nearly 1,000 residential units. the premises. They were also not Jazeera following talks with the Emir H H Sheikh ence that his appointees should be at the centre was a traitor or a Chinese agent, The walls of the houses are made connected to the Civil Defence Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in Doha. of negotiations. and insisted he had exposed a of gypsum and other flammable control room, according to some Karzai previously opposed a Taliban office in Qatar Talks have been underway since 2011 to open a dangerous US global surveillance material, supported by steel. reports. THE PENINSULA over fears that his government would be frozen out Taliban office in Qatar. AGENCIES network that threatens the pri- vacy of millions. US President Barack Obama’s administration has protested that the programmes exposed by leaks were vital to protecting Qatar Airways orders nine Boeing 777s US citizens from terrorism, but the revelations have triggered an DOHA/LE BOURGET: Qatar in many markets, including America — and selected cities in embarrassing global debate. Airways announced an order Australasia and the US,” Chief the Middle East. Snowden fled last month from for nine Boeing 777 passenger Executive Officer Akbar Al “The 777 has proved popular his job at an NSA base in Hawaii aircraft worth QR10bn ($2.8bn) Baker told a press conference with our passengers being an air- to Hong Kong carrying with him on the opening day of the at Le Bourget, the venue of the craft of choice and has made a a cache of secret documents. International Paris Air Show air show. He was accompanied positive impact on our operations, yesterday, press statements by by Boeing Commercial Airplanes now established as the flagship Coronavirus kills QA and Boeing said. President and CEO, Ray Conner, aircraft of our long-haul flying The announcement has been to announce the order. programme.” four more in Saudi made for the Boeing’s 777-300 ER “We have already shown a Of the 777 fleet, Qatar Airways (Extended Range) version of the desire to open up new destina- operates a mix of passenger and DUBAI: Four more people have aircraft. The additional aircraft tions in the US and the Boeing cargo aircraft — 22 Boeing 777- died and three more have fallen will help the airline open up new 777 will further feature in our 300ERs, nine 777-200LRs (Long ill in Saudi Arabia from the routes and add capacity to exist- expansion plans in this part of the Range) and four Boeing 777 SARS-like coronavirus MERS- ing markets in its rapidly-growing world, in addition to increasing freighters, with a fifth cargo plane CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry network. frequency to other destinations,” set to be delivered this month. said yesterday. The order for seven Boeing Al Baker said. Al Baker said Qatar Airways It said the deaths were among 777s will increase to 16 and boost “Since Qatar Airways started is talking to Boeing about being a previously registered cases. The its fleet of 35 to 51 aircraft. taking deliveries of Boeing 777s launch customer for a successor new infections were in Eastern “With its reliability, economics in November 2007, we have to its mini-jumbo, the 406-seat Province, Riyadh and Jeddah. and range capability, the 777 will quickly expanded this fleet, fly- 777-9X. The airline is also looking Saudi Arabia has been worst Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker (left) with Boeing continue to play a key role in ena- ing to key long-haul destina- at exercising options for a further affected by the respiratory-system Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Ray Conner celebrating a new bling Qatar Airways to operate tions to all parts of the world 30 787-9 Dreamliners on top of 30 virus, with 49 confirmed cases, of more direct non-stop flights from — Europe, Southern Africa, Asia 787s already confirmed, he said. whom 32 have died, according to order by the airline for nine new Boeing 777 aircraft. our hub in Doha to destinations Pacific, North America and South See also page 17 the ministry. AGENCIES Putin, Obama spar over Syria at tense G8 summit meeting ENNISKILLEN, NORTHERN Syria and Obama only glancing occasion- Divisions over Syria dominated the “With respect to Syria, we do have dif- step up military aid to the rebels, includ- IRELAND: US President Barack ally him. atmosphere as global leaders met in the fering perspectives on the problem but ing automatic weapons, light mortars and Obama sparred with Russia’s Vladimir “Our positions do not fully coincide, but remote golf resort in Northern Ireland, we share an interest in reducing the vio- rocket-propelled grenades.

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