SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016 SHAABAN 5, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ICSK board Trump rolls The Real Fouz: Westbrook resigns after unrivaled, Homemade shines as dispute Sanders takes recipes for Thunder with sponsor3 West Virginia7 dry skin stun Spurs 94 dead in triple38 IS 20car Min 25º Max 39º bombings in Baghdad High Tide 04:35 & 14:59 Low Tide Bloodiest attacks in Iraqi capital this year 09:46 & 22:40 40 PAGES NO: 16871 150 FILS BAGHDAD: Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a huge blast at a market, killed at least 94 people yester- Infant trafficking day, the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year. The thrives in Kuwait attacks, all claimed by the Islamic State group, came with the government locked in a political crisis that KUWAIT: A senior interior ministry official said infant some have warned could undermine the fight against trafficking is on the rise in Kuwait and babies are being the jihadists. The worst bombing struck the frequently offered for sale at brothels for KD 250 each. “It is targeted Sadr City area of northern Baghdad at about already sad enough that human trafficking is becom- 10:00 am, killing at least 64 people, officials said. ing a fact in a country like Kuwait that cares for The blast set nearby shops on fire and left debris humanity and humane activities, but this is a disaster,” including the charred, twisted remains of a vehicle in said Lt Col Haitham Al-Othman, manager of the min- istry’s vice and anti-trafficking department. the street. Dozens of angry people gathered at the Othman said newborn baby trafficking cases have scene of the bombing, blaming the government for the increased due to the delivery of illegitimate babies at carnage. “The state is in a conflict over (government homes, where a midwife purchases the baby from positions) and the people are the victims,” said a man mothers who wish to get rid of them and resell it to named Abu Ali. “The politicians are behind the explo- buyers, who register them at their countries’ sion.” Abu Muntadhar echoed his anger. “The state is embassies. Othman added six cases had so far been responsible for the bombings that hit civilians,” the local referred to the public prosecution involving human resident said. The politicians “should all get out”. trafficking and buying Asian women who are forced to Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who spearheaded a protest work as prostitutes. “This includes a Syrian who ran the movement demanding a cabinet reshuffle and other largest prostitution network ever busted in Kuwait, reforms, has a huge following in the working-class comprising of Asian women,” he said. Speaking at a workshop hosted by the Kuwait neighborhood of Sadr City, which was named after his Society for Human Rights, Othman stressed selling ille- father. Another suicide car bomb attack killed at least 17 gal babies was a strange phenomenon in Kuwait and people at the entrance of the northwestern neighbor- that several such cases take place at the maternity hos- hood of Kadhimiya, which is home to an important pital on a daily basis. “In some cases, a pregnant Shiite shrine. Access to the neighborhood, which has woman prefers giving birth at home and sell the baby also been repeatedly targeted over the years, is heavily to the midwife,” he explained. Notably, Ahmadi detec- controlled. Several members of the security forces were tives recently arrested a Filipina who worked as a mid- among the victims, hospital sources said. wife for women who got pregnant outside wedlock In the Jamea district in western Baghdad, another car and wished to get rid of their babies. The suspect sold bomb went off in the afternoon, killing at least 13 peo- each baby for KD 250, and when arrested, still had sev- ple, an interior ministry official and medics told AFP. eral more infants waiting to be sold. — Al-Rai BAGHDAD: Iraqis inspect the scene after a car bomb explosion at a crowded outdoor market in the Iraqi cap- Continued on Page 13 ital’s eastern district of Sadr City yesterday. — AP Nod to naturalize 4,000 in 2016 By B Izzak bers now are 110,000 and wondered when will the government resolve their News KUWAIT: The National Assembly yester- problem. “Is it until they become a mil- in brief day overwhelmingly passed a law in lion,” he asked. MP Yousef Al-Zalzalah principle allowing the government to slammed the government’s treatment of naturalize up to 4,000 people during bedoons, saying some of them can’t get Qatar water use jumps 2016 amid strong criticism by MPs of the married, get an education or get the 70% in seven years government’s treatment of stateless least of their basic rights. “This is a form DOHA: Water consumption in desert country Qatar increased people locally known as bedoons. of oppression and there are people who by 70 percent in the seven years up to 2013, the first ever Similar laws were passed by previous are deliberately oppressing bedoons,” he water statistics published by Doha revealed yesterday. More national assemblies in order to help said. “Bedoons must be allowed to live a than 740 million cu m of water were used in 2013, up from resolve the problem of bedoons, but the dignified life whether they have Kuwaiti just over 437 million in 2006, reflecting the country’s rapid government has only naturalized a small citizenship or not,” said Zalzalah, adding expansion, figures from the Ministry of Development number of people, especially in the past that many of they became stateless Planning and Statistics (MDPS) show. “Government” water few years. because their parents failed to register SHAYBAH, Saudi Arabia: The base of Saudi Aramco’s natural gas plant and oil consumption grew the most during that time period, increas- MP Mohammad Taba warned of the them on time. production in Saudi Arabia’s remote Empty Quarter desert close to the UAE is ing by almost 400 percent, said the MDPS. Industry use was problem of bedoons, saying their num- Continued on Page 13 seen on Tuesday. — AFP up by more than 200 percent, though the biggest consumers were agriculture and residential households. Some 245 mil- lion cu m of water were used by residential households in ‘Empty Quarter’ full of 2013, up from 130 million in 2006. UAE happiness minister Saudi oil firm’s hopes seeks positive stories DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates’ minister for happi- SHAYBAH, Saudi Arabia: Reddish- dominance of the world oil industry, and ness says part of her mission is to encourage local media brown sand dunes twist across the its path for the future. “Of course the to tell more positive stories because desert, their canyon-like ridges accentu- location of Shaybah is a challenge,” said “happiness is contagious”. Ohood ated by late afternoon sun as a Saudi Faisal Shihabuddin, a 28-year-old Saudi Al-Roumi, who was appointed to Aramco jet approaches the site of a engineer among about 1,500 workers at remote gas plant. “Not many people live the site. Despite the challenges, it has the newly-formed post in February, down there,” the captain announces in an been successfully developed over the says focusing on positive aspects of American accent. The Empty Quarter, a past 20 years “in the middle of nowhere,” everyday life could help give people vast desert in the southern Arabian he added. in the Middle East hope. She says peninsula, conjures an image of what Although global oil prices have col- when people are optimistic, they are more productive and creative. Mars might look like. But it is here that lapsed, production is expanding at Ohood Al-Roumi technological advances enabled Saudi Shaybah, as it is in other units of the Speaking yesterday at Dubai’s Arab Arabia’s state energy giant to build the company at the centre of the kingdom’s Media Forum, she said the media cannot ignore the plant, and drill for oil despite the isola- Vision 2030 drive for diversification away hard realities facing the region, but that to focus on neg- tion and harsh environment. from oil. The government plans to sell ative stories exposes people to depression and leads to KUWAIT: Lawmakers and ministers are seen during a National Assembly session The Shaybah facility stands at the less than five percent of the firm in what people “thinking the world is an awful place”. yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat heart of Saudi Aramco’s long-standing Continued on Page 13 Queen and Cameron in High-tech devices take twin diplomatic gaffes cheating to new level BANGKOK: Glasses with embedded of high-tech gear - the cameras were LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II was during a garden party at Buckingham cameras and smartwatches with stored used to take pictures of the test sheet caught on camera describing some Palace on Tuesday making unguarded information seem like regular spy and the smartwatches to receive answers Chinese officials as “very rude” in a rare comments about a Chinese state visit equipment for the likes of James Bond, from someone outside - has taken the diplomatic gaffe by the British monarch last year. Police commander Lucy D’Orsi but for three students applying to med- practice to a whole new plane. “We’ve over a visit that drummed up billions in was introduced to the queen as the ical school in Thailand, they were high- never found cheating of this level - Chinese investment. Her comments, woman who oversaw security for the technology cheating devices. Bangkok’s involving high-technology,” university aired yesterday, came just hours after state visit of President Xi Jinping and his Rangsit University canceled its examina- official Kittisak Tripipatpornchai told AP Prime Minister David Cameron on wife in October, to which the monarch tions on Saturday and Sunday for yesterday.