ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 17 March 2014 16 Jumadal I 1435 - Volume 19 Number 5606 Price: QR2 Qatar to launch Belmadi $65bn worth named as projects Qatar coach Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 New Doha Zoo Yabrud falls to Thousands of Syrian army BEIRUT: Syrian forces backed by Hezbollah militants took full control of the town of Yabrud yesterday after driving illicit goods out rebels, helping President Bashar Al Assad secure the land route connecting the capi- tal Damascus with Aleppo and the Mediterranean coast. seized in raids The fall of the last rebel bastion near the Lebanese border could sever a vital insurgent supply line Five-day operation Shaheen ends from Lebanon. A military source said about DOHA: In a five-day-long and Operations Officer Aiham 1,400 rebels from the Free Syrian crackdown on fake and counter- Yasmeenia said the ‘Shaheen’ Army, Ahrar Al Sham and other feit products in Qatar, 147 people operation was the first of its kind factions had fled Yabrud in the were referred for investigation in the MENA region to check past two days. Another 1,000 and 51,000 electrical goods and counterfeit and illicit goods and militants from the Al Qaeda- a number of other substandard products. linked Nusra Front had held out products were confiscated. The campaign lasted approxi- on Saturday to fight government The operation, named mately five days and covered forces which had entered eastern “Shaheen”, is said to be the first of shops and warehouses across the districts of Yabroud. its kind in the MENA region and country. Following the raids, 147 See also page 7 was carried out by the Ministry people were referred to investigat- An artist’s impression of New Doha Zoo, which is slated to open to the public at the end of 2017. REUTERS of Interior in collaboration with ing authorities and 51,000 electric See also page 2 Interpol. items, including lights, electric The inspections were ordered welding ribbons and fuses, were by the Director General of Public seized. A large number of coun- Security, H E Staff Major General terfeit audio and video products Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi, in and auto parts, expired food items, the wake of the Interpol Regional substandard building material, New facts emerge over missing plane Program to Counter Trafficking several computers, printers and in Illicit Goods and Intellectual mobile phones were also seized. KUALA LUMPUR: The person was also aware that the Aircraft Authorities have not yet dis- and ground staff involved with Property Crimes, held in Doha The confiscated items included in control of missing Malaysian Communications Addressing and closed whether the person who MH370 under a penal code that last week. 20,000 fake auto parts including Airlines flight MH370 issued Reporting System (Acars) had issued the last message to control- includes hijacking, sabotage and The meeting was attended tyres, brakes, balance devices their last communication to air been manually shut down. lers was Captain Zaharie Ahmad terrorism. Police had questioned by delegates from Saudi Arabia, and air filters, and 31,000 expired traffic control after the first set Investigations still do not Shah, 53, or co-pilot Fariq Abdul Zaharie’s friends and family, and Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain food items with their expiry dates of aircraft communications was appear to know who was at the Hamid, 27, or an unknown third dismantled and reassembled at and some other Middle Eastern manipulated. Some 4,000 litres of disabled, Malaysian authorities helm and what their intentions person. It is also unclear if such headquarters a flight simulator countries. The operation was car- sterilization gel used in hospitals, have confirmed, adding further were when the aircraft disap- messages are recorded by air traf- Zaharie kept in his house on the ried out to implement papers pre- which had expired two years ago, weight to suspicion that the peared from civilian radar more fic control and are available for outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. sented in the conference. was also seized. plane was hijacked. than a week ago. expert analysis to determine who Police also searched Fariq’s The Arab and International Falah Al Dosari , a representa- The latest revelation suggests Experts on aircraft mainte- the voice belongs to. home, although it was unclear if Police Communication tive of the Ministry of Interior at that the person who delivered the nance have explained that the Malaysia Airlines could not anything was confiscated. Department, representing the Interpol and the criminal infor- “All right, good night” message to plane’s communications system be reached for comment and According to Malaysia Airlines, Ministry of Interior, the General mation officer at the organisation, Kuala Lumpur air traffic control- can only be disabled manually – Malaysia’s transport ministry the pilot and co-pilot did not ask to Authority of Customs, and the said that the campaign was car- lers just before the Boeing-777 a process that requires switching declined to comment. fly together, reducing the probabil- Consumer Protection Department ried out after meticulous planning. disappeared from their radar a number of cockpit controls in Malaysia’s police chief, Khalid ity of a co-ordinated plan between also took part in the campaign. Continued on page 4 at 1.22am and diverted from its sequence until a computer screen Bakar, has said authorities were the pilots to hijack the aircraft. Interpol MENA coordinator THE PENINSULA scheduled flightpath to Beijing necessitates a keyboard input. investigating all crew, passengers THE GUARDIAN Woqod stops gas sale at stations DOHA: Woqod has stopped after a number selling its lightweight Shafaf of cylinders LPG cylinders at its fuel were stolen from stations. their premises The move follows instructions last week. from the Civil Defence directorate An Indian in the wake of the explosion at a expatriate run- restaurant in a petrol station near ning a super- Landmark mall last month. market in the Notices have been put up Industrial Area at some Woqod fuel stations said 19 cylinders announcing the decision. that were for “On the instruction of Civil sale were stolen Defence, Shafaf is no longer sold in a single day. at this station. We apologise for He said some the inconvenience,” read the other super- announcement at a fuel station markets in the A notice at a Woqod fuel station announcing that sale in Doha. neighbouring of Shafaf gas cylinders has been stopped there. Woqod had earlier stopped areas had also refilling LPG cylinders and reported similar tanks at eateries in fuel stations. incidents the same day. about six days ago in the same All eateries at fuel stations have The cylinders were kept in manner. Some of the affected said been asked by the Civil Defence metal racks outside the shops. they had lodged complaints with authorities to replace LPG tanks They were stolen after chains and the police. and cylinders with electric stoves. locks securing them were broken. “We have stopped selling the Meanwhile, some supermar- The manager of a supermarket in cylinders because we have no kets said yesterday they had also Najma area said nine Shafaf cyl- place to keep them safely,” he said. stopped selling Shafaf cylinders, inders were stolen from his shop THE PENINSULA Crimea votes to join Russia Iraq gets US missiles SIMFEROPOL: Crimeans voted overwhelm- BAGHDAD: The United States delivered nearly ingly Sunday to join former political master 100 Hellfire missiles, M4 rifles and hundreds of Russia as tensions soared in the east of the splin- thousands of rounds of ammunition to Iraq this tered ex-Soviet nation, the epicentre of the worst month, the US embassy in Baghdad said yesterday. East-West crisis since the Cold War. The delivery is part of US efforts to help Iraq Partial results with more than half the ballots combat Sunni militant groups, including the Islamic counted showed 95.5 percent of voters were in favour State of Iraq and the Levant, amid ongoing instabil- of leaving Ukraine. ity in Sunni Arab areas, particularly western Anbar International condemnation began pouring in province where militants have held an entire city from world capitals long before the polls had closed for more than two months. The embassy said the but on the streets of Crimean cities thousands of US had delivered more than 11 million rounds of people were celebrating the outcome. ammunition as well as thousands of machine guns AFP and rifles, along with thousands of flares. See also page 11 AFP MONDAY 17 MARCH 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME SCH department to hold workshop Demolition drive for New Doha Zoo soon on healthcare DOHA: The Accreditation QR118m contracts awarded for preparatory works; animals to stay in Rawdhet Al Faras Department at Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners at DOHA: Demolition of buildings for main construction and ensure Supreme Council of Health is and other facilities within the the protection and maintenance of organising a two-day workshop boundaries of the New Doha Zoo trees and natural environment on on Introducing a Framework site is expected to begin soon. site during excavation work. for CME/CPD, in associa- The animals will be shifted to a The second contract valued at tion with Partners Healthcare temporary facility in Rawdhet Al more than QR73m for the design International, an affiliate of Faras during construction of the and construction of temporary Harvard Medical School. new zoo that will be seven times housing facility for animals in The event from tomorrow tar- the size of the existing one. Rawdhet Al Faras was awarded to gets the top management and The Public Works Authority Medgulf Construction Company.