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Local volunteer India hangs PSG blank group collects Mumbai bomb Manchester money for poor blasts’ plotter United 2-0 4 Yakub10 Memon 47 Min 31º Max 47 FREE www.kuwaittimes.net NO: 16595- Friday, July 31, 2015 Page 3 Local FRIDAY, JULY 31, 2015 Local Spotlight in my View KAC scandal faked? A beastly act By Muna Al-Fuzai By Shakir Reshamwala [email protected] [email protected] tried not to write a word about this matter until the story from the girls’ side and not the pilot, the n a world where overzealous law can be seen in various images online with the investigation is over, but it seems everyone co-pilot and the security men on the plane. We all enforcement officers murder people other animals that he has killed in his hunt- Iin Kuwait has an opinion on the scandal. I will know every plane has air marshals onboard for Ibased on the color of their skin and ing jaunts. not repeat the full details of the story that the safety of the passengers. Also, how come no vengeful states send people to the gallows Of course, the usual trolls quickly rose to appeared in Britain’s Daily Mail and Daily Star one said a word about the two-year-old incident? based on their beliefs, it was the heartless his defense, accusing his detractors of pick- tabloids claiming that the pilot of a Kuwait In Kuwait it is hard to keep a secret, especially if it killing of a lion by an American big game ing on him and ignoring the millions of Airways plane invited two girls into the cockpit is related to a scandal of this size with girls hunter that laid bare the jarring realization cattle killed for food every day. A cow is no during a flight from Heathrow airport in London involved! to New York’s JFK. The report did not say when I cannot agree more that if the story is true, then that life is cheap - both of man and beast. different from a lion, they argue. It’s like the incident took place. the captain broke aviation regulations, and I am sure Cecil, an iconic lion with a handsome saying that Cecil deserved to die because But Kuwait Airways responded to the reports there are penalties for that, but what I don’t under- black mane, was killed by a dentist from he too had killed many other animals in his in a Twitter post, claiming that the incident hap- stand is using this incident as a way to trash the rep- the US in Zimbabwe a few days ago. The 13-year lifespan. But what these people are pened in 2013. The minister of communications utation of KAC as an institution simply because one lion, which was fitted with a tracking failing to understand is that cattle are said an investigation has been opened over the person made a mistake, and this may not be the first device, apparently took 40 hours to die slaughtered for food (the fact that they incident, and to me this is the end of the story. If or the last mistake to occur. This is not fair. after it was shot with an arrow. It was should be treated kindly and killed this incident occurred years ago, then either KAC is facing huge competition in the market, tracked, shot, skinned and beheaded, with humanely is a different issue). After all, we action against the captain has already been taken and a story like this will surely make every passen- the trophy hunter paying the local authori- humans are omnivores, and are designed or has been ignored, and the investigation should ger think twice before using its new airplanes out ties $50,000 for the privilege. to eat meat, just like carnivorous predators now also reveal the truth behind those who cov- of fear that such careless staff will put their lives in The gruesome killing of this magnificent like lions. ered it up. We are in 2015 - why the silence over danger in the air. Many companies and merchants animal drew condemnation on social There are also no issues if animals are the incident? have been seeking the privatization or sale of KAC, media from across the world, forcing the killed to save lives (man-eaters, for A friend asked my opinion on this incident and because this did not happen, it makes sense dentist to shut his practice and go into hid- instance) or the environment (invasive and we had an interesting discussion over the to publish such stories to destroy the reputation matter. Here is what I think and why. I believe the of the local carrier. The timing is right! ing. He also had to close down his social species) or to protect public health and story could be true, but fantasy elements made it There will always be mistakes made by airlines media pages and website after they were crops (vermin and other pests). But killing spicy material for social media, city talk and com- in any part of the world, but such exaggeration flooded with harsh comments. A media for sport is beyond the pale and reeks of petitors. I know that we have seen the video and hurts KAC, as it is still the national carrier and it’s scrum is camped outside his home, shat- narcissism. It’s a sadistic pursuit that bene- pictures, but not everything you see in today’s era shameful to allow mistakes by a few to disrupt tering his idyllic suburban existence. fits no one except the ego of the hunter. of technology is true. So far we have only heard the company’s recent efforts. Described as a skilled archer, the hunter It’s bloodlust, pure and simple. Photo of the day KUWAIT: An ice-cream vendor cools off in the shade as Kuwait’s temperature continues to break thermostats. — Photo Joseph Shagra Local TerroristFRIDAY, JULY 31, 2015 cell Four citizens busted in Kuwait arrested KUWAIT: The inside of the main prayer hall of the Imam Al Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City in the aftermath of a suicide bombing on June 26. By Jamie Etheridge lished by state news agency, KUNA. of the uncovered cell: Mohammad Hamad, Reuters the individuals named in All of the men arrested confessed to born in 1986. Thursday’s statement were not connect- KUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior arrested receiving training and indoctrination in He had joined the organization in ed to the June 26 attack, which aimed to four Kuwaitis for their involvement in a “the terrorist organization, its deviating Mosul and had taken part in combat and enflame sectarian tensions between ‘terrorist’ network connected to Islamic thoughts, in addition to advanced training Faleh Nasser, born in 1982. The latter had Shiites and Sunnis in Kuwait. Around 30 State yesterday. A fifth citizen, also a on using arms before taking in combat also joined the organization in Mosul and percent of Kuwait’s 1.4 million citizens member of the group, was recently killed action in Syria and Iraq,” the Interior had participated in combat, Mohammad are Shiites and the mosque targeted on in Iraq. The arrests come a little over a Ministry said in an official statement. Falah, born in 1990, who had facilitated June 26 was a Shiite mosque. month since Islamic State militants carried Authorities also named the suspects: the others’ travel to Iraq to take part in ter- Twenty-nine suspects have been out the first ever suicide bombing of a Mubarak Malfi, born in 1986, killed in a ter- rorist operations. arrested and charged in that case, the mosque in Kuwait. Twenty-six-people rorist operation in Iraq; Fahad Hamad, The ministry vowed that it would spare authorities reportedly seeking the death were killed in the June 26 bombing of the born in 1990. no effort in clamping down, firmly, on any penalty for 11 of them. The trial is sched- Imam Al-Sadiq mosque in Kuwait City, Security personnel found “takfiri books, person who may try to undermine the uled to begin August 4. another 227 were injured. contents of which urge for fighting and homeland’s security. Pre-emptive precau- Islamic State, whose Sunni jihadist Security authorities have “taken a pre- carrying out terrorist acts,” in addition to tions will be in force against any terrorist forces have seized large tracts of eastern emptive move uncovering a cell of the ter- flag of the terrorist organization, Islamic acts and terrorists will be brought to jus- Syria and northern Iraq, have claimed rorist organization,” the Islamic State in State in Hamad’s house. “Takfiri” is an tice. The detainees were referred to the responsibility for several attacks against Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), comprising five Arabic word that indicates rejection of reli- general prosecution, under the state Shiites, including two mosque bombings Kuwaitis, the Ministry of Interior gious beliefs of the same sect or another. felony case, number 47/2015. in Saudi Arabia in May. announced yesterday in a statement pub- The MOI identified the other members An interior ministry source told (Material used from the wires in this report). Local Friday 31 July 2015 Local volunteer group collects money for poor Group readies runaway maids for reintegration By Ben Garcia They visit sick Filipino patients in hospitals in Kuwait and provide them with necessary help, including monetary assistance. They talk to families and comfort them. Meet Kuwait Filipino Mothers Organization (KFMO), a volunteer group whose members are mostly from the Philippines but married to Kuwaitis and other foreign nationals.