JAMADA ALTHANI 16, 1439 AH SUNDAY, MARCH 4, 2018 Max 29º 32 Pages Min 14º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17471 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Imported varieties dominate Iran acid attack victims Neymar’s golden foot goes 2 truffle market in Kuwait 32 find new identity in art 16 under the knife, op a success Bahrain busts ‘Iran-linked cell’, arrests 116 members Large quantities of arms and explosives seized, attacks thwarted DUBAI: Bahrain said yesterday that it 757 kg of materials used to manufacture had arrested 116 people accused of explosives, several Kalashnikovs and belonging to a “terror” cell allegedly grenades, it said. linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. An “The main terrorist leaders include official statement on state news agency Aqeel Al-Sari, Murtadha Al-Sindi and BNA said that security services had in the Qassim Al-Muamen. All are responsible process thwarted a number of attacks and for recruiting terrorists in Bahrain, seized large quantities of arms and explo- arranging firearms and explosives training sives. Authorities in the Gulf state have for terrorists, establishing secret ware- cracked down hard on dissent since mass houses and hideouts, and supplying ter- street protests in 2011, which demanded rorist groups with funding, firearms and an elected prime minister and constitu- explosives to carry out attacks,” the tional monarchy in the kingdom. Bahrain statement added. frequently accuses opposition figures of In January Bahrain police arrested 47 links to Iran, which denies supporting any people on terrorism-related charges. bid to overthrow the government. Dozens of Bahrainis have been jailed and The statement charged that the cell stripped of citizenship since Arab Spring- planned to target leading security figures inspired protests broke out in 2011. and carry out attacks on oil and other Bahrain’s parliament and king last year vital installations. It accused those granted military courts jurisdiction to try detained of being members of a cell civilians charged with “terrorism”- a formed by the Iranian Revolutionary vaguely defined legal term. The kingdom Guards and said that as many as 48 of has also deported citizens whose nation- those detained had received military alities had been revoked. Last month training in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. They Bahrain accused Iran of training and arm- received training on the use of explosives, ing two men accused of bombing a Saudi light arms, artillery and rocket-propelled Aramco oil pipeline outside the capital BAHRAIN: A handout image from Bahrain’s interior ministry shows weapons and explosives seized from an armed network allegedly estab- grenades, according to the statement. Manama - an allegation Tehran dismissed lished and supported by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. — BNA Police seized 42 kg of high explosives, as “false”. — Agencies and surrounded by mostly Muslim neighbors. conference in Kuwait. “That was the turning Homegrown priest Like many Christian Kuwaitis, his roots lie point,” he said. “That was where the Lord elsewhere in the Middle East. The priest’s changed my life... where I was born again and father was born to an Assyrian family in began my journey with Jesus Christ.” celebrates Bible, southeast Turkey but forced to flee Ottoman He quit his job and embarked in 1989 on a massacres against the Armenian and Assyrian theology degree at the Evangelical bedouin culture Christian minorities. The Red Cross took his Theological Seminary in Cairo. He was father to Iraq, where he would eventually wed ordained as a priest in 1999 and subsequently KUWAIT: Dressed in a traditional white Gulf Gharib’s mother - a fellow Assyrian - in the elected to head the National Evangelical headdress and with two red crosses embroi- northern city of Mosul in 1945. Church of Kuwait, becoming the first and only dered on his black clerical robe, Kuwait’s first With the former Ottoman cities reeling Gulf Arab priest. Father Emmanuel also serves homegrown priest cuts a unique figure in the from the upheaval of World War I, the couple as vice president of the Islamic-Christian predominantly Muslim state. Father decided to build their future in Kuwait. They Relations Council in Kuwait, which he co- Emmanuel Benjamin Jacob Gharib, 68, cele- raised four girls and three boys - the eldest founded in 2009. brates both the Bible and Gulf Arab culture Emmanuel - in a religious environment, taking Father Emmanuel’s own landmark next with his Christian congregation in Kuwait them to Sunday School each week. They year will coincide with the 85th anniversary City. In an interview with AFP ahead of the always felt close to their Muslim neighbors. of the Evangelical Church in Kuwait. But the 20th anniversary of his ordination, he Emmanuel Gharib was not always destined presence of Christians in Kuwait dates back stressed the level of acceptance he has felt for the priesthood. He graduated from engi- even further, to the arrival of American from fellow Kuwaitis. “Everyone welcomes neering school with a degree in geology in Evangelical missionaries and the founding of me wherever I go,” said Father Emmanuel. 1971 and soon found a job at the Kuwaiti oil the American Mission Hospital in the early Born in the Qibla district of Kuwait City, ministry. Ten years into his career, Emmanuel 1900s, he said. KUWAIT: Father Emmanuel Gharib poses for a photo in the aisle of the National Gharib was raised in a devout Christian family Gharib and his wife took part in a religious Continued on Page 11 Evangelical Church in Kuwait City on Feb 20, 2018. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat ing term,” Mostafa Kamel Al-Sayed, a political science professor MBS off on maiden at Cairo University, told AFP. Egypt is part of a Saudi-led military coalition which inter- Ad-hoc Trump vened in Yemen in March 2015 to fight Iran-backed Houthi foreign tour; Egypt rebels. Saudi Arabia and Egypt are also part of a bloc of nations fuelling White that has boycotted Qatar since June over alleged ties to extrem- waives challenges ists and Iran. Qatar denies the accusations. A Saudi government source said Prince Mohammed’s choice of Egypt for his maiden House meltdown overseas trip as crown prince “reaffirms Saudi-Egyptian coop- WASHINGTON: A White House lurching from cri- to islands transfer eration at the highest level”. Talks would cover regional rival sis to crisis appeared close to complete meltdown RIYADH/CAIRO: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince lands in Egypt Iran, the conflict in Yemen, counter-terrorism and energy coop- Friday, as Donald Trump’s staff struggled to limit today on the first leg of his maiden foreign tour as heir to the eration, the source said. damage from two impulsive moves with far-reaching throne, a diplomatic charm offensive that follows his stunning Egypt’s top court yesterday dismissed all outstanding legal consequences. Trump’s off-the-cuff enticement of a rise to power. Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s two-day visit to challenges to a deal transferring two Red Sea islands to Saudi global trade war and calls for limits on the constitu- Cairo comes ahead of a scheduled trip to Britain on Wednesday Arabia. The plan to cede the islands to Riyadh, an ally which has tional right to bear arms cleaved a schism between for talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and the United States given billions of dollars in aid to Egypt, was announced in 2016 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri the mercurial president and his Republican backers, from March 19-22. His visit to Cairo, a key regional ally, comes and became mired in political protest and legal action. The shared early yesterday a selfie with Saudi sparked a stock market sell-off and prompted threats before Egypt’s presidential polls in late March, with incumbent supreme court ruled that no other court had jurisdiction over the Crown Prince Mohammed (back) and his of retaliatory sanctions from across the globe. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi expected to win a second four-year term. matter, blocking two opposing verdicts - one by the supreme brother and Saudi Ambassador to the US Angered by the announced departure of confidant “Prince Mohammed’s visit will be interpreted as proof of Saudi administrative Prince Khaled. — Twitter Hope Hicks, financial scandals surrounding son-in- support for Sisi to remain as the president of Egypt in the com- Continued on Page 11 law Jared Kushner and the ongoing investigation into his campaign, Trump thumbed his nose at advisors’ VAR is good for football”, Infantino any of four key game-changing situ- warnings and announced punitive steel and aluminum Video replays told reporters shortly after IFAB ations: Goals, penalty decisions, tariffs. “When a country (USA) is losing many billions announced the decision. He added straight red cards or mistaken iden- of dollars on trade with virtually every country it that the final decision to use the tity. It has already been implement- does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to set to be used technology at the World Cup in ed in top European leagues includ- win,” Trump tweeted Friday. Russia will be made when the FIFA ing the German Bundesliga and Officials made no effort to disguise that the deci- at World Cup Council - world football’s top deci- Italy’s Serie A. Spain’s La Liga on sion - which will bring legal action - had short cir- sion-making body - meets in Friday began training officials ahead cuited internal deliberations and preempted the ZURICH: Football’s lawmakers yes- Colombia on March 15 and 16. “We of the technology’s expected intro- administration’s own determination about whether terday approved video assistant ref- will hope and encourage the council duction next season.