SUBSCRIPTION TUESDAY, JULY 18, 2017 SHAWWAL 24, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cabinet Jordanian Australian Philander assesses efforts soldier gets woman killed leads South to resolve life for killing in Minneapolis Africa rout Gulf crisis2 3 US trainers6 police shooting8 of16 England MPs demand answers after Min 34º ‘Abdaly cell’ fugitives flee Max 47º High Tide 05:59 & 18:53 Low Tide Hashem proposes 10-yr cap for expats, ban on dependent visas 12:46 32 PAGES NO: 17282 150 FILS By B Izzak FM meets Sisi; Egypt insists on demands KUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei yesterday questioned Interior Minister Sheikh Khaled CAIRO: Kuwait’s Acting Prime Minister and Foreign Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah over reports that 14 Kuwaitis con- Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah victed of forming a cell with ties to Tehran fled by sea to met Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi at Cairo’s Iran to escape imprisonment. Citing high-ranking secu- Al-Ittihadiya Palace yesterday. The minister delivered rity sources, a local daily reported yesterday said the 14 a message of greetings from HH the Amir of Kuwait men fled to Iran on speedboats hours after the cassa- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the tion court overturned their acquittals by the appeals Egyptian leader. He also expressed Kuwait’s condo- court and sentenced them to lengthy jail terms for plot- lences over lives lost in “terrorist incidents” that ting attacks in the state. recently targeted Egypt. Furthermore, he reiterated The men were initially convicted by the criminal Kuwait’s “steadfast and unwavering support” of court early last year and sentenced to various terms in Egypt’s anti-terrorism efforts and measures taken by jail. But several months later, the appeals court acquit- Cairo aimed at bolstering security and stability. ted them and set them free. On June 18, when the court During the talks, the two officials discussed regional of cassation issued the final verdict in the case, the 14 men fled the country to Iran after they learned they had and international developments. been sentenced to several years in jail. The men are part Meanwhile, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh of 25 Kuwaitis and one Iranian charged with forming Shoukry told Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled yesterday the so-called ‘Abdaly cell’ with links to Iran and the Egypt is standing by the list of demands it and three Lebanese Hezbollah group and plotting attacks in Gulf Arab countries made of Qatar and will keep Kuwait. One man was sentenced to life, 20 others were sanctions against Doha in place. Saudi Arabia, the jailed between two and 15 years and two acquitted. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt imposed remaining three are still at large. The interior ministry sanctions on Qatar on June 5, cutting diplomatic and has not commented on the report. transport ties with the tiny Gulf monarchy, after Tabtabaei asked the interior minister if the report was accusing it of financing militant groups and allying true and how the convicts managed to escape the interior with their regional arch-foe Iran. Doha denies the ministry’s security system. He demanded a list of names of accusations. CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (right) meets Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- officials responsible for the boats that carried them to Iran Continued on Page 11 Khaled Al-Sabah (center) as Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry looks on yesterday. —AFP and the names of people responsible on that day. Continued on Page 11 UAE denies any hacking of Qatar LONDON: The United Arab Emirates was not responsible for an alleged hack of News Qatari websites which helped spark a in brief month-long diplomatic rift with Doha, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs said yesterday. Anwar Gargash denied as 5 police killed in Sinai; false a story in the Washington Post that strikes kill 30 militants cited US officials saying the UAE had EL-ARISH, Egypt: Militants launched a series of attacks orchestrated the hack of Qatar’s state against Egyptian police in the northern Sinai Peninsula news agency. yesterday, killing five of them and wounding another 11, The report quotes unnamed US intelli- security officials said. They said the militants opened fire gence officials as saying that senior mem- Anwar Gargash on an armored vehicle before setting it ablaze in the city bers of the Emirati government discussed hacking crime took place,” Qatar’s govern- of El-Arish. When reinforcements arrived, the militants set the plan on May 23. On the following day, ment said in a statement yesterday. US off a roadside bomb. The two attacks killed a total of five a story appeared on the Qatari News officials have said that experts from the policemen and wounded another five, the officials said. Agency’s website quoting a speech by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) help- Another roadside bomb struck a third armored vehicle Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al- ing Qatar investigate the incident are con- near the airport south of the city, wounding six police. Thani, in which he allegedly praised Iran vinced QNA was hacked, but that identify- ISTANBUL: Syrian-American Rania Kisar talks to AP in this March 13, 2017 photo. — AP Earlier in the day, Egyptian F-16 fighter jets struck gather- and said Qatar has a good relationship ing the culprit will take time. ings of suspected militants in different areas across with Israel. Similarly incendiary statements Gargash said the four Arab powers northern Sinai, killing 30, officials said. appeared on the news agency’s Twitter were in the process of discussing addition- US-Syrian woman sets up feed. The agency quickly claimed it was al sanctions on Doha. “There will be some hacked and removed the article. But Saudi tightening of the screws,” he said in an Doctors find 27 contact interview, declining to give a timeframe school in Qaeda-run area lenses in woman’s eye Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt all blocked Qatari media and later severed on when new measure could be intro- ISTANBUL: When Syria’s uprising broke has had to become adept with dealing LONDON: Doctors intending to perform cataract sur- diplomatic ties. duced. “We will see what are these screws, out, Rania Kisar left her job in the United with them to keep her school running. gery on a 67-year-old woman in Britain found some- “The Washington Post story today that whether they are financial, whether they States and returned home to join what Sometimes that means making con- thing rather unexpected - 17 contact lenses mashed we actually hacked the Qataris is also not are other, but they completely within our she dreamed would be the ouster of cessions to them, sometimes it means together in her right eye. In a case report published true,” Gargash told the London-based think- (remit) as sovereign states.” President Bashar Al-Assad and the build- pushing back. Throughout, she knows yesterday in the journal BMJ, the doctors said that the tank Chatham House. The Emirati Embassy Yet the UAE would not escalate its ing of a new Syria. Her main focus these why the militants keep trying to get their woman had worn monthly disposable contact lenses in Washington also released a statement in boycott by asking companies to choose days has been to keep Al-Qaeda-linked way: “If they don’t interfere, they won’t for 35 years; she had “deep set eyes” and poorer vision response calling the Post report “false” and between doing business with it or with militants from taking over the dream. be considered powerful.” Al-Qaeda’s in that eye, which they said might have contributed insisting that the UAE “had no role whatso- Qatar, he added. Gargash, who also sug- Syrian-American Kisar runs a school in the branch leads an alliance of factions to a failure to remove some of the lenses. The doctors ever” in the alleged hacking. gested international monitoring of last main enclave in Syria held by the known as Hayat Fatah al-Sham that dom- said the 17 lenses were bound together by mucus. A “The information published in the Qatar was needed, added there were no opposition, the northwestern province of inates the opposition administration run- further 10 were found by the surgeon using a micro- Washington Post on 16 July 2017, which plans for a meeting between the two Idlib. The strongest power in the territory ning Idlib. But the group has to tread scope. Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee in ophthal- revealed the involvement of the United sides under the auspices of Kuwait, a is Al-Qaeda’s affiliate, and it is increasingly carefully, balancing between its aim to mology, said the “large mass” would have caused Arab Emirates (UAE) and senior Emirati neutral Gulf Arab country seeking to intervening in day-to-day affairs of admin- control and its wariness of triggering quite a lot of irritation. The patient had chalked it up officials in the hacking of Qatar News mediate in the spat. istering the province. That means Kisar Continued on Page 11 to old age and dry eye, Morjaria said. Agency, unequivocally proves that this Continued on Page 11 Girl’s post in mini draws ire DUBAI: A young Saudi woman sparked a sensation tries they travel to, people must also respect the laws of online over the weekend by posting a video of herself in this country,” he wrote. a miniskirt and crop top walking around in public, with Others defended her by posting images from some Saudis calling for her arrest and others rushing to President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia in May, in her defense.