SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 RABI ALAWWAL 17, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Lack of Blizzards hit The Real Fouz: Djokovic trust in Middle East, How to choose eases into doctors in refugees the right Qatar Kuwait2 bear brunt7 shampoo37 quarterfinals20 12 killed in ‘terrorist’ Min 09º Max 17º attack on Paris weekly High Tide 00:10 & 14:50 Low Tide Editor, cartoonists among dead Gunmen at large 08:22 & 20:08 40 PAGES NO: 16396 150 FILS • PARIS: Masked gunmen stormed the Paris offices of a weekly newspaper that caricatured Prophet Muhammad Ex-MP held (PBUH), methodically killing 12 people yesterday, includ- ing the editor, before escaping in a car. It was France’s for tweeting deadliest postwar terrorist attack. Shouting “Allahu Akbar!” as they fired, the men also spoke flawless, unac- cented French in the military-style noon-time attack on against Sisi the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, located near Paris’ Bastille monument. The publication’s KUWAIT: Authorities detained a former liberal law- depictions of Islam have drawn condemnation maker overnight for questioning and yesterday and threats before - it was firebombed in 2011 - ordered him held for 10 days for tweets criticizing although it also satirized other religions and polit- HH the Amir and his support for Egypt’s president, a ical figures. defense lawyer said. Abdullah President Francois Hollande called the slayings Al-Ahmad said prosecutors “a terrorist attack without a doubt”, and said sev- began questioning Saleh Al- eral other attacks have been thwarted in France in Mulla late Tuesday about recent weeks. Fears have been running high in tweets he wrote on Monday, France and elsewhere in Europe that jihadis when Egyptian President returning from conflicts in Syria and Iraq will Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi was in stage attacks at home. France raised its security Kuwait for an official visit. alert to the highest level and reinforced protective meas- Mulla - who was an inde- ures at houses of worship, stores, media offices and trans- pendent and liberal lawmaker portation. Schools closed across Paris, although thou- for three years until 2011 - sands of people jammed Republique Square near the site wrote on Twitter that Kuwaitis of the shooting to honor the victims, holding aloft pens have grown tired of the coun- and papers reading “Je suis Charlie” - “I am Charlie.” Saleh Al-Mulla try’s money being given to boost other governments. Kuwait has pledged at There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the least $4 billion to Sisi’s government following the attack, which also left four people critically wounded, ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi from and was condemned by world leaders as an attack on power in mid-2013. PARIS: A victim is evacuated on a stretcher yesterday after armed gunmen stormed the offices of the French freedom of expression, but praised by supporters of the Continued on Page 13 satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, leaving at least 12 people dead. (Inset) A photo taken in Oct 2014 shows militant Islamic State group. Charlie Hebdo’s publisher Charb, who was killed in the attack. — AFP (See Pages 10 & 14) Continued on Page 13 Palestine will be ICC member from April 1 UN chief accepts request UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon has accept- qualify to be part of the International Criminal Court. ed a request by Palestine to join the International “It doesn’t qualify to join the ICC,” State Department Criminal Court, a move that would open the way for spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a daily briefing yester- war crimes complaints against Israel. Palestine formal- day. Ban notified states that are party to the ICC of the ly joins the court April 1 as its 123rd member, Ban said decision late Tuesday, UN spokesman Stephane on accepting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Dujarric told AFP. “The secretary-general has ascer- ratification of the court’s founding statute. The deci- tained that the instruments received were in due and sion grants the Hague-based ICC jurisdiction to open proper form before accepting them for deposit,” a UN cases on serious crimes committed in the Palestinian statement read. Abbas signed requests to join the ICC territories, despite fierce opposition from Israel and and 16 other conventions on Dec 31, a day after the the United States. Security Council failed to adopt a resolution paving But the United States said it does not believe the way to full statehood. Palestine is a sovereign state and therefore does not Continued on Page 13 Car bombing kills 37 at Yemen police academy SANAA: A car bomb tore through dozens of Yemenis lined up at a police academy in Sanaa yesterday, killing 37 in the Kuwait: FIFA latest attack highlighting the country’s growing instability. Police said another 66 people were wounded in what it described as a “terrorist bombing” targeting potential job ‘too early’ police recruits, in a statement cited by the official Saba news agency. Unstable and impoverished Yemen has been for Prince Ali hit by a wave of violence in recent months, with a powerful Shiite militia, known as Huthis, clashing with Sunni tribal JAKARTA: Asia’s powerful Olympic chief Sheikh Ahmad forces and the country’s branch of Al-Qaeda. Al-Fahd Al-Sabah yesterday underlined his support for Witness Khaled Ajlan said the early morning blast tar- Sepp Blatter to remain as FIFA president despite a chal- geted dozens of “new students who were registering at lenge by Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein. The Olympic the police academy”. The charred remains of the dead, Council of Asia (OCA) president said it was “too early” for mostly young men, were piled on the sidewalk outside the Prince Ali, 39, to take over from Blatter, 78, who will stand academy alongside blood-soaked documents they had for a fifth term in charge of the been carrying. The wreckage of a car sat nearby, with little world football body. The remaining but mangled metal and the steering wheel, one Kuwaiti is considered highly of several cars that were still burning at midday. A security influential in world sport, official told AFP the bomb was in a minibus, of which only owing to his leadership of both scraps of metal remained. the OCA and the Association of Rescue workers loaded bodies into ambulances, which National Olympic Committees. pushed their way through gathered onlookers, many tak- “When I commit, I commit. ing pictures of the carnage with their mobile telephones. I repeat my commitment to The health ministry urged Sanaa residents to “donate Blatter for him to run for one blood at government hospitals to help the wounded”. It Sheikh Ahmad more term,” Sheikh Ahmad was not immediately clear who was behind the blast but told reporters during a visit to Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the jihadist net- the Indonesian capital Jakarta. “As to Prince Ali, I sup- work’s powerful affiliate in Yemen, has claimed responsibil- port him to keep his career in FIFA. If he takes my ity for previous attacks on security forces. advice, I think it is too early for him. I was speaking for Speaking to AFP at the scene, a member of the unoffi- Kuwait. We will support Blatter very strongly and we cial Houthi security forces blamed “radicals belonging to will not allow anyone to challenge him.” Al-Qaeda” for the attack. And a Houthi statement Prince Ali is an ally of Blatter rival and UEFA presi- denounced “this despicable crime”, whose perpetrators dent Michel Platini, meaning he can count on a signifi- “will not go unpunished”. The interior ministry said regis- cant number of the European body’s 54 votes in the tration at the academy would be suspended for a week. Continued on Page 13 Continued on Page 13 THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 LOCAL Crime Hospital strike resolved Report By Ben Garcia we don’t cry about it, perhaps we would still be waiting till now for Infant’s body found KUWAIT: A sit-in strike to protest the salary. What will happen to our nonpayment of salaries has been love ones? Alhumdulillah, at least KUWAIT: An infant’s body was recovered by the coroner positively resolved. Hundreds of now we have it and everyone is after being found in a manhole in Mahboula. Police are construction laborers building a happy and active,” he said. Some of investigating the case. new public hospital in South Surra the laborers noted that they had downed tools more than a week also received overtime. Bitter ex ago over the failure of their The construction of the Jaber A citizen could not control herself when she employer to pay their salaries for Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Hospital proj- learned that her ex-husband had married another the last three months. ect was initially set to be finished woman, and stormed his home and beat his mother According to laborers inter- by the end of 2014, but remains and other members of his family. Police rushed to the viewed by the Kuwait Times yester- uncompleted. Once opened, it house, but the woman had disappeared. The suspect is day, the situation has been will be the largest medical center being summoned for questioning. resolved amicably and they have in Kuwait, providing 1,168 beds received their salaries. together with state of the art “Most of our demands were medical services to a projected Murder threat met,” said an Egyptian laborer who population of 600,000 in the An Asian cook threatened to kill his sponsor in Sabah Al- asked that his name be withheld. “If South Surra area. Ongoing construction works at the Jaber Hospital project.