SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2015 SAFAR 25, 1437 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Bill Gates Rival Libya Iran film Liverpool visits Kuwait factions agree directors protest beaten for full day on steps to colleague’s by lowly of activities3 end deadlock8 jail38 term Newcastle20 Governor of Aden Min 6º Max 14º High Tide killed in car bomb 08:10 & 20:15 Low Tide 02:10 & 13:13 40 PAGES NO: 16720 150 FILS IS claims attack, threatens more • New blow to Hadi ADEN: A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group yesterday killed the governor of Yemen’s second city Aden, OPEC policy a day after the UN’s envoy visited to press for long-delayed peace talks. A statement posted on Twitter by the jihadist risks further group said it was behind a blast that hit the convoy of Jaafar Saad in the Tawahi neighborhood of the major port, killing him and eight bodyguards. In a statement carried by price pressure the official Saba news agency, Aden security chief General Mohamed Mussad confirmed Saad’s death and said six of VIENNA: OPEC’s policy of maintaining high oil produc- his guards were also killed. tion risks heaping more downward pressure on oil Images circulated on social media showed a wrecked prices, especially with Iranian crude set to enter the car on fire on a main road in the southern city. Saad was global marketplace, analysts say. While lower prices eat only recently appointed governor, and was known to be into the revenues of the oil cartel’s members, cheap close to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi who returned crude may result in lower production from non-OPEC to Aden last month after several months in exile in Riyadh. nations - helping countries like Saudi Arabia preserve Pro-Hadi forces, aided by a Saudi-led coalition, have bat- their market share. The Organization of the Petroleum tled Iran-backed rebels in Yemen since March, after the Exporting Countries decided at its meeting in Vienna insurgents overran the capital Sanaa and advanced south, on Friday against cutting the cartel’s oil output despite forcing the government to flee to Saudi Arabia. sliding prices and ahead of higher production from Fighting between the Houthi rebels and loyalist forces Iran next year. has plunged the impoverished nation into chaos, which Going into the meeting, OPEC - whose members jihadist groups have exploited to make sweeping gains, par- together pump out more than one third of world oil - has ticularly in southern regions. Aden’s Tawahi district has consistently struggled to keep production at a target of become a known hideout for jihadists, including Al-Qaeda 30 million barrels per day. The cartel is pumping out around 32 million barrels daily - a figure that is set to rise militants. IS has claimed a string of attacks in Yemen, includ- in coming months as Iran looks to produce more crude ing the bombing of Hadi’s government headquarters in following the lifting of sanctions - while OPEC appears to October and multiple suicide attacks on mosques in Sanaa ADEN: Yemenis inspect the scene of a car bomb attack that killed the attended by Shiite worshippers that killed 142 people. It have abandoned its target following Friday’s meeting. Governor of Aden Jaafar Saad (seen inset) in the Tawahi neighborhood of this Continued on Page 13 also claimed the killing of 50 soldiers in a November Yemeni port city yesterday. — AP/AFP Continued on Page 13 Police probe London Tube stabbing LONDON: British counter-terror police were questioning a 29-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder yesterday after a stabbing attack in a London Underground train station that is being treated as a “terrorist incident”. Detectives from Britain’s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) were searching a home in east London in connection with Saturday’s attack at Leytonstone station, which left a 56-year-old man with serious knife injuries. Amateur video footage of the incident showed one passer-by shouting “You’re no Muslim” at the suspect as he was pinned down by officers in the ticket hall, where a pool of blood was seen on the ground. Sky News television reported that the man DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad gives an interview to a journalist “apparently shouted ‘this is for Syria’,” although it from Britain’s Sunday Times in his Damascus residence. — AFP did not quote anyone. Police could not confirm the report when contacted by AFP and it is not evident from video footage circulating online. Assad says Britain’s “As a result of information received at the time from people who were at the scene and subsequent investigations carried out by the CTC, I am treating this as a terrorist incident,” Syria strikes ‘illegal’ said the police unit’s chief Richard Walton. “I would continue to urge the public to remain LONDON: Britain’s bombing campaign involve working with troops on the calm, but alert and vigilant.” LONDON: A police officer stands guard outside Leytonstone station in north London against Islamic State extremists in Syria ground. “You cannot cut out part of the Continued on Page 13 yesterday, a day after three people were stabbed. — AFP is “illegal” and will only cause “terrorism” cancer. You have to extract it. This kind to spread, President Bashar Al-Assad said of operation is like cutting out part of in an interview published yesterday. “It the cancer. will be harmful and illegal and it will That will make it spread in the body Women getting support terrorism as happened after the faster. You cannot defeat (IS) through air coalition started its operation a year or strikes alone. You cannot defeat them so (ago),” he told The Sunday Times after without cooperation with forces on the more interested British MPs voted on Dec 2 to join the ground. You cannot defeat them if you US-led bombing campaign over Syria. do not have buy-in from the general Terror, he said, was like a cancer public and the government,” he said. in IS terrorism which needed to be tackled with a “com- “They are going to fail again.” prehensive” strategy which would Continued on Page 13 WASHINGTON: Islamic State prop- men by far account for the largest aganda is resonating with a grow- percentage of supporters of the ing and loyal following of young Islamic State group. But authorities Modi mocked, ‘Amma’ women and teenagers, complicat- are concerned that the number of ing US counterterrorism efforts to women supporting extremist ideol- identify and monitor supporters ogy is on the rise. heckled after floods such as Tashfeen Malik, the 29-year- Before the most recent attacks, old mother suspected in the the Anti-Defamation League had CHENNAI: One of India’s most powerful leader with an almost hysterical follow- California shootings along with her identified 15 women linked to politicians, a former movie star called ing. Devotees of the 1960s screen idol CARTAGENA, Colombia: This undated handout picture shows the husband. It’s unusual for a woman Islamic extremist activity in 2014 “Amma” or “Mother” by her followers, is have immolated themselves in her remains of the Spanish galleon San Jose, sunk off the Caribbean to be involved in mass violence in and 2015 - a higher total than in being heckled and abused for going miss- defense in the past. Now, she faces a coast of Colombia. — AFP the United States. But the increas- the entire prior decade. A recent ing in action after floods swept the capital backlash from residents fed up with the ing number of women drawn to IS George Washington University of the southern state of Tamil Nadu, which sight of her image on billboards, aid Colombia finds is worrisome to American law report on IS found that one-third of she rules. It’s a salutary lesson for Prime packets and her own Jaya Plus TV chan- enforcement and making it almost the nearly 300 Twitter accounts of Minister Narendra Modi, who at first drew nel. She has been since in public only impossible to flag the prototypical US-based IS sympathizers moni- nods of approval when he rushed to twice during the crisis - once with Modi. treasure galleon recruit for investigation. Even hard- tored during a six-month period Chennai last week, promising to stand by Angry youths heckled a state minister er to detect: A husband and wife appeared to be operated by its people in their hour of need. and officials in Jayalalithaa’s north 300-year mystery ends team, like the one blamed for women. Yet, within hours, Modi became the Chennai constituency, where people Wednesday’s shootings in San Most recruits had tried to join IS object of mockery on social media after were sitting on the roadside amid sludge CARTAGENA, Colombia: Colombia Saturday, speaking from the north- Bernardino, that doesn’t need to on its home turf, including three his press office released a doctored photo and mountains of garbage, their shanties says it has found the shipwreck of a ern port city of Cartagena, close to use a telephone for attack-plotting. teenage girls from Colorado who of him inspecting flood damage. For both swept away by the worst rains in a centu- storied Spanish galleon laden with where experts made the hugely “The challenge of our efforts to were intercepted in Germany last him and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister ry. “Forget about Amma coming here, gold and precious stones, three valuable find. Treasure hunters had try and find and redirect people is year and a 19-year-old Mississippi Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the image of strong there was no sign of the party cadres,” centuries after it was sunk by the searched for the ship for decades, that it is a wide spectrum of folks,” woman who the FBI says set off leadership created by their publicity said one of them, called Dorairaj.