THULQADA 11, 1440 AH SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 28 Pages Max 46º Min 32º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17881 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Mogherini says Kuwait is a Hezbollah warns Iran able to Sudan nomads untouched Halep thwarts Serena history 2 voice of wisdom and peace 7 bombard Israel if war started 24 by downfall of Bashir 28 bid with Wimbledon triumph Authorities grill members of terrorist cell busted in Kuwait Investigators probing suspects’ sponsors, meetings, activities By A Saleh in Egypt, concerning the cell members and the danger they pose due to their military training. KUWAIT: Following the arrest of eight members of A statement by the interior ministry on Friday car- a terrorist cell linked to Egypt’s outlawed Muslim ried by the state-run news agency KUNA said the mili- Brotherhood in Kuwait on Friday, security sources tants were allegedly members of a “terrorist cell”, yesterday said state security investigations with including some who have been “convicted of terrorism” them focused on three basic elements - the visas on and sentenced to jail in Egypt. “Those arrested carry which they entered Kuwait and their relationship Egyptian nationalities and belong to the Muslim with the sponsors who issued them; the meetings Brotherhood organization,” the ministry said. they had in Kuwait with Kuwaitis or others and The suspects, it said, are wanted by Egypt where whether they were held with good or bad intentions; some of them have been sentenced to up to 15 years in in addition to the nature of work and activities they jail. During interrogations, the suspects admitted to practiced in Kuwait. According to sources, some of carrying out terrorist operations in Egypt. the suspects - all Egyptians - worked for a charity Investigations are ongoing to determine their accom- organization in Kuwait. plices, the statement said, warning that it will crack The sources added that investigators want to know down ruthlessly against saboteurs. whether the cell had planned any operations outside Egyptian authorities have led a crackdown on Kuwait while they were here. The sources said after Muslim Brotherhood members after the military over- confiscating the group’s laptops, mobile phones and threw Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Later documents, state security detectives are currently that year Egypt outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood and examining and analyzing them to prepare a complete declared it a “terrorist organization”. Egypt and its case file. The sources said the terrorist group had been allies, including Gulf powerhouses Saudi Arabia and the tracked down after state security received tips from United Arab Emirates, consider the Muslim KUWAIT: A screen grab taken from a video released by the interior ministry late Friday shows the eight suspects who local and foreign sources, including suspects arrested Brotherhood a “terrorist” organization. were arrested on terrorism charges. — MoI country, adding that the importer tried to News in brief Customs foils smuggle the shipment illegally into Kuwait, and when he failed, attempted to Three killed in Mahboula blaze send the drugs abroad. Musaed Al- bid to smuggle Hlailah, inspection supervisor at the port, KUWAIT: Three people were killed in a fire that said the smugglers attempted to bring broke out in the early hours of yesterday in a six- 10m drug pills the cargo in a 40-feet container with a storey building in Mahboula. Security sources manifest reading electrical and medical said firemen rushed to the scene and found the KUWAIT: Kuwaiti customs officers appliances. fire was on the first floor. The building was evacu- seized on Friday 10 million Tramadol Hlailah said contents of the container ated and 12 residents were rescued and rushed to pills, enlisted among narcotics that were examined after the importer tried Adan Hospital, said the sources, adding three of affect human mental condition. Jamal to reship them, thus arousing suspicion the injured died on the way, while two others are Al-Jalawi, Director of the Kuwait among officers in charge. Screening in critical condition. The sources said firemen Customs Directorate General, said in a devices showed cartons were packed faced difficulties in fighting the fire due to a num- statement personnel of the customs with the prohibited pills. Tramadol is ille- ber of violations in the building and that legal warehouses management at Shuwaikh gal in Kuwait and its medical prescrip- actions will be taken against the owner. An inves- Port seized the banned drugs. tion for some cases of physical or psy- tigation is in progress to determine the cause of Jalawi said the Tamol-X 225 pills were chological illnesses is subject to regula- KUWAIT: Customs officers are seen with the 10 million Tramadol pills seized at the blaze. — Hanan Al-Saadoun in a container shipped from an Asian tions and terms. — KUNA Shuwaikh Port on Friday. — KUNA Sheikh killed while cleaning gun back to the Russians, and Washington Turkey ignores has threatened to deny Turkey access to KUWAIT: A ruling family member in his thirties the stealth aircraft. The western defense was killed by a bullet while he was cleaning his gun alliance NATO, which counts Turkey as in his house, said security sources. Forensic and US warnings on one of its members, is also “concerned criminal investigators were dispatched to the scene about the potential consequences” of the for further investigations. — Meshaal Al-Enezi S-400 missiles S-400 purchase, an official told AFP. Turkish President Recep Tayyip ANKARA: Turkey ignored US warnings Erdogan has refused to back down and Bedoon arrested for incitement as it continued yesterday to take deliv- said he is confident Turkey will not face ery of Russia’s S-400 missile defense US sanctions, after meeting his US coun- KUWAIT: The system near Ankara, a defense ministry terpart Donald Trump on the margins of interior ministry’s statement indicated. “Delivery of S-400 the G-20 summit in Japan last month. PR and security Long Range Air and Missile Defense Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told media department Systems resumed today,” the statement journalists on Friday that “everything is said a bedoon was said. “The fourth Russian plane carrying happening in strict accordance with the arrested for posting S-400 parts landed at Murted Airport agreements and signed contracts, all a video on social outside Ankara,” it added. obligations are being carried out”. media networks in The US fears that if Ankara integrates While the Trump administration ANKARA: A Russian military cargo plane carrying the S-400 missile defense system which he made the S-400 into its defenses, data about stayed quiet, members of Congress from Russia is seen at Murted military airbase on Friday. — AFP incendiary state- the US-built F-35 fighter jet could leak Continued on Page 24 ments including threats to the regime and called edge of the storm was already punishing for rioting, which Hurricane the US Gulf Coast with heavy rains. are deemed as Authorities ramped up evacuations, air- severe violations of lines canceled flights and flood gates Kuwaiti laws. The takes aim at were slammed shut. suspect was In Morgan City, the streets were referred to the public prosecution pending further Louisiana deserted. The Atchafalaya River had action. — Hanan Al-Saadoun flooded its banks, and trees were already MORGAN CITY, Louisiana: Barry blown over in residential areas. “It’s strengthened into a category 1 hurricane painstakingly slow,” government meteor- Kuwait backs Xinjiang policy yesterday as it neared the Louisiana ologist Ben Schott told CNN, noting that coast, US meteorologists said - prompt- residents should not be lulled into com- GENEVA: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Russia and 35 ing millions of residents of the southern placency about facing the storm. “If you other states have written to the United Nations US state to hunker down for expected don’t have to go anywhere, stay home. supporting China’s policies in its western region of major flooding. At 10:00 am (1500 Monitor what’s going on. Do not put Xinjiang, in contrast to strong Western criticism. GMT), the storm was packing sustained yourself at risk.” China has been accused of detaining a million winds of 120 km per hour - just above With Barry dumping rain across sev- Muslims and persecuting ethnic Uighurs in the minimum to qualify as a category 1 eral southern states, federal emergency Xinjiang, and 22 ambassadors signed a letter to the hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale, declarations were issued to help free up UN Human Rights Council last week criticizing its the National Hurricane Center (NHC) resources to address the storm. policies. But the letter supporting China commend- said in its latest storm advisory. Governor John Bel Edwards said New ed what it called China’s remarkable achievements The eye of the storm was located Orleans was well prepared to withstand in the field of human rights. The letter was also about 50 miles from Morgan City, to the the storm, the first hurricane of the signed by ambassadors from many African coun- west of the state’s biggest city New Atlantic season, but urged vigilance by tries, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Belarus, Orleans, and moving at a slow pace of residents across the state, tens of thou- Myanmar, the Philippines, Syria, Pakistan, Oman, six miles an hour - meaning that landfall sands of whom had lost power. NEW ORLEANS: A cyclist rides along a near deserted street near downtown as most of Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain. — Reuters could still be hours away. But the outside Continued on Page 24 the city is hunkered down indoors in anticipation of Hurricane Barry yesterday. — AFP 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, July 14, 2019 Kuwait a voice of wisdom, force for peace: Mogherini ‘European Union, Kuwait work side by side to overcome regional challenges’ BRUSSELS: European Union High to further strengthen our political dialogue possible, in spite of all the tensions within Representative Federica Mogherini yester- as well as our economic cooperation, in the Council.