SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2016 MUHARRAM 8, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Spaniard on White Helmets: Canada designer IOC urges new trek to Makkah ‘Heroes’ who celebrates testing body reaches Kuwait, run towards unisex at in revamped recounts3 journey bombs in7 Syria Dubai38 show drug20 fight Egyptian arrested after failed Min 20º suicide attack on US soldiers Max 40º High Tide 03:29 & 16:22 Explosives found in truck • 5 GIs unhurt Low Tide 11:01 & 23:03 40 PAGES NO: 17014 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: An Egyptian linked to the Islamic State group was arrested yesterday after he tried to ram a truck into another vehicle carrying five American soldiers in a failed suicide bombing. The interior ministry identified the attacker as Ibrahim Suleiman, born in 1988. It said he was driving a cleaning truck at the time of the attack, and suffered multiple fractures and injuries. The min- istry added the five US soldiers were not injured. Security sources said that the suspect was taken to hospital under tight security. Detectives found in his possession a hand-written letter pledging allegiance to IS and adopting its ideology. Explosives - including a suicide belt - were found in the truck, owned by a local contracting company. Security bodies are interro- gating Ibrahim Suleiman Suleiman and conducting investi- gations to uncover the circumstances of the attack, in addition to finding the suspect’s accomplices and bring them to justice, the ministry said, reiterating commit- ment to preserving the safety and security of Kuwait and Kuwaitis. Kuwait is a stalwart US ally following the 1991 American-led Gulf War that ended the Iraqi occupation. Police have also vowed increased security ahead of the Shiite commemoration of Ashoura this week. Two Iranians were arrested in recent days for taking “suspi- cious” photographs of husseiniyas. An IS-claimed sui- cide bombing in 2015 targeting a Shiite mosque in KUWAIT: The truck used by the suspect in the failed suicide attack (bottom left), the pickup carrying the US soldiers (top left) and explosives including a suicide belt Kuwait City killed 27 people and wounded scores. (right) are seen yesterday. — MoI Defiant Trump vows to stay in race Mogul apologizes for lewd talk as outrage mounts NEW YORK: US Presidential nominee ing lewd comments in 2005. Trump told Donald Trump vowed yesterday to the Wall Street Journal yesterday morn- German police remain in the race even as his campaign ing “zero chance I’ll quit”. He also told The was thrown into crisis as his running Washington Post he may deliver a find explosives mate criticized him and more than a speech to address concern among sup- dozen prominent Republicans withdrew porters and reiterate his determination during manhunt support and urged him to drop out fol- to stay in the race. lowing news of a recording of him mak- Continued on Page 13 BERLIN: Police yesterday found several hundred grams of “explosive materials” in the east German apartment of a Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack, and arrested three people connected to him. The suspect who remains at large, 22-year- old Syrian Jaber Albakr, could have had “an Islamist ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) drives a car with Turkish motive” sources close to the police told AFP. “Highly Prime Minister Binali Yildirim through the Euroasia tunnel during a visit to the con- explosive materials were found in the apartment struction site for first test-drives yesterday. — AFP concerned in Chemnitz, new evacuation measures are necessary,” tweeted police in Germany’s east. Officers found “several hundred grams (of a) very Erdogan takes spin in dangerous substance which cannot be moved with- out protective measures”, said police spokesman Tom Bernhardt. Two of those arrested were seized Bosphorus road tunnel close to the city’s railway station while the other was taken into custody in the city center. A package ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep pass through Charles de Gaulle in Paris and belonging to one of those arrested was undergoing Tayyip Erdogan went for an inaugural London Heathrow, making it Europe’s analysis, police added. “They were known to the spin yesterday in Istanbul’s latest mega- largest airport. In August, Erdogan inaugu- suspect we are looking for and were arrested and project: the first-ever road tunnel linking rated the city’s third bridge - one of the detained,” said Bernhardt who added that the trio the city’s European and Asian sides under longest suspension bridges in the world - were being questioned. the Bosphorus Strait. The tunnel will over the Bosphorus, just over a month Germany has been on edge after suffering two open to the public on December 20 but after a rogue military faction tried to oust attacks claimed by the Islamic State group (IS) in Erdogan, accompanied by Prime Minister him from power in the July 15 failed coup. July - an axe rampage on a train in Wuerzburg that Binali Yildirim and Transport Minister Speaking after he made the drive, Continued on Page 13 NEW YORK: A mother and her daughters express their opinion of Donald Trump Ahmet Arslan, made the first journey Erdogan explained that 156 million people outside Trump Tower in Manhattan yesterday. — AFP from the Asian side to the European side have crossed from the Asian side to the in a black car. European side since Oct 2013 when the Construction of the 5-km-long tunnel Marmaray underground railway tunnel Hurricane Matthew slams into S Carolina began in Feb 2011 and has two levels opened linking the two sides of the which will be open to traffic. Travel across Bosphorus. “It was all a dream come true,” CHARLESTON/SAVANNAH: Hurricane Matthew Category 5 storm more than a week ago, made resorts and historical towns in the southeastern the two sides of Istanbul will be cut down he added, referring to the project which slammed into South Carolina yesterday, packing landfall near McClellanville, a village 30 miles United States. Parts of Interstate 95, the main to 15 minutes from 100 minutes, the presi- has significantly improved public transport a diminished yet still powerful punch after north of Charleston that was devastated by a north-south thoroughfare on the East Coast, dency said on its website. It will cost $4 for the city’s 15 million residents by making killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing Category 4 hurricane in 1989. The National were closed due to flooding and fallen trees, plus VAT to use the Avrasya (Eurasia) tun- it quicker to get across the two sides. major flooding and widespread power outages Hurricane Service said Matthew was over Myrtle state officials said. In Florida, 775,000 were with- nel, Arslan said. It is the latest in a series of Dubbed the “project of the century”, the as it skirted Florida and Georgia. Now weak- Beach, South Carolina, yesterday afternoon, and out power, according to state utilities, while in key infrastructure projects in Istanbul Marmaray was the first giant project initiat- ened, the most powerful Atlantic storm since warned of potentially life-threatening flooding South Carolina 433,000 had no electricity, including the city’s third airport due to ed by the president who was then prime 2007 left flooding and wind damage in Florida in Georgia and North Carolina even as the storm Governor Nikki Haley said. Georgia Power said at open in the second quarter of 2018. minister. “Of course, we also knew this: before moving slowly north to soak coastal slowed as it drove inland. At least five deaths in least 275,000 were without power in the state. In its first phase, the airport will have an without a dream, nothing real can be Georgia and the Carolinas. Wind speeds had Florida were attributed to the storm, which Roads in Jackson Beach, Florida, were lit- annual capacity of 90 million passengers achieved. This is work that can be done dropped by nearly half from their peak about a knocked out power to almost 1.6 million house- tered with wood, including sections of a his- but will later have be able to handle 150 and was achieved by those with faith and week ago to 120 kph, reducing it to a Category 1 holds and businesses in the US Southeast. toric pier, and foot-deep, water-clogged inter- million travellers. This would mean the $29 perseverance,” the former mayor of hurricane, the weakest on the Saffir-Simpson The stretch of the Atlantic coast from Miami sections. Beachfront businesses suffered mod- billion airport overtakes the total com- Istanbul said, according to the presidency’s scale of 1 to 5. to Charleston, a nearly 600-mile drive, encom- erate damage. bined traffic of 140 million people who website. — AFP Matthew, which topped out as a ferocious passes some of the most well-known beaches, Continued on Page 13 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2016 LOCAL ACD communique to include Kuwaiti students moved Amir’s proposal for Asia fund to safer places in US over Hurricane Matthew Summit endorsing a permanent secretariat based in Kuwait KUWAIT: The Ministry of Higher that they could be taken to safer places, Education’s Cultural Office in Washington in line with directives of the Minister of BANGKOK: His Highness the Amir Sheikh projects in the ACD member states, Al-Said has moved many Kuwaiti students from Education and Minister of Higher Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah’s participa- said that the 2nd Summit communique will various areas threatened by Hurricane Education Dr Bader Al-Issa. tion in the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue include an item on the issue.