SUBSCRIPTION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 THULQADA 19, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwait Airways Millions strike The Real Cilic, Ferrer launches flights in India over Fouz: Being advance as to Bangalore, ‘anti-labor’ comfortable in Serena steps Ahmadabad5 reforms25 your37 own skin onstage20 Asbestos contamination Min 31º Max 44º keeps sheep market shut High Tide 02:30 & 14:55 Low Tide Prices shoot up as Eid Al-Adha nears 09:10 & 21:15 40 PAGES NO: 16629 150 FILS Weapons stash By Faten Omar KUWAIT: The main sheep market in Rai remains shut barely 20 days before Eid Al-Adha after asbestos was found in trash found in sheds in the sheep and bird markets and part of the slaughterhouse. A Municipality source confirmed By Meshaal Al-Enezi to Kuwait Times the contaminated sheds will be replaced and a new system for traders will be imple- KUWAIT: Police found an array of weapons and mented. The source, who spoke on the condition of ammunition in a dumpster after a municipality anonymity, said the market should be ready for busi- worker called the interior ministry to tell them ness before Eid. The main Shuwaikh slaughterhouse has about the stash in an open yard in Garnata. The been closed since January. explosives department was called in and handled During Eid Al-Adha, Muslims who have the means the munitions, which included machineguns, are required to sacrifice an animal, usually a sheep, cow, grenades, RPGs, rifles, a knife, magazine rounds and goat, buffalo or camel. But many people are complain- seven wooden boxes and three metal ones contain- ing of the high prices of sheep and cattle because of the ing various weapons and ammunition. expected demand. Kuwait Times visited the sheep pens opposite the shuttered sheep market to find out the price trends. Prices of Arabian sheep range from KD 70-120, depending on the source, age and size, while Australian sheep cost KD 52-55. “The prices of Arabian sheep from Kuwait, Iran and Saudi Arabia range from KD 110 to 120, but Australian sheep are sold for KD 55,” said Al-Sayed Abo Ahmed, a butcher. But he added the sheep for Eid are not ready yet. “There is a difference between regular KUWAIT: Sheep are seen in a pen near the currently-closed Rai sheep and Eid Al-Adha sheep. The Eid sheep must be sheep market yesterday. (Inset) A sign outside the Shuwaikh ‘tamemia’ which means they must be nine months to slaughterhouse warns against entering the building due to one year old,” he explained. asbestos removal. — Photos by Joseph Shagra Continued on Page 13 KUWAIT: The weapons that were dumped in the trash are displayed. Obama wins Inferno guts support for Shaab tower nuclear deal By Hanan Al-Saadoun WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yes- KUWAIT: A huge fire broke out yesterday afternoon terday earned sufficient congressional backing to in an under-construction 16-storey building in ensure the Iran nuclear deal does not get blocked, Shaab, said security sources, noting that firemen when a 34th senator announced her support for from Hawally, Salmiya, Kuwait City, Subhan and the the accord. Most US lawmakers are opposed to operations and backup centers rushed to the scene. the deal, which would ease punishing economic The sources added that due to strong winds and the sanctions on Tehran while preventing it from presence of large quantities of construction lumber, advancing its nuclear program. Many Republicans warn that the Islamic republic will seek to cheat its the flames were very huge and threatened adjacent way to an atomic bomb. buildings, which had to be evacuated. The fire But with Senate Democrat Barbara Mikulski department had just mobilized its second highest KUWAIT: (Right to left) Political analyst Abdullah Al-Nafisi and former opposition MPs Mohammad Hayef, announcing her support yesterday, the deal now firefighting ladder one hour before the fire, and Falah Al-Sawwagh, Waleed Al-Tabtabaei and Badr Al-Dahoum are seen at a public rally late Tuesday, where has 34 backers in the Senate - the number needed used it in fighting the blaze. No casualties were they strongly lashed out at Iran and Hezbollah and their supporters. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat to uphold a certain Obama veto should Congress reported but an investigation is in progress to deter- pass a resolution that disapproves of the deal. mine the cause of the fire. Overcoming the veto would require a two-thirds Calls to downgrade Iran ties, vote in the Senate and House of Representatives. While the deal is not perfect, Mikulski said, “I have concluded that this is the best option available to declare Hezb a terror group block Iran from having a nuclear bomb.” Some Republicans have urged walking away from the deal and renegotiating tougher terms Nafisi: Tehran plotting to take over Kuwait with Tehran, but US negotiators have warned that such a move could see the fragile international By B Izzak declare the Shiite Lebanese militia group Hezbollah a coalition that secured the agreement fall apart. terrorist group and take actions against it. “It’s unclear if the European Union, Russia, China, KUWAIT: MPs yesterday called on the government to The new calls came a day after the public prosecu- India and others would continue sanctions if lower the level of diplomatic ties with Iran over the sus- tion officially charged 24 men of spying for Iran and Congress rejects this deal,” said Mikulski, the pected terror cell as the criminal court set Sept 15 to Hezbollah and plotting “aggressive acts” against Kuwait. longest-serving female senator in history. “At best, start the trial of the Iran-linked cell. The Cabinet mean- It also accused a number of them of being members sanctions would be porous, or limited to unilateral while held an extraordinary meeting and said it has with Hezbollah and others of receiving training on the sanctions by the US.” ordered concerned authorities to take the necessary use of weapons and ammunition to carry out the Continued on Page 13 measures to ensure the security and safety of Kuwait. attacks. The lawmakers also called on the government to Continued on Page 13 KUWAIT: An aerial view shows a building in Shaab in flames. Child’s body on beach shocks Europe ISTANBUL: The image of a toddler’s life- headline in Britain’s Daily Telegraph, while less body washed ashore on a Turkish the Guardian said the photo “brought Saudi cleric beach after a migrant boat sank sparked home” the horror of the situation. “If these horrified reactions yesterday as the extraordinarily powerful images of a dead slams Iran tragedy of Europe’s burgeoning refugee Syrian child washed up on a beach don’t crisis hit home. The body of the little boy change Europe’s attitude to refugees, could be seen lying face down in the what will?” The Independent said. The prophet film sand near Bodrum, one of Turkey’s prime Huffington Post’s UK edition said: “Do tourist resorts, before he was picked up Something, David” - a reference to Prime RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s top cleric hit out at Iranian film by a police officer in photographs taken Minister David Cameron who has pur- “Muhammad” yesterday, describing its portrayal of the by the Dogan news agency. The hashtag sued a hard line against migrant arrivals. prophet’s (PBUH) childhood as a “hostile act” and a “distor- “#KiyiyaVuranInsanlik” (“Humanity The image appeared on the website of tion” of Islam. Iran’s most expensive movie, which opened washed ashore”) made it to Twitter’s top Spain’s El Pais, El Mundo and El Periodico, nationwide in the Shiite Islamic republic last week, depicts world trending topics after the image which titled the photo “The drowning of the prophet (PBUH) on screen, an act that is prohibited in was widely shared. Europe”. In Italy, the La Repubblica daily Sunni Islam. “This is an obscene work... It is a distortion of Turkish media identified the boy as 3- tweeted the image saying: “One photo to Islam,” Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh told year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose 5-year-old silence the world.” The boy is believed to Al-Hayat newspaper. “It is a hostile act against Islam. “This brother died on the same boat. Media be one of at least 12 Syrian migrants who is a mockery of the prophet and a degradation of his sta- reports said he was from the north Syrian died trying to reach Greece when their tus,” he said. Kurdish town of Kobane near the Turkish boats sank in Turkish waters. The Turkish The Makkah-based Muslim World League also con- border, scene of heavy fighting between coastguard said two boats had sunk after demned the movie, insisting that portraying the prophet Islamic State insurgents and Kurdish separately setting off from Turkey’s is prohibited. The league’s secretary general Abdullah Al- regional forces a few months ago. Bodrum peninsula for the Greek Aegean BODRUM, Turkey: A Turkish police officer stands next to a migrant child’s dead Turki urged Tehran to “suspend and prevent the screening “The harrowing image that shows the island of Kos early yesterday. body on the sea shore of this resort town in southern Turkey yesterday after a of the movie” and called on Muslims to boycott it. — AFP true tragedy of the refugee crisis,” read a Continued on Page 13 boat carrying refugees sank while heading for the Greek island of Kos. — AFP THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 LOCAL KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan Palace yesterday His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah and Minister of Commerce and Industry Dr Yousef Al Ali.