SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2015 THULQADA 18, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Speaker urges Worst fears Video of Israel Real pin blame UN to boost confirmed as soldier arresting on Man Utd values of famed Palmyra boy latest in war for De Gea democracy2 temple8 flattened of13 perception deal19 collapse 26 indicted over arms Min 31º Max 45º cache, Iran, Hezb links High Tide 02:03 & 14:13 Low Tide 00:57 & 20:11 40 PAGES NO: 16628 150 FILS Suspects include 25 Kuwaitis, one Iranian By B Izzak No plans to impose KUWAIT: The public prosecutor yesterday said he has taxes on individuals pressed charges against 26 people in a cell linked to Iran and Hezbollah, and accused 24 of them of plotting to carry out KUWAIT: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance attacks against Kuwait. The cell was busted on Aug 13 and Anas Al-Saleh said there are no government plans to authorities seized large quantities of explosives, arms and impose taxes on individuals. The government is only con- ammunition in a farm in Abdali near the border with Iraq. sidering imposing taxes on national and foreign compa- Three Kuwaitis were arrested then and following investiga- nies, Saleh told Al-Rai newspaper yesterday. tions, dozens of others have been arrested. The minister also noted Public Prosecutor Dherar Al- that value added tax would Asousi said 25 of the suspects not be applied in Kuwait are Kuwaitis and one is Iranian. until an agreement was Three of them are still at large. reached among GCC coun- Asousi said in the statement tries to apply in all GCC that he has charged 24 men “of member states as per the spying for the Islamic republic recommendations of the of Iran and the Hezbollah group International Monetary to carry out aggressive acts Fund (IMF). against the State of Kuwait Meanwhile, the official through smuggling, assembling said that any tax law must Anas Al-Saleh and possessing explosives, Dherar Al-Asousi be passed by the National machineguns, firearms and Assembly. Moreover, he stated that government subsi- ammunition in addition to eavesdropping devices”. dies on items and services need reforms, adding that it should only be provided to those in need to reduce gov- Twenty-two of the men have been charged with “receiv- ernment spending. As for following in the UAE’s foot- ing training on the use of explosives, firearms and ammuni- steps in lifting subsidy on fuel, Saleh said that the min- tion with the intention to use them in achieving illegal goals”. istry is awaiting the results of a study conducted by a They were also charged with the illegal possession of consultative body on the consequences of lifting fuel, firearms. The prosecutor said that a number of the suspects electricity and water subsidies. — KUNA KUWAIT: This image released by the Interior Ministry on Aug 13, 2015 shows a cache of weapons, explosives have been charged with joining Hezbollah, whose purpose is and ammunition found at a farm in Abdaly. Continued on Page 13 MP to grill health minister over medical errors, graft By A Saleh budget had tripled over the past years, jumping from KD 641 million in 2008 to Verdict in Sadiq KUWAIT: MP Hamdan Al-Azmi yesterday KD 1.6 billion this year. Azmi added that said he has decided to file a request to poor health services at public hospitals Mosque bombing grill the health minister at the start of the had been forcing citizens to seek those next parliamentary term in late October services at private ones, some of whom set for Sept 15 over medical errors and mis- have been taking advan- By Meshaal Al-Enezi management. Azmi said the tage of citizens’ need for grilling against Dr Ali Al- medical treatment. KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday set Sept 15 for Obaidi will focus on two main Meanwhile, MP Saud Al- issuing the verdict in the Imam Al-Sadiq Mosque issues: Fatal errors by doctors Turaiji blamed Jahra bombing case. The June 26 suicide bombing at the and financial as well as Medical Zone director for BEIRUT: Lebanese anti-government activists shout slogans as they leave the mosque, the first ever in Kuwait, rocked the country, administrative corruption Azmi’s death due to a med- environment ministry where they were staging a sit-in yesterday. — AP killing 26 and injuring 227 others. Yesterday, the court, prevailing in all ministry ical error because he had chaired by Judge Mohammad Al-Duaij, heard the final departments, especially neglected developing statement of defense attorneys. In the previous session, under Obaidi. health services and focused Lebanon activists “The health minister tried more on abusing his pow- the attorneys presented the defense for 10 out of the Hamdan Al-Azmi 29 defendants in case number 40/2015. to calm down the Kuwaiti ers against MoH employees In yesterday’s session, the defense began final argu- people after citizen Saud Al- in Jahra. Turaiji also urged occupy ministry Azmi’s tragic death because the health minister to form ments and will present closing statements today. The of a medical error. He claimed a committee to investigate BEIRUT: Lebanese police moved to eject The sit-in was an unexpected escala- defense team wants the first defendant, Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan, to be examined by a psychiatrist to deter- the matter is being investi- Azmi’s death and hold who- protesters who occupied part of the tion of a campaign that began over a gated, but the next thing we ever is responsible account- environment ministry yesterday, in an trash crisis but has evolved into a broad- mine whether he is sane or not, because the lawyers knew was that the doctor able in order to prevent a escalation of a campaign against the based movement against government claim Eidan suffers from a psychological and mental responsible for the error had repetition of the same mis- country’s trash crisis and a stagnant impotence and corruption. As night fell, anti-social disorder. fled the country,” he said, takes. political class. The forcible evacuation several hundred protesters demonstrat- During the hearing, an argument took place began some six hours after several dozen ed outside the ministry in support of the between Duaij and lawyer Thamer Al-Jed’ee who adding that citizens had not On the other hand, MP protesters entered the ministry to last activists who remained inside, occa- accused the court of defending the public prosecution felt any change in the quality Khalil Al-Saleh defended of health services although Obaidi, noting that he had demand the resignation of Environment sionally skirmishing with security forces. and was then ordered to stick to the case without ques- Ali Al-Obaidi Minister Mohamed Mashnuq. Activists “We will continue! Revolution!” they tioning and abusing the public prosecution. Jed’ee the ministry’s budget is KD immediately referred the from the “You Stink” campaign said chanted. requested that his client be acquitted based upon arti- 1.6 billion. issue to the public prosecution and con- police had beaten protesters, and a Red A security source confirmed that the cle 81 of Kuwait’s penal law which recommends mercy “Public hospitals are full of medical tacted Interpol to arrest and bring the Cross official said medics treated several evacuation of protesters had begun, with for any defendant who is his family’s only breadwinner. errors, long waiting lists, lost files, unusu- fugitive doctor to justice. “Such measures people for wounds sustained in scuffles police removing a group gradually from Continued on Page 13 al crowding and lack of hospital beds,” he are institutional,” he stressed. with security forces. Continued on Page 13 underlined, noting that the ministry’s Continued on Page 13 US still Iran’s Kuwait, GCC to also ‘No. 1 enemy’ scrap fuel subsidies TEHRAN: The United States remains Iran’s “number one KUWAIT: Gulf Cooperation Council states, It said that the country’s decision to lift fuel enemy” despite a recent nuclear deal with world powers, Kuwait in particular, are expected to follow in subsidies, especially on diesel in 2013, had led the chief of Tehran’s top clerical committee said yesterday, the UAE’s footsteps and liberalize fuel prices, the consumption rate to go down by 7 per- Iranian media reported. The Assembly of Experts is among Kuwait’s Diplomatic Center for Strategic cent compared to 2011, with 85,000 barrels of Iran’s most influential institutions, comprising 86 elected Studies (DCSS) said in an exclusive report to oil daily. Saudi Arabia continues to sell diesel KUNA yesterday. This comes at a time when at the world’s lowest of SAR 0.25 ($0.066). clerics who appoint and can dismiss the country’s leading world institutions lay the blame on Consumption of diesel in the kingdom supreme leader. It is led by the ultraconservative Ayatollah Google refines logo OPEC states for climate change due to rising rose from 650,000 barrels daily in 2011 to Mohammad Yazdi. energy consumption. According to the report, 750,000 barrels in 2014, almost amounting to The nuclear agreement should not “change our foreign Qatar tops the world list of giving fuel subsi- the quantity used by all other Arab states. The SAN FRANCISCO: Google is refining meant to resemble the simple printing policy” of opposition to America, “our number one enemy, dies, with a $5,995 per capita share of govern- report noted that the cost of fuel subsidy in whose crimes are uncountable”, Yazdi said in a speech its famous logo as it prepares to in a grade-school book. It will replace ment spending, followed by Luxembourg, Saudi Arabia hits $107 billion annually.