www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 16 SPORT | 22 No room for Rajan Qatar Cup: Ali and to cushion India Mehbubeh top in from China turmoil rifle events SATURDAY 9 JANUARY 2016 • 29 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6670 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Reservoir using Emir attends Qatar ExxonMobil Open semi-final rainwater is near completion The following day, municipal teams pumped out some 28 million 70% of infrastructure gallons of logged rainwater from dif- works, including the ferent areas. The water pumped out was enough to fill up some 40 large tank in Al Kheesa, Olympic-size swimming pools. are complete. Many areas were still submerged in knee-deep water, which means there was more water logged than what had been pumped out. The Peninsula Rainwater accumulated in a huge reservoir and treated can be used for various purposes, including domestic DOHA: Water-scarce Qatar is making use and for irrigation, among others. a huge reservoir to harness rainwa- Public Works Authority (Ashghal) ter. The facility is at the last stages of sources told Al Sharq that infrastruc- completion. ture development works for Al Kheesa, The tank is being built in Al Kheesa including the rainwater harvesting area of Al Daayen Municipality, some system being built, are almost 70 per- Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani attending the semi-final of Qatar ExxonMobil Open 2016 at the Khalifa International Tennis 3km away from Raudat Al Hamama. cent complete. and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. →See also page 23 The size and technical details of The projects were launched in the what appears to be a highly inno- first quarter of 2014 and are expected vative project were not known but to be complete by the third quarter rainwater harvested elsewhere in the of this year. Works also include road country or in nearby areas could also and sewage development. Some roads be redirected to this reservoir. have been paved and final touches South Sudan president appoints 50 rebel MPs The facility is part of an infra- are being given. On other roads that structure development package for are nearly complete, preparations are Al Kheesa, which was once a green being made to install street lights. village. The package costs about It is not known if the reservoir AFP In a decree broadcast on said the government would and transport, while cabinet QR330m. being built is the one of its kind or state radio, Kiir announced the be given 16 ministerial posts, affairs and agriculture will go to Al Kheesa in Arabic means large there would be such facilities in other appointment of 50 MPs named including defence, national secu- other parties. gardens. Qatar gets scanty rainfall. areas of the country. For example, the by the rebel side. rity, finance and justice, and Rebel chief Riek Machar is to It rains a few times a year, mostly in northern areas receive more rainfall JUBA: South Sudan President Salva Festus Mogae, a former the rebels 10, including oil and return to Juba to be vice-presi- the winter and spring seasons. and reservoirs to harness rainwater Kiir yesterday named 50 lawmakers Botswana president who heads humanitarian affairs. A group of dent, a post from which he was For example, last December 25 it could also be built there. from the rebel movement and agreed the Joint Monitoring and influential politicians known as sacked in 2013. rained heavily all over the country to share ministerial posts with rivals Evaluation Commission set up the “former detainees” jailed at No timeline was given for which led to water-logging in sev- →Picture on page 2 in line with a peace deal to end a two- by regional bloc IGAD to ensure the outbreak of fighting but later when the ministers would be eral areas. year civil war. the peace deal is implemented, released, will get foreign affairs named and take up posts. Two refugees Ooredoo Marathon a huge success Yemeni shells kill child arrested in US and 2 others in Saudi on terrorism charges AFP have died from shelling and skirmishes in Saudi border regions since March when a Saudi-led coalition began air Reuters and ground action in Yemen. RIYADH: Three civilians, including In Geneva, the United Nations’ a child, were killed by shelling from top human rights official called on Yemen in a border region of Saudi Yemen to reverse an “unwarranted, SACRAMENTO: Two men from Arabia, official media said yesterday. counter-productive and damaging” the Middle East who came to the Several shells from Yemeni ter- decision to expel his representative. US as refugees were arrested on ritory landed in the Jazan region on Yemen’s foreign ministry declared federal terrorism charges in Cal- Thursday evening, the Saudi Press the representative of the UN High ifornia and Texas for supporting Agency said, citing the Civil Defence Commissioner for Human Rights Islamic militant groups, US offi- Agency. persona non grata after what it said cials said yesterday. “This led to the death of three were unfair statements, a news agency They are the latest in a series people, including a child, and (the) run by the Saudi-allied government of similar cases in a US campaign injury of nine others who were taken said on Thursday. “Our job is not to against extremism. Neither man to hospital,” the agency’s spokesman highlight violations committed by was charged with plotting an attack Major Yahya Abdullah Al Qahtani said. one side and ignore those commit- on the US. One man was charged Iran-backed Houthi rebels in ted by the other,” High Commissioner with supporting the Islamic State Yemen have intensified cross-bor- Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a state- (IS) militant group overseas and both Runners of all ages brave the early morning chill to take part in the fourth annual Ooredoo Marathon der rocket attacks since late last year. ment. “I fear it will hamper our work were charged with providing false on the Corniche yesterday. Report on page 2 They have also fired ballistic missiles. in the future.” information about their ties to what Around 90 civilians and soldiers See also page 3 were described as international ter- rorist groups. The men, arrested in Sac- ramento and Houston, were not involved in a single plot, but they may have been in contact with each US releases last Kuwaiti detained in Guantanamo prison other, a source familiar with the two cases said. Both men are Palestini- ans who were born in Iraq. The man Reuters Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, a department profile. family after all these years away,” commander of the US Southern Com- arrested in Houston, Omar Faraj a Kuwaiti who had been held at Guan- His lawyer Eric Lewis of the Wash- Lewis said. mand, said at a Pentagon briefing that Saeed Al Hardan, entered the US as tanamo for 13 years. It said his detention ington firm Lewis Baach PLLC, said He said Al Kandari was the last of more Guantanamo inmates would be an Iraqi refugee in November 2009, WASHINGTON: The US released a “does not remain necessary to protect Al Kandari was yesterday transferred 12 Kuwaitis who had been at Guan- released this month but did not elabo- according to a court document. suspected Al Qaeda propagandist to against a continuing significant threat to Kuwait, where he will undergo a tanamo, which the George W Bush rate. “If they go back to the fight, we’ll In Sacramento, the Department the government of Kuwait yesterday, to the security of the US.” medical examination and be put into a administration established as a prison probably kill them,” Kelly said. of Justice said the other man, Aws leaving 104 inmates at the US naval Al Kandari, 38, was suspected of rehabilitation programme to help him for foreigners captured in its “war on Al Kandari’s release came after the Mohammed Younis Al Jayab, 23, prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. being a propagandist and may have reintegrate into society. “Al Kandari is terrorism” after the September 11, 2001, parole-style Periodic Review Board came to the US in 2012 as a refu- In a statement, the Defence Depart- served as “spiritual adviser” to Al Qaeda delighted to be going home and reu- attacks on the US. determined in September that his gee from Syria. ment announced the repatriation of leader Osama bin Laden, according to niting with his beloved parents and General John F Kelly, outgoing detention was no longer necessary. 02 SATURDAY 9 JANUARY 2016 HOME Tourist attraction Camels used as a tourist attraction, seen outside Al Zubara Fort, which is part of Qatar’s first Unesco World Heritage Site visited by a huge number of families during the weekend. Pic: Qassim/The Peninsula 2,000 runners take part in fourth FM sends messages to UN on deteriorating humanitarian annual Ooredoo Marathon situation in Syria QNA method is prohibited under interna- tional humanitarian law. Proceeds will go to Dr. Al Attiyah said it is regrettable that such crimes are committed under ‘Educate A Child’ — a DOHA: Foreign Minister H E Dr. Kha- the silence of the international com- programme of the lid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah has sent munity, coupled with the absence of Education Above messages to Ilebo Oscar Rosselli Fer- the principle of accountability and lack rera, President of the United Nations of immediate action to ensure imple- All Foundation to Security Council Elbio Rosselli, UN mentation of relevant resolutions. significantly reduce Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and He praised UN efforts to contrib- President of the UN General Assembly ute to finding a political solution to the number of Mogens Lykketoft on the deteriorating the crisis and end the humanitarian children worldwide humanitarian situation in the Syrian suffering of the Syrian people.