Saud Nasir as-Sabah

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Sheikh Saud Nasir as-Sabah ( Arabic سعود الناصر الصباح, DMG Saʿūd an-Nāṣir aṣ-Ṣabāḥ , often Al-Sabah ; * October 3, 1944 in Kuwait City ; †  January 21, 2012 ) was a Kuwaiti diplomat and later a politician who belonged to the ruling family as-Sabah and was his country's ambassador to the United States .

Life

Saud Nasir as-Sabah studied law at the University of London and graduated in 1968. In the 1980s he served as the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United Kingdom . From 1981 to 1992 he was ambassador to the United States .

After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saud Nasir al-Sabah was linked to the bogus, alleged grassroots movement Citizens for a Free Kuwait , which was working towards military intervention by the United States. Statements by his daughter Nijirah al-Sabah before the US Congress about alleged Iraqi atrocities against Kuwaiti babies at Al Adan Hospital in Kuwait City had a significant impact on American public opinion and led to widespread support for a war effort that took place in January 1991. The documentary To Sell a War was made about the background of this propaganda campaign .

In 1992 he was appointed Minister of Information and held this post until March 1998 when he became Minister of Oil. He held this office until 2001.

In early 2012, Saud Nasir al-Sabah returned to Kuwait from the UK, where he had been treated for a year for cancer, and died there on January 21 in a Kuwaiti hospital at the age of 68.

Web links

  • John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton: How PR brought the Gulf War to the man , (in English) is an excerpt from Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press)., 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sheikh Saud Nasser Al-Saba albawaba.com
  2. ↑ a b c Kuwait mourns former oil minister , Khaleej Times , January 22, 2012
  3. ↑ Kuwaiti was hero Shaikh Saud Al Nasser dies , gulfnews.com , January 22, 2012
  4. ^ Saud Nasser al-Sabah, Former Kuwaiti Ambassador, Dies at 68 , The New York Times , January 22, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Saud Nasir as-Sabah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saud Nasir al-Sabah; سعود الناصر الصباح (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kuwaiti diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuwait City
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2012