Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah

Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah (3 October 1944 – 21 January 2012) was a Kuwaiti politician and diplomat.

Sabah with George H. W. Bush in 1990

Biography
Sabah with John McCain in 1991

Sabah was born on 3 October 1944. Sabah served as ambassador of Kuwait to the United Kingdom from 1975 to 1981.[1] He then served as Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States during the First Gulf War, more specifically from 1981 to 1992.[2] In 1992, he was appointed information minister and served in the post until March 1998.[2] He was oil minister from March 1998 to 2000.[1] He resigned from the post due to an explosion that killed five workers at the country's largest oil refinery.[3]

He forced a false testimony from his then 15-year-old daughter Nayirah[4] and was involved with Citizens for a Free Kuwait,[5] a front group established by the Kuwaiti government to promote US involvement in the Gulf War.[6][7] This involvement was covered in the 1992 documentary film To Sell a War.[8]

Sabah died of cancer on 21 January 2012.[1][2]

See also

References
  1. "Kuwait mourns former oil minister". WAM. 22 January 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  2. "Kuwait's ex-ambassador to the US dies". Al Jazeera. 22 January 2012. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  3. "Kuwait oil minister resigns in wake of explosion". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. AP. 27 June 2000. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  4. "Opinion | Deception on Capitol Hill". January 15, 1992 – via NYTimes.com.
  5. MacArthur, John R. (6 June 1992). "Opinion | Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  6. "How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf". PR Watch.
  7. "The Great Lie of the First Gulf War". OZY. August 17, 2020.
  8. "CBC: To sell a war". Richard Prins. 30 June 2011. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 24 August 2013.


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