Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah

Sheikh Saud Nasir al- Sabah (Arabic سعود الناصر الصباح, DMG Sa ʿ ūd An-Nasir aṣ -Sabah, often Al -Sabah, born October 3, 1944 in Kuwait; † 21 January 2012) was a Kuwaiti diplomat to royal family as- Sabah and was his country's ambassador in the United States was.

Life

Saud Nasir al- Sabah studied law at the University of London and completed his studies in 1968. In the 1980s, he served as Kuwaiti Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Saud Nasir al -Sabah was related to the assumed, alleged grassroots movement Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was working towards a military intervention of the United States. Statements of his daughter Nijirah al -Sabah before the U.S. Congress about alleged Iraqi atrocities against Kuwaiti babies in Al Adan hospital in Kuwait City had considerable influence on American public opinion and led to a substantial endorsement of any war effort, which took place in January 1991. About the background of this propaganda campaign, the documentary To Sell a War was filmed.

He was appointed Minister of Information in 1992 and held this post until March 1998 when he became oil minister. This office he held until 2001.

Early 2012 returned Saud Nasir al -Sabah from the United Kingdom, where he was in treatment because of cancer for a year, back to Kuwait, where he died on January 21 in a Kuwaiti hospital at the age of 68 years.