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  • He wears jeans and sits next to his wife, a striking British woman more than two decades his senior and with five other marriages under her belt, who once was known as Jane Felix-Browne but preferred the name Zaina al-Sabah following her marriage into the bin Laden family.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • He wears jeans and sits next to his wife, a striking British woman more than two decades his senior and with five other marriages under her belt, who once was known as Jane Felix-Browne but preferred the name Zaina al-Sabah following her marriage into the bin Laden family.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • He wears jeans and sits next to his wife, a striking British woman more than two decades his senior and with five other marriages under her belt, who once was known as Jane Felix-Browne but preferred the name Zaina al-Sabah following her marriage into the bin Laden family.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • He wears jeans and sits next to his wife, a striking British woman more than two decades his senior and with five other marriages under her belt, who once was known as Jane Felix-Browne but preferred the name Zaina al-Sabah following her marriage into the bin Laden family.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • But Cheney also worried that the American people would not support a war to restore the reactionary al-Sabah dynasty, particularly when such a war appeared to benefit Japan -- still the export-driven bugbear of Americans in 1990 -- which imported far more Kuwaiti oil than the U.S.

    Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011

  • But Cheney also worried that the American people would not support a war to restore the reactionary al-Sabah dynasty, particularly when such a war appeared to benefit Japan -- still the export-driven bugbear of Americans in 1990 -- which imported far more Kuwaiti oil than the U.S.

    Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II Geoffrey Wawro 2011

  • The state-run news agency says the cabinet members Thursday decided to tender their resignations to ruling Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah.

    Kuwait's Cabinet Resigns in Political Dispute 2011

  • Sheikh Mohammed al-Sabah told reporters in Kuwait City that the oil-rich Gulf Arab states had postponed or cancelled 60% of development projects.

    World economic recession hits Arab oil states Not a sheep 2009

  • The resignations come at a time when an opposition campaign is under way for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad al-Sabah, a nephew of the emir.

    Kuwait's Cabinet Resigns in Political Dispute 2011

  • Kuwait's cabinet has resigned after parliament filed petitions to question three senior ministers who are part of the country's ruling al-Sabah family.

    Kuwait's Cabinet Resigns in Political Dispute 2011

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