Word: sabah
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...only Kuwait's ambassador to Washington has publicly articulated his nation's policy. "If people pose a security threat, as a sovereign country, we have the right to exclude anyone we don't want," says Ambassador Saud Nasser al-Sabah. "If you in the U.S. are so concerned about human rights and leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Kuwait, we'll be more than happy to airlift them to you free of charge, and you can give them American citizenship...
...officers in seeking revenge. The Palestine Liberation Organization estimates that about 400 Palestinians were killed then. "If anything, that figure is probably low by about 600," says Abdul Rahman al-Awadi, the former Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs who continues to advise Prime Minister Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah...
...understand?" wonders Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, a former Kuwaiti finance minister. "We were the most vocal supporters of the P.L.O., and we gave plenty, more than $60 million in the past six years alone. And that doesn't count the 5% of Palestinian salaries we deducted for direct transmittal to Yasser Arafat. Who would not feel betrayed...
...members of the ruling family actively aiding the Palestinians is Ali Salem al-Sabah, the resistance leader who left his doctoral studies in California to return to Kuwait after Iraq's invasion. With the help of his father, the commander of Kuwait's national guard, Salem has moved 800 jailed Palestinians into Kuwait's juvenile prison. "Life is better for them at what we call Ali's prison," says Salman al-Sabah, the head of Kuwait's state security service. "Ali has spent thousands of dollars of his own money for ! mattresses and linens and to have food catered...
...fact, the scheme merely refines a centuries-old compact. Kuwait was founded in the 1700s by three families. Two continued as lucrative merchants while the Sabahs were charged with protecting the state. Major decisions were a product of consultation. The merchants held the upper hand and set policy; the Sabahs executed it. When the oil began flowing seriously in the 1950s, the Sabahs were suddenly the wealthiest of all, and the power relationships inverted. A succession of farsighted emirs distributed billions of dollars to the populace, and Sabah-generated patronage is still central to the family's power. "These days...