Death
In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait with 100,000 soldiers, against a Kuwaiti army of 16,000 soldiers, taking the Kuwaitis completely by surprise. As Kuwait was being overrun, The Emir fled the country. Sheikh Fahad was shot and killed by invading Iraqi forces as he attempted to defend Dasman Palace.
Read more about this topic: Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Will you see the players well bestowed? Do you hear, let them
be well used, for they are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Families suffered badly under industrialization, but they survived, and the lives of men, women, and children improved. Children, once marginal and exploited figures, have moved to a position of greater protection and respect,... The historic decline in the overall death rates for children is an astonishing social fact, notwithstanding the disgraceful infant mortality figures for the poor and minorities. Like the decline in death from childbirth for women, this is a stunning achievement.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)