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:
“I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.”
—Ernest Becker (1924–1974)