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:
“If thou art rich, thou’rt poor,
For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Almost everybody in the neighborhood had “troubles,” frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had “complications.” To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years with “troubles,” but they almost always succumbed to “complications.””
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)