Sabah, Sheikh Saad al-Abdullah al-Salim al-
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Kuwaiti royal
born 1929?, Kuwait
died May 13, 2008, Kuwait City, Kuwait
as a member of the ruling Sabah family, served in a variety of government posts, including minister of the interior (1961–77), minister of defense (1965–77), and
prime minister (1978–2003). As prime minister he headed a government-in-exile in Saudi Arabia during the 1990–91 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. When Emir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah died on Jan. 15, 2006, Sheikh Saad immediately replaced him as emir in accordance with the constitution. A brief power struggle ensued, however, between the two branches of the Sabah family, and Sheikh Saad, then aged 76 and in extremely poor health, abdicated after only nine days. (On January 29 his cousin, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah, was sworn in as emir.) Sheikh Saad, the eldest son of Sheikh Abdullah al-Salim al-Sabah (who ruled Kuwait from 1950 to 1965), trained at the Hendon Police College in London and served as Kuwait's deputy director of police (1959–61) until he joined independent Kuwait's first cabinet. He was named crown prince in 1978.
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