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Long-serving Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani dies at 90
By JON GAMBRELLFebruary 23, 2021 GMT
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis that shattered the West and once found himself held hostage by the assassin Carlos the Jackal, died Tuesday in London. He was 90.
Saudi state television reported his death, without offering a cause. It said he would be buried in the Muslim holy city of Mecca.
Known for his Western-style business suits and soft-spoken, measured tones, Yamani helped Saudi Arabia command a dominating presence in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries from its birth. The kingdom remains a heavyweight in the group even today and its decisions ripple through the oil industry, affecting prices from the barrel down to the gasoline pump.
Albert Aji February 22, 2021 - 6:18 AM
DAMASCUS, Syria - Anis Naccache, a former pro-Palestinian militant who participated in the 1975 kidnapping of oil ministers in Vienna, died Monday after battling COVID-19, a Palestinian official and Lebanese media said. He was 69.
Naccache, a Lebanese citizen, participated in attacks around the world but spent much of the past two decades running a Beirut-based think-tank and frequently appeared on TV shows as an analyst on Middle Eastern affairs.
A staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause, and in the past few decades the so-called Iran-led axis of resistance, Naccache last tweeted on Feb. 5 about the crisis over the formation of a new Cabinet in Lebanon.
Militant involved in OPEC kidnapping buried in Lebanon 24 Feb 2021 / 23:54 H.
BEIRUT, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Anis Naccache, a Lebanese former guerrilla fighter who was part of the team led by Carlos the Jackal that kidnapped oil ministers in 1975, was buried in Beirut following his death two days ago in Syria at the age of 70, witnesses said.
His body was draped in the Lebanese and Palestinian flags and mourner included officials from Lebanon s Hezbollah and radical Palestinian factions.
Naccache took part in the 1975 OPEC conference hostage-taking in Vienna led by Venezuelan guerrilla fighter Carlos the Jackal in which three people were killed.
BEIRUT Anis Naccache, a Lebanese former guerrilla fighter who was part of the team led by Carlos the Jackal that kidnapped oil ministers in 1975, was buried…