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Oil embargo architect (and Carlos the Jackal kidnap victim) dies
Anthony Di Paola, Paul Wallace and Donna Abu-Nasr
Feb 24, 2021 – 11.22am
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Riyadh/London | Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi Arabian energy minister who helped direct the 1973 oil embargo and was later kidnapped by Carlos the Jackal, has died. He was 90.
He died in London and will be buried in Islam’s holiest city of Mecca, state-run Ekhbariya TV reported.
Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, right, with then-Austrian transport minister Ferdinand Lacina at an OPEC reception in 1985.
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Yamani, with counterparts in other Arab oil exporters and Iran, managed a series of production cuts in 1973 and halted supplies to the US and other countries. The embargo, which caused an international crisis after oil prices spiked, was a response to Washington’s support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war against Egypt and Syria.
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Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, a former energy minister of Saudi Arabia who steered the kingdom s oil policies for nearly 25 years, has died in London. He was 90.
He will be buried in Makkah, where he was born. Sheikh Yamani was one of three children born to Hassan Yamani, a respected scholar of Islamic law and former grand mufti in Indonesia. His paternal ancestors came from Yemen.
“It is shocking; we still don’t believe it. It takes time,” Mai Yamani, 64, the eldest of his children, who was by his side when he died, told
The National. “Even with all the machines around him in the hospital, he was majestic.”