A very low-level (free :-)) background check provided a list of possible relatives for al-Sabah. ALL of them are family members of this Nawaf Saud al-Sabah, listed below. Furthermore, the 1971 DOB matches his education bio, which has him graduating Princeton in 1994, before attending law school. Note the word "Shaikh," which in this context means he is a member of Kuwait's al-Sabah royal family:

Shaikh Nawaf ibn Saud al-SABAH
BORN : 4 JUL 1971
FATHER : Shaikh Saud ibn Nasir al-SABAH [3 OCT 1944 - ]
MOTHER : Shaikha Awatif bint Sabah al-Sabah

Although the al-Sabah royal family tree hasn't been pruned in over 250 years, here's the impressive, U.S. connected bio of Nawaf Saud al-Sabah's father, from the site linked above:

Shaikh Saud ibn Nasir al-SABAH
"Barrister-at-law, Gray's Inn; Ambassador to London, Norway, Sweden and Denmark 1975/80; Ambassador to the USA 1981/-; Representative of Kuwait to the 6th Committee of UN General Assembly 1969/74 and to the Seabed Committee of the UN 1967/73."

So, IOW, Nawaf Saud al-Sabah's father was the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S. during the first Gulf War. And in 1998, he was Kuwait's Minister of Information. So to recap:

In 1998, Curt Weldon sold a house in DC to the son of Kuwait's Minister of Information, and former Ambassador to the U.S. Nasir al-Sabah was reportedly the point man for hiring "as many as 20 PR, law and lobby firms in its campaign to mobilize US opinion and force against Hussein."

So, this is a direct connection -- whether or not Weldon did anything wrong -- to not only Kuwaiti oil, but Bush family Kuwaiti oil.

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by txj on Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 07:38:45 PM EST