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3 unusual facts about Ahmed Zaki Yamani


Ahmad Zaki

Ahmed Zaki Yamani (born in 1930), former Saudi Arabian oil minister

Al-Yamani

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician and petroleum and mineral minister

Foreign Reports

The firm had watched intensely how then Saudi Petroleum Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani had wrestled over new ways to price Saudi Arabia’s oil as he cruised the Mediterranean on his yacht during August 1985.


OPEC

On 21 December 1975, Ahmed Zaki Yamani and the other oil ministers of the members of OPEC were taken hostage by a six-person team led by terrorist Carlos the Jackal (which included Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann and Hans-Joachim Klein), in Vienna, Austria, where the ministers were attending a meeting at the OPEC headquarters.


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