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33 unusual facts about Kuwait


1985 in organized crime

Gambino boss Paul Big Pauly" Castellano and nine others were accused of operating an international auto-theft ring that shipped stolen cars to Kuwait and Puerto Rico, among other destinations.

Abdulatif Al-Ameeri

Abdulatif AlـAmeeri is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district.

Abdulaziz Al-Shayji

Abdulaziz Al-Shayji is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

Abdullah AlـBarghash

Abdullah Al-Barghash is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly from the fifth district.

Abdullah Al-Fahma

Abdullah Al-Fahma is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Al Ahmadi

Al Ahmadi, Kuwait, suburb of Kuwait City, located in Al Ahmadi Governorate

Ali Al-Hajri

Ali Al-Hajri is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Ali al-Omair

Ali Al-Omair is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

American School of Kuwait

In 1969 the school moved to improved facilities in Surra, Kuwait.

In 1963 a group of American parents began the process of forming a new international school modeled after the "authentic American educational plan." This new school's first term began in September 1964 in the Dasman Area of Sharq, Kuwait as the International School of Kuwait with an official ceremony on November 5, 1964.

Eventually, an elementary-only campus was established in Salwa, Kuwait; the Surra campus remained for middle and high school students only.

Askar Al-Enezi

Askar Al-Enezi (born 1971) is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fourth district.

Daifallah Bouramiya

Daifallah Bouramiya is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fourth district.

Essam Al-Dabbous

Essam Al-Dabbous is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Faisal Al-Muslim Al-Otaib

Faisal Al-Meslim Al-Osaimi Al-Otaibi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

Hassan Jawhar

Hassan Jawhar (born 1960) is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district.

Jabir Al-Azmi

Jabir Al-Azmi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Jamaan Al-Harbash

Jamaan Al-Harbash is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district.

Khaled AlـSultan Bin Essa

Khaled AlـSultan Bin Essa is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district.

Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League

The Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League is the highest professional basketball league in Kuwait.

Marzouq AlـHubaini Al-Azmi

Marzouq AlـHubaini Al-Azmi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ajmi

Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ajmi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Mohammed Al-Abduljader

Mohammed Abdullah Al-Abduljader is a former member of parliament in the Kuwaiti National Assembly representing the second district.

Mohammed Al-Kandari

Mohammed Al-Kandari is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the first district.

Mohammed Al-Mutair

Mohammed Al-Mutair is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the second district.

Mohammed Faleh Al-Ajmi

Mohammed Faleh Al-Ajmi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Mubarak Al-Mutairi

Born in 1959, Al-Mutairi studied political science at Kuwait University and worked as a diplomat before being elected to the National Assembly to represent the fourth district in 2008.

Nasser Al-Sane

Nasser Al-Sane is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

Robert Ernest Cheesman

Cheesman was the first man to map the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwa to Uqair.

Roudhan Al-Roudhan

Roudhan Al-Roudhan is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the third district.

Sadoon Al-Otaibi

Sadoon Al-Otaibi is a member of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, representing the fifth district.

Salah Taher

Overall, he painted 15000 paintings and held more than 80 art fairs for his work in Egypt, Venice, New York, San Francisco, Geneva, Beirut, Kuwait and Jeddah.

Saleh Al-Mulla

Sheikh Saleh Mohammad AlMulla was elected to the National Assembly of Kuwait in 2008, representing the third district, and generally affiliates with the liberal deputies.


105th Airlift Wing

In August 1995 the 105th played a key role in airlifting personnel and equipment to Kuwait in support of Operation Vigilant Warrior II and Exercise Intrinsic Action.

1980 Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournaments

Kuwait won the tournament and qualifiyed for the 1980 Summer Olympics football tournament.

9 Parachute Squadron RE

9 Independent Airborne Squadron RE accompanied the Division to Germany, returning to the UK in 1950, since when the squadron has served on active service in countries such as Egypt, Cyprus, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Aden, Radfan, Borneo, Rhodesia as well as six full tours and two spearhead tours of duty in Northern Ireland.

Acinetobacter

In November, 2004, the CDC reported an increasing number of A. baumannii bloodstream infections in patients at military medical facilities in which service members injured in the Iraq/Kuwait region during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) were treated.

Afghanistan women's national cricket team

The team was forced the withdraw from the tournament before travelling to Kuwait due to elements in Afghanistan opposing women's participation in sport.

Al Zour Refinery

However, in June 2011, the Supreme Petroleum Council—Kuwait's oil agency—re-approved construction of the refinery in Al Ahmadi, Kuwait.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Chang Woe-Ryong

Chang Woe-Ryong started his career as an amateur footballer for Yonsei University and was deemed good enough to represent his country in the 1980 AFC Asian Cup where he was part of the team that came runners-up to Kuwait.

Christianity in Kuwait

Among its members is the U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait, Matthew H. Tueller.

Crimson Commando

Freedom Force was sent to Kuwait City to rescue or kill physicist Reinhold Kurtzmann, but they encountered the Arabic super-team called Desert Sword.

Dan K. Morhaim

He has had numerous other activities, including: Medical director, Region III, for the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System (MIEMSS) from 1982–1989; Fire Surgeon for Baltimore County since 1982; member of the Maryland-Kuwait Health Care Task Force (to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia, April 1991); physician at Indian Health Service Hospital (Navajo), Chinle, Arizona from 1991–92.

Education in Kuwait

There are 6 districts in Kuwait and the highest number of schools are in the Al-Ahmedi district, which has 152 schools (representing 23 percent of all public schools), while Al-Jahra has 85 schools (representing 12 percent of all public schools), which is the lowest number of schools by district.

Eryx jayakari

Its range includes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, and southern Iran, where a small number of specimens have been found in Khuzestan Province, Bushahr Province and Kerman Province.

Flag of Kuwait

It was made in New Zealand by Peter Lynn, launched to the public for the first time in 2004 in the United Kingdom, officially launched in Kuwait in 2005, and has not been surpassed since.

Fluor Corporation

In May 2008 the Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) awarded a construction contract to a consortium of Asian companies—Japan's JGC Corp., South Korea’s GS, SK, Daelim Industrial, and Hyundai—and a consulting contract to Fluor to build an oil refinery, which would be Kuwait's fourth.

George Washington University Student Association

Some SA alumni have been successful after college, such as former SA president Edward "Skip" Gnehm, who was the Ambassador to Kuwait during the Gulf War and received the Presidential Distinguished Service Award and two Presidential Meritorious Service Awards.

Gulf Ice Hockey Championship

The Gulf Ice Hockey Championship was first held in 2010 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Hijaz mountains

The course of the now dried up river, the modern-day Wadi Al-Rummah and its extension Wadi Al-Batin, was identified by Farouk El-Baz of Boston University and named the 'Kuwait River.'

Indian English Academy School

Situated on Al Dahak bin Qays Street, Salmiya, Kuwait, the school offers education to students of all nationalities, from kindergarten to + 2 level.

Jabriya Indian School

Located in the Jabriya district of Kuwait, the school was re-founded in September 1993 as the Jabriya Indian School, making it one of the most recent schools in Kuwait to cater to the large Indian community.

Khalid Amayreh

He described Zionism as a "genocidal, racist, rapacious, covetous, and of course utterly mendacious… a malignant cancer" and claimed that Israel wishes to erect a "Hebrew empire" encompassing "Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, northern Saudi Arabia, northern Egypt and the islands of Crete and Cyprus".

Kuwait Airways

The Kuwait Airways headquarters is located on the grounds of Kuwait International Airport in Al Farwaniyah Governorate, Kuwait.

Kuwait at the 2005 West Asian Games

Kuwait participated in the 3rd West Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar from December 1, 2005 to December 10, 2005.

Maktoob

Maktoob today has more than 280 employees with offices in Amman, Dubai, Cairo, Riyadh, and Kuwait.

Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 39

On January 2003, the squadron deployed as a command in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) both aboard the SS Curtiss (T-AVB-4) aviation logistics support ship, and ashore at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait and at various Forward Operating Bases throughout Iraq.

Marine Wing Support Squadron 271

On 24 February 1991, MWSS 271 displaced its elements in support of offensive ground combat operations into Kuwait in the midst of heavy combat to establish a Forward Operating Base at Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base and, eventually, Kuwait International Airport, becoming the only MWSS to take part in offensive combat operations in Kuwait during Desert Storm.

Mark Sarkisian

Sarkisian has designed over 50 major building projects around the world including the Embassy of the United States, Beijing, the NBC Tower, the Cathedral of Christ the Light, the Jin Mao Tower (currently the fifth tallest building in the world), and the 415 meter-tall Al-Hamra Tower in Kuwait.

Marzouq AlـHubaini Al-Azmi

On November 28, 2008, MP Abdullah Al-Roumi joined MPs Khaled AlـSultan Bin Essa, Hassan Johar, Musallam Al-Barrak, and Al-Azmi in formulating a bill to extend the mandatory retirement age for Kuwaiti teaching staff at Kuwait University from 65 to 70 years.

Mercury Grand Marquis

In Kuwait, the LS model (M7F) was not available to the general public in 2010, as they are heavily sold to fleet buyers, such as the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health and state-owned Kuwait Oil Company, where they are given to employees as fringe benefits.

Michael Pucci

His Decorations include 3 Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals (NMCM), 3 Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals (NCAM), 6 Good Conduct Medal (GCM), National Defense Service Medal (NDSM), Southwest Asia Service Medal (SWA) with three stars for service in three campaigns (Defense of Saudi Arabia, Liberation and Defense of Kuwait, Southwest Asia Cease-Fire), Kuwait Liberation Medal (KLM — Saudi Arabia), Kuwait Liberation Medal (KLM — Emirate of Kuwait).

Michael Usher

Usher was the Nine Network's correspondent in New York when the Twin Towers were attacked in September 2001, and less than two years later was in Iraq, travelling north from Kuwait to reach Baghdad the day after the Coalition seized the city.

Mohammed Al-Mutair

, Al-Mutair joined with fellow Islamist MPs Waleed AlـTabtabaie and Mohammed Hayef AlـMutairi in filing a request to grill Prime Minister Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah for allowing prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Mohammad Baqir al-Fali to enter Kuwait despite a legal ban.

Nader Fergany

Furthermore he did research for the Arab Institute for Training and Research in Statistics in Baghdad, the Arab Planning Institute in Kuwait and St Antony's College in Oxford in the UK.

Pakistan School and College

It is an independent co-education school.The PSCK is recognized by the ministry of private education, Kuwait.The school is affiliated with Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad-Pakistan.

Peg Belson

These contacts included Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Malta, Finland, West Germany, Denmark, Japan, China, Kuwait, the Czech Republic, Poland and Bosnia.

Peter Ramsaroop

{DD Form 214 - dtd May 13, 1997 issued by the Department of Defense} Ramsaroop is the recipient of the Kuwait Liberation Medal, The Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal with Valor for service during the war.

Phuket Air

It also operated charter flights from Japan to Kuwait for the Japanese Iraq Reconstruction and Support Group.

Raed Zidan

His parents emigrated from Kufr Lakef, Palestine, near Qalqilya to Kuwait.

Ramadan

In Kuwait, according to law number 44 of 1968 the penalty is a fine of no more than 100 Kuwaiti dinars, or jail for no more than one month, or both penalties, for those seen eating, drinking or smoking during Ramadan daytime.

Rasul v. Bush

The United States Supreme Court, over the administration’s objections, agreed in November 2003 to hear the cases of the Guantánamo detainees, namely Rasul v Bush, which was consolidated with al Odah v. Bush (the latter represented twelve Kuwaiti men).

Salwa, Kuwait

Salwa (place of the casuals) is a suburb of the Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait, bordering Rumaithiya to the north and Messila to the south.

United States Navy Customs

From there, each company then heads to its base of operations, either at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, the Kuwait Naval Base, Camp Patriot, Ali Al Salem, and Camp Beuhring, Camp Virginia or they stay at ALSA for further training before deploying to Balad, Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yousef Khanfar

He was born in 1956 in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents who fled their homeland after the establishment of the state of Israel.