DUBAI (Reuters) - Former Saudi Arabian oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani, the face of the 1973 oil embargo that brought the West to its knees, has died in London, aged 91, Saudi's Okaz newspaper said on Tuesday.
Yamani was the embodiment of the ascent of Arab petroleum power. In 1975, he and other oil ministers was kidnapped at an OPEC meeting in Vienna by Carlos the Jackal.
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