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On April 23, 1985, Al-Jarallah was subjected to an assassination attempt when a gunman opened fire on him outside his offices. He was shot six times, and was rushed to the nearby Al-Razi
Hospital by his driver, seriously injured. An organization under the name Arab Revolutionary Brigades claimed
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Jarallah's published views in the 1980s were described in leaked US diplomatic cables and by the CIA as "pro-Saudi, pro-Egyptian ... supporting of
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's overtures to Israel, critical of Palestinian extremism ... calling on the PLO to moderate its policies, hardline
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Jarallah was born in 1942, and according to a leaked US diplomatic cable from 1989 is "a
Kuwaiti of relatively recent Saudi origin relatively humble background". In 1963, Al-Jarallah started his journalism career as a junior reporter in the Kuwaiti daily
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as Editor-in-Chief. In the late 1960s, Al-Jarallah was able to "parlay a winning personality and a friendship with the then-minister of information into a publishing empire". In 1968, he bought
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revolution in the Gulf region, and for "trying to push Gulf nations to the brink of war through escalating disputes and using bullying tactics.”
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On 11 December 2003, Al-Jarallah's secretary at Al-Seyassah was injured when he opened a large envelope addressed to
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In 2004, in an editorial which was described as "breaking long-held taboos", Jarallah called for the Arab world to make peace with
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with a bank loan and then secured the license to turn the weekly magazine into a daily newspaper from his friend the minister.
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and for Arab leaders to cease using the
Palestinian people as a tool of their policies.
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International who's who of the Arab world, Volume 2. 1984. p. 265.
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anti-Syrian, the Iranian regime, and Iraq's territorial ambitions in Kuwait"
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