Mubarak Ali Al Sabah Mubarak Ali Al Sabah Captain Sheikh Mubarak Ali Yousuf Al Sabah (12 Aug 1979) the eldest son of Sheikh Ali Yousuf Al Sabah and Sheikha Awrad Jaber Al Sabah, the daughter of the 13th monarch Ruler and 3rd Emir of Kuwait His Highness Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Joined the Kuwait Navy as an officer cadet in 2000, and was commissioned as a Sub Lieutenant in 2002. The same year he attended the British Royal Navy's young officer course at Britannia Royal Naval College, and also attended the Ali Al-Sabah military college in Kuwait, where he graduated with a diploma in
Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 intervene in matters of the Gulf, of which the British desired to retain a monopoly. The Ottomans were willing to drop all claims to Bahrain, in which they had never been able to maintain anything but a symbolic role, but not Qatar. As a question of sovereignty, the Ottomans argued that the empire had always exercised effective sovereignty over the peninsula and could not justify the abandonment of territory which it had never formally renounced. Yet under considerable pressure it renounced claims to both (Articles 11 & 13) and a blue line was established to define the territorial limits of