Abdul Hamid al-Bakkush ( Arabic عبد الحميد البكوش ) (1933 - May 2, 2007) - Libyan political and statesman, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Libya ( 1967 - 1968 ). After Gaddafi came to power, he went to Egypt , where he became one of the leaders of the Libyan opposition abroad.
| Abdul Hamid al-Bakkush | |||||||
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| Arab. عبد الحميد البكوش | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Abdul Qadir al-Badri | ||||||
| Successor | Vanis al-Gaddafi | ||||||
| Birth | 1933 Italian Libya | ||||||
| Death | May 2, 2007 Egypt | ||||||
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| Religion | Islam | ||||||
Prime Minister
During the premiership of al-Bakkush, Libya, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia established the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries .
Opposition Leader
After Gaddafi came to power, al-Bakkush went first to London , then to Paris , in 1977, he ended up in Egypt, where in 1982 he established the Libyan Liberation Organization, which later joined the National Libya Rescue Front . In 1984, Egyptian intelligence agencies staged the death of al-Bakkush, sending fake photographs of the deceased to the Libyan media. After this, Libyan state media announced the death of al-Bakkush, and after a while Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced that al-Bakkush was alive [1] . He died in Egypt in 2007. [2]
Notes
- ↑ CAIRO FAKES PICTURES AND FOILS LIBYAN DEATH PLOT
- ↑ Libya - Exiled Opposition . LIBYA - A Country Study . Federal Research Division, Library of Congress (1987).