Ahmat Hassaballah Soubiane is a

Chad Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...

ian politician and diplomat. He was the Ambassador of Chad to the United States from 1999 to 2004. Soubiane was appointed as Ambassador to the United States on 21 December 1998 and presented his credentials on 21 January 1999. The Criminal Court decided in August 2008 that Soubiane had breached the constitution and the territorial integrity and security of Chad, sentencing him to death and ordering the confiscation of his property. Following a peace agreement signed in Tripoli, Libya on 25 July 2009, Soubiane, as the leader of a group opposed to President

Idriss Deby Idriss may refer to: * Idriss Arnaoud Ali (born 1945), President of the National Assembly of Djibouti * Idriss Carlos Kameni (born 1984), Cameroonian football player * Idriss Déby (1952–2021), President of Chad * Idriss Ndele Moussa, Chadian p ...

, visited Tripoli on 6 August 2009 to meet Libyan leader

Muammar al-Gaddafi Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by ''The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spellin ...

and thank him for his work facilitating peace in Chad. He also expressed his group's commitment to the peace agreement."Libya: Kadhafi welcomes Chadian opposition politician"
, Panapress, 7 August 2009.

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