Umar Abdullah el-Muhayshi (; 1941-January, 1984) was a Libyan army officer and a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council that ruled

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to Egypt–Libya bo ...

after the

1969 Libyan coup d'état The 1969 Libyan coup d'état, also known as the al-Fateh Revolution or the 1 September Revolution, was carried out by the Free Unionist Officers Movement, a group of military officers led by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, which led to the overthrow of K ...

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Born to a family of Circassian and

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origin, Umar Muhayshi was member of the group of army officers called the Free Officers Movement that brought the royal regime in Libya down on 1 September 1969. He became a member of the twelve-member Libyan Revolutionary Command Council, headed by

Muammar 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 ...

. He was promoted to the rank of Major after the

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. After the establishment of the Libyan People's Court in October 1969, he represented the attorney-general at the court. In August 1975, Gaddafi's regime announced that an attempted

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had been forestalled. All thirteen leading conspirators were members of the Free Officers Movement and four of them (Muhayshi, Bashir Houadi, Abdul Munim el Houni and Awad Hamza) were members of Revolutionary Council. By that time Muhayshi was already outside Libya. Between 1976 and 1983, he lived in

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and

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. While he was in Egypt, some sources said that Gaddafi's regime tried in vain to assassinate Muhayshi more than once. He remained in

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until President

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announced his intention to visit

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

in 1979, which Major Omar al-Muhaishi publicly and vehemently opposed, resulting in the freezing of his activities and even with his expulsion from Egypt to Morocco in July 1980. In 1983, while Muhayshi was in Morocco, then under King Hassan II, the Moroccan authorities delivered Muhayshi to Gaddafi. Muhayshi was murdered in January 1984 under

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by Sa'eed Rashid according to Abdel Rahman Shalgham.el-Magariaf, p.469

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Mohamed Yousef el-Magariaf Mohammed Yousef el-Magariaf (also written as Magariaf, Elmegaryaf or Almegaryaf) or, as he writes on his official website, Dr. Mohamed Yusuf Al Magariaf ( ar, محمد يوسف المقريف; born 1940), is a Libyan politician who served as the P ...

(2008). ''Libia men al Shar’iya ad Dustouriya elal Shar’iya ath Thawriya''. Dar al Istiqlal & Maktabat Wahba,

. *Al Wasat magazine,

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. * 1941 births 1984 deaths Libyan people of Circassian descent Libyan people of Turkish descent Libyan Arab Socialist Union politicians Libyan military personnel People extradited to Libya Libyan torture victims Libyan people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Libyan detention Libyan murder victims People murdered in Libya People extradited from Morocco Deaths by beating 1984 crimes in Libya 1984 murders in Libya Assassinated Libyan people Assassinations in Libya {{Libya-politician-stub

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