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Umar Muhayshi

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315:, then living in Libya under Gaddafi's protection, and they refused to partake in the plot when the target turned out to be Muhayshi. Wilson was sentenced to 32 years in prison over his ties to Gaddafi, but was acquitted in 1983 on the counts of murder conspiracy and conspiracy to solicit murder in the Muhayshi case. Terpil never stood trial as he remained a fugitive for the rest of his life. 872: 42: 275:
money to fund anti-Gaddafi dissidents inside Libya, or creating a Muhayshi-led government on Libyan territory (near the Libya-Egypt border), where Muhayshi could then appeal for an Egyptian "intervention" to remove Gaddafi by force either through arrest or assassination.
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Muhayshi denied attempting a coup and stated that he had merely tried to "correct Gaddafi's error" and had asked Gaddafi to resign. In the same interview, Muhayshi referred to Gaddafi as a "dangerous psychopath."
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causes. Instead, he wanted Libya to invest its oil revenues in agriculture and industry, particularly heavy industries, such as iron and steel, in his hometown
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in 1979, which Muhayshi publicly and vehemently opposed, resulting in the freezing of his activities and his expulsion from Egypt to Morocco in July 1980.
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had been forestalled. All thirteen leading conspirators were members of the Free Officers Movement and four of them (Muhayshi,
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in 1970. He was later appointed Minister of Planning and took issue with Gaddafi's wasting of Libyan resources on
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was using Muhayshi's radio broadcast to discredit Gaddafi and most of Gaddafi's RCC (with the exception of
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that brought ousted the royal regime in Libya on 1 September 1969. He was one of the twelve members of the
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to assassinate Muhayshi. The Cuban exiles initially thought the target of the assassination would be
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According to declassified diplomatic telegram sent from the US Embassy in Egypt to the
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and Awad Hamza) were members of the RCC. By that time Muhayshi had already fled to
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in October 1969, he represented the attorney-general at the court. He was
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Forgotten Voices: Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya
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Libia men al Shar’iya ad Dustouriya elal Shar’iya ath Thawriya
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In August 1975, Gaddafi's regime announced that an attempted
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and later a member of the group of army officers called the
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In 1983, while Muhayshi was in Morocco, then ruled by King
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origin, Umar Muhayshi was said to be a childhood friend of
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Index

Omar Mehishi

Misrata
Italian Libya
Abu Salim prison
Blunt trauma
Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
Alma mater
Benghazi Military University Academy
Adyghe
transliterated
Libyan army
Libyan Revolutionary Command Council
Libya
1969 Libyan coup d'état
Circassian
Turkish
Muammar Gaddafi
Free Officers Movement
RCC
Muammar Gaddafi
revolution
Libyan People's Court
Minister of Treasury
pan-Arab
anti-colonialist
Misrata
coup d'état
Bashir Houadi
Abdul Munim el Houni

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