Umar Muhayshi
Libyan politician (1941-1984)
Umar Abdullah el-Muhayshi (1941 – January 1984) was a Libyan army officer and a member of the Libyan Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) that ruled Libya after the 1969 Libyan coup d'état.
After he and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi disagreed on how to use Libya's resources, other RCC members sided with him. Muhayshi subsequently fled to Tunis. He died shortly after being extradited from Morocco.
Life
Born in 1941 to a family of Circassian origin, Umar Muhayshi was said to be a childhood friend of Muammar Gaddafi and later a member of the group of army officers called the Free Officers Movement that ousted the royal regime in Libya on 1 September 1969. He was one of the twelve members of the RCC, headed by Muammar Gaddafi. He was promoted to the rank of Major after the revolution. He was Minister of Treasury in 1970. He was later appointed Minister of Planning and took issue with Gaddafi's use of Libyan resources to further pan-Arab and anti-colonialist 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 Misrata.
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