Abdel Fattah Younis Was Dead

Abdel Fattah Younis was part of the groups involved in the 1969 coup that brought Khadafy to power, and he was a minister in the country before he defected and accepted a senior position in the opposition in February 2011. Now, he has been shot dead along with his two aides by the assailants in Benghazi on July 28, 2011.



Council head Mustafa Abdul-Jalil said in a press conference that the security authorities had arrested the leader of the rebel group who was behind the murder on the day before, of their operation room near the east front of the rebels. The security officials said at the time Younis would be asked about the suspicions of his family still has ties with the regime of Gaddafi.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil said that Younis had been summoned for questioning about "military matters". A number of opposition forces didn't feel comfortable with a military leader who until recently was very close to Gaddafi, and Abdel Younis was involved in a dispute over leadership of the opposition forces, but before Younis and his two aides arrived for questioning, they had been shot.

It was unclear where Abdel Younis and his aides were killed or how Abdel Jalil knew about their deaths. But Abdel Jalil said that all efforts had been made to find the bodies. Abdel Jalil called Abdel Younis as one of the heroes of the February 17 revolution, marking the beginning date of the protest against the Qadhafi regime. He criticized Gaddafi for breaking the unity of the rebel forces, but he didn't say directly that the killer linked to the regime. Instead, he issued a warning on the "armed groups" in the city controlled by the rebels that they should join in the war against Qadhafi, or at risk of being caught by the security forces.

Shortly afterwards, the gunmen burst into the hotel complex where Jalil spoke and fired a barrage of shots in the air, as a Reuters reporter said.

A tank in the area between Benghazi and Ajdabiyah, Moammar Khadafy's loyalist forces, exploded due to air raids by the Western army under the control of the United States, March 20, 2011. The allies continued to argue their attack was directed, but Libya said that 100 civilians have been killed during five days of the Western onslaught.

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Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes was killed by a militia linked to his own side, a rebel minister says.

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