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Libya-Last Moments of Libyan Rebel Leader "Abdel Fatah Younes"--July 2011
 Part of channel(s): 2011 Libyan civil war (current event)

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/Idrisonline
Assassinated July 28th 2011.

The last video of Libyan Rebel Leader Major General "Abdel Fatah Younes" before his assassination by opposition forces.
He shakes hands and greets others as missiles are launched behind him.

Abdul Fatah Younis (Arabic: عبد الفتاح يونس‎, 1944 – 28 July 2011) was a senior military officer in Libya.[1] He held the rank of Major General[2] and the post of Minister of Interior, but resigned on 22 February 2011 to defect to the rebel side in what was to become the 2011 Libyan civil war.[3] He was considered a key supporter of Muammar al-Gaddafi[4] or even No. 2 in the Libyan government.[5]
In resigning, he urged that the Libyan army should "join the people and respond to their legitimate demands".[3] In an interview with John Simpson on 25 February, he said he believed Gaddafi would fight to the death, or commit suicide.[6]
He was previously minister for public security, and attended a key meeting with the British ambassador to Egypt in 1992 where he apologised for Libya's involvement in the killing of Yvonne Fletcher, and offered to extradite her killers; he also admitted Libyan support of the IRA and offered compensation for their victims.[7]
He had arrived in Benghazi commanding a special forces unit whose mission was to help relieve the beseiged Katiba compound, which had sheltered the remaining loyalist forces in the city since 18 February, and which was undergoing almost continuous attack. He claimed to have ordered his soldiers not to shoot at protesters, and negotiated an arrangement whereby the loyalists were permitted to retreat from the building and the city.[8]
Following confirmation that Younis had indeed defected to the side of the rebels, he was declared commander-in-chief of its armed forces. In March, a military spokesperson announced that Khalifa Haftar had replaced Younis as commander of the military; however, the National Transitional Council denied this.[9] By April, Younis held the role of commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, with Omar al Hareri serving as Younis's Chief of Staff, while Haftar took the third most senior position as the commander of ground forces with the rank of lieutenant general.[10][11]

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