Omar Mokhtar El-Hariri (Arabic: عمر الحريري, romanized: ʻUmar al-Ḥarīrī; c. 1944 – 2 November 2015) was a leading figure of the National Transitional Council of Libya who served as the Minister of Military Affairs in 2011, during the Libyan Civil War.
[2] El-Hariri was involved in the initial 1969 coup against the monarchy that began Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year rule of Libya.
Gaddafi commuted the sentence in 1990 and El-Hariri was subsequently placed under house arrest until the Libyan civil war broke out in 2011.
After breaking free of his detention, El-Hariri eventually became the political head of the National Transitional Council's armed forces.
[3] In an interview with The Globe and Mail, El-Hariri said of Libya's future, "They will elect a new president and he will serve for a limited time.