Mifta al-Usta Umar

Mifta al-Usta Umar
Mifta al-Usta Umar
Secretary-General of the General People's Congress
	In office; 15 February 1984 – 7 October 1990
Leader	Muammar Gaddafi
Preceded by	Muhammad az-Zaruq Rajab
Succeeded by	Abdul Razzaq as-Sawsa
Personal details
Born	1935; Benghazi, Libya
Died	22 March 2010

Mifta al-Usta Umar (Arabic: مفتاح الاسطى عمر) (1935–22 March 2010) was the General Secretary of Libya's General People's Congress[1] from 15 February 1984 to 7 October 1990. In this role, he was officially Libya's head of state, though Muammar Gaddafi continued to exercise ultimate authority in Libya as "Leader and Guide of the Revolution".

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1961. He worked as a physician at Massa Hospital in Al-Bayda and, in 1963, became General Manager of the hospital

References

Metz, Helen Chapin, ed. (2004). Libya. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-4191-3012-0.

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[1] Metz, Helen Chapin, ed. (2004). Libya. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-4191-3012-0.