Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush
{{Short description|Prime Minister of Libya (1933–2007)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name =Abdul Hamid Al Bakoush
عبد الحميد البكوش
| image =Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush.JPG
| order =Prime Minister of Libya
| term_start =25 October 1967
| term_end =4 September 1968
| monarch =Idris
| predecessor =Abdul Qadir al-Badri
| successor =Wanis al-Qaddafi
| order2 =Justice Minister of Libya
| term_start2 =22 January 1964
| term_end2 =4 October 1968
| primeminister2 =Himself
| predecessor2 =Omar Mahmud al-Muntasir
| successor2 =Rajab al-Majri
| birth_date ={{birth date|1933|8|10|df=y}}
| death_date ={{death date and age|2007|12|4|1933|8|10|df=y}}
|death_place = Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
}}
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush ({{langx|ar|عبد الحميد البكوش}}) (10 August 1933 – 4 December 2007){{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} was Prime Minister of Libya from 25 October 1967 to 4 September 1968. After the proclamation of the Jamahiriya by Gaddafi, he went into exile to Egypt and became one of the leaders of the opposition to the Libyan government. He also held the office of Minister of Justice thrice between January 1964 and September 1968.Salem el Kebti, "Libia..Maseerat al Istiqlal…Watha'iq Mahalliya wa Dawliya", Part 3, ad-Dar al-Arabiya lil Uloum Nashiroun, 1st ed., 2012.
Prime minister
In 1968, during his term in office, Libya created, with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), in order to coordinate production, refining, transport, and commercialization of oil between the three countries. In July of that same year, Libya signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Opposition from exile
During Gaddafi's presidency he went into exile, first to London and then to Paris. In 1977 he settled in Cairo, Egypt, where in 1982 he created the Libyan Liberation Organization, joining the Libyan National Salvation Front (LNSF), the opposition in exile.{{cite web |url=http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-8220.html |title=Libya - Exiled Opposition |work=LIBYA - A Country Study |publisher=Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |year=1987}}
Following the arrival of a suspected Libyan hit squad in Cairo, Egyptian officials faked his assassination on November 12, 1984, publishing staged photos in the press to get Libya to announce the assassination a success. Libya took the bait, and relations between Egypt and Libya, which were already poor, deteriorated even further.Athens News Agency (via Olympio Vima), "Former Libyan PM executed", November 18, 1984.{{cite book |last=Arnold |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Arnold|date=1996 |title=The Maverick State: Gaddafi and the New World Order|publisher=Cassell|page=36|isbn=9780304333660}}
See also
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