Abdessalam Jalloud

Infobox Prime Minister


name =Abdessalam Jalloud
عبد السلام جلود
order =Prime Minister of Libya
term_start =16 July 1972
term_end =2 March 1977
predecessor =Muammar al-Gaddafi
successor =Abdul Ati al-Obeidi
birth_place =Mizdah,Libya
birth_date =birth date and age|1941|12|15|df=y

Abdessalam Jalloud (Arabic:عبد السلام جلود) (born 15 December, 1941) was (Prime Minister) of Libya from 16 July, 1972 to 2 March, 1977.

Major Abdessalam Jalloud was a close friend and adviser of Muammar al-Gaddafi since the beginning of the Lybian Revolution in 1969. He was entrusted with the supervision of the oil sector, which represented 96% of the country's income. In September 1970 Jalloud succeeded in imposing a rise in oil prices to all companies operating in Libya, opening the way for the other oil producers and for the subsequent rises of the 1970s.

Considered a hard liner, Jalloud (from the Magariha tribe) was the second most powerful man in the Libyan regime for over two decades. After several disagreements with Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (from the Gaddadfa tribe), Jalloud fell out of favour in August 1993, having been replaced by Captain Mohammad Emsied al-Majdoub al-Gaddafi as the general coordinator of the Revolutionary Committees. [ Gaddafi’s Intelligence and security Agencies in the Nineties, in [http://www.justice4libya.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=172 Libyans4Justice] ] Allegations that the Magariha backed the coup attempt against the regime by officers of the Warfalla tribe in October 1993 led to Gaddafi's order to place Jalloud under house arrest. [ Libya - Tribal Rivalries (digital document), in "APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map", published by Pam Stein/Input Solutions on October 14, 2002.]

The two Libyan suspects extradited to the Netherlands in the Lockerbie case, Abdel Baset Al Migrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, belonged to an important branch of Jalloud's Magariha tribe. Jalloud was understood to have resisted the idea of extradiction. [ Libya - The Political Perspective: Will Qadhafi Regime Survive?, in "APS Review Oil Market Trends", July 2, 2001.]

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