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Pro-Gaddafi forces commander
Abdel Rahman Abdel Hamid
(
Arabic
:
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) is the son of a sister of the former Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi
. He was a commander of the
pro-Gaddafi forces
fighting in
Sirte
before his capture by
National Transitional Council
forces as they captured strategic places in the city.
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Role in the Libyan civil war
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In the
2011 Libyan civil war
, Abdel Hamid was a commander of a Pro-Gaddafi brigade in Sirte.
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There were reports that previously claimed he had been executed by his own men.
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Two weeks after this event, Al Jazeera broadcast that Abdel Hamid had indeed been captured as he fought in the
Battle of Sirte
.
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