14 Facts About Abdessalam Jalloud

Abdessalam Jalloud was born on 15 December 1944 and is a Libyan former politician and military officer who served as the Prime Minister of Libya from 16 July 1972 to 2 March 1977, under the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

Abdessalam Jalloud was Minister of Treasury from 1970 until 1972.

Major Abdessalam Jalloud entered the military academy of Benghazi where they formed the hard core of the "free officers" who staged a military coup in September 1969, launching the Libyan revolution.

In September 1970, Abdessalam 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.

In March 1970, six months after the Libyan revolution, Abdessalam Jalloud went to Beijing to build bilateral ties and evaluate areas of potential scientific cooperation between Libya and the People's Republic of China.

In 2011, Abdessalam Jalloud denied attempting to buy nuclear weapons from China.

Magariaf was killed in the accident; Abdessalam Jalloud recovered after being hospitalized briefly.

Abdessalam Jalloud was the second most powerful man in Libya for over two decades.

Abdessalam Jalloud played a key role in preventing the handover of Pan Am Flight 103 suspect Abdelbaset al-Megrahi because Megrahi was from his tribe.

On 19 August 2011, during the Libyan Civil War, it was reported that Abdessalam Jalloud had defected to the rebel forces opposing Gaddafi and was on his way from Zintan to the Tunisian island of Djerba from where departed to Italy.

On 21 August 2011, Abdessalam Jalloud was interviewed by Al-Jazeera from his exile in Italy, where he called Gaddafi a "tyrant" and "false prophet" and called on Libyans to defect from the Gaddafi regime before it was too late.

Abdessalam Jalloud claimed that he had tried to leave Libya 18 times during the Libyan Civil War before he managed to flee and denied reports that his defection was assisted by foreign diplomats, foreign intelligence agents, or Italian oil company Eni.

In 2017 a Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant for Abdessalam Jalloud regarding the disappearance of the Iranian Shiite Imam Musa Sadr, founder of the Lebanese Shiite Amal Movement, in Libya in 1978 Abdessalam Jalloud, who was in charge of Libya's Lebanon and Syria files at the time of Sadr's appearance, claimed he knew nothing about Sadr's fate and that Gaddafi refused to bring up the subject.

In 2021, Abdessalam Jalloud published his memoir through the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies.