1. Nouri Abusahmain is a Libyan politician who served as the President of the General National Congress of Libya from 2013 until the GNC's dissolution in 2016.
12 Facts About Nouri Abusahmain
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Nouri Abusahmain was a major figure on the Islamist side of the Libyan civil war and is the founder of the Libya Revolutionaries Operations Room, which is recognized as a terrorist organization by the Libyan House of Representatives.
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Nouri Abusahmain is reported to have rigged proceedings of the GNC while serving as its president.
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Nouri Abusahmain was originally elected to the GNC as member for Zuwarah.
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Nouri Abusahmain had some support from the Muslim Brotherhood, but stood as an independent candidate.
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Nouri Abusahmain has denied strong links with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Nouri Abusahmain had the support of the Muslim Brotherhood's party, the Justice and Construction Party, in his election.
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Nouri Abusahmain immediately set up an Islamist armed group, the LROR, which attempted an Islamist coup in October 2013.
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Nouri Abusahmain suppressed debates and inquiries which the Islamist part of the GNC did not want, including a debate over his alleged illegal diversion of money towards the LROR.
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Nouri Abusahmain played a part in the constitutional crisis which emerged when Islamist Ahmed Maiteeq was supposedly elected prime minister in a GNC session in April 2014 which was intimidated by armed Islamist militants bursting into parliament.
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Nouri Abusahmain was succeeded by Abu Bakr Baira, the interim head of new parliament.
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Nouri Abusahmain was GNC representative for his Berber hometown of Zuwarah, in the west of the country.