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Former Soccer Player Leads Libyan Opposition

Former Soccer Player Leads Libyan Opposition

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James M. Dorsey
Mar 13, 2011
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A former striker for Libya’s national soccer team with a passion for Italian soccer, who served until last month as Col. Moammar Gadaffi’s justice minister has emerged as the undisputed leader of the Libyan opposition.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, a soft-spoken lawyer, who heads the opposition National Council in rebel-controlled Benghazi, has no ambition accor…

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