By Hadi Fornaji.
Tunis, 20 July 2017:
The son of Libya’s revered fighter against Italian colonialism in the 1920s, Omar Mukhtar, visited the Benghazi headquarters of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company on Monday The 96-year-old Mohamed Omar Mukhtar was welcomed by AGOCO chairman Mohamed Ben Shatwan, the head of the parallel eastern National Oil Corporation, Naji Maghrabi, and other members of the AGOCO board.
The self-effacing Mohamed, who lives in Bengahzi, became one of the heroes of the revolution in 2011, supporting it with visits to revolutionaries on the front line at Ajdabiya and to the injured in hospitals.
Mohamed saw his father for the last time when he was just six. He was sent to Egypt for safety with the rest of the family. He was there when Omar Mukhtar was hanged. He came back to Libya as a member of the Senussi forces in 1943.
He is viewed today as the equivalent of a living national treasure.
