Hussein Darbouk
Hussein Darbouk | |
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| Died | 4 March 2011 Zawiya, Libya |
| Allegiance | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (until 2011) Libyan National Transitional Council (2011) |
| Branch | Libyan Army (until 2011) National Liberation Army (2011) |
| Rank | Colonel |
| Battles / wars | |
Hussein Darbouk was a Libyan military officer and rebel figure during the First Libyan Civil War. He defected to the anti-Gaddafi rebel forces during the first phases of the civil war, and commanded the rebel forces in the First Battle of Zawiya against Gaddafi's forces.
On 4 March, Alaa al-Zawi, an activist in the city of Zawiya announced that the commander of the rebel forces in the city — Hussein Darbouk — was killed in action from an anti-aircraft gun as the Libyan Army's Khamis Brigade bombarded the city's western edges with mortars, heavy machine guns, tanks and anti-aircraft guns, fighting armed residents and defected military units.