Mohammad al-Bargathi

Mohammad al-Bargathi was the defence minister of Libya from December 2012 to 7 May 2013. Who offered to resign in May 2013 after failing to bring militias under control, he was sacked by the PM Ali Zeidan in June ^[1] He was replaced by Abdullah al-Thanay.^[2] Previously, he was commander of the air force in Benghazi before retiring on a government pension in 1994 and defected from Gaddafi's government in the 1980s after serving as Libya's ambassador to India.^[3]