The Italians succeeded in the conquest of Libya in the year 1911, and their occupation was so unpopular among Libyans during those early years up to the second world war and Libyan Independence in 1947. One of the most famous resistance against the Italian occupation of Libya was the Sanusiya movement, which was headed by Mohammed Ibn Ali as - Senussi (1787-1859) and the most famous resistant movement under Senusiya was the one led by Omar Al- Mukhtar.

Omar Al-Mukhtar, also called "The Lion of the Desert" known among the colonial Italian as Matari of the Mnifa, was the leader of the native resistance in Cyrenaica currently Eastern Libya under the Senussids against the Italian colonization of Libya. He was born on 1858 to a low-income family in the town of Zanzu near Tobruk in the region of Cyrenaica (present-day Libya), he got his early education from a local mosque before continuing his studies for .......

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Watched the movie when I was little.

Brave man.

They later hanged him in Rome