Wissam Bin Hamid was a Libyan jihadist militant and warload.

First Libyan Civil War

Bin Hamid emerged as prominent figure of anti-Gaddafi forces during the First Libyan Civil War in 2011 as the leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated battalion that included militants who had returned from Afghanistan.^[1] In the aftermath of the civil war, Bin Hamid commanded the Libya Shield brigade, deployed by the General National Congress as a buffer.^[2]

Second Libyan Civil War

At the outbreak of the Second Libyan Civil War, Bin Hamid was one of the most prominent leaders of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries (SCBR), a coalition of Islamist and jihadist militant groups^[1] fighting against the forces of Khalifa Haftar.^[3]

Ben Hamid featured prominently in a 2014 video by al-Qa'ida-aligned jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia in Libya (ASL), including sitting next to ASL's leader Muhammad al-Zahawi and praising military successes against Haftar's armies. According to analysts, ASK and SCBR illustrated the degree to which the United States misjudged its allies in Libya.^[3]

Bin Hamid was reportedly killed in a December 2016 airstrike, according to interrogations of the Shura Council's spokesman by Libyan National Army.^[1][4]

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