Mustafa Kharoubi

Mustafa al-Kharoubi (; 1939 – 16 July 2015), also transliterated as Kharubi, was a Libyan general and politician under Muammar Gaddafi. He was part of Gaddafi's inner circle. A classmate of Gaddafi, Kharoubi served as envoy to Arab countries, but became increasingly sidelined from politics in the 1990s. He died on 16 July 2015, but there were multiple accounts regarding his cause of death.

Biography Kharoubi was born in Matred, near Surman. He was classmates with Gaddafi and Abdessalam Jalloud while they attended school in Sabha in 1961. They later attended the Benghazi Military University Academy together. He served as deputy chief of staff under chief of staff Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr.

He later served as head of military intelligence and Gaddafi's envoy to Arab countries until the 1990s.

Starting in the 1990s, Kharoubi was increasingly sidelined in the Gaddafi regime. No charges were filed against him.