Ibrahim al-Hamdi
| Ibrahim al-Hamdi | |
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| President of North Yemen | |
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In office 13 June 1974 – 11 October 1977 |
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| Prime Minister |
Mohsin Ahmad al-Aini Abdul Latif Dayfallah (Acting) Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani |
| Preceded by | Abdul Rahman al-Iryani |
| Succeeded by | Ahmad al-Ghashmi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 Qa'atabah District, Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen |
| Died | 11 October 1977 Sana'a, Yemen Arab Republic |
| Political party | None (Military) |
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| Allegiance |
 North Yemen
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| Years of service | 1956–1978 |
| Rank | Lieutenant colonel |
| Battles/wars | |
Lieutenant-Colonel Ibrahim al-Hamdi (1943 – October 11, 1977) (Arabic: إبراهيم الحمدي) was the leader of a military coup d'etat in Yemen Arab Republic that overthrew the regime of President Abdul Rahman al-Iryani on June 13, 1974. After the revolt, he was President of the Military Command Council that governed the country. During his rule, he cemented the central government's control over the country, planned on ending tribal loyalty, and Yemen's medieval social classes by proclaiming all Yemenis as equal. He also improved relations with Saudi Arabia.
Ibraham was born at the Thila, Amran. His oldest brother said that Ibrahim was in one day of his early childhood playing near the pond filled with water in his father Mohammed Al-Hamdi. When he approached more to the edge, and began to touch water when he saw his image on the surface of the water net pool, then he tried to save that drowning man who faced because of his childhood innocence, causing him to slide in the pool, luckily some of his family members were there to save him after his stomach filled of water. In his adulthood - specifically in its infancy- when he was an associate for his father impartial judge learned him everything about Islamic law while he was studying in the Aviation College to become a pilot, but did not complete that studies and continued working with his father as a judge in court of Dhamar in the reign of Imam Ahmed Yahya Hamid al-Din where has raised a lot of controversy wonders and attention to his smart skills at the same time.
Then he became in the era of President Abdullah as-Sallal the commander of the commandos, then the responsible for the western, eastern and central provinces in 1972 then he was promoted to become the Deputy Prime Minister for Internal Affairs, then he was appointed to the position of the higher representative Commander of the Armed Forces, then on 13 June 1974 he was an effective member of the officers who ran the white military coup overthrewing the Judge Abdul Rahman al-Iryani in the revolutionary correction movement of June 13, 1974 and handed over all the president's and the member's of the republican council authorities to the military forces which represented in the leadership of the general and senior officers mentioned: Ahmad Ghashmi, Yahya Mutawakil, Mujahid Abu Shawareb, Ali Al-Shibh, Hammoud Pedder, Ali Alilla'a, AED Abu meat, Ali Abu lohoum, and added later Abdaziz Abdul Ghani and Abdullah Abdulalim.
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