For the past few years he has been coach of Misrata's premiership club, Swihli.
At the Hekma hospital in Misrata, a 19-year-old fighter is being rushed into surgery.
Two award-winning photographers have been killed while covering the conflict in the Libyan city of Misrata.
BBC: Tim Hetherington at the Academy Awards on 23 February 2011
But the Misrata faction is also lobbying for one of its own to have the job.
The force includes smaller militias from Misrata, Khums and other small towns in central Libya.
Humanitarian agencies must be given free and unfettered access to Misrata, and other areas affected by fighting.
Few people who came to view Muammar Gaddafi's corpse in Misrata seemed to object to this break with tradition.
Militias from Misrata and Zintan are particularly loth to come under central control.
On Saturday, a coroner in Misrata said he would conduct a post-mortem examination.
The Misrata council official told the BBC that home-made dynamite used for fishing was found on the site of the explosion.
It was transported to Misrata by the fighters who stormed the compound, and put on display as a monument to their victory.
Witnesses said the bodies had been removed late on Monday from the meat storage warehouse in Misrata where they had been on display.
And so by early evening, the usual crowds were gathered outside the Hekma hospital in Misrata, scanning through lists of the dead and wounded.
Mohamed al-Ghattous is believed to have been seized on Sunday in the Ghot al-Roman district as he was driving from his hometown of Misrata.
In Libya, pro-Gaddafhi forces and rebels have reached a stalemate over the city of Misrata and riots rocked Nigeria following a recent presidential election.
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Talking to Ramadan Zarmouh, the commander of the Misrata militia brigades, he denies the charge of abuse entirely, saying there has been no mistreatment.
We spoke to two who had been incarcerated by the Misrata militia in their home city, around 250km (155 miles) from Sirte, but subsequently released.
Two Egyptians have been killed and two injured in an apparent attack on a Coptic church building near the Libyan city of Misrata, officials say.
The church in Dafiniyah, just outside Misrata, is frequented by Egyptians.
Soon we were driving out of Misrata towards the western front - a tentative, stop-and-start process, as we checked each roadblock for news of incoming fire.
Qaddafi must stop his troops from advancing on Benghazi, pull them back from Ajdabiya, Misrata, and Zawiya, and establish water, electricity and gas supplies to all areas.
Differences between groups from cities such as Tripoli, Benghazi and Misrata could get ugly if one or other thinks they have been bested in the power game.
But Fateh Bashagha, the link man for the NTC between Nato and the Misrata rebels, said it was the Nato airstrike that first alerted the rebels to the colonel's attempted escape.
Later, a joint statement by the UK, France and the US demanded that Gaddafi's troops stop their advance on Benghazi and pull back from the towns on Ajdabiya, Misrata, and Zawiya.
It's an unusually quiet Friday evening, and on the long, unkempt beach just west of the western Libyan city of Misrata, dozens of families have gathered by the dunes to watch the waves and the sunset.
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The attack marked the fifth in less than three months against the ICRC in Misrata and Benghazi and led Ishfaq Muhamed Khan, the head of the ICRC's delegation in Libya, to suspend operations in those two cities.
In a repeat of earlier episodes, African statesmen found themselves insisting that the colonel had accepted a ceasefire even as his forces continued to pound Misrata, a rebel-held city in western Libya that has withstood a two-month siege.
The addition to the coalition's armoury this week of American A-10 Thunderbolts and AC-130 gunships, lumbering aircraft equipped with fearsome cannon that can hit targets in built-up areas with less risk than fast jets of killing civilians, could tilt the balance in Misrata and elsewhere.
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