Ben Khayal was previously the first secretary at the Libyan embassy in Rome in the late 1960s. Bin Khayal served as Libya's First Secretary and Adviser for the Libyan Mission to the United Nations, New York at the UN Security Council during Libya's 1976-1977 membership term. During his term at the UN he also worked in the capacity of Deputy Delegate with Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia. He was also Libya's ambassador to Korea but resigned in 1984 after a gunman fired from the Libyan embassy in London at a protest outside, killing police officer Yvonne Fletcher. After defecting, Bin Khayal joined the ranks of the Libyan National resistance and was later named the Deputy Secretary General of the
National Libyan Alliance. In 2005, after the killing of Kikhia, he served as chairman and later as president for the National Conference of the Libyan Opposition. During the
Libyan Civil War, the Conference declared support for the National Transitional Council and allocated all possible resources towards the service of the nation. ==External links==