WI - the Libyan Senussi survive?

The Senussi were a resistance movement against the Italian colonization in modern-day Libya where they managed to secure a series of victories against the Italians prior to the 30s. Unfortunately, they'd be wiped out in the Pacification of Libya in which Fascist Italy ruthlessly pacified their Italian Libyan colony and established full control.

However, what if the Senussi resistance movement remained intact in the aftermath of the Pacification of Libya? How could they remain intact? How would this change future events?
 
By definition the Pacification would only have an aftermath after the Senussi were subdued as an effective resistance movement. Otherwise, they're still there and in need of pacifying, which nessecitates further military crackdowns.
 
By definition the Pacification would only have an aftermath after the Senussi were subdued as an effective resistance movement. Otherwise, they're still there and in need of pacifying, which nessecitates further military crackdowns.
How could the Senussi survive to eventually become an effective resistance movement by World War 2?
 
How could the Senussi survive to eventually become an effective resistance movement by World War 2?

Don't openly resist prior and go underground. Then, during WW II make an appeal to the British from bases deep within the Sahara to harrass Italian logistics and ask for supplies to help do so (Explosives to blow up railways, ect.)
 
Don't openly resist prior and go underground. Then, during WW II make an appeal to the British from bases deep within the Sahara to harrass Italian logistics and ask for supplies to help do so (Explosives to blow up railways, ect.)
Could they function similarly to the OTL Ethiopian Patriots?
 
How could the Senussi survive to eventually become an effective resistance movement by World War 2?

They did survive. Lots of Senussi were refugees in Egypt; the British recruited several thousand into the Libyan Arab Force, which served under Eighth Army.

Inside Libya... the Senussi were extremely valuable and reliable collaborators with British agents, assisting in spying and sabotage operations. Major Vladimir "Popski" Peniakoff was one of these agents. At one point, he was camped a few miles outside the city of Derna with over 100 escaped Allied PoWs, who had to be fed and sheltered by the Senussi; the Axis never knew they were there. One disgruntled Arab tried to inform; when Italian search parties came out, Popski with the aid of the Senussi evaded them completely. The Italians gave up after several days, and the would-be traitor got his throat cut later. The ex-PoWs were evacuated to Egypt by the LRDG.

And after the war, the Senussi leader Idris became King of Libya.
 
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They did survive. Lots of Senussi were refugees in Egypt; the British recruited several thousand into the Libyan Arab Force, which served under Eighth Army.

Inside Libya... the Senussi were extremely valuable and reliable collaborators with British agents, assisting in spying and sabotage operations. Major Vladimir "Popski" Peniakoff was one of these agents. At one point, he was camped a few miles outside the city of Derna with over 100 escaped Allied PoWs, who had to be fed and sheltered by the Senussi; the Axis never knew they was there. One disgruntled Arab tried to inform; when Italian search parties came out, Popski with the aid of the Senussi evaded them completely. The Italians gave up after several days, and the would-be traitor got his throat cut later. The ex-PoWs were evacuated to Egypt by the LRDG.

And after the war, the Senussi leader Idris became King of Libya.
Perhaps some kind of Libyan government-in-exile headed by Idris and Free Libyan Forces could be established in Cairo. I was asking if the Senussi could survive relatively intact as a more underground resistance movement in the interwar years.
 
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