Lebanon commemorates anniversary of Imam Moussa al-Sadr’s disappearance
Marian Saleh
Press TV, Beirut
On the 44th anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr, Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the kidnapping of the prominent Shia cleric was a crime that is a sovereign Lebanese case.
Commenting on the issue of the demarcation of the country’s southern maritime border with the Israeli occupying regime, the house speaker accused the US envoy of buying time.
People from all over the country came to the southern town of Tyre to commemorate the man who was seen as a hope for the oppressed and a reason to stop internal strife.
The only verified fact concerning Imam al-Sadr’s case was that he arrived in the Libyan capital of Tripoli at the end of August 1978 with two companions: Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and the journalist Abbas Badreddine.
Back then, the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had claimed that the three men boarded a flight to Italy on August 31. But al-Sadr and his companions were never seen again.
Many had hoped that the fall of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi would reveal the secrets about the disappearance of Sayyed al-Sadr. But those secrets were buried with the Libyan dictator, which led to a dead-end investigation.
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