Naharnet - Lebanese Delegation Heads to Libya to Uncover Fate of Imam al-Sadr , October 21, 2011

A Lebanese delegation will head to Libya on Sunday to meet with National Transitional Council officials after the death of ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi, An Nahar newspaper reported.
The delegation will discuss the latest investigations undertaken by the NTC to unveil the fate of missing Imam Moussa al-Sadr, An Nahar said Friday.
Haitham Joumaa, the director-general of the ministry of the displaced, will head the delegation that will include a judge and an officer.
The daily remarked that Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour will go on an official visit later on to Libya for the same cause.
Head of Tripoli's supreme military council Abdelhakim Belhaj stressed in an interview with BBC Arabic that “reliable information” indicates that al-Sadr is buried in a “farm” south of the Libyan capital.
However, a previously published report on an Iranian website said that al-Sadr and his two companions Sheikh Mohammed Yacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine were killed upon their abduction by the Gadhafi regime and their bodies were thrown into the sea after being attached to cement blocks.
In 1978, al-Sadr and his companions flew to Tripoli for a week of talks with Libyan officials. They were never seen or heard from again. The day he was last seen, on Aug. 31, 1978, is still marked annually in Lebanon.
At the time, the previous Libyan regime insisted al-Sadr and his aides left on a flight to Rome at the end of their visit and suggested the imam fell victim to an inter-Shiite power struggle.