Head of Tripoli's supreme military council Abdelhakim Belhaj stressed that “reliable information” indicates that missing Imam Moussa al-Sadr is buried in a “farm” south of the Libyan capital.
“We previously received information that Imam al-Sadr was moved to Sabha and then buried in al-Qalaa neighborhood,” Belhaj told BBC Arabic.
However, he said: “New information indicates that he is (buried) in a farm.”
“We are following up the information and we want to know the truth, which will be declared at the right time,” Belhaj told BBC.
BBC journalist Feras Kilani was preparing a report about a farm where Moammar Gadhafi’s forces had detained and beat him up along with the BBC news team that was trying to reach the strife-torn western city of Zawiya in March.
Kilani was surprised during the shooting of the documentary that a special security unit burst into the area with equipment set to discover mass graves.
The unit tried to stop the BBC team from filming.
The report said that the “farm that was being probed includes bodies for Libyan opposition members and African figures.”
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 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.
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