BEIRUT:
Investigations into the fate of influential Lebanese Imam Musa Sadr by Libyan
authorities are complete and reveal important details of the case, the chairman
of Libya’s National Transitional Council said in an interview to be aired later
this week.
“Investigations
conducted by Libya’s judiciary into the circumstances of missing Imam Musa Sadr
and his two companions Sheikh Mohammad Yacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine
in 1978 will reveal for the first time important details,” Mustafa Abdul-Jalil,
the chairman of the Libyan Transitional Council, told Al-Arabiya station in a
preview of the interview aired Wednesday.
“Investigations
have been finalized from our side and we are waiting from the Lebanese
authorities to declare the DNA results of a sample of a dead body which is
thought to be that of Imam Sadr, and we already provided them [Lebanese authorities]
with this sample,” the Libyan official said.
Sadr,
a charismatic leader and one of the pioneers of Shiite empowerment in Lebanon,
Yaacoub and Badreddine disappeared in Libya in August 1978 while on an official
visit to the North African country.
In
April 2012, Abdul-Jalil said Libyan officials had nearly certain information
that the remains of Sadr were found in a mass grave that was discovered
following the liberation of the capital Tripoli.
But
Lebanon’s foreign minister, Adnan Mansour, responded by saying that
Abdul-Jalil’s statements weren’t accurate.
Mansour
added that during his most recent visit to Libya to follow up on the Sadr case,
he agreed with the authorities there not to announce any news on the issue
before investigations are finalized.
The
relationship between Lebanon and Libya had been severed under the late Moammar
Gadhafi’s rule over the case of Sadr and but reversed under the National
Transitional Council.
The full interview with
Abdul-Jalil will be aired Friday.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Jun-21/177604-libya-finalizes-probe-into-case-of-missing-imam-sadr.ashx#axzz1yLGY74xp
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