URGENT / Sadrist Trend plans to raise case against Gaddafi

BAGHDAD  / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Shiite Sadrist Trend has announced on Monday its intention to raise a legal case against Libyan Leader, Muammar Gaddafi, under charges of having been behind the disappearance of the Lebanese Shiite Clergyman Moussa al-Sadr.   “The issue of the disappearance of Sayid Moussa al-Sadr shall remain to be a point of discussion inside the political commission of the Sadrist Trend and its Leadership,” the Sadrist Legislature, Rafe’a Abdul-Jabbar told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that Moussa al-Sadr “has not been a Lebanese or Islamic Symbol, but a humanitarian symbol in general. “Sadr had managed in the 1970s of the last century to bring together Muslims and Christians on one side and the Shiites and Sunnis of Lebanon on the other,” he added.   Moussa al-Sadr had visited Libya on August 25, 1978, accompanies by Sheikh Mohammed Yaaqub and the Journalist, Abbas Badriddin, to hold a meeting with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and his contacts with the outer world outside Libya had been cut, whilst he was seen in Libya with his said two companions for the last time on August 31, 1978.   An international fuss had taken place after the disappearance of Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions, who had flown from Western Tripoli for Italy in 1978, on board an Italian Airlines plane.   The Italian government had official informed the Lebanese government and the High Shiite Islamic Council in Lebanon, along with the governments of Syria and Iran, that Imam al-Sadr and his two companions had not entered the Italian territories and had not passed through them on “transit.”   Noteworthy is that the Shiites in Lebanon have shouldered Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan regim with having been behind the disappearance of Moussa al-Sadr.   SKH (TR)/SR 472