Committee Set Up to Pursue Fate of Imam Musa Sadr
This is according to head of Iraq’s Sadr Movement Muqtada al-Sadr, who said in a tweet that he would not disclose the names of the committee’s members for the time being, Mawazin News reported.
Earlier, he had called for the formation of a committee to reveal the facts about Imam Musa al-Sadr.
“So that his case does not perish, I find that a humanitarian committee to be formed to reveal the facts around the disappearance of the Islamic leader, Sayyed Musa al-Sadr. This committee represents us in this, with full authority to investigate and reveal facts inside Iraq and abroad, hoping that all countries related to this issue, as well as all the people concerned with it, to cooperate mentally, legally and humanely,” al-Sadr said on Twitter Saturday.
Imam Musa Sadr and his two companions Mohammed Yaqoub and Abbas Badreddin were kidnapped in August 1978 during an official visit to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Sadr was scheduled to meet with officials from the government of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
The three were never seen or heard from again and their fate is still unknown even after the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in 2011.
Sadr came from a long line of clerics tracing their ancestry back to Jabal Amel, Lebanon.
He is still regarded as an important political and spiritual leader by the Shia Lebanese community. His status only grew after his disappearance in August 1978, and today his legacy is revered by both Amal and Hezbollah followers.
