Libya offers billion dollars to lock Ayat Mousa As-Sadr file

By: Sultan Ahmed

KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti Ar-Rai Al-Aam newspaper reported citing foreign officials and a Shia cleric that Libya has recently offered a financial suggestion for the solution of Ayatullah Mousa As-Sadr case.

Ayatullah Mousa As-Sadr and his two companions - journalist Abbas Badreddin and Sheikh Muhammad Yaqub - were kidnapped in Libya 26 years ago and their fate is a unknown to-date.

The officials and the cleric speaking on condition of anonymity told the daily that Libya proposed to pay billion dollars or more for the solution of this case, and that Ayatullah As-Sadr was alive till 1990 according to sources.

“We had confirmed information that Ayatullah As-Sadr was not killed, but put in prison, and till the beginning of 1990 many African leaders, whom we had asked to contact Qaddafi, told us that he is alive,” the cleric said.

He added: “And actually we contacted one of known international mafias with their ability to reach where other could not reach, and they brought us certain information that As-Sadr is alive.”

Ar-Rai Al-Aam asked the cleric, can one trust on mafia information about As-Sadr and what gives us surety that mafia has not invented such information? The Shia official replied: “We have got sound recordings of Ayatullah As-Sadr during his talks with the ones who met him.”

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