Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Masour is to visit Libya next week in order to follow up the probe into the case of Imam Sayyed Moussa as-Sadr.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Masour is to visit Libya next week in order to follow up the probe into the case of Imam Sayyed Moussa as-Sadr.

Lebanese daily an-Nahar quoted Mansour as saying that he will “stay in Libya until the mission is fully accomplished.”
“I will remain there without specifying the time of [my return]… and we are counting that this visit would yield [positive] results,” the minister added.

Mansour will be accompanied by a Lebanese delegation including Imam Sadr’s son,  Sadr ad-Din as-Sadr.

Imam Sadr was appointed in 1969 as the first head of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council (SISC). In 1974 he founded the Movement of the Disinherited to press for better economic and social conditions for his people. He established a number of schools and medical clinics throughout southern Lebanon, many of which are still in operation today.

In August 1978, al-Sadr, Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine departed for Libya to meet with government officials. The three were never heard from again. It is widely believed that the Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi ordered Imam Sadr’s abduction.