Libya said it was ready to cooperate with Lebanon in order to unveil the fate of Imam Sayyed Moussa as-Sadr who went missing upon arrival in Tripoli in 1978.

Libya said it was ready to cooperate with Lebanon in order to unveil the fate of Imam Sayyed Moussa as-Sadr who went missing upon arrival in Tripoli in 1978.

The ruling National Transitional Council was "ready to form a joint commission with the Lebanese to investigate" what happened to Sadr, said Fathi Baja, head of political affairs at the NTC.
Baja also said that Libya’s new rulers had no information about Imam Sadr’s fate.

"NTC members, including its president Mustafa Abdel Jalil, have no information about the circumstances of the disappearance and what happened to Imam Moussa al-Sadr and those who accompanied him," said Baja.
He said some clues of their case could possibly be found in files obtained by the new rulers which belonged to the intelligence, foreign affairs and police authorities of the previous regime.

On the other hand, Baja dismissed recent reports that al-Sadr had died of natural causes in a prison cell in 1998.
"There is no information about that. Everything that was said is a rumor. There is no evidence," he said.
A Lebanese official delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, arrived in Tripoli on Wednesday, in a bid to discuss the case of Imam Sadr.

Imam Sadr was in 1969 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 former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi ordered Imam Sadr’s abduction.