IRAN: IMAM MUSA SADR'S WHEREABOUTS

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• Publication Date: September 19, 1980

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19 September 1980
MEMORANDUM
IRAN: IMAM MUSA SADR'S WHEREABOUTS
Imam Musa Sadr was last seen in Tripoli, Libya on 31
August 1978. Libyan officials claim he left Libya on that
date on Alitalia flight 881 for Rome and they claim that his
baggage was discovered at the Holiday Inn in Rome several
days later when he failed to contact friends in the city.
Official and private Italian contacts of the US Embassy in
Rome claim he never arrived in Rome.
report that Libyan leader
Qadhafi was unhappy with Musa Sadr because the Shia leader
had misspent and misappropriated funds given by the Libyans
to him tf) support his Amal (Hope) movements in southern
Lebanon.I differ on what happend to him in
August 1978. Some say he was detained for interrogation by
the Libyans and killed either by accident or design. Other
report that he was detained and remained a prisoner
in Libya.
There are a wide variety of other rumors about Musa
Sadr's whereabouts. Some claim he was killed by SAVAK, CIA,
Israeli intelligence or some rival Lebanese group. None of
these claims seem credible.
most
local observers including Arab and toreign dipiomatS believe
Musa Sadr was killed by the Libyans. None of these observers
has definite proof of this but most bvse it on conversations
with local Libyan officials
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