Report: Syria Requests Lebanese Authorities to Release Hannibal Gadhafi
Damascus has reportedly demanded that Lebanese authorities release from custody Hannibal Gadhafi, the son of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Monday.
Lebanese authorities received the request to release Hannibal, who was kidnapped in Syria by a Syrian gang at the behest of Lebanese powers, said Lebanese sources to the daily.
They predicted that Hannibal will be released soon after he gives his testimony in the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr.
He was briefly abducted last week in the eastern Bekaa region after being lured from a town in Syria to Lebanon.
He said that his captors demanded "information about Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions."
Later on Friday, he was “handed over to the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch after his captors left him on the Baalbek-Homs international highway near the northern Bekaa town of al-Jamaliyeh.”
Former MP Hassan Yaaqoub, the son of Sheikh Mohammed Yaaqoub who disappeared while accompanying al-Sadr, denied any ties to the kidnap operation.
Hannibal is married to Lebanese lingerie model Aline Skaff.
Sadr, the founder of Lebanon's AMAL Movement, disappeared while on a trip to Libya in 1978.
Security sources told al-Mustaqbal daily on Monday that investigations with Hannibal have not revealed any new lead in Sadr's disappearance.
He is set to give his testimony later on Monday.
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