Report: Syria Requests Lebanese Authorities to Release Hannibal Gadhafi
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
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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14 December 2015, 10:21
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His testimony would be " I was only a small child back then but I remember a militia head dressed as a religious man used to visit my late father begging for money and arms to kill Christians in Lebanon"
14 December 2015, 13:41
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He was not kidnapped by anti Assad militia, there was a tip from Assad to Amal to interrogate him and beat him but keep him alive. Remember ghadaffi and hafeZ daddy were allies in the 30 years war in Lebanon. The question is what was he doing in Syria. Did he transfer his daddy gold, money and arms to the Syrian regime so that the latter can demand his release.
14 December 2015, 15:25
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This kidnapping had nothing to do with al Sadr. Al Sadr was killed by orders from Iran.... Hezbollah and Assad are aware of this.
This kidnapping was likely a shakedown to obscond some of the Gadhafi loot.
14 December 2015, 16:07
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its a shame, respectable families from Zahle are married to such scum.
14 December 2015, 17:22
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"Hannibal is married to Lebanese lingerie model Aline Skaff."
LOL! That explains it all: Mo Kaddhafi killed Sadr because the latter thought the girl should put on a hijab.
Akh; where would the world of humour be without the Middle East?
