Report: Gadhafi shot al-Sadr twice in the chest

Iraqi researcher, historian, and media figure Hamid Abdullah has presented on his YouTube channel highly sensitive details about the alleged final hours of revered Lebanese Shiite cleric Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his companions in Libya in 1978, claiming the presence of documents related to the imam’s disappearance that are supposedly still in Iraq.

The account of events is based primarily on information obtained by the then-Iraqi intelligence services from a Libyan security source with direct ties to Gadhafi's regime.

According to Abdullah, the thread began with a former Libyan colonel and Baathist named Salim al-Hajani, who sought political asylum in Baghdad. He informed Iraqi intelligence that a high-ranking official in the Libyan external security apparatus, Mohammad Ahmad al-Adl, possessed crucial information about Gadhafi's regime.

Consequently, a meeting was arranged between al-Adl and Iraqi officers at the Iraqi embassy in Tunis. According to the account, al-Adl then became an informant for Iraqi intelligence, providing them with various pieces of information, including details related to al-Sadr’s case.

Abdullah states that al-Adl obtained these details from one of Gadhafi's personal female bodyguards. The background to the dispute, according to the narrative in the YouTube program, dates back to a period when Gadhafi's regime was providing financial support to several organizations in Lebanon during the civil war, including al-Sadr’s Amal Movement. At the same time, Gadhafi was seeking to disseminate and promote his "Green Book" outside of Libya. Copies of the book were sent to Lebanon, and al-Sadr read one of them.

The narrative says that al-Sadr was not impressed by what he read. In a private conversation, he described the book as "ridiculous" and its author as a "lunatic." However, Libyan intelligence, which had “infiltrated the Amal Movement,” managed to record al-Sadr's conversation and deliver it to Gadhafi.

On August 25, 1978, the imam arrived in Libya at the invitation of Libyan authorities. According to the account presented by Hamid Abdullah, Gadhafi requested a private meeting with al-Sadr on August 31 at Bab al-Aziziya, excluding his two companions, Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine.

During the meeting, Gadhafi confronted his guest directly with what had been reported to him, asking if he had indeed described the "Green Book" as a ridiculous book. Al-Sadr did not back down or resort to flattery; rather, he “courageously declared his opinion, explaining that the book contained no theory or idea of ​​value.”

Upon hearing al-Sadr's position, Gadhafi lost his temper and unleashed a torrent of harsh words at him, before going so far as to insult his religious turban and throw it to the ground. Gadhafi also accused al-Sadr of being an "Israeli" agent.

Al-Sadr, however, remained calm and responded to Gadhafi by saying that his fate would be hellfire. At this point, Gadhafi became even angrier and ordered his guards to restrain him and take him away.

Abdullah claims that the Libyan leader pursued them, summoned a man named Hosni al-Ahrari, drew his pistol, and fired two shots into al-Sadr's chest. He then handed the pistol to al-Ahrari and ordered him to kill Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub and the journalist Abbas Badreddine, who had already been bound and taken to another location.

Following the murders, Gadhafi and his inner circle faced the challenge of disposing of the bodies and concealing the evidence. Hosni al-Ahrari was ordered to transport the three bodies and bury them in the Bir al-Ghanam area, Hamid Abdullah claims.