Lebanese authorities to deliver results of Sadr’s DNA: Mustafa Abdul Jalil

Head of the Libyan National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, shared details about judicial investigations into the disappearance of Lebanese Shiite cleric Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions in Libya in 1978.

“We have done our part of the investigations,” he told Al Arabiya’s Political Memory which will air on Friday. “We are now waiting for the Lebanese authorities to announce the DNA results.”

The DNA allegedly belongs to the body believed to be Sadr’s.
Abdul Jalil slammed the late leader Muammar Qaddafi who, he said, wanted to obliterate Libya’s identity and create rifts between members of the same family.

“He also sucked the country dry and stole its resources.”

Abdul Jalil said that Qaddafi’s son Seif al-Islam suggested his name for minister of justice as one of several other officials who were meant to take part in a reform plan.

“This plan was part of another plan to groom Seif al-Islam to inherit the presidency from his father.”

Abdul Jalil said that he had later regretted accepting this position.
He also talked about the Lockerbie incident and explained that Libya handed the two main suspects Abdul Baset al-Megrahi and al-Amin Fahima to Britain because of the sanctions.

“Qaddafi used to pay Megrahi 150,000 Euros per month while he was in jail in return for his silence.”

In the first episode of Political Memory, Abdul Jalil said he would resign from his position following the legislative elections scheduled for July 7.

“I plan to quit politics and go back to the judiciary.”

Abdul Jalil is known for his modesty. The door of residence in the National Interim Council, previously the Guest House Complex, in the capital Tripoli is always open to the people who come see him seeking solutions for their problems in light of the tough conditions through which the country is going.

(Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid)