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Associated Press “Gaddafi's son freed after Lebanon kidnapping” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/11/former-libyan-leader-muammar-gaddafi-son-kidnapped-lebanon

あの故カダフィ大佐 *1の息子のひとりであるHannibal Gaddafi 氏はシーア派武装組織 Amalに誘拐されていたが、12月11日にレバノンのBaalbek*2で解放された。この誘拐はAmalの創設者のひとりでシーア派のイマームMoussa al-Sadr師に関する情報を求めてのもの。 al-Sadr師は1978年にリビア（トリポリ）に向かう途上で行方を絶ってしまった。

Al-Sadr was one of the pioneers of the Shia movement that has become a force across the Middle East, spurred by the 1979 Islamic revolution in Shia Iran.
Born in the Iranian holy city of Qom, al-Sadr came to Lebanon in 1959 to work for the rights of Shias in the southern port of Tyre. In 1974, a year before Lebanon’s 15-year civil war broke out, al-Sadr founded the Movement of the Deprived, attracting thousands of followers.
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The following year, he established the military wing Amal – Arabic for “hope” and an acronym for the militia’s Arabic name, the Lebanese Resistance Brigades which later fought in Lebanon’s civil war.
Since al-Sadr’s disappearance, Libya has maintained that the cleric and his two traveling companions left Tripoli in 1978 on a flight to Rome and suggested he was a victim of a power struggle among Shias.
Most of al-Sadr’s followers are convinced Muammar Gaddafi ordered al-Sadr to be killed in a dispute over Libyan payments to Lebanese militias.
The Libyan leader was killed by opposition fighters in 2011, ending his four decade rule of the north African country. Even after his death, al-Sadr’s fate is still unknown.

また、al-Sadr師の親族は彼がリビアの獄中でまだ生きていると信じている*3。現在生きているとすれば、87歳になる。
リビアではカダフィ政権崩壊後、スンニー系の原理主義が活性化し、ISISの支店までできている*4。生きているとして、シーア派のイマームにとって、その居心地はカダフィ政権下よりもさらに低下していることは想像に難くない。
ところで、上掲の記事にはHannibal Gaddafi 氏の写真が添えられている。父親に似ているというのは勿論だけど、肉付きのいい野坂昭如！　とも一瞬思ったのだった*5。

*2:See eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek

*3:See eg. Saeed Kamali Dehghan “Lebanon and Iran urge Libyan rebels to probe 33-year-old mystery” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/24/libya-missing-cleric

*4:See eg. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20150420/1429495028