By David Sadler — globeecho.com — Well-informed Lebanese sources denied all information that spoke of the imminent release of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and stressed that “this misleading information coincides with the anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Musa al-Sadr and his two companions, to pressure the Lebanese authorities to release Gaddafi, the son who is arrested in Lebanon.” Since 2015″.

The sources admitted that “negotiations were launched months ago between Hannibal’s lawyer and the follow-up committee on the al-Sadr case, but they reached a dead end.” She revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Lebanese side ” pledged to release Gaddafi the son, in exchange for providing accurate information about the fate of al-Sadr and his two companions and reaching them, but Hannibal insisted that only Abd al-Salam Jalloud knows al-Sadr’s fate, and that his father Muammar al-Qathafi did not meet the imam and that the latter And his two companions left Libya for Rome and disappeared there.” The sources asserted that “Hannibal is not only accused of concealing information, but is accused of being responsible for the fate of al-Sadr and his two companions.”

Meanwhile, there was news in Libya about the imminent release of Hannibal, according to a deal made by his brother, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, but Khaled Al-Zaidi, the latter’s lawyer, denied this altogether. Al-Zaidi said, in statements reported by local media yesterday, that “the news reported by the French magazine (John Afrique) is (completely false)”. The magazine quoted what it described as the Iraqi-French adviser of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, Suha al-Badri, as saying that Hannibal’s release is “imminent, after paying a bail of $150,000 to the Lebanese authorities, provided that he remains there until his trial.”

However, Al-Zaidi said, according to the “Libya Press” news agency, that Al-Badri “is not part of Dr. Saif Al-Islam’s work team, and does not hold the status of an advisor to him, as the magazine reported.”