Franklin Lamb, Beirut
Abbas Badrelddin with Sadr |
Yaacoub siting with Alsadr on the floor |
I continued to hear rumors in and outside of Libya about what became of the trio but only starting in the summer of 2011 did I begin a focused research project with the cooperation of a few Libyans I had met during the old days at the “Secretariat.” To my pleasant surprise, my three best friends had become high ranking officials during the past two decades and agreed to help me solve this historic mystery since, like Saif al Islam Gaddafi, they had come to believe “ It is time to finish with the Sadr-Yaacoub file and the events surrounding the cover-up”. A few are, post August 23, 2011, the day Tripoli was overrun by anti-Gaddafi forces, laying low in Egypt and Maghreb countries and two are in Libyan jails awaiting “trial”.
First national sieze fire |
With President Abd alnasser |
Following the attack of April 13, 1975 at Ein el Rommaneh on a bus carrying Palestinian refugees, which massacre killed 30 and sparked the 16 year Lebanese Civil War, Sheik Yaacoub along with a Christian leader Dany Chamoun risked their lives, in an attempt to stop the Civil War by dismantling barricades along the red line of Mirror (Mraya) Street near Chiyeh working to promote harmony between the Christian and Muslim communities.
In Algeria |
Research in Lebanon and Libya including several interviews with some with firsthand knowledge, has revealed that Sheik Yaacoub’s historic role in the Shia Renaissance has been kept largely out of the public spotlight for political reasons. In point of fact, Sheik Yaacoub worked hand in hand with Imam Musa Sadr, who together founded Lebanon’s National Resistance.
Yaacoub was simply the shadow and ‘secret box’ of Imam Sadr in the Shia awakening in the 1970’s.
This fact was clearly underlined by the testimony of leading Shia leaders in Lebanon who, after 33 years, recently paid public tribute to the still missing much esteemed Sheik who at 67 years is still relatively young. Today there is speculation in Lebanon by some who know him well that were Sheik Yaacoub to appear, he might reveal many historic secrets. It raises the question whether the return of Sheik Yaacoub would be welcomed by some Lebanese politicians, mainly from the Shia community, since they fear his revelations would shed light on the motivations of some who have worked to keep his vast work and contributions from public view.
“a simple repetition of the words of Sheik Yaacoub can identify very clearly the cause I belong to and the cause he sacrificed and lived for. In his all Mohammad Yaacoubs words we see him carrying the anxiety and worry of the poor and the powerless of the deprived. He always sought to crystallize their cause and bringing from the shadows of denial to the real world.”
“Our beloved Sheik Mohammad Yaacoub who as partner with Imam Sadr summoned the Lebanese Resistance to defend Lebanon against the Zionist invaders.” Ambassador Roknabadi delivered a clarion call “In name of Mohammad Yaacoub we renew our demand to uncover the mystery of this humanitarian case, the disappearance of Musa Sadr, Mohammad Yaccoub and journalist Abbas Badr Eddine.”
Franklin Lamb is doing research in Lebanon. He is reachable c\o fplamb@gmail.com
He is the author of The Price We Pay: A Quarter-Century of Israel’s Use of American Weapons Against Civilians in Lebanon.
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