Lebanese prosecutor: Libya's Gadhafi should get death sentence

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Lebanese prosecutor is seeking the death sentence for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and six other Libyan officials over the disappearance of a top Lebanese Shiite cleric 30 years ago, judicial officials said Wednesday. But the judicial officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, acknowledged that the move is largely symbolic because it's unlikely Gadhafi would stand trial in Lebanon. The case has been a long-standing sore issue in Lebanon, where authorities blame Gadhafi and his aides for the disappearance of Imam Moussa al-Sadr and his two companions during a trip to Libya in 1978. Libya insists that al-Sadr and the two aides left its territory on a flight to Rome at the end of the visit and suggests the imam was a victim of an inter-Shiite power struggle.