the meeting between the a man and gadhafi occurred in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. according to our solders sun it was not amicable. we had. shaved head. between one nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred seventy seven a sort of intensified his efforts to end the lebanese war. many lebanese admired his courage and charisma but the found it difficult to mediate in a country so divided. in march nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon under the pretext of crushing the p.l.o. . the united nations issued resolution four to five calling on israel to

withdraw immediately. israel flout to the un resolution and set up what it called a security zone in south lebanon. toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a booming dnd recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed. contacted gadhafi the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more

than. me in the. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about gadhafi is unpredictability. but. yeah i mean i'm young so horny and work through. it or. lose them and they had their food i don't know. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. is eldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. and she.

painted us. that would us me. to him without it was us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from the. us. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. and now we are. more. and more came to my.

cell phone. cell phone or a while and. on the twenty fifth of all this nine hundred seventy eight. and his two companions lead the route for libya. at eight pm n.e.a. flights landed at tripoli international airport. a southerner and his two companions that disembarked from the plane no one was there to meet them. at the terminal building they were eventually met by. head of the libyan foreign communication bureau. al jazeera interviewed who millard a protocol employee of the libyan foreign communication bureau who remembers the arrival of the man and he's two companions.

will. work. better for the. candidate. if. we. do learn the new c. was libya's intelligence chief and would become one of these closest confidants over the years. when tripoli fell to rebel fighters in two thousand and eleven seduces office was ransacked many classified documents were lost or destroyed amid the chaos of the downfall of gadhafi regime any hope of discovering

a paper trail in our investigation into the disappearance of mr al souther and his companions was made more difficult. i mean you stuck a ballistic about. ten feet on each step but at the feet of the bottom of the. libyan officials left the airport with their lebanese guests. and his two companions were driven to the i shot the hotel in tripoli where they would stay. this is where the shot the hotel one stood. all the remains a rusty signpost and scattered concrete ruins.

and. in two thousand and seven the hotel was demolished another element in the story of assad there in libya that has disappeared. the ashanti hotel had been among the classiest in tripoli as a place hosting foreign visitors it was heavily monitored by the libyan intelligence service visit to libya coincided with the anniversary celebrations of the september first revolution in one nine hundred sixty nine when gadhafi had seized power. government employee who some milat had been assigned to be and his two companions during their visit. to the front office of the. little kind of healthy. lead now let me have the. only answer. we should that be has and that is in the

back of stuff out. and i'll stop there and also the. team caught up and what i said marked up well let me stop there. so too and i will in my muscle so that you see out of the. in the bill itself. be a comedy show one of. the foreign communication bureau who's close to the hotel once again who some notice the qusay saddam received. stock will in. america be walking from one american model much the long. hall of the clock the shuttle only. but look of the filo. how to be the way he.

and charlotte. feel. now that i will not. fail. spent five days waiting for an appointment with. the libyan government restricted the free movement of the a man and his companions. and they will provided no means of communication with the outside world. in lebanon the mom's family began to worry. they me all. harm with food. with. my.

highly paid that. can kill myself will it really does. to your million caylee. been. gone. on the twenty ninth of august one nine hundred seventy eight jordanian journalists shack joe harry arrived at the hotel to cover the anniversary of libya's revolution he remembers meeting the mom who did not seem to him at ease. to learn from book to live the our form. so.

that we will know who those who are and if you jimi. husseini offers a reason why the a mom may have seemed anxious to be. perhaps the in the phone call to bring news of the meeting he was waiting for. for the third time the meeting was postponed. the patience of the him was wearing thin. but. what.

can be. more it. is other than the. american being. i didn't have that. this. company was part of the official lebanese delegation in libya to attend the anniversary celebrations and which meant gadhafi. because if. so what how is. that. what we. care. about.

we. believe alert but. one of them either. we all. mean. so. on august thirty first jordanian journalist joe henry met in the hotel lobby. we had be with. course.

for a few more. for. this to. work . with us. and the who were there. to earth and look where you were. and. who. you were there you see. you know there was. a saw there wanted to go to paris where his wife was in hospital this meant to missing celebrations for the anniversary of gadhafi september first revolution. hell. i would let fear away at me. allow to lead.

to. your idea. from the shot. from book. deal with shot see it really needs a skinnier than the. teen. says. the minor. brief conversation between. diem and dean suggests our souther was heading to meet gadhafi that day. after checking out the journalist i'll show her in the lobby. she was the

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in march nine hundred seventy eight lebanon was invaded by israel. souther charismatic leader of lebanon's shia muslim sect sought regional assistance . on august the twenty fifth nine hundred seventy eight southern traveled to libya to meet muammar gaddafi. six days later on august thirty first an official motorcade left tripoli's shouty hotel carrying him. and two colleagues shaikh mohammed and journalist. the three men we never seen again. question soon began to be asked about what had happened to them and whether they had actually made the libyan leader or not.

several days after their disappearance libyan government official who some milat who had been assigned to be ma'am and his companions was visited by an agent from libyan intelligence agent was keen to assure milat that a meeting between the a ma'am and gadhafi had never occurred or be in a manner of humans in. how the shafts. a mock up of being in the. middle of a saucy. attack if. you're from any other cuts suffered a misstep. took over the home in suffolk. for well they're not letting your carbon aloft at the moment of the japanese have a shock in the model. of their.

business but the hospital. but the. the last known sighting of the a man and his two companions was them a leaving the hotel in tripoli on august thirty first nine hundred seventy eight witnesses who saw them leave claim they were being taken to meet get happy in his private tent. it's difficult to track down anyone who was present at any such meeting but reports are filtered out that there was indeed a meeting between the m.m. and the colonel and that the meeting did not go well.

former libyan military advisor. was tripoli's prosecutor at the time of the americans visit he heard several reports of the meeting and the topics discussed. feel he had. what he. had committed. and had it. had it. was a member of libya's revolutionary council in one nine hundred sixty nine he

confirms the story of a heated exchange over religion where suddenly. female . lawyer husseini confirms the truth is hard to ascertain without conclusive evidence . that the. how long. it talian journalist stefan yearly miti has followed the case of our

solders disappearance she does not believe there was murdered on a point of religious dispute frank come in. why has an italian journalist been following the case of a lebanese a man who disappeared in libya. the answer there is an italian connection to the story three tickets were booked in the name of. and his two companions alitalia flight age eighty one heading from tripoli to rome. the libyan authorities requested urgent entrance visas for us and yacoob from the italian embassy in tripoli their french be uses issued in beirut were cancelled.

there is evidence that passports of a solder and his companions were altered. on math evening of august the thirty first nine hundred seventy eight a southerner and his two companions were driven to the departure terminal. of tripoli airport. exit stamps found later in the passports were dated on that day. but did they actually leave libya. what is known is that three men carrying their passports and bearing their names did board the flight to rome. shortly before midnight the alitalia plane landed in rome airport. men carrying the passports of a member souther and shaikh mohammed who had entry visa stamped.

he a transit to use it was issued for the man carrying the passport of. his passport has to this day never been recovered. the three men left the airport after midnight on. the libyan embassy in rome it is believed that the three men spent the night here. the next morning september the first nine hundred seventy eight two men checked in at the holiday inn hotel in rome. one was bearded and dressed in a religious robe the other was in civilian clothes the two men checked in for two rooms and paid in cash for a one week stay at the hotel. ten minutes later the two men were seen leaving the hotel both dressed in civilian clothes and carrying luggage.

ten days after the disappearance of the a man italian police discovered the luggage and passports of other. crew in the hotel in rome. but. something. either. the italian authorities interrogated crew and passengers of the alitalia flight as

well as staff at the airport and the hotel after a nine month investigation in a nine hundred seventy nine the italian authorities concluded that in southern and his two companions had not entered italy the libyan regime continued to insist that a southerner and his two companions had left tripoli for libyan assertions were unconvincing is especially as good kept changing his story. couldn't have how well it. had. a lot of this if you want to treat it mean anything with. the killer massage and they know this about whether. they want to talk a. little more the ball more than even the many. many

. others given what i think of the. we have to really show what we saw at even. though to get a lot of the idea we're going to really going to do what he would never let me leave you. we're under thirty was only an example move. on the muscles of. the lebanese government and the families of those missing remain suspicious of gadaffi declarations they held the libyan leader responsible for the abductions. there were also questions around a possible italian role in the strange affair. and our start up it should be only data antique cars the sport kit he said.

much. of the story would be. all the pertinent to. this incident. for. a year after the disappearance of. other and his two companions the libyan regime machine. details of its preliminary investigation to italian authorities. italy contested the libyan account saying its conclusions were flawed to counter these charges the libyan regime produced employees who testified to the departure of the a man and his two companions from libya. al jazeera met former immigration officer abdurahman go away lawyer who was working in tripoli airport on the night the man and his two companions disappeared. we

went with abdirahman go to his former workplace at the immigration office. it was here in december nine hundred seventy nine that he is then boss called omar kuwait or had ordered him to bear false witness what would your lady. get out of. the mayor. and then. we. feel your.