Lebanese Planning to Protest Gadhafi”s Visit to U.S.
Lebanese expatriates in the U.S. are reportedly planning a march next week to protest the disappearance of Shiite cleric Imam Moussa Sadr during Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi”s visit.
An Nahar newspaper said Saturday that the protest on Tuesday would coincide with Gadhafi”s participation in the U.N. General Assembly meeting next week.
The demonstrators will raise portraits of Sadr and Lebanese flags only, An Nahar said.
Lebanese Shiite political and religious leaders have blamed Gadhafi for Sadr”s disappearance in 1978.
Libya insists Sadr and his two aides left its territory on a flight to Rome at the end of their visit, and suggests he was a victim of an inter-Shiite power struggle.