by independent.co.uk

He is one of the most sought-after prisoners in the world. Since Hannibal Gaddafi was arrested in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley last month, Syria has demanded his return to Damascus; and this week one of the two rival governments in his own country, Libya, has requested his extradition.Both demands were rebuffed by the Lebanese government, which has questions of its own that it wants answered – aside from those raised by the kidnapping, freeing and arrest of Colonel Gaddafi’s fifth son.

Who was the woman, Fatima Assad, who lured him from Syria to Lebanon to be seized? What was he doing in Syria? Could he now reveal what really happened to the Shia cleric Musa al-Sadr, who disappeared 37 years ago during a visit to Libya – at the time under the control of Hannibal’s father.