Lebanese judge Zahir Hamada has issued an arrest warrant for Moussa Koussa. He is accused of kidnapping and impersonating Shiite leader Musa Al-Sadr, Al-Ain news portal reported.

Koussa is a former Libyan intelligence chief who had served under Gaddafi.

Following a visit to Libya in 1978, Musa Al-Sadr went missing with two of his companions.

Earlier this year, Hannibal Gaddafi mentioned Koussa’s involvement in Al-Sadr’s case during an ongoing investigation with him.

Hannibal defended his father’s innocence regarding this case and stated that the two individuals involved were the former prime minister Abdessalam Jalloud and Moussa Koussa.

According to Hannibal, Jalloud forced a house arrest on Al-Sadr in Janzur. A Libyan officer, Moussa Koussa, and a third person impersonated Al-Sadr and his two companions then travelled to Italy. He also mentioned that Jalloud helped destabilize Libya in many ways: sabotaging relations with Egypt under Anwar Sadat, involvement in the war with Chad, and the kidnapping of Al-Sadr. 

Koussa is also a suspect in planning a failed Qatari assassination attempt on King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. It is possible that Doha is putting Koussa under house arrest so that no information can be extracted from him regarding the case, Okaz newspaper reported.

After defecting from Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, Doha gave Koussa a safe haven on its land. The UK had asked the Qatari government to deliver Koussa to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes he committed under Gaddafi as well as his involvement in supplying weapons to the Irish Republican Army. 

After the fall of Gaddafi in 2011, BBC reporters located Koussa in a large hotel in Doha.