Lebanese member of parliament dies at 51
Lebanon, Local, 7/26/2002

A Lebanese official source on Thursday announced the death of member of the Lebanese parliament for Sidon and chairman of the Naserite people organization Mustafa Saad at 51 year old following a hard struggle with cancer.

Saad who used to enjoy great popularity got in the recent legislative elections in the summer of 2000 with the largest number of Lebanese of 211,000 votes of support of the Sunni community he affiliates to, besides the support of both the Shiite and Christians of south Lebanon.

Mustafa started his political life in 1975 upon the assassination of his renowned people's leader, the Naserite member of parliament for Sidon Marouf Saad by bullets during a demonstration in support of demands raised by fishermen. Marouf's assassination was a factor in the spark for the eruption of the civil war in Lebanon 1975- 1990.

In January 1985 as South Lebanon was under the Israeli occupation, Mustafa Saad lost his eight- year old daughter and also his sight in a booby trapped car explosion targeted his house. Following this Israeli aggression which came after a partial Israeli pullout from South Lebanon, Mustafa Saad established the people's liberation army which launched a war at the eastern part of Sidon against the pro Israel "South Lebanon Army (SLA)" militias.

He dissolved that army in 1991, the same did other militias in Lebanon. Saad was elected as a member of the Lebanese parliament in 1992. He was reelected in 1996 and 2000. He has been an opposition for the governments formed by the current Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri, who is also from Sidon. Mustafa Saad who has been fighting cancer since four years survived for four children.

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