QADHDHAFI DISCUSSES TERRORISM, BRITISH ARMY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: June 28, 1976
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V. 8Jul76 NORTH AFRICA
ALGERIA
AQRICULTURE MINISTER DEPARTS FOR USSR, GDR
Algiers Domestic Service in Arabia 2300 GMT 7 Jul 76 LD
[Tex Mohamed Tayebi, member of the Revolution Council and minister of agriculture
and agr an reform, left Algiers this afternoon for Moscow to pay~n official visit
to the Sov t Union. Later he will also visit the German Demycratic Republic.
statement by expressing h belief that the agreements to be signed with these two
countries will be of great im rtanee tomagricultural development in Algeria.
The minister exp ned in a press ctatement that thesesvisits will help strengthen
existing relations h the Soviet Union and with the GDR. He noted that to complete
agrarian projects, Alge a needed experience a~nd'pertise. The minister concluded his
Melbourne Overseas Service in English 0730 GMT 8%1q~a 76 LD
[Text] A leading/Arab government official said in Sydhe today he heartily supported
the Israeli comIiando raid into Uganda to rescue hijacked N:Lstages. The secretary of
the ruling rab Socialist Union in Libya, Mr. Muhammad al-Hi i said he was against
any form/of terrorism. Mr al-Hijazi is in Australia to look at oblems facing uslims
here. He said he did not support the attack on the freedom of Ug , but the hostages
wer Israeli passport holders and Israel did what it had to do.
London DAILY EXPRESS in English 28 Jun 76 p 8 LD
[Interview "a few days ago" In a village 10 miles from Tripoli with Col Muammar
al-Qadhdhafi, chairman of Libya's Revolution Command Council, with DAILY EXPRESS foreign
editor John Ellison: "Comfort for Terror Gangs? The Colonel Just Laughs"]
[Excerpts] Only a few days ago, in the course of an hour-long interview, I talked to
Libyan leader Colonel al-Qadhdhafi about international terrorism, hi-jacking and the
Jackal.
"As far as I am concerned terrorism in the true meaning of the word is rejected," he
said. "No sensible man would support international terrorism as such.
"The problem is that the colonialists link fighting for freedom with terrorism and that
is what causes the misunderstanding and confuses the situation."
How then, I asked, could he connect freedom fighting with the Jackal operation last
December, when a group of ministers from the oil-prod'tai.r.;; countries were hijacked in
Vienna and flown first to Algeria and then to Libya?
"I asked myself the same question," said the colonel. "How could we link the two? The
OPEC plane did come here and after some bargaining it took off again. But none of those
people were given asylum here."
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V. 8 Jul 76
Damascus Domestic Service in Arabic 0415 GMT 8 Jul 76 NC
[Text] The centre
President Hafiz al=
command of the Progressive Nationalist Front held a meeting under
sad at 2045 yesterday. During the meeting the President reviewed
the situation in the
He asserted the.princ
beginning of the crisis
efforts and made scarifid
the Lebanese people and to
rab area and the latest developments in the Lebanese crisis.
led stand the Syrian Arab region has been adopting since the
In accordance with this stand, the region has exerted great
s to bring about a cease-fire so as to-preserve he unity of
itory and to safeguard the Palestinian real nce against
The president also reviewed the\results of his official visits to Fence, Yugoslavia
DAMASCUS RADIO REPORTS ON FIGHTING T LEBANON
[Excerpts] Lebanon--The battlefronts explo
and fighting extended to new areas. Fight
as Tall az-Za'tar, the 'Alyah-Al-Kahhlaha ax
reported that it had achieved victory against he
fall on the residential quarters in Beirut and t
Meanwhile, Kamal Junblatt has disclosed his
forces which he is leading intend to estab
movement intends to turn the militias be
[Text] Damascus--The radios
about a Syrian participatio
NEWS AGENCY [SANA] is auth
any comment because their,
Syria in combat operat
itself with them now
weakness and failur
involve Syria's na
rule. He also said that his
to a regular army as soon as
the deviationists continue to reit
in the fighting in some areas in Leba
ized to clarify that these fabricated re
to fabricated reports
n. The SYRIAN ARAB
orts do not deserve
to involving
propagators have previously been accustomed
hs against the Arab brothers. Since Syria is
fighting against the Lebanese, this has made the
t involving
feel their
implement their plans, which has consequently pro
the reason for every defeat inflicted upon them.
ted them to
Syria is prepay d to support any resistance faction in fighting the Zionist e~pe
it is not pr red to be dragged behind any resistance faction in adventures a~
the Arab masses as a result of intervention in the domestic affairs of any Arab
nd its suburbs throughout today
on the traditional fronts such
e commercial area. Every side
suburbs. In the Shikka area In the
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A few weeks after the OPEC hijack, it was reported that the Jackal had received 25 million
pounds and been promoted to the rank of general in the Palestinian terrorist army as his
reward for masterminding the operation.
I pressed Colonel al-Qadhdhafi that he must have had a meeting with the Jackal. He insisted
quietly that he had never assisted him.
But he conceded that most terrorism in the world did arise from the Israeli-Arab Clash--
"The usurping of Palestine by the Jews," he called it.
later I talked at length with al-Qadhdhafi's American-educated minister of state4 Taha
Sharif bin Amir, who personally negotiated with the Jackal when he landed after the Vienna
operation.
He told me: "It is true that our policy towards hijackers depends entirely upon how we
assess the role that they are playing in the freedom struggle. We do not always give
asylum. But on the other hand in many cases we can help to save innocent lives.
"We had a letter of thanks from the Japanese Government because our intervention enabled us
to save the lives of nearly 200 passengers after a hijacking operation by a commando of
the Japanese Red Army."
He told me: "During the last days of Mr. Wilson's premiership we had negotiations but
these exchanges stopped after his departure, and now we are waiting for them to be resumed
under Mr. Callaghan.
"If your country is willing to sell us arms we will buy whatever we need from you so that
we do not have to buy everything from one source (the Russians)."
British Leyland--boycotted until last March by the Arab world--would also be welcome to sell
in Libya's booming car market. "And they can do well," he added.
"I think that while it is proper for each party to have its views, they should be able to
decide upon spheres in which they can cooperate internationally," said the colonel.
The I.R.A. was a freedom-fighting movement which Libya supported, "but we respect the
complications of the case.
"You tend to look at the I.R.A. issue as one of Catholics and Protestants, but we only look
at the Irish nation as a whole. Surely Ireland has more right to independence than either
Scotland or Wales, who are now talking of secession."
The Conflict with Israel
"It is clear that Jewish nationalism did not respect Palestinian nationalism and now we face
the aggression of the Jewish religion against the Islamic and Christian religions," he said.
But, I asked him, was he not concerned as a sincere Moslem at being regarded by the outside
world as a dangerous man of war for his refusal to accept peace with Israel. "Who said we
refuse peace? Where do you get this? What we are asking for is the return of the Pales-
tinians: If this can only be achieved through war, then war it will be. "But our aim is
not war. In this case the warmongers are those who refuse the return of the Palestinians."
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Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic 1730 GMT 7 Jul 76 JN
[Unattributed commentary]
[Excerpt] The Zionist entity, which is a member of the United Nations/does not hesitate
to carry out any act violating the simplest international values. If a the Arabs
ve been used to. this, in view of the struggle and experience betwein us and the Zionist
e my for over a quarter century, what puzzles and pains us is that the Zionists'
to rist acts are being supported and encouraged by some states,6f the world which claim
to civilized.
If the vents and facts in this respect are innumerable; let s take as an example the
lightni police and terrorist raid which the Zionist sta carried out on Uganda, and
how this aid, which was the zenith of terrorism and ter ist planning, gained the
immediate pport of the U.S., British, German, Swiss a perhaps the French governments,
that is, the most important states in the Western irorl~.
The question wh ch arises is: Why did these governments support the Zionist terrorist
raid on Uganda, ulkich caused the death of innocent/victims and damage to property, while
on the. other hand thpy denounced the hijacking of the French plane by the fedayeen,
who did not shed a p of blood?
For days the fedayeen h ld all the passengery'of the hijacked plane. They then released
all the passengers, reta ing only the nationals of the hostile Zionist state. The fedayeen
did not shed the blood of the Zionist nationals, although they were entitled to do so.
The intention of the fedaye n was not to shed blood, but to alert the world to their
just cause.
The result was that the Zionist ne shed the blood of three races--Palestinian Arabs,
Ugandan Africans and Zionist nat ls. Who is the black and real terrorist in such a
case, let alone the several previq'ITIZ cases?
From our point of view, the Zio
it is the right of the Palestinian fedayeen
pak point in the Arab fedayeen is that they
its establishment and up to nD;A therefor
to return Zionist terrorism kind. The
h
r
uman than their
are still more merciful and
and deception and uses his brain, science and
nemy. Their enemy resorts to maneuvering
fanning and the art of war and
The Arab fedayeen and eir Arab nation are still ciilil, human and patient with this
enemy whose treachery ws no limits. The result is new loss of a number of fedayeen,
western governmental and nongovernmental condemnation o the fedayeen actions, denunciation
of their soocalled rrorism, and support for and encoura ment of the Zionist state to
persist in its dra -up plan.
carried out ag
our enemy?
to respect o
statements
retreat,
rule whi
him, i
milita
t which the Arab fedayeen have reaped from eve
net the Zionist state. When will that day come
n we will learn from
n will that day come when we will teach the Zionist
resolve, daring, brain, science and planning, as well
lid words? When will we prove to the Zionist enemy that li
nervy a hard lesson
ck down or give in? When will we prove to the enemy that we
him we cannot
e loyal to the
says: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. When will we\ prove to
ividuals and governments, that like him we are capable of using military planes,
science, military planning and military art?
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