AL-QADHDHAFI ADDRESSES RALLY

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The celebrations in Banghazi have started since morning in
which ~~es=s~ festivities- -conducted by pupils
expressing their full happiness on this histor iion accom-
plished thanks to the Great Al-Fatih Revolution h has
purged the Libyan Arab territory of the foreign prese nd has
brought about many massive achieve _ e people in that
now the people possess weal is and power.
The masse a basic conrgesses have expressed their continu-
o enge to U.S. imperialism which is conducting muscle-
exing in the Mediterranean Sea, stressing their readiness to
Yesterday morning, a massive peoples' celebration too ce in
Kursah in the municipality of Darnah in which the masses the
city participated besides-D ilstdert mark
n w uch is regarded as a great liberation accom-
plishment on the road of the liberation and unification of the
Arab nation.
Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses Rally
LD281750 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
1700 GMT 28 Mar 86
[Speech by Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi at
rally marking the anniversary of Britain's military withdrawal
from Libya; location of rally unspecified - live]
[Text] In the name of God, brothers: Today we are marking all
over the Jamahiriyah the anniversary of the expulsion of the
foreign invading forces from our land. On such a day we liberated
through revolution Al-Adem base, which we have turned into the
Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir base, in a long series of sacrifices and
struggles for the sake of dignity and freedom. [chants of "To hell
with America; the Arab people has found its path"]
One of the motivating factors for the revolution was the presence
of foreign forces on the soil of our fathers and forefathers. Those
who joined the caravan of death, the caravan of the free unionist
officers, were motivated by the feeling of dignity and bitterness
at the presence of foreign forces on our land before the revolution,
at a time when Libya was considered an independent state. The
colonialists blessed this independence because it served their
interests and created for them a very important base in the
Middle East and North Africa. But this, dear brothers, did not
fool us. We knew that our country was colonized and supported
the imperialist forces, and that this was in contradiction with our
dignity and rights over our land on which we should live freely
and with pride, and deservedly so.
The people are celebrating today the expulsion of the foreign
forces from its land, those which came to Libya under the pretext
of allying themselves with us against the Italian fascist forces
during World War II. Then the British forces settled in Libya
and turned into colonialist forces. And when Britain, which
claimed that it had allied itself with us against Italy during World
War II, wanted to colonize our land and establish bases to serve
its colonialist interests, when we discovered this, dear brothers,
we expelled these forces and considered them invading forces
because, as I have said, this contradicts our existence and dignity.
The people today celebrate the anniversary of the expulsion of
the forces who were expelled when it was discovered that they
were imperialist forces, false despite the fact that they came to
help them. [sentence as heard] Brothers, America should have
realized that the people who celebrate the expulsion of foreign
forces from their territories do not accept under any circum-
stances and regardless of the sacrifices a return of foreign
imperialist forces to the Libyan territories. [chants]
Brothers, Italy, which our grandfathers and fathers fought, and
for whom commemorative monuments are being erected on every
inch of Libyan territory, can not be compared with the present
situation. Italy was stronger than America with regard to Libya
at the present. At that time, before World War II and during
World War II, Italy used to be considered a frightening colonial-
ist, imperialist power compared with what the situation was in
Libya - poverty and (?misery) and rotten reactionary Ottoman
colonialism and lack of intrinsic force. At that time, brothers, our
fathers and grandfathers did not possess even rifles, even modern
rifles; indeed, their rifles were old and makeshift, but their will
was strong. They possessed the right of defending their land, the
land of their grandfathers with all that they possess. Indeed, they
fought with knives and there were battles with bayonets between
our fathers and grandfathers and the Italian invaders who pos-
sessed warships and long-range guns with which they shelled our
towns from the sea out of range of the rifles of our fathers and
grandfathers.
But, brothers, when the Italian forces entered Libyan soil it
blazed under their feet. They could not sleep nor stay in this land
as colonizers. We forced them to surrender and yield in several
battles. The bare feet of our forefathers trod on the Italian flag,
on the Roman flag that was made out of silk, which they aspired
to hoist over Libyan soil. But we trod on it with our feet. [chants]
Brothers. We are a people with past glories and a written and
acknowledged history of sacrifice and redemption in the cause of
freedom and pride.
America, the neo-imperialist, neo-Italy which is represented by
America today, must read history. The butcher Reagan - we
said from the very first day of his election that he is not fit to be
a president. We respect him as an actor. We respect actors as
actors in the profession they have chosen for themselves, and for
which they are equipped and qualified instinctively. But when
the farcical Western democracy enables an actor, whose cap-
abilities have been geared for acting and who has prepared
himself to be an actor, to become president of a superpower, we
said that he will be a catastrophe to the world and to international
politics. What we have said has come true.
This actor, who wants to lead a country, sent hundreds of
American soldiers to Beirut but they returned to him as corpses,
shattered. He sent them to Sinai, but they returned to him in a
scorched plane and as scorched bodies. He also sent them to the
Mediterranean and left them there as corpses and prey for
whales. Brothers, Reagan should have studied history -- from
1801 and 1802, 1803 and 1804 until even 1805. He should have
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studied history to learn that the people here are a brave and
struggling people. They are a people that cannot be routed by
warships. Even in 1800, before the Italian colonization, the
American naval forces tried to colonize our shores; but we
defeated them. On I 1 June 1805, we expelled them from Darnah,
brothers. This is well known. [chants]
O Brothers, he [Reagan] should have reviewed the U.S. defeats
in Vietnam and should have checked the number of victims who
died wastefully. Reagan, the foolish and ignorant, should have
reviewed U.S. defeats in Vietnam and should have reviewed the
huge number of victims the United States sacrified in Vietnam
for nothing. Vietnam at the time was divided into two parts:
South Vietnam, controlled by the United States, and North
Vietnam, which was resisting. The war ended with the unification
of Vietnam and the establishment of a strong, fearless and
socialist state. The war ended in a humilating defeat for the
United States and its forces and in a huge sacrifices made by
American youth for no reason. What did the United States
achieve from its war in Vietnam and what did it achieve from its
campaigns [against Libya] in 1800, and what has it now achieved
from its onslaught in the Mediterranean? The United States'
custom, together with other colonialists, has always been one
thing: to always forget the past, forget their defeats, and always
try again -- which always ends in further defeats. Until the day
colonialism and imperialism end, they are bound to forget past
lessons, and they are bound to be defeated because this is the
natural way to end evil on earth, end imperialism and colonial-
ism. Once upon a time, Holland used to colonialize India. Portu-
gal used to be an imperialist power; it used to colonialize Africa
and Asia. Britain used to be called the country where the sun
never sets. The United States itself-used to be a British colony.
The Nazi strength used to make Hitler think that he could occupy
the entire world and turn the Soviet Union into colonies, and
occupy Africa and the North Pole. Power used to make Hitler
believe this. Many empires had emerged, but in front of the right
of the peoples to life, these empires were torn up and those forces,
which deceived their authors by thinking that they are capable
of controlling the world, were destroyed. Where is the empire of
Alexander the Great and where is the Ottoman empire, and
Hitler's empire, which he wanted to build by force on the skulls
of the nations, and where are the Portuguese and Dutch empires?
Where is the British empire? Now the turn of the U.S. empire
has come, which inevitably will have the same fate as the fate of
those empires which foundered on the rock of the peoples'
resistance in every continent of the world. [chants of anti-Reagan
slogans]
Brothers, today we also would like to ask: What benefits did the
United States get from its aggression against the Libyan waters?
What benefits did it get? First, there is no government which tells
more lies than the U.S. Government. It denied the shooting down
of three F- 14 planes in the Gulf of Sidra and denied the death of
6 pilots, which the sharks are still eating in the Gulf of Sidra.
It is well known that the Pentagon and the imperialist military
junta, as was described in the Cuban communique, the Pentagon
knows this without doubt but it does not want this defeat to
appear before world public opinion [as heard]. How can.the U.S.
empire, which has fleets, nuclear bombs, and which controls the
continents of the world, announce that its pilots had fallen before
a state with a population of 3 million, a small and poor state,
which stands tall and resists 30 U.S. warships and 3 U.S. aircraft
carriers, which are equivalent to air bases in the Mediterranean?
How can the United States have the courage to enable it to
announce this loss? Their pilots fell, their aircraft fell, and they
know this, yet they deny this in front of the world.
All right, what made the United States go crazy over the past 2
days of the confrontation, go crazy and try to look for anything
Libyan on which to take its revenge to the extent that its aircraft
raided a tugboat and a fishing vessel? When it said that four of
our boats were sunk or something like that, they were a tugboat
[al-jarrafah]; indeed they sunk a boat, and its sailors are present
now and we shall show them on television. In order to protect
itself before the White House, the 6th Fleet announced that it
had hit Libyan naval targets, among them a fishing vessel and a
tugboat, which was rescuing a ship. Then we allowed a U.S.
helicopter to enter the Gulf of Sidra in order to rescue the bodies
of the pilots. It rescued two, one a dead body and the other about
to die. We could have brought down the helicopter with another
missile, but for humanitarian reasons we allowed it to cross the
line of death in order to rescue them. [applause] These cowards,
when a tugboat and a fishing vessel went to rescue some sailors,
the U.S. aircraft confronted them and strafed them, because they
were looking for anything to save face.
It has now been made clear to the Pentagon that parallel 32 is in
fact the line of death because the planes which crossed it fell and
the pilots who crossed it were killed. This is a fact. [Words
indistinct] the 6th Fleet. The other aspect, brothers, the other
aspect is that the American ships were not able to cross parallel
32. Any of the American aircraft or American reporters present,
we challenge the 6th Fleet to say that any of its aircraft carriers
were able to get near the line of death, because we would destroy
them then. [as heard]
Brothers, it has been made clear now that parallel 32 is the line
of death. We die in it and the enemy dies in it equally. Moreover,
our sovereignty over the Gulf of Sidra, our sovereignty, brothers,
our sovereignty over the Gulf of Sidra has been baptized with
blood. This time it has been baptized with blood. We have
asserted to the world that we are prepared to baptize our sover-
eignty over the Gulf of Sidra with blood, with our bodies, with
all what we possess. This has actually been done, brothers.
[applause and chants]
Even in the confrontation of 1980 or 1981, an F- 14 aircraft was
downed it crossed this line, when they downed two planes for us.
But America denied at that time that its aircraft were downed.
Only a few days later we were able to pull out parts of the aircraft
wreckage and we still have them and the American reporters can
take a picture of some parts of the American aircraft which we
downed in 1981 and which America has denied. America
declared afterward that one of its aircraft was missing from one
of the bases in Europe so that it could cover up this operation.
Now you will hear in the future, it will be declared from time to
time, that an American F-14 aircraft was lost together with its
pilot in the Atlantic or in Europe or in the Pacific Ocean, until
you hear that there are three aircraft involved - which will be
announced, even over a period of a year, that America had lost
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these aircraft so that it does not admit that these aircraft fell after
having crossed the line of death.
In all circumstances, however, our resistance will continue in
order to affirm our right to the Gulf of Sidra. This confrontation,
since 1981 - 1980 and 1981 - and until now, this confrontation
brothers, even from a legal point of view, has made the Gulf of
Sidra a historical gulf. The law of the sea says that a country has
the right of sovreignty over small gulfs which are considered as
historical gulfs, that is, gulfs over which the sovereignty of a
country has been established historically. We are resisting in
order to affirm our sovereignty over the Gulf of Sidra. We have
included the Gulf of Sidra among the historical gulfs. We have
a historical right to it because we are fighting for our sovereignty
over this gulf, which will be the property of the coming genera-
tions because we have entered it into history and extended our
sovereignty over it, The proof of that is our resistance. It is enough
to resist in the Gulf of Sidra to prove that it is our gulf. Why does
America not enter it peacefully and quietly?
Q4 NORTH AFRICA
But Reagan's foolishness has gone to the extent of comparing
America to Libya. Has Libya lost any planes or not? Has Libya
triumphed or not? Who triumphed? It sufficies that some heads
of states got in touch with me asking me to show self-restraint.
This is enough. Such a thing should be asked of Gorbachev and
Reagan, and ask them to show self-restraint so that a catastrophe
will be avoided. But to ask a small country to show self-restraint
toward America is a source of pride to us and a source of disgrace
and shame for Reagan and his imperialist likes. [chants]
Brothers, we declare to the world that we are still ready to resist.
We will continue to resist bravely in defense of our right to live
in peace in our land. We have entered into battle with the United
States, the superpower, for the sake of our right to life and for
the sake of defending our borders. This resistance will continue.
We have entered battle with a superpower, but we want to expose
this superpower and bring shame and disgrace on the United
States, which deceives American public opinion and the Arab
public opinion.
On the other hand, some other countries have not been, regret-
tably, more civilized and more understanding for the law of the
sea, particulary a country, such as Britain, which is maritime
power. It has announced that it is opposed to any violation against
international navigation in international waters. We also strongly
support the right of passage and the right of navigation in
international waters. The Gulf of Sidra, however, is not part of
international waters. It is in the heart of Libya. They must
understand this.
We are also like them. We support America when it advocates
freedom of navigation in the open seas. We also, as a state,
support freedom of navigation in international waters. But the
Gulf of Sidra is not part of international waters. Even the right
to freedom of navigation in international waters should, however,
not been accompanied by noise, threats, and nuclear fleets.
Concerning navigation in the Mediterranean particularly, we are
opposed to navigation by nuclear vessels. However, we support
innocent navigation, commercial navigation, and peaceful navi-
gation. But we reject menacing navigation, nuclear navigation,
which heralds war, even in the international waters of the Medi-
terranean. The Gulf of Sidra is a national issue. Despite the fact
that there is no comparison between the power which has readied
itself to attack the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and other
big powers, there is no comparison between it and the Libyan
power. [as heard]
The Libyan force is a modest one, it is a defensive one. It is
intended to affirm and guarantee our life in our homes and on
our soil. The Libyan force is essentially a defensive force. It is
intended to defend our right over our soil. The Gulf of Sidra is
part of our soil. Consequently, we use the force for our legitimate
defense. Therefore, under no circumstances can the Libyan force
be compared with the American might which is only matched by
that of the USSR. There can be a comparison between the USSR
and the United States to determine which is the stronger. A
country which has 3 million soldiers and 5,000 atomic bombs can
be compared with the USSR. But there is no room for comparison
between it and Libya.
First, we are prepared to die if the United States or anyone else
enters the Gulf of Sidra by force. This is because it is part of our
territory. Second, we have succeeded tactically and strategically
against the United States, which claims to be a superpower.
When we shot down 3 of its aircraft, the United States became
angry and wanted to get revenge and hit any plane of ours, in
order to avenge the planes that had been shot down. We decided
on that day to keep the Libyan Air Force in action and to let the
missiles have free action. Consequently, the United States tried
several times to use all its aircraft carriers in order to get at the
Libyan Air Force, but it did not succeed. We did not let it have
the opportunity to shoot down even one Libyan plane. It did not
shoot down even a single plane in this confrontation.
Afterwards, when U.S. planes were shot down with SAM-5's the
United States wanted to retrieve these missiles. We want to
disclose this to the U.S. newsmen so that they will tell the
American people and the world. They said: We bombed the
missile batteries and destroyed them, twice. We say: These are
lies and the missiles were not destroyed; they were not bombed
as they said and they fired only two missiles. One exploded and
the other still remains [intact] and the U.S. journalists can take
its photograph.
They fired two missiles on a suburb of the town of Surt. It appears
that was for the purpose of striking the SAM-5 missiles. One of
the missiles exploded without causing any damage, and the other
is still there. We have carried out tests on it, and to spite the
United States, we would like to hand it over to the Soviet Union
so that it can learn the secret of this missile and make an
antimissile for it -- just to spite the United States. [applause and
chants of "Defiance to America"]
When we discovered that they wanted to hit these missiles, we
tricked them once more. We tricked them once more, and they
declared to the world that they had destroyed these missiles. But
they did not destroy them. The fact is that we tricked the United
States, we tricked its forces, we tricked its electronics, and all
that it was testing on these missiles. We did not allow it to hit the
missiles, or to test electronic gadgets to combat this type of
missile. So, with another technique and with other measures we
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tricked the United States, we tricked the U.S. 6th Fleet, because
the latter failed to discover these missiles and to hit them.
However, if the 6th Fleet launched any other missiles, we did not
see them and we did not hear about them. If they fell into the sea
or if they did not in fact launch them, then this is the business of
the 6th Fleet, it is the business of the United States. At any rate,
this should be added to the series of lies and fabrications cir-
culated by the Pentagon, this vile Pentagon, for the attention of
the American public and the Europeans so that they may not be
disappointed that the United States, the great empire, had its
aicraft shot down by a small state; that the United States fails to
hit missiles; where its long-range missiles were, and where its
warships were.
The second stage of the confrontation: It was us who decided to
lure the U.S. aircraft to our air defense. We had thus deliberately
enabled it to come nearer and engage in some violations [of
Libyan airspace], because we wanted to lure it into an ambush
laid down and hatched by us. Afterwards, they discovered that
the matter was not that of silencing missiles or that Libya could
not attack them on the 32d parallel; but they had realized, it
seems that they had realized that the scheme was to lure their
aircraft so that we could destroy it with our air defense, with our
own aircraft. Therefore, they failed in this operation. They had
failed in the first stage to hunt our aircraft and they could not
shoot down any aircraft. They had failed in the second operation
when they believed that they had undertaken violations, but then
they discovered that it was us that had lured them into to our
plan in order to destroy them with air defense missiles other than
the SAM-5. They believed that they had destroyed the SAM-5
missiles, but afterwards they discovered that they had failed to
destroy them. So, they went and hit a dredger, a boat [zawraq],
and the tugboat [al-qatirah], and they counted them together in
order to be able to say: We have hit many naval units, and we
have avenged the airplanes and the airmen that were shot down.
The United States thus has proved its inhumanity, its arrogance,
its barbarian nature, and its lies. It must never be respected;
neither its forces nor anything American should be respected. As
a matter of fact, the world is now assaulting the United States
everywhere: U.S. Embassies, U.S. companies are attacked by
non-Libyan people. They accuse the Palestinians, Abu Nidal
[Sabri al-Banna], Al-Qadhdhafi. Good; but then those who have
hit the U.S. Embassy in Japan with missiles, they are neither with
Abu Nidal, nor with Al-Qadhdhafi; they are neither Libyans nor
Arabs. Those who hit the electronic center in Pakistan, burned
the cultural center in Pakistan, and hit the U.S. Embassy in
Beirut with missiles, these are not Abu Nidal,. nor are they
Libyans. Libyans did not do this.
The acts of violence are escalating. Twenty thousand Greeks
marched on the American Embassy. These were not Libyans.
Angry demonstrations were staged in Aden and in Damascus to
the extent that the Syrian authorities had to rush to defend the
American Embassy using a large police force, a very large police
force, because the Syrian masses were so angry that they could
have destroyed the embassy. These were not Libyans. In Bolivia
yesterday the American Embassy there was blown up with
explosives in reply to their aggression in the Mediterranean and
in Nicaragua. These too were not Libyans.
All the peoples are now against America. If America wants to
hold us responsible for everything the world does, then we are
prepared to accept such responsibility. True, we are leading the
world revolution and all the peoples support us. We are instigat-
ing all peoples against imperialism and colonialism so that impe-
rialism will be destroyed, the world will rid itself of its evil and
peace will prevail. [chants] At another stage, the forces of the
American 6th Fleet wanted to test our air defenses other than
SAM-5's. We carried out countermeasures and drew them in to
a trap. They thus obtained false information about our system.
Politically, America lost the whole world. All the peoples became
indignant with it during the first confrontation. Now the peoples
moved on to the offensive. During the first confrontation, their
stand was a passive one. But now, it has become a positive one.
It has turned into an attack with missiles on America everywhere
and on its embassies.
If we were people who kill civilians... [changes thought] we have
Americans here in Libya. They are living in peace and no harm
has come to them. We have not killed them. They like to live in
Libya and not return to America, where people live on sidewalks
because all the money is being spent on aircraft carriers, missiles,
star wars and space shuttles, the American people live in poverty
and misery. Tens of thousands of the inhabitants in the American
capital live on sidewalks without shelters. They live, marry and
bear children on the pavements like cats and mice. This is because
America's money is spent on aircraft carriers, navies and on the
intimidation of peoples.
The American people could have toppled him now, because he
failed in every battle; he failed in Beirut and carried on his
shoulders the bodies of 300 American soldiers; he entered Sinai
and returned with 300 dead soldiers who were burnt, brought
back in his plane; he entered a confrontation with Libya and
came out defeated militarily and politically. He should have been
brought down, this dirty man who leads America from one defeat
to another. We are ready to die. We know that America has
nuclear bombs and hellish forces but this does not concern us.
We state our rights and we are ready to die and the confrontation
continues. And in every confrontation we win, we win the peoples,
the masses. In every confrontation the Arab nation unites around
us. All the leaders of the Arab nation, even those which America
considers to be its friends, contacted us to place their capabilities
with those of the Libyan people. All the presidents and kings of
the Arab nation have contacted me personally about the Amer-
ican aggression and have stood by the Jamahiriyah. Thus each
time we confront America, the Arab nation unites and we lead
the battle of pan-Arabism through this confrontation, because
America is not after Libya alone, but strives to subdue the Arab
nation. Subsequently, it wants to give the Israelis an historic
chance to live, get stronger and increase immigration and set up
a Jewish empire in the heart of the Arab homeland which will be
a second America. This is the final objective of America: Destroy
Syria, destroy the Palestinian resistance, destroy Libya, Algeria,
Yemen and all the forces of Arab resistance in order that the
so-called Jewish state may flourish and Zionism be established
as an empire at the expense of the Arab nation. This is, dear
brothers, the objective. Why is America pouring this hatred on
us?
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At first they said: We are attacking Libya because of Rome and
Vienna. Then they said: We are attacking them because of the
Gulf of Sidra; it is not theirs. Later, they said: No, we are
attacking them because of the SAM-5's. Why, the heads of states
and governments asked me, why this U.S. farce? The friends of
the United States said: What is this farce? The United States
has put us in a difficult position.
First it said: We want to attack Libya for this reason. Then that
reason ceased to exist. Then it said because of the second reason,
the third reason. It is determined to attack Libya not because of
Rome and Vienna or over the Gulf of Sidra or over the SAM-5's.
No, it wants to attack Libya. Why does it want to attack Libya?
Does Libya constitute a threat to the United States, which
possess ICBM's and atomic bombs? No, it is because Libya is
the embodiment of the Arab resistance, as Syria embodies the
steadfastness of Arab resistance; because Libya is the instigator
for Arab unity and for resisting colonialism; it is because Libya's
voice is being heard by the peoples of Central America and Latin
America, who are fighting near the borders of the United States
and want to live free; because Libya's voice is being heard by 30
million black U.S. inhabitants; they hear the voice of the Jama-
hiriyah. This is the danger that 80 million red Indians hear our
voice. The persecuted everywhere hear our voice.
The peoples who are suffering under the domination of U.S.
military bases on the continents of the world hear our voice and
respond and revolt and are mobilized against the United States.
Consequently, the United States, in fact, realized that Libya
constitutes a threat, because Libya raises the flag of Arab
challenge and the flag of Arab nationalism and diligently works
for the establishment of Arab unity, thereby creating a new force
in the Middle East and in Africa. It is counter to the ambitions
of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East, North Africa, and the
Mediterranean. The peoples want to be liberated, and we are
inciting them and they hear our voice. The United States wants
to maintain her bases everywhere in the world, to be set up
everywhere. The resistance against the United States and against
colonialism is everywhere, even if the confrontation has ended
temporarily opposite the Gulf of Sidra. But, the battle against
the United States is escalating everywhere, including (?inside)
the Gulf of Sidra.
Yes, the United States should understand that the Gulf of Sidra
has brought it nothing except the escalation of international
wrath and international revolution; that the ground has begun to
shake under the feet of Americans everywhere in the world as a
result of its foolhardy and unjust policy toward this small country
and toward this nation which wants only to unite and become
stronger and live in security on the earth, which God has created,
and not the United States.
Brothers, we the Arabs are no less powerful than the United
States if we unite. Consequently, this confrontation, although it
united us temporarily and united us from the ideological point of
view, these Arab stands should be turned into positive stands. In
the face of this unjust and continuous confrontation that wants
to destroy and humiliate the Arab nation, I urge that unity be
established immediately between Libya and Algeria in accor-
dance with the Algerian Charter, as approved by the Algerian
people. We agree to unity in accordance with the Algerian
National Charter, as approved by the Algerian people. [chants of
unity slogans]
Also, unity should be established immediately between Libya
and Syria. I would like to say at this crucial movement, the Syrian
people and President Hafiz al-Asad and the Syrian Bath Party
have shown true Arabism and true fraternity. They did not just
stand alongside you with mere words, but they coupled the words
with positive and satisfactory action. I say that Syria was with
us in the trench and it was with us in the confrontation with all
its possessions and not just with words. The day will come when
we will cite the figures and the facts and all the events which
bestow honor on the Syrian people and on Brother Hafiz al-Asad
in the eyes of the Libyan people and the Libyan Armed forces.
[applause]
This genuine unity between the two countries should become a
legal and constitutional one before the world so that we may act
clearly in accordance with law and constitutional legitimacy. A
merger should be immediately established between Libya and
Syria and between Libya and Algeria.
At this moment, I address myself to the great fraternal Sudanese
people - the authors of the 6 April Revolution, who severed
America's tails and destroyed America's bridges in Sudan and
Africa - I call upon the Sudanese people not to vote in the April
elections for any party other than the party which champions
immediate unity between Sudan and the Libyan Arab Jamahir-
iyah. [chants] Brothers, I call on the Sudanese people not to cast
votes for other than those who want to establish unity imme-
diately between Sudan and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah.
No Arab country can forge its way forward alone in the future
in the face of these challenges. But through Arab unity, we can
create the might that can stand up to America; the might that
can make this region and this nation feared. But in our state of
division and regionalism, we become a prey for the greedy.
America has transgressed our borders because it knows that not
all the Arab forces were in the battle, although they should have
been there. This confrontation will speed up the revolution
against the regimes which want to stand in the way of Arab unity.
All the Arab military are called upon to stage revolutions and
realize Arab unity, if their organization obstructs the establish-
ment of Arab unity. [chants]
Brothers, it is a great victory and a glory for Libyan males and
females; it honors the the Arab nation and honors its martyrs in
every era, and raises the morale of all nations. Your steadfastness
and brave confrontation of America have raised the morale of all
nations on earth. A small nation stands with pride and bravery
and courage and with heads raised high against the number one
tyrant imperialist force in the world and teaches it a lesson and
does not hesitate to shoot down its aircraft and launches missiles
against its mighty fleet. We shall not hesitate to do so in future
too. [chants and applause]
But brothers, we want to draw the attention of the states hosting
6th Fleet. The first one is Italy; the second is Spain. Any future
war will bring Italy and Spain and any other state hosting the
6th Fleet inside the circle of the war. We summoned the ambas-
sadors of these states and told them that if war breaks out
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between Libya and America then the states in which there are
American bases will fall within the operational area, and we shall
attack these bases in order that they will not be able to support
the 6th Fleet. In actual fact, this ultimatum was communicated
- and it is still in force - to the European states which support
the American 6th Fleet and in which there are American bases,
namely, that they will be subjected to danger as a result of our
self defense. When we destroy these bases we are taking precau-
tionary actions; if war breaks out between us and America we
will be within our right to destroy the bases of the American 6th
Fleet wherever they may be -- if war breaks out between us and
America in athe future. These states should understand this.
Italy owes us; it owes the Libyan people; it should do everything
to satisify the Libyan people and should compensate the Libyan
people for their losses as a result of Italian colonization. Italy
should not raise its voice in support of America as its bribed
defense minister - the agent of the American intelligence -
does; the Italian defense minister, whose statements will only
lead to more confrontation between Libya and Italy and more
firm demands for compensation and revenge and for compensat-
ing the losses we sustained at the hands of Italy.
Italy should be [words indistinct] in front of the Libyans from the
shame which the Italian colonialism had caused them. We
wanted to establish friendship with Italy and cooperate amicably
concerning the losses caused by its colonialism in our land and to
negotiate with it. But we see Italy supporting the American 6th
Fleet. We address ourselves to the Italian people to work continu-
ously from now on to remove Italian support of the 6th fleet.
Because we hate Italian colonialism and call for revenge against
Italy, the 6th Fleet may provide us with an historic opportunity
to take our revenge against Italy and fight it on its own soil if it
does [words indistinct] the American 6th Fleet.
I know, dear brothers, America and its long missiles - the stick
of the (?despicable) is long, as they say, and their capabilities are
huge - can sow destruction in Libya. But the orders had been
issued and we became angry enough to take on the American 6th
Fleet. We say in front of the world - and let America understand
this - we would have caused incalculable losses as far America
is concerned, even if they were to pour nuclear bombs on us. We
know that America has nuclear bombs and the whole world
knows that it can annihilate Libya totally. But before this hap-
pens we can inflict unforeseen destruction on the 6th Fleet and
America. Indeed, we can destroy the American carriers, the
warships of the American 6th Fleet and the American Air Force.
This will happen when we go absolutely crazy and want the
disaster to hit us and our enemies. Then our slogan will be "On
me and on my enemies, 0 God" as the saying goes -- if one wants
to finish himself off and take his enemies with him. If we see that
we are about to be finished, we shall take the American 6th Fleet
with us. We are capable of this. If we decide to get rid of the
Libyan Air Force, to remain without an air force, [then] build a
new air force, buy new aircraft, train new pilots, and want
sacrifice half of our aircraft, we can destroy the American 6th
Fleet. Let America get angry, get mad, drop nuclear bombs, but
it knows that dozens of aircraft are capable of destroying the
American carriers in the Mediterranean.
It is sufficient for us that we have addressed a warning to the
commander of the American fleet, who was staying in Europe
and not at sea. We sent him an open cable saying: If we become
furious, we could destroy the aircraft carriers. We sent him a
cable which he sent in turn to the press and was published. We
told him: Withdraw safely. Yield and you will be safe. That was
what we said at the end of the cable. A moment might come that
we attack the aircraft carriers and destroy them whatever our
losses, even if scores of Libyan planes were to be downed. But we
can get to the aircraft carriers and render them inoperative
before the eyes of the world.
After that cable, the American aircraft carriers remained for 72
hours under air cover day and night. This exhausted the Ameri-
can 6th Fleet and the American aircraft and made us reach a
point not reached in the past operations: we forced them into a
maneuver of attrition (munawarah bi al-'iya']. This is the third
or fourth point, about which I have not spoken to you. We finally
forced them into maneuver by attrition. We forced the airmen
not to sleep either in day time or at night. The aircraft carriers
had to be guarded under air cover for 72 hours. Indeed, we could
have offered sacrifices and entered the holocust and destroyed
the largest number of aircraft, aircraft carriers and units, not
caring after that if America were to strike at us. If God had
decreed this, then let it be. But we know that America cannot
annihilate a people. It had struck at the people of Vietnam with
all the capabilities it possesses. But America was defeated and
the Vietnamese people triumphed.
America could not change the regime in Cuba which is only 90
miles away from America's borders. During the battle and
confrontation with them, I sent a message to Ortega in Nicara-
gua telling him that we are prepared to send you arms for use in
the fighting now taking place in Honduras on Nicaragua's bor-
ders against the contra forces, whom America has decided to
provide with $100 million today so that they may fight the
revolutionary regime in Nicaragua. America wants to change a
regime that was approved by the Nicaraguan people. One of the
world's peoples has decided on a certain regime which does not
meet with America's approval and so it wants to change it by
force. Just look at that attitude: It wants to change things by
force.
At the same time, we have been on the side of the Sudanese
people, with the Lebanese National Resistance, with the Chadian
revolution, and it has failed to influence us. But disgrace and
shame on those around us who open their doors to the troops of
the 6th Fleet. What a shame for an Arab to extend his hand and
shake hands with the disgrace-stained men of the U.S. 6th Fleet,
a fleet hostile to the Arab nation, hostile to the pride of the Arab
nation, hostile to the forces of defiance of the Arab nation! An
Arab extending a dirty hand to such a dirty man - disgrace and
shame upon those who open their doors for the troops of the 6th
Fleet to enter their homes! They are devoid of any honor, of any
decency. Disgrace and shame upon them from the Arab masses,
from the history of the Arab nation. What dignity is left for these
submissive individuals when they open their ports and doors to
the U.S. 6th Fleet?
We say to the Egyptian people and the Egyptian Army: Will the
Egyptian Government continue to dare to permit the U.S. fleet
to conduct maneuvers in Egyptian territory? The United States
wanted the same maneuvers it had conducted over the past years
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on Egyptian territory to be used as a test for operations in Libyan
territory. We have, in fact, told our brothers in Egypt,.we told
them: Look, brothers, you are training the U.S. 6th Fleet against
the Libyan people; the U.S. 6th Fleet wants to use the maneuvers
it is conducting on your shores as a test in operation against the
Libyan shores! I have been proved right. In fact, the U.S. 6th
Fleet has now tried to apply in Libyan territory the maneuvres
that the Egyptian Government, the Egyptian regime, had
enabled it to conduct in Egyptian territory. Will the Egyptian
Army and the Egyptian people continue to permit the U.S. 6th
Fleet to conduct maneuvers in Egyptian territory?
At the same time, we warn the Egyptian regime that any
cooperation with the United States is considered as an aggressive
cooperation against the security and safety of Libyan territory.
We will look at it from this angle only, and the Egyptian regime
must bear responsibility for the consequences of its military
cooperation with the U.S. forces after this confrontation. Any
other Arab regime cooperating with the U.S. 6th Fleet, we will
consider as aggressively cooperating against the security and
safety of Libyan territory, against our homes and our children.
We will look at such cooperation from this angle, and the regime
in question will bear the responsibility for the consequences of its
military cooperation with the U.S. 6th Fleet.
Any Arab-U.S. military cooperation will be considered as an act
of aggression against Libya, and the regime involved will bear its
responsibility. He who warns first is excused! Let the United
States' hirelings hear. They who are now in the throes of death
and who are going to be finished like Nuri like Faysal II in
Baghdad, the defunct Al-Sadat, the appendant Numayri, Bat-
tista in Cuba,,Somoza in Nicaragua, Lon Nol in Cambodia, and
Nguyen Cao Ky in Saigon -- a series of U.S. agents that have
fallen. Let the Arab hirelings read history even for 5 minutes; let
them peruse'the list of the U.S. agents that have fallen. Do they
not heed the lesson provided by Al-Sadat and Numayri who only
yesterday fell near them?
They believe that cooperation with the United States protects
them and prolongs their lives. Why did it not prolong the life of
their agent Idris al-Sanusi in the face of the revolution that we
had undertaken, when he was relying on five major U.S. bases in
Libyan territory, and on the British base whose evacuation day
we are celebrating today? They do not heed lessons until they
fall. [indistinct slogans chanted]
Brothers, we must not forget to salute the stand, brothers, we
must salute and appreciate the stand which was adopted by the
Soviet Union and the socialist community in this confrontation.
There is no doubt that you heard on the radio about the attack
by the Soviet delegate at the Security Council against the United
States = something not done even by an Arab delegate. The
truth is that the Soviet Union confirmed its friendship to the Arab
nation through its stand alongside us in this confrontation. You
heard Gorbachev's speech by the Soviet delegate at the Security
Council - the strong speech which stripped America naked and
exposed it before the world - and the stand of the socialist states.
The Soviet Union has cooperated politically and with all sincerity
with its Arab friends headed by the Libyans. We should thank
them for this stand and we should confirm this in the history of
Libyan Arab friendship which is built on mutual respect and on
respect for the choices of others. We and the Soviet Union have
different social choices, but we are brought together by common
objectives - the struggle for peace and progress and against
imperialism, against racism and reaction, and against Zionism.
Imperialism is a common enemy. Despite the ideological dif-
ference between our system and that of the Soviet Union, this has
not prevented us from establishing a firm friendship. This
friendship has proved its earnestness in these crucial moments.
The Soviet Union has cooperated with us to the greatest extent
by all peaceful means, from Moscow to the Security Council, and
with it the states of the socialist community.
You listened to Algerian radio. [Words indistinct] it surpassed
the Libyan radio in incitement and confrontation against aggres-
sion. When you tune to Algerian radio you would think that you
are tuning to Libyan radio. [applause and chants]
Some of the good Libyans - we must not forget this point -
were asking why we support Iran against Iraq, which is an Arab
country. Look at the confrontation. Iraq is attacking us in the
middle of the confrontation. It opened its radios, day and night,
to attacks on the Libyan people while we are confronting the U.S.
6th Fleet. Iran declares, while it is in the heart of battle against
the Saddam regime, that its resources, including military poten-
tials, are at the disposal of the Jamahiriyah. [applause] This
battle is between America and the enemies of America. As long
as Saddam is on the side of America and with Husni Mubarak,
you naturally cannot be with him. Can you be in the same rank
as Husni Mubarak? Never. Saddam Husayn is in the same rank
as Husni Mubarak. They embrace each other every day and fight
together. Imagine a regime which Husni Mubarak fights; this
means that this regime is against America. He, Husni Mubarak,
fights the Iranian regime; this means that the latter is against
America. Imagine a regime for which Husni Mubarak supports
and fights; this means that this regime is with America and the
Israelis. Husni Mubarak now fights on the side of the regime of
Saddam Husayn. We are not stupid. We cannot be ruled by our
sentiments. These are facts which should be said today.
Therefore, brothers, this confrontation must. make us more deter-
mined to achieve our right to live. We have baptised our right to
the Gulf of Sidra with blood. We have reaffirmed that the 32d
parallel is the line of death. Actually we are,prepared to die at
this line. We have done so and this happened. It suffices that the
American 6th Fleet was compelled to withdraw, dragging behind
it its tail of disappointment, shame, and fatigue without achieving
its aims. It was forced to cut short its exercises which were
scheduled to go on until 1 April. Even if they return to challenge
us we will challenge them. This is our right to live, whatever may
happen. The struggle will continue until victory and until impe-
rialism falls, and until the banners of freedom are raised every-
where in the world. [chants]
We, brothers, shall not be intimidated by the roars of the fleets
of tyrant America because our forefathers and fathers were not
intimidated by the roars of the fleets and guns of the then tyrant,
Italy. They were martyred and they bequeathed to.us glory and
dignity. Today we live and the banners of freedom, pride, and
honor flutter over our head. We will be martyred and we will
fight and die so that we can leave for our grandchildren and
children glory, pride and honor, so that they can live with
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freedom. The great Arab nation is a nation that cannot be
vanquished and cannot be annihilated by a fleet, no matter how
great this fleet may be. The armies of the Tartar and the Moguls
and the armies of Europe were defeated and the Arab nation
remained alive and glorious, defeating its enemies, becoming
prosperous, and looking forward to its future.
Brothers, the roar of the American fleets will die down and the
roar of the nations and the roar of the revolution will remain. The
guns will be silenced. The shouts of freedom will remain, the
shouts of those struggling for freedom. Even if we die, we will die
with honor and pride. Glory for us and immortality for our
martyrs. The struggle continues. We are prepared to die, broth-
ers. [chants]
JANA Lists Cables of Support for AI-Qadhdhafi
LD281539 Tripoli JANA in English 1431 GMT 28 Mar 86
[Text] Tripoli, Rajab 17, March 28, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY -- The leader of the revolution has received more
support telegrams condemning U.S. aggression on Sidra Gulf.
The following movements, organizations, unions and forces' have
stressed in their telegrams that they stand firmly by the Libyan
Arab people in its courageous confrontation against U.S. aggres-
sion and arrogance.
1 - The Palestine National Salvation Front in Czechoslovakia.
2 - The Palestine Democratic Alliance.
3 - Palestine National Liberation Movement Fatah Al-Asifa'
troops - South Lebanon.
4 - The Peoples' Committee in Mar al-Yas Camp.
5 - The Peoples Committee in Al-Musalakh and Nab`a.
6 - The People's Committee in Tel Al-Za`tar Camp.
7 - Secretariat of the Congresses Affairs in the Palestinian Arab
General Peoples' Congress.
8 - General Union of Arab Women.
9 - The Revolution's Force Living in Benin. -
10 - The Tunisian Workers' Movement in Sicily.
I 1 - The Moroccan Workers' Movement in Sicily.
12 - The Jordanian-Student Movement in Sicily.
13 - The Palestinian Student Movement in Sicily.
14 - The Democratic Front for the Salvation of Somalia.
15 - The General Union of Palestine-Students, Poland Branch.
16 - The Chairman' of the General Union of Kuwait Workers.
17 - The General-Union of Workers of North Yemen.
18 - The Higher Preparatory Committee. of the Association of
Democratic Yemen Unions;
19 - The Islamic-Movement in the Sudan:
20 - The Palestine-National Salvation Front in Al-Jamahiriyah.
21 - Abdal-Fatah Ghanim, secretary-general of the Transitional
Leadership of Palestine Liberation Front.
22 - Libyan-Denmark Friendship Society.
23 - The General-Union of.Sudan's Petroleum Workers.
24 - Al-Barari Firm.for'Exports and Imports - Khartoum.
25 - The Syrian'Arab in Al-Zawiyah.
26 - Omar.Mohammed al-Burj, member of National Council of
Eritrea and, representative of Eritrean Liberation Front - the
unified organization in Al-Jamahiriyah.
27 - Issam al-Muhayiri, leader of the Syrian Social National
[words indistinct] the Egyptian revolutionary force inside Egypt.
29 - [number as received] The General Union of Moroccan
Students."
30 -The Kurdistan, Democratic Peoples' Party, Europe Branch.
31 The Lebanese National Students, France Branch.
32 - The General Educational Peoples' Congress of Al-
Jamahiriyah's Students. .
33 -:The Student Congress of Al-Jamahiriyah's Students in
Romania. - ?
34 - The Palestine Democratic Alliance. .
35 - The General Union of Palestine Students, Al-Jamahiriyah
Branch. .
36 - The General Secretariat of Latin America Student Union.
37 - The Revolutionary Youth of Panama's Student Movement.
38 - The Italian Student Movement in Sicily.
39 - The Democratic Youth Association, Hungary, Budapest.
40 - The Pakistani Revolutionary Force - West Germany.
41 - The Pakistani Revolutionary Force in Al-Jamahiriyah.
42 - The Chadian Masses in Al-Jamahiriyah.
43 - The Bureau of the Islamic and International Call Society in
the Republic of Maldives.
44 The Bureau of the Islamic and International Call, Rome.
45 -The Italian Society of Muslims, Rome. '
46 . The Islamic Defence Society, Ghana.
47 - 26th March Movement in Uruguay, Sweden.
48 - Mr. Andreas Fradis, Secretary-General of the Agricul-
turalists' Association in Cyprus. -
49 - The One Arab Movement in U.K.
50 - The Union of Islamic Callers i.e. Who (Call for Others To
Embrace Islam) in West France._ . %,
51 -The Egyptian National Progressive Movement:
52 - The.Palestine National Liberation Movement.
53 - The National Revolutionary Unity in Guatemala. ?
Weinberger, Crowe Make `Admissions' About Conflict
LD282347 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
2005 GMT 28 Mar 86' . .
[Text] About the truth of the Libyan Arab confrontation and the
real reasons behind the forced withdrawal of the U.S. fleet: U.S.
Secretary of.Defense- Casper Weinberger admitted.-that the
United States acted in 35 states which claimed sovereignty over
territorial waters and that Libya was the only country which
confronted this U.S. policy. Weinberger admitted, five direct
clashes during the maneuvers. He frankly pointed out the exis-
tence of contradiction and constant changes in the assessment of
the U.S. officials of the Libyan-U.S. confrontation. .
Admiral Crowe, chairman, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his
part, gave new facts including a public admission of, the combat
competence of the Libyan Arab Forces. He literally said:' It is
important to say here that those events should be placed in their
proper perspective, that is, Libya, at least from?the point of
equipment; has an ideal, commendable system. They have mod-
ern planes and modern' weapon systems, particularly very
advanced electronic systems. It has become clear that if confron-
tation continued, this. would increase the risks and the,uncer-
tainty. of the results. ? ? ?
The U.S. military official admitted that his forces used, for the
first in the, history of U.S., wars at sea, new military systems
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including the missile Harpoon and (?HARM). [as heard] These
statements reveal several facts. The first is the seriousness of the
confrontation which took place in the Mediterranean, forcing the
U.S. aggressor to withdraw. The confrontation also gave a lesson
to those who doubt Libyan competence and its ability to repel
and deter. It exposes the falsity of official U.S. claims that U.S.
hostile maneuvers in the area are mere routine naval exercises in
international waters. In fact, it was an attempt at muscle-flexing
and a test of strength. This is confirmed by the signal of the
commander of the U.S. forces, namely, that the U.S. Navy used
weapons for the first time in the history of the U.S. naval warfare
against the Libyan Arab people.
U.S. Interests, Persons Considered Military Targets
LD281657 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 1557 GMT 28 Mar 86
[Station commentary]
[Text] The battle which raged off the Jamahiriyah shores was not
a battle between the Arab people of the Jamahiriyah and the
United States alone, but was an Arab battle against U.S. impe-
rialism. The position of the Arab people of the Jamahiriyah in
the battle was only that of the advance force on the line of
contact.
Imperialism advanced on the Jamahiriyah people only because,
in the Arab nation's struggle against imperialism and Zionism,
it takes a distinguished position of confrontation in defense of
Arab nationalism and the Palestine cause, and indeed, the future
of the entire Arab existence.
The Arab triumph in the battle of Al-Jabal and the liberation of
Beirut and in bringing down the 17 May agreement -- which is
a source of pride for every Arab from the ocean to the Gulf --
was the result of the work of the Jamahiriyah, which was one of
those directly involved in achieving this great historic feat. The
Jamahiriyah, which creates pan-Arab epics and victories, cannot
but meet with cohesion from the Arab masses as it faces up to
imperialism. This cohesion can best be expressed by Arabs, from
the ocean to the Gulf, coming out en masse in demonstrations of
wrath demanding to storm every presence of the Americans in
the region. This is the least they could do. The clash between the
Arab nation and imperialism and Zionism has been raging for
scores of years. The Arab nation, which has achieved glittering
and shining victories and asserted its effective presence in the
heart of all battles in the fifties and sixties, should not turn its
back to the field of confrontation now that the fire of the
confrontation has heated up.
The soaring columns of smoke filling the skies as a result of the
blowing up of the interests, establishments and goals of the
United States in the region fulfill the longings of the souls of the
martyrs, our martyrs who have shed their blood to redeem
pan-Arabism.
Everything American, be it an interest, goods, ship, plane or
person, are military targets belonging to a hostile country which
has declared war on the Arab nation. As the United States
permits itself to strike against the Arabs, it is the right, indeed
the duty, of the Arabs to strike at America and shake the entire
area under its feet. Let the masses declare as of now, farewell to
all safety and all sanctity of all that is American in the Arab
homeland.
Oxford Group Threatens `Suicide' Acts Against U.S.
LD300057 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 1756 GMT 27 Mar 86
[Message of support for Al-Qadhdhafi by unidentified
spokesman of Libyan "Revolutionary Force in Oxford Aero-
drome, Britain" - live telephone talk]
[Text] In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate.
Greetings to the Great Al-Fatih brother leader, the custodian of
pan-Arabism, Colonel Mu'ammar Qadhdhafi:
The aggression perpetrated by America against the Arab Libyan
heroic people, which does not fear imperialist fleets and aircraft,
will be destroyed against the Gulf of Sidra. America will suffer
a most severe defeat, a terrible defeat like the one it suffered in
Vietnam. We will hit with an iron fist anyone, like dirty Reagan,
contemplating aggression against the Jamahiriyah.
We, the revolutionary force, are prepared to become suicide
squads against America and its arrogance. You people of 'Umar
al-Muthtar [nationalist resistance figure killed by the Italians],
rise! You history-maker! Rise, 0 you people of the Great Al-
Fatih, challenging American terrorism. Revolutionary struggle
continues forever.
[Signed] The Revolutionary Force in Oxford Aerodrome, Britain
1,000 Operations Per Day Against U.S., Zionists
LD282154 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 2113 GMT 28 Mar 86
[Text] Fedayeen operations being carried out by Aab fedayeen
and suicide squads against imperialism and Zionism will blaze
the trail to liberation and escalate the pan-Arab struggle to
destroy imperialist arrogance.
These operations are a sacred struggle undertaken by an ill-
treated people and supported by a nation which feels that its
existence is not secure unless it is able to eliminate the Zionist
invaders and the American arrogance.
From now on let the motto of the Arab masses be: One thousand
fedayeen and suicide operations per day. The Arab masses in the
Arab homeland and everywhere should be ready to epitomize this
motto with suicide operations. It is only through this method that
the destruction of Zionism can be achieved together with the
eradication of the American imperialism. It is through this
method that the will of the Arab masses will be imposed in
establishing a united, single Arab Jamahiriyah state from the
Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean. Thus, Arab society will be
transformed into a Jamahiri society, with authority, wealth and
arms in its hands.
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