AL-QADHDHAFI TRAVELS TO BANGHAZI, DELIVERS ORATION

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V. 9 May 86
Islamic Council Begins Ramadan on 10 May
LD090846 Algiers Domestic Service in Arabic
2300 GMT 8 May 86
[Excerpt] TheSupreme Islamic Council held a meeting this
evening, at the end of which Chairman Shaykh Ahmad Haw-
mani read the following statement:
[Begin Hawmani recording] In the name of God the compassion-
ate and the merciful. Here is a statement from the Supreme
Islamic Council. The beginning of Ramadan 1406 H is Saturday,
10 May 1986. [end recording]
MOROCCO
Moroccan Paper Terms Fes Summit 'Positive'
PM071311 Casablanca LE MATIN DU SAHARA in French
6 May 86 p 1
[Ahmed Alaoui editorial: "Improving Inter-Arab Relations"]
[Text] Contrary to what has been said or written in some places,
the Arab foreign ministers' meeting in Fes 30 April and I May
was not negative but positive since it provided an opportunity for
a broad, frank, and free discussion. Some people even spoke of
the failure of the extraordinary summit, but in fact this summit
has not yet been held and cannot be described as a failure. As
usual the ministerial conference had the job of preparing for the
meeting of heads of state and especially of drawing up the
agenda.
It should be noted that it is natural for this summit and the
preparatory meeting to be held in Morocco because since the last
summit in Casablanca His Majesty King Hassan II has been
current chairman of the Arab League; in these circumstances, it
is perfectly natural for an extraordinary summit to be held in
Morocco at the king's invitation.
The preparatory meeting which was held in Fes is positive in our
view because the foreign ministers of all Arab countries were
present at His Majesty King Hassan's invitation, and this in itself
is a positive point. It was when the agenda was being drawn up
that the differences of opinion emerged. Well, we think that these
differences of opinion are a positive phenomenon in the sense that
everybody now knows exactly where they stand in relations to the
others.
As the final communique stressed, everybody was able to freely
and frankly explain his viewpoint on the situation in the Arab
world, and everybody was able to say what he thought of the
actions of others. For the first time the Arab countries finally
washed their dirty linen in private, so to speak, contrary to what
often happened when they set aside major conflicts and dis-
agreements and spoke of solidarity and unity. That produced an
ambiguous situation in which people judged states' policies on
the basis of the atittudes adopted by individuals. Indeed do we
not see virtually every day ministers embracing each other
fraternally when their two countries are virtually at war.
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So, for the first time, the situation has been clarified and all
disagreements, quarrels, and conflicts among the Arab countries
have been reviewed. The solidarity which everybody claims to
feel comes first and cannot be unilateral but must be reciprocal.
The Fes meeting ended the policy of burying our heads in the
sand, which we had hitherto been content to practice: The
ministers parted knowing clearly what the others think. They
separated, not after admitting defeat but after disagreeing and
there is nothing to stop these being resolved between now and the
extraordinary summit which has been postponed until after
Ramadan.
With a view to that summit the ministers will have time to convey
to their respective governments the viewpoints held by various
countries. Some will be able to repeat what was said to them,
namely: If you want us to show solidarity with you, you must first
show solidarity with us. Everybody can therefore prepare for the
forthcoming summit on sound bases. After years of quarrels,
polemics, and conflicts, the Arab nation has suddenly realized
that nothing worthwhile can be achieved without real solidarity
and that there is a vital precondition for this: an improvement in
inter-Arab relations which His Majesty King Hassan II has often
advocated.
LIBYA
Al-Qadhdhafi Travels to Banghazi, Delivers Oration
Mass 'Marvelous' Demonstrations
LD081811 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 1715 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] The brother leader of the revolution, passing the towns of
Thulug and Nawwagiyah, was met by a marvellous popular
gathering of the mass of the basic People's Congresses. Huge
mass demonstrations followed the leader in a marvellous way
expressing the extent of the historic popular solidarity between
the leader and the people. The masses, who followed the leader,
chanted slogans of defiance to U.S. imperialism. The demonstra-
tions continued all the way along the leader's route until the
entrance to Al-Bayan al-Awwal, Banghazi, where he was
received by the masses of Al-Bayan al-Awwal who gathered at
the entrance to the city in a huge popular demonstration, which
showed the city in its greatest image. The demonstration com-
prised horsemen, scouts, the 1 September Buds, Cubs, and
Hands, school children and armed students, and veterans. They
were all chanting slogans stressing that the masses of the basic
People's Congresses are Mu'ammar al-Qadhadhfi.
Al-Qadhdhafi Speech
LD082118 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
2024 GMT 8 May 86
[Speech by Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi, leader of the Libyan rev-
olution, on 8 May at public rally in Al-Bayyan al-Awwal -
Banghazi ? recorded]
[Text] Dear brothers, I often come to Banghazi but I was sur-
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prised today by your coming out of Banghazi for this reception.
[sound of chanting in the background] I understand now the
meaning of this coming out: It is the coming out of challenge, the
brave coming out in confrontation of the enemies. [sound of
chanting] Dear brothers, I want challenging masses, I want brave
masses, I want masses which come out under bombing to chal-
lenge the aggression. I want masses which will make sacrifices.
Dear brothers, we want challenging masses, masses which come
out under bombing to challenge the aggression. [sound of
chanting] Dear brothers, we do not want those who come out in
the calm and happy days, those who leave work and waste time,
their marches are invalid. The marches in which are needed, the
demonstrations which are required, are the demonstrations of
challenge under attack. [sound of chantings] Those who dem-
onstrate under normal conditions and chant slogans in peacetime,
we do not need them. [sound of chanting]
Brothers, the Libyan masses were tested on Libyan land. The
masses of Tripoli and Banghazi were tested when they were
exposed to the arrogant unjust aggression. Brothers, at that time,
the masses came out, the masses confronted, the masses defied,
the masses filled the squares, and the masses raised their voices.
[sound of chanting: al-jihad, al-jihad]
Brothers, greetings to the masses of the city of Al-Gharbi who
come out these days to raise their voice strong with defiance.
Brothers, the aggression is still present. We raise our voices from
the city of Banghazi in defiance of the aggression. Our voice is
stronger than the voice of aggression. [sound of indistinct
chanting]
Brothers, the masses' defiance terrorizes aggression. When the
masses defy, aggression fails. In 1967, when Jamal 'Abd al-Nasir
resigned, while the bombing was continuing against Cairo, the
masses of Cairo came out chanting: Nasir, Nasir. At that
moment, the world knew that the aggression had failed because
the will of the masses was not defeated. The Egyptian Army was
defeated, the iron was broken, but the will was not broken.
When the Egyptian masses went outside under the shelling and
under Israeli raids which took place that day and which were still
continuing over Cairo, when the Egyptian masses went outside
without taking any notice of the raids, defying the aggression,
proclaiming their determination on their soil, the world then
realized that the aggression did not achieve what it wanted, the
aggression failed because the determination of the Egyptian
people would not be defeated even if the Egyptian Army were to
be defeated.
That was when the war of attrition started, the confrontation
started, and all the Arab nation began to stand behind Al-Nasir,
to stand behind Egypt, 0 brothers. The war of attrition began
and if Al-Nasir had not died the result would not have been what
it was. Those who sold out the Egyptian territory are the ones
who made the results what they are now. During Jerusalem Day
in Iran, millions of people in Tehran went outside under the
bombing during Jerusalem Day despite the warnings that the city
of Tehran was to shelled. In defiance, millions took to the streets
in Tehran during Jerusalem Day, women carrying their children
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went out paying no notice to the bombing. In fact, air strikes over
the city of Tehran started, and under the air strikes the Iranian
masses hailed the revolution, Jerusalem, and Palestine.
That day was a memorable day for the whole world, during which
the world saw how the masses defied the aggression, how the
masses defied the Air Force, how the masses went out under the
shelling. They showed to the world that peoples' determination,
the Jamahiri determination, the revolutionary determination are
stronger than the aircraft, stronger than the bombs stronger than
challenges, 0 brothers. The Iranian revolution Went on defying
and it is still defying with defiant masses.
Brothers, let us realize that the issue is not one of terrorism, the
issue is not one of violence, the issue is not one of a bomb
exploding in a night club or in an airliner here or there. The issue
is a serious attempt by the forces of traditional colonalism and
new colonialism to impose a veto on the future of the Arab nation.
The issue is not one of bombing a Berlin nighclub, nor is the issue
of an airliner which exploded, nor is it the issue of a bomb which
exploded somewhere. Brothers, the issue is an attempt to sub-
jugate the Arab nation, an attempt to humiliate the Arab nation,
and an attempt to impose a U.S.-Western veto on the future of
the Arab nation. But we say to them that the Arab nation was
created to survive, to defy, and to emerge victorious in spite of
America and others.
[Sound of chantings] Dear brothers, dear brothers, dear brothers,
when they allocated tens of planes which were refuelled by more
tens of planes, and protected by more than 100 planes from the
sea, when Great Britain and the United States, the superpowers,
enlisted all their strategic capabilities to attack my home, my
home was not the target. The aim was to kill the Palestine cause,
to kill pan-Arabism, to kill the cause of Arab unity, to kill the
cause of African liberation, and the Asian and Latin American
liberation [sound of chanting: With our souls, with blood, we
redeem you, our leader]
But, dear brothers, they are ignorant and do not learn from the
lessons of history. The liquidation of individuals will never be
sufficient to eliminate nations. The will of the nation is renewed,
generation after generation, and the aspirations of nations are
not embodied only in an individual; nations struggle for self-
determination and the masses triumph in the end.
They were ignorant of history when they killed Guevara. They
believed they had eliminated revolution in Latin America, but
here is the revolution today in Central America, in Latin Amer-
ica, burning the land under the feet of fascism, burning under
the feet of imperialism, and is robbing the military junta in the
Pentagon in America of sleep. The revolution is burning on the
borders of America, the borders of the United States after the
death of Guevara and after they believed that they had achieved
peace with the elimination of Guevara. Let them know, dear
brothers, that the masses continue with Guevara or without him,
with Al-Nasir or without him, with Al-Qadhdhafi or without
him. The masses continue to determine their fate, to impose their
will, to live in freedom and pride on their land and under its sun.
[sound of chanting]
0 brothers, what have they gained from these barbarous raids?
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What did they reap from these raids for which they mobilize all
the capabilities of the Atlantic Alliance? They mobilized the
United States' capabilities which were originally planned for
attacking Moscow. They used them to attack the cities of Tripoli
and Banghazii. The mobilized the capabilities of Great Britain
and the strategic bases in Britain which were ready to attack the
Warsaw Pact,. They mobilized the air and naval bases of NATO
in Europe and the Mediterranean. But no matter what the
aggressor mobilize, when they had mobilized all possible cap-
abilities 'all they had left was nuclear bombs. Apart from that
they deployed all their strategic weapons. They all got together
in alliance, as if they wanted to invade Moscow or to attack the
Warsaw Pact. They reaped disciplinary, moral, political, and
military defelt, 0 Brothers.
This treacherous attack was smashed because it was an unjust
aggression against a peaceloving people. Their aircraft were
downed. The bodies of their pilots were scattered. Their aircraft
dropped their loads in the sea and they fled from the, hell which
was burnung before them when the pilots realized that all the
schemes were lies and that the information given to them was all
deception. They found out that reality was completely different
from the schemes of the American black house. [Words indistinct
due to sound of chanting] They found hell facing them, they
found firmness, they found struggle. Therefore, they have now
started to deploy cruise missiles. It is a great thing and it is
another honor for us when the United States starts thinking
about deploying cruise missiles. It is a great honor for this small
people, for this steadfast and defying citadel, when the United
States announced yesterday and the day before yesterday in its
papers and in all its rotten circles, when it talked about deploying
cruise missiles. This means that they failed despite the Air Force,
the fleets, the propaganda, the secret action, the poison, the
assassination, and the war of nerves. They failed because we have
the right. They have now begun to think about trying to terrorize
us with cruise missiles. To hell with cruise missiles! We do not
fear cruise missiles, we do not fear the bombers, we do not fear
the carriers. We have a right on our land. Our determination is
stronger than their iron which we have weakened and destroyed.
Our determination will not be demolished. What did they get
from the aggression? We have increased our firmness, we have
more international support, our insistence on fighting imperial-
ism and Zionism has increased.
Let them hear brothels, and let the world hear. Has the chanting
of the Libyan Arab masses changed? Are the Libyan Arab
masses afraid? They are still saying: Raspberry to America, and:
A thousand rasppberries to America, and: a thousand Raspber-
ries to the allies of America, and: a thousand raspberries to Arab
hirelings of America who are reactionaries, effeminate, and
subservient around us in the Arab world.
Brothers, after those raids, did our voice change? Did we bow our
heads? Did we retreat? Were we terrorized by them? Did they
tame us? Did they intimidate us? We will not be frightend by
their childish terrorism. What did they gain from these barbaric
raids? 0 brothers, did we abandon the Palestinian cause after
that aggression? Did we retreat from our struggle for the liber-
ation of Palestine? Did we retreat from our Arab unity? Did we
retreat from socialism? Did we retreat from our leadership of the
world revolution? Did we retreat from building the Jamahiriyah?
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Did we retreat from the challenge? Did we abandon our
steadfastness? Our determination is all the stronger. We chal-
lenge, stand fast, we fight, we liberate, we unify the Arab nation
so that the barbarians of the aggressive Atlantic alliance may
realize that, no matter how severe the shelling is, no matter how
many raids they launch, our homeland will never bow its head.
We will never retreat from the struggle. We will never abandon
the cause of unity. We will never abandon the cause of liberation.
We will further extend our hands to the peoples of Latin Amer-
ica. We will send arms to the rebels of Latin America, in spite of
America, to show America that we are stronge and more chal-
lenging. 0 brothers, if the struggle for the liberationof Palestine
is seen by them as terrorism, then we will carry on with this
terrorism, ceaselessly. If they regard the liberation of people as
terrorism, then we will fearlessly carry on with such terrorism. If
the unification of the Arab nation is regarded by them as
terrorism, we will keep on practicing such terrorism and
struggling for it. If the establishment of socialism, the Jama-
hiriyah, and progress is regarded by them as terrorism, then we
will continue such terrorism. If the Palestine people's struggle is
regarded as terrorism, then we are terrorists. 0 brothers, we
understand that we are a great nation. We are the leaders of a
world revolution which combines the masses of all continents.
They are burning our land under the feet of the imperialists. We
understand that we are a superpower. Even if we do not possess
carriers or military bases, we are back by the masses of the six
continents of the world. We are supported by rebels all over the
world. We are at the head of a sweeping international popular
revolution. We are part of a great Arab nation which extends
from the ocean to the Gulf, a revolution bent on struggle until it
conquers and unifies. We are part of an Islamic world comprising
a billion Muslims, who face the stumbling crusade led by the
United States of America. Dear brothers, we have to realize our
great strength, which has its roots in the various continents of the
world. They have to succumb to our will. They have to negotiate
with us on an equal basis. They have to respect our will and our
borders. They have to realize that we are bent on struggle till the
end. We have our rights under the sun and on the land, with all
pride and merit.
Dear brothers, we will force them to negotiate with us and treat
us a equals. In the meantime, however, we declare that we will
not negotiate with the United States of America as long as it is
led by the mad Israeli dog and the Mosad agent. When he was
an actor in Hollywood, he acted as an agent for Mosad. We will
never negotiate with America as long as it is ruled by the mad
Israeli dog who is not worthy of being an American president.
He is merely a mad Israeli dog who works for Zionism. Ronald
Reagan was recruited by the Israeli Mosad when he was an actor
in Hollywood. He wanted to conceal his criminal background as
an agent of Hitler's Gestapo. Ronald Reagan was an agent of the
German Gestapo during the Nazi Hitler period. In order to hide
that, he went too far in covering up his Nazi background.
Therefore, he presented himself to the Israeli Mosad in Hol-
lywood and offered his services to Israeli intelligence. During his
time as an actor, he was recruited by Israeli intelligence to work
as an Israeli Mosad spy, until he was elected governor of on of
the states. Then the Zionists elected him President of the United
States. In view of all that, we do not expect the President of the
United States to act as a president of a superstate. This is
demonstrated by what he did, what he is doing, and will do in the
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future. This is evidence that he is not acting a president of the
superstate, the United States. He is merely a toy in the hands of
the Zionists.
I received messages, I received a stream of messages after the
aggression from U.S. citizens. These messages exist and because
they are so many we are unable to publish them. But any observer
[mutari], any journalist in the world can see these many mes-
sages. They all say: We did not at all elect Ronald Reagan to be
our president. And they all swore that Zionism alone was able on
election day to gather its people at the polling stations, and that
the real Americans did not elect this banal man at all. This
indicates that it was only the Zionists in the United States who
gave their votes to Reagan to become U.S. President. And now
the truth has become evident to the American people and the
American people have begun to wake up and to realize that they
are led by a mad man, a trivial man, by a rabid Israeli dog, and
he will suffer adversity. The age of Reagan is the age of the hen
you have [applause] at a chicken farm. When a hen is 2 years old,
it stops laying eggs and is replaced by another hen. What is left
for Reagan? Even his political age, his age in the Presidency
equals the age of a hen at a chicken farm now. After 24 months,
it is finished, Reagan ends and the hen ends. [applause]
After the fall of the rabid Israeli dog who rules the United States
and who is leading the world toward destruction now, we can
negotiate with the United States as equals. [sound of chanting]
After the awakening of American society, the awakening of the
American people, and it grasps the farce being acted out by this
actor on the world stage, and dangers which he brings to the
United States and its sons and to the world ? after his fall we
are ready to negotiate with the United States as equals so that it
may respect our waters, provinces, air space, and recognize that
we are a stubborn opponent. We do not bend, we do not submit
or retreat and we are not like the Arabs who are prostrate the
agents of America, whom the White House considered to be like
the rulers. The White House considered all the Arabs to be like
the rulers. There are agent Arab rulers, submissives, who repre-
sent only themselves. But the masses, the masses are the ones
which the United States should take into consideration.
Greetings to the Tunisian people who attacked the Marines and
killed the Marines on the land of Tunisia. [applause] Greetings
to the Tunisian people whose leaders entered the prisons. Al-
Mistiri is still in prison because he led the Tunisian (?angry)
masses. On this occasion I tell you, dear brothers, that any
Libyan citizen who had a Tunisian worker and who did not pay
what .is owed to him, after you had known that your Tunisian
brothers and the Tunisian workers we had here and whom we
had no need for, were among those who led the demonstrations
against the United States and attacked the U.S. Navy in Tunis
and killed its members, they are the ones who entered prisons.
Therefore, you should understand that all that was said about the
Tunisian workers who were in Libya was lies, falsehood, and
slander by the intelligence service.
As for. the workers, they are the workers, and the workers are our
allies in Tunisia, other countries, and all over the world and we
are leading the revolution of the workers so that they may become
partners, not wage earners, all over the world. Every Libyan who
used to employ a Tunisian worker and did not pay him should
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reconsider this. He knows the address of the Tunisian worker and
should give it to a popular organization in the Jamahiriyah in
order to present to what is due to the Tunisian worker in the form
of money, possessions, and rights due from the Libyan citizen.
Any Tunisian worker who is owed something by the Libyans, all
the Libyans who used to employ Tunisian brothers, should pay
their dues to those workers as a greeting and admiration for the
pan-Arab stand by the Tunisian people, the work of Tunisia and
the free men of Tunisia who stood by you and formed a single
front against America.
There were demonstrations everywhere in the Arab homeland.
The Egyptian masses rebelled in Egypt, demonstrating their
resistance to the complete hegemony which America now exer-
cises over Egypt. America now knows that the Arab masses are
against it, hate it, and are ready to fight it from Tunisia to Egypt.
Let the United States understand the reality of the Arab nation.
Let the United States know how many Arabs hate it because it
is an imperialist country and because it attacks them, and
because it wants to enslave them and to conquer them. The
Egyptian people hate the United States and demonstrated
against the United States inspite of their subservient rulers. The
subservient cowardly rulers of Egypt should hide themselves and
be ashamed. It is the U.S. 6th Fleet which tours the ports of Port
Said, Alexandria, and Marsa Matruh, which attacks the homes
of their Libyan brothers and kills their children and women,
while they are [word indistinct]. The American forces, which
have trained in past years on Egyptian territory ? they applied
this training on Libyan territory, and they will apply it tomorrow
on Egyptian territory. Are the subservient, puppet, cowardly
rulers of Egypt, who have shamed great Egypt and the Arab
nation, still servicing any of the U.S. 6th Fleet units? We will
fight any Arab country that accepts any of the U.S. 6th Fleet
units, because it interferes in the aggression against us, and we
will punish it, and we are warning it from now. The U.S. 6th fleet
is an Israel-American fleet, because the U.S. 6th fleet has signed
a strategic military agreement with Israel, and the U.S. 6th Fleet
has become American-Israeli fleet. If any Arab country accepts
any unit of the U.S. 6th fleet, this means that the Israeli Navy is
able to visit the ports of that country. Let the Arab masses of the
Arab countries which the U.S. 6th Fleet visits, understand that
the U.S. 6th Fleet is an American-Israeli fleet according to the
strategic military agreement signed between the United States
and the Israelis. As from now, any Arab country granting
facilities to the U.S. 6th Fleet is considered to be in confrontation
against the Great Jamahiriyah, and we warn its regime and
rulers.
We say to them: the United States will not subjugate us. We
defeated the United States. You trivial people, you are nothing
but a feather, a drop in the sea, a drop in the sea of the Arab
nation where America is concerned. We were attacked by super-
powers: the United States, Britain, and NATO. We defeated
them and we demolished them. We will not capitulate. Our
defiance and firmness have increased. [chanting of slogans]
Therefore, we appeal in these hours in which the Arab nation is
facing this new crusading aggression. We appeal to the Egyptian
Army, to the officers, to the noncommissioned officers, to the
soldiers, to all cadres in the Egyptian Armed Forces in Salum,
Matruh and the oppressed capital, in Al-Karal and [word indis-
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tinct]. We appeal to all the forces of the Egyptian Armed Forces,
its land, naval, and air forces, its air defense. We appeal to
Egyptian students, farmers, workers, and intellectuals to start the
revolution to defeat the United States, to defeat the cowards, to
defeat humiliation, the rulers of Egypt who brought shame to the
Egyptian Army and people, the history of Egypt, the great past
of Egypt which Egypt wrote with blood in defense of the Palestin-
ian question, in defense of the Arab identity, building socialism,
building Arab unity.
These cowards have tarnished Egypt, these bastards who are
sitting on the throne in the oppressed capital, in the canal, and in
the Egyptian sky. The Egyptian Army should revolt, the Egyp-
tian people should start the revolution. We appeal to the
graduates of Al-Azhar mosque, to the graduates of Al-Azhar to
proclaim a holy war in Egypt against the tenth crusade campaign
which is led by the United States against the Arab nation and
against the Islamic nation. We appeal to the students of `Ayn
Shams University and Asyut University, we appeal to the farm-
ers and workers in Egypt. We appeal to the port workers in Port
Said, in Alexandria, in Marsa Matruh, to oppose the U.S.
presence, to destroy the U.S. presence, to refuse any U.S. pres-
ence. They should revolt to destroy the shame in Egypt, to
demolish humiliation in Egypt, to put an end to the life of
America in Egypt.
Brothers, the trivial U.S. imperialists, the agents of Zionism, say
Libya is isolated. By this they are reassuring themselves and
deceiving themselves. How can Libya, with whom the six con-
tinents are in harmony, be isolated, you imperialists? Are you
telling lies to yourselves or to the world which is now taking part
with us in this eternal heroic battle.
What happened after the aggression? They hit Reagan with
missiles in Japan, and he fell flat on his stomach. Was it Al-
Qadhdhafi who made these missiles? Was it Al-Qadhdhafi who
went to Tokyo and launched these missiles? Millions went out
and surrounded this conference, surrounded the child-killers and
forced them to get out humbly under heavy guard. Thirty thou-
sand policemen were assigned the task to guard them, assigned
to guard 7 persons in fear of the angry millions.
Reagan must understand. He had the answer from Tokyo; he had
the answer from Japan which he believes is his ally. We also want
to greet the Japanese people who answered the call. Greetings to
the Japanese people [applause] who fought with you in the same
trench! The front stretched from Libya to Japan. The Japanese
people are holding high your pictures, holding high your slogans,
and attacking your imperialist enemies in Tokyo. Greetings to
the Japanese people, to the dynamic forces in Japan!
But we must say a word to the Japanese Government. We want
to say to it: When you agreed to the mentioning of Libya's name
in the failed communique, in the failed conference ? we say to
Japan: Do you, Japan, have a link with the crusade? The answer
is assuredly no, because Japan is neither a Catholic, nor a Jewish,
nor an Islamic state. They have their own religion. Therefore,
this mad Israeli dog and the child-killer Thatcher, who are
waging a crusade-type war against the Arabs and the Muslims,
therefore you the Japanese ? I mean the Japanese rulers ? what
is your relation with the crusade? Does your emperor feel that
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he is trivial and that he wants to compensate for this by war and
by terrorism on peoples? The answer is assuredly no, because the
emperor of Japan does not feel that he is trivial. But Reagan feels
he is trivial and he wants to offset this by putting his fleets on the
move and by terrorizing small peoples. Why then should you link
your fate with that of somebody who has issues and positions
completely different from yours?
Then you, Japanese rulers, have you been agents of the Israeli
Mosad? Assuredly no! This man Reagan is an agent of the Israeli
Mosad. He wants to serve Zionism. Was the emperor of Japan
elected by Zionism? No! The U.S. President was elected by
Zionism. Therefore, do not tie your fate with his because he is
completely different from you ? in his background, his present,
and his future.
Thus, pressure began in Japan today at official level, and divi-
sions began in the ruling party in Japan. Japan, the Japanese
Government, has realized that it has been dragged along by a
man ? he is not in fact a man, he belongs to a category
somehwere between man and gorilla. [Al-Qadhdhafi laughs] It
has been dragged along by an individual who suffers from
complexes, he harbors a crusading contempt, he is tied to Zion-
ism, his past was with the German Gestapo. Why should Japan
make a mistake and show courtesy to him and say that Libya is
a terrorist country in the statement of the failed summit. Yester-
day and today, a rift on an official level emerged. Yesterday, the
Japanese prime minister was obliged to hold a press conference
and he said: I dissociate myuself from the statement in which we
mentioned Libya, because Libya was right and it is not terrorist.
We have made a mistake, this is American terrorism , this is
crazy.
Brothers, when we were contacted by West European officials,
they told us: Do not blame us for the official statements and the
official decisions because we are under American terrorism, and
on the other hand we know that this Reagan is trivial and crazy.
He is a supporter of Zionism. We will put up with him for 24 or
25 months, a hen's age in poultry terms. until he vanishes and we
will be spared his evil. Afterwards, relations between us and you,
from the political and economic view, will be restored as they
were before. Official leaders in Western Europe secretly
informed us of this. They said he is crazy; do not blame us; but
what can we do? He is leading the United States until he dies.
Let us deal with him despite his madness and triviality.
They are laughing at him. The rulers of Western countries
contacted us secretly and told us this. Let him listen to this. Let
him attack Western Europe. We say that any country which
takes any anti-Libyan action, when we smell any hostile stance
from it ? be it propaganda, political or terroristic ? we will
attack it according to the basis which the United States has
established. The United States is a major country, with a seat at
the Security Council; it is responsible for international peace. We
follow the example of the United States since America's conduct
is like this. From now on, whether it is Egypt, or Italy, or any
country which we consider to be hostile to us, encouraging
terrorism against us, we will treat it as America treats the world
now. Who can say no? The basis which the United States has
established was wrong? Let them say that this is wrong. We will
follow the example of the United States and face violence with
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violence. Let Egypt understand that if we smell from it any action
which is directed against us .. houses for terrorists, meetings of
terrorists, statements of terrorists, training for terrorists ? we
will attack it militarily just like America does.
The United States attacked Libya without finding camps for
terrorists or terrorism in Libya. But it attacked homes, schools,
and the Poliomyelitis Institute in Bangahzi. But we know that
there are homes and positions around us in which there are
terrorists. We will attack these positions militarily, and from now
on nobody can protest against us.
To Italy we say: Now we are friends of the Italian people.
Brothers, you should understand that the Italian people now are
not the people of 1911. In 1911, the Italian people were against
the aggression and demonstrated against it. It was the Italian
Government then, and after that it was the fascist government of
Mussolini who escalated the aggression against Libya. The Ital-
ian people carried out fierce anti-American demonstrations, the
last of which was about 3 nights ago, when Italian youths with
knives attacked and killed American soldiers from the aircraft
carriers. Let Reagan now attack Naples because some (?Italians)
attacked Americans. Did he not say that he will attack anyone
who attacks an American? So why does he not attack Naples
with aircraft?
After the aggression against Libya, did not some Germans in
Germany attack Americans and kill them? So why does he not
attack Bonn? They attacked him personally in Tokyo. So why
does he not move the aircraft carriers in and attack Tokyo? There
is an American citizen in danger, if he is an American citizen. In
Khartoum, did not a Sudanese citizen kill an American with a
knife or a bullet? In Sanaa, did not an Arab citizen kill the
American intelligence officer of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa?
And the U.S. intelligence officer in Khartoum? In Latin Amer-
ica, all the U.S. embassies were exposed to attacks. In Sri Lanka,
the Tamils blew up an airliner with American and English
passengers. Let him attack Colombo!
Therefore, the issue is not one in which an American killed so
they then attack the country which killed the American. No! The
issue is a crusade. Hatred for the Arab nation; hatred for the
Islamic East. Therefore we call on 1 billion Muslims to confront
the tenth crusade which is led by the United States. The issue is
not one of terrorism; it is an issue of jihad and a crusade aimed
against Islam and aimed at destroying Islam and stopping it from
developing. [sound of chanting: jihad, jihad]
At this level, dear brothers, we should redouble our alliances with
the Iranian Islamic revolution, with revolutionary Afghanistan,
and with all the Islamic jihad movements in the world, because
we are facing a crusade led by the United States, seeking flimsy
justifications. When France occupied Algeria it said the Bey of
Algeria hit the French ambassador with a fly whisk and con-
sequently France occupied Algeria. This is a joke, but the basic
objective was that the West at the time wanted to colonize the
Arab homeland. When Britain occupied Egypt in 1882 they said:
By God, Al-Barudi, the prime minister of Egypt, has repaired the
cannons in Alexandria, in the port of Alexandria. The com-
mander of the British fleet sent a message saying that the
repairing of the Alexandria cannons threatens the security of the
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British fleet in the Mediterranean. Imagine this! Consequently
he said: I am forced, in defense of Britain and in self-defense, to
attack Alexandria. He attacked Alexandria and occupied Egypt.
Ultimately they were expelled from it and they tasted affliction
in it. And now the same thing: the Gulf of Sidra threatens the
freedom of navigation of the United States. Imagine this!
The issue, brothers, is not that of the cannons of Alexandria, or
that the French ambassador was hit with a fly whisk, and not the
Gulf of Sidra or the Sam-5, or the Berlin night club, Rome, or
Vienna. The issue is one of looking for justifications. It is a
conflict between the West and the East. It is a crusade. It is an
aggressive war, very hostile to the Arab nation, hostile to pan-
Arabisms, hostile to Semitism because the Arabs are Semites.
They do not want this nation to unite, to get stronger, and
consequently they seek the forces which will emerge and incite
the nation to liberation. They want Israel to replace the Arabs.
Therefore they chose Libya, not because of the Berlin night club,
but because Libya is a challenging, rising, and an inciting force.
It is not submissive.
Yesterday and today they picked on Syria with the same tune:
Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism. It is true: After Libya they go
for Syria, and after Syria they go for Yemen, and after Yemen
they go for Algeria, and after that they will go for those who think
that they are their friends: the Arab moderates, as they say. But
their turn will come as well. Let the Arab rulers, America's
friends, know that this friendship is false. They must know the
fate of (Shareef Husayn) of Mecca during world War I. He allied
himself with the allies: they named him the king of the Arabs:
they supplied him with guards and bestowed on him exaggerated
respect and deceptful ceremonies. They deceived him as they are
deceiving the Arab moderates now. They told him: You are the
king of the Arabs, just cooperate with us against Turkey. He
allied himself with them, and they liberated the Arab nation from
the Ottoman colonialism. When they took the Arab nation, they
threw him into the sea and he died in the Mediterranean. I am
the king of the Arabs, he said. I am your friend. They told him:
We do not know you. Our friend is the Arab nation which we
wanted to take, and now we have taken it. Here we will put
Jordan, here we will put Iraq, here we will put Syria, here we will
put Lebanon and Palestine. They threw (Shareef Husayn) into
the sea. This is the fate of Arab rulers who think that they are
America's friends. They will be thrown in the desert. They will
be replaced by the Israelis.
Yesterday, 0 brothers, a very, very, dangerous step was taken.
Subservient Arab rulers should understand. The Israelis signed
an agreement at the Pentagon, an agreement ? one part of it is
public, another part of it is secret ? on the participation of the
Israelis in "Star Wars." Imagine now, what is called Israel has
joined "Star Wars" program! This has extremely dangerous
consequences. First of all, Israel has become America and Amer-
ica has become Israel as it were, which I personally reject. Then
the Israelis will fight the Arabs with Israeli-American cap-
abilities. They will participate in the space program. This means
that war in the future between Syria and the Israelis, between
Jordan and the Israelis, between Saudi Arabia or Iraq or Egypt
or us and the Israelis, will be fought by American military space
shuttles, because the Israelis are participating in this program.
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Internationally speaking, the Israelis have become involved in a
war against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, because the
"Star Wars" program is directed against the Warsaw Pact and
the Soviet Union. Since the Israelis are participating in it, they
have become a party in the war against the Warsaw Pact and the
Soviet Union. This now puts us on one side, and the Israelis and
NATO on the other side.
On this occasion, I would like to say that the Arab official
position is unable to oppose the aggressors. We appeal to the
soldiers and officers in the Arab armies to start the revolution,
to remove ithe borders, and to enter the battle with us, the battle
of glory, the battle of honor, the battle of the Arab nation. The
end of this battle will decide the fate of the Arab nation and the
fate of imperialism. [chanting of slogans]! appeal to the officers,
soldiers, and noncommissioned officers in the Arab armies to
revolt if the Arab regimes are officially unable to confront the
aggression and unable to safeguard the Arab nation.
What are the Arab armies from the ocean to the Gulf waiting
for? I appeal to the young, the farmers, the workers, and the
intellectuals in the Arab nation to remove the borders and join
the Great Jamahiriyah in the battle of honor, the battle of fate
against the crusaders, imperialism, and Zionism. We say to them:
0 brothers, we will not capitulate, we will not bow, we will never
let you down. We will fight! We will be the example of sacrifice
and struggle for the sake of the Arab nation and its future. We
will Fight until the Arab armies across the imaginary borders join
us and the Arab masses across the imaginary borders join us.
Salute to the masses of the Arab nation which rose in Sudan!
Millions took to the streets in Sudan and they chased the
Americans. Evacuation took place after the aggression, real
evacuation from the Arab nation, American passenger planes
evacuated thousands of Americans from Sudan and Yemen, the
rest of them are scattered in the Arab nation. You should
understand that after this battle a real evacuation of Americans
from the Arab nation took place. The United States should
understand why thousands of Americans were evacuated from
Sudan and Yemen. Because the Arab people in Sudan and
Yemen hate them. It jumped on them and killed them and
continued killing them until they were thrown out.
But as I have said repeatedly, it cannot at all be compared with
the strength of the United States, which is built primarily against
the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. But the United States cannot
occupy Libyan soil despite its mighty strength. We in the rev-
olution command have decided to arm the Libyan cities from
Tubruq to Zuwarah, all of them will become arms and fire, and
the Libyan coast will become a line of fire and of confrontation.
[chantings of God is great and applause] We decided, dear
brothers, to arm the Libyan cities so that the United States knows
and its allies know that the Libyan people ? which stretches over
2000 kilometers on the Mediterranean ? will become a [word
indistinct] fire, and the Libyan cities become embers, If the
Americans land on the Libyan coast they will burn, they will die.
We are now preparing the armed cities and are preparing the
slaughter-houses for the sheep of the United States. We shall
turn them into sheep in slaughter-houses. (chantings]
Dear brothers, I want from you, I ask for I million Libyans to be
ready to fight in cities, but, dear brothers, [chantings] what is
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requested is that each one of you, each one of the I million pay
the price of a rifle, pay the price of a Kalashnikov rifle, either to
manufacture it in our factories, or to buy them. I want 1 million
Libyans to each have a Kalashnikov rifle [chantings].
[Words indistinct] we know that the people of Sicily is a brother
and friend to us and with us, and against the U.S. presence, but
we shall be forced to attack its land if new military campaigns
set out from it. Also, we warn the population of the Island of
Lampedusa, whom our missiles hit and destroyed the telecom-
munications station belonging to the U.S. 6th Fleet, We say to
them that we shall destroy completely this island in the future if
a U.S. aggression is committed against us from there. The
population of Lampedusa should leave this island and leave it to
Americans so that we may destroy it completely when the
confrontation comes, or the Americans leave it. If the Americans
leave the island of Lampedusa, we shall be in peace with this
island, share its hand, and establish cordial relations with it. We
shall not direct any military operations against it. The same
applies to Sicily and Italy as a whole. [1 minute break in
transmission]. We want peace with you, friendship with you, The
Italian people is our friend and hates the United States like us,
because it is imperialism, it is aggressive; it wants to colonize
them and us and wants to sacrifice the interests of Europe and
the Arab homeland; it wants to transform the Mediterranean into
a lake of war, destruction, and military operations in order to
destroy the interests of Europe with the Arab world, because the
United States has no interests in the Mediterranean. It wants
only to achieve a military presence in order to defend Israel and
to be near the Warsaw Pact. Italy should expel the U.S. presence;
otherwise we cannot turn a blind eye to any new U.S. campaigns
from Italy. If we can, we shall attack Italy.
[Patriotic slogans chanted: Arabs, Arabs, revolutionary Arabs]
The price of a Kalashnikov rifle is no more than 200 dinars; either
150 or 200 dinars. It is for nothing, by God, [laughter] a Kalash-
nikov for 150 dinars. Naturally, the Kalashnikov is a great thing,
and for 200 dinars it is for nothing. [Mostly indistinct slogans
praising the leader]
One million Libyans are required, and I want every Libyan to
pay the price of a Kalashnikov rifle, whether we make it in our
plants or we buy it from abroad. The price of a Kalashnikov rifle
is just between 150 and 200 dinars. Every one, [more patriotic
slogans chanted in defiance interrupting Al-Qadhdhafi] they
must learn that the Libyan coast will become a firing line, and
anyone landing on it will be burned. The United States cannot
fight 1 million Libyans along all the coast. Let the United States
hit the air bases; let it strike at naval bases; let it hit missile sites,
but it will never hit the giant Arab Libyan will. In no way can it
destroy this will.
Missiles and bombs cannot but add staunchness and defiance to
the will of combatants. They might destroy (?walls), they might
destroy iron objects, but bombs and missiles do not destroy free
will. Free will becomes more staunch and more obdurate and
defiant whenever it is hit with missiles and whenever it is hit with
bombs.
Brothers, they have prepared 33 aircraft to attack just my room,
my home. They equipped (?30) Boeing 707's to refuel them; they
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equipped 100 jet fights from the US. 6th Fleet to protect the 33
aircraft. But brothers, they have dropped bombs, they have
dropped missiles. But we were stronger than missiles and stronger
than bombs. We are more defiant, more obdurate, more willfull
and more courageous. [Slogans in praise of Al-Qadhdhafi the
leader]
People advised me, saying: please leave the home, in Bab al-
Aziziyah. Then the latest thing was that miliary targets began to
appear on our radar screens, and provocations began at our
broders. They said: There is a likelihood that an attack happens
tonight. I told them: The world cannot be the scene of something
of this kind; it did not happen in the past, and it will not happen
in the future. It is not possible that the residence of a head of
state ? to use their own traditional termonology ? no residence
of a head of state has ever been attacked in any war in the world;
nor has the home of a head of state ever been attacked, or his
family and children.
I said to them, this is impossible. It is impossible for an attack to
be launched against the house, or against Bab al-Aziziyah,
because Bab al-Aziziyah includes the Hospitality Palace ? the
tent in which we receive the heads of states. The heads of states
spend the night in the Hospitality Palace in Bab al-Aziziyah; the
press conferences are held in Bab al-Aziziyah ? all the meetings
with representatives of the people and from abroad are in Bab
al-Aziziyah. They know all these things. Their press knows these
things. The Americans themselves ? U.S. ambassadors and
representatives ? met me in the past in Bab al-Aziziyah. I said
to them, It is known that Bab al-Aziziyah does not contain
anything but the house, the tent, and the Hospitality Palace, and
the tent in which we prepare the banquets for the heads of foreign
states when we invite them to dinner. I said to them that it is
impossible for these countries to stoop to the level of attacking
such place. We expected them to attack military positions, and
we would resist them. But suddenly, the attack was concentrated
on the house and Bab al-Aziziyah.
I mean, I did not go away from... [Al-Qadhdhafi changes
thought] I mean, I intended, from the house, after the people
[words indistinct]. I intended to go to a military position and
direct the battle. But the attack was against the house. Those who
were with me said, Did we not tell you? In fact, the amazing thing
is that a superpower such as Britain, a superpower such as the
United States and the European countries would stoop to the
level of attacking with very advanced strategic equipment. ?
After these aircraft, there is nothing but atomic bombs ? and
all this to strike a house and kill someone to kill his children and
his wife.
In fact, instead of going to the military operations center during
the bombing, I was preoccupied with how to save the children
and how to get them from under the ruins ? from the broken
windows and the destroyed house. I knew that the attack was
concentrated on the house. The whole battle, which was led by
the United States, was against the house of Al-Qadhdhafi. The
battle in which Britain took part by allowing the U.S. strategic
bases and the F-111 aircraft to participate in it. They used all the
strategic military means that they would use against the Warsaw
Pact against the house of Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi.
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In fact, the attack, I, do excuse me, spent all that time saving the
children, and my wife. During those moments,1 did not go to the
military operations center beciuse those moments were the
moments spent in saving the children from the U.S. attack. I
mean, it was not how to save a military base, and not have to save
the Jamahiriyah. The house became the target, and in order to
foil the attack it was necessary to save the house, to save the
family. This is because I knew that their target was Mu'ammar
Al-Qadhdhafi's family, the house of Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi
and Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi himself. Therefore, if I saved the
children, then the attack would fail, because the attack was not
directed against a military target but against the house.
Therefore, if I saved them the attack would have filed. Actually,
they were saved with difficulty during the bombing, for the house
was being destroyed and the windows smashed. The house began
to (?disintegrate). I was going to the children when the door flew
out of my hand.
After we saved them, I went to the military operations center.
After I was informed about the situation, we found out that the
whole attack was concentrated against the house, and that they
said they would strike at Banghazi and Tripoli to terrorize the
masses so that they would not be alert and defend Al-Qadhdhafi.
Therefore, they carried out blind raids over Banghazi and Tripoli
to terrorize these two cities. They said that the majority of the
Libyan population lives in Banghazi and Tripoli, so let us drop
some bombs and terrorize them, and this way they would not be
conscious of the death of Al-Qadhdhafi, or the attack against the
house of Al-Qadhdhafi.
However, they recorded their shame and cowardice. The first
thing is that they are cowards, because they attacked us with
aircraft that would be used in World War III. They kept their
aircraft carriers near Italy, far from our aircraft. The stick of the
coward is long, as we said. They brought a very long stick and
(?struck with it). When they finished, they said we might hit them
with intercontinental missiles. ,
First, If America uses cruise missiles, it is the duty of the USSR,
in accordance with 'all the arrangements made in the aftermath
of the World War II, to use missiles against the cruise missiles
in order to destroy them, in preservation of world peace in the
Mediterranean and world peace in general. Furthermore, we the
Libyans, Let them hit us with cruise missiles which cannot
compel us to do anything. [laughter around Al-Qadhdhafi; Al-
Qadhdhafi is also laughing] We are not afraid and cruise missiles
do nothing to us; our land is capable of absorbing cruise missiles
and even atomic bombs. If they throw several atomic bombs on
Libya, by God, nothing will happen to it. The atomic bomb with
which they are scaring you, by God, if they drop several atomic
bombs this will not make us surrender. [applause] [sentence as
received] '
They hit Japan with atomic bombs. Today it is the biggest
economic and industrial power. The American President finds
himself forced ? despite the missiles they threw over his head,
and the curses, and the spitting ? they hit him with shoes and
missiles ? he is forced to go humiliated to Japan. Japan, whom
they hit with atomic bombs the day before yesterday, has today
become stronger than America ? the biggest industrial power
that competes with America. The American President was forced
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to go and beg Japan to halt its exports and its invasion of world
markets; otherwise America would go bankrupt. They hit him
with shoes, missiles, and spat on him, and yet he swallowed his
pride to seek sympathy from Japan, which, the day before
yesterday, they used to hit with atomic bombs. I mean, atomic
bombs do not end nations; otherwise, they would have annihilated
Japan. Rather, after the atomic bombs Japan has emerged as the
biggest industrial power despite the fact that Japan consists of a
limited number of islands. As for Libya, it is a continent. Even if
they hit it with atomic bombs, I can assure you, by God, that we
will not surrender or even die. At Bab Al-Aziziyah, two pigeons
died. Imagine, the horse was there and tied up; they poured
bombs on it and it did not die. The camel did not die. [laughing]
[chantings] The biggest laser-guided bombs they directed at Bab
Al-Aziziyah. Soldiers were on guard, at gates and in the open;
not one soldier was killed, [chanting God is great] and nothing
flew. Of course, as I have said, the angels without doubt fought
with us. God's air defense together with the Libyan air defense,
fought side by side. [chantings: God is great]
[Slogans: God is great; may a tempest hit America] Therefore,
brothers, they must reexamine all their plans against us in their
policies. They must realize that military might cannot bring
nations to their knees; on the contrary, it would add to our
defiance and staunchness. If arbitration is sought in force we are
not afraid; it cannot be written about us that we have kneeled
before to force. America is not stronger than Italy was in 1911
as far as we are concerned. Furthermore, we can undertake
suicide operations and destroy the U.S. Sixth Fleet. In the event
of extreme need, we can do this, and we can inflict destruction
on south Europe militarily.
But we are still saving our military force, and we are still avoiding
a mad confrontation of this kind. But when there is a case of
extreme necessity we can do this; we are capable of doing this,
brothers. We would accept losses but we would cause losses to
the enemy.
We are defending our right to live. Wrongdoers have attacked us
in our homes, killing our sons and children, destroying our houses,
terrorizing us and seeking to prevent us from raising our voice,
from liberating Palestine. They have hit Libya, and tomorrow
they will hit Syria; then they will hit Algeria. They will hit the
Arab homeland state after state.
Saudi Arabia must understand. Look at the crusade-like rancour!
The U.S. House of Representatives has refused to allow the sale
of arms to Saudi Arabia. It rejected it yesterday, saying that
Saudi Arabia is in the final analysis an Arab state and we hate
Arabs, we are crusaders and these are Muslims; we protect the
Jews, we protect Israel, and we cannot sell arms to an Arab state,
to an Islamic state; friends or no friends, in the end they are
Arabs. The Saudis must grasp the deep-seated hatred in the
United States against them and against the Arabs. This is indeed
a good one: Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representative banned
the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, saying that in the end, Saudi
Arabia is an Arab state, an Islamic state; no question of selling
arms to it, arms which one day might be used against the Israelis.
America sacrifices its interests for the sake of Israel.
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The most important thing in this confrontation is that the world
has realized that there cannot be weakness and strength. The
world is either all weak or all strong. Therefore, we now care little
about nonalignement, since nonalignment does not protect the
small states. We now do not care about nonalignment. We accept
that the world is divided into two strong camps, facing each other,
so that peace can be achieved by military deterrence. We are thus
closer now to the socialist camp now than ever before. ,
We are faced with two camps: a socialist camp working for peace,
and an imperialist camp bent on destroying peace and peoples.
Assuredly, we will choose the socialist camp; the camp that works
for peace. The Soviet Union put forward a proposal for withdraw-
ing from the Mediterranean Sea in return for America withdraw-
ing the Sixth Fleet from the Mediterranean. America refused,
saying: No, my fleet stays in the Mediterranean to terrorize the
Arab peoples and to protect Israel. They told the Soviet Union:
You must understand that the Sixth Fleet is present to protect
the Israelis and to strike at the Arabs; therefore, we cannot
withdraw from the Mediterranean; you Russians withdraw if you
want.
The Soviet Union said that nuclear weapons should be destroyed
by the advent of the year 2000; American refused the destruction
of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union put forward a proposal for
an end to nuclear tests, but America refused, and continued
underground nuclear tests. Recently, the Soviet Union, through
Gorbachev, put forward a proposal for the reduction of conven-
tional weapons, but the United States and NATO refused.
The United States and NATO refused to reduce even the conven-
tional weapons. The Soviet Union has no bases at any country.
It does not want to colonize any country. If the Soviet colonized
a country, it would be considered colonialist and imperialist, and
our stands toward it would be the similar to our stand toward the
United States. But we are sure that the Soviet Union does not
want to colonize any country. The interest of the Soviet Union is
that people gain liberation so that the imperialist bloc decreases;
whereas, the imperialist bloc wants to colonize the people so that
the imperialist bloc widens.
Brothers, we should reconsider our international policy. On the
Arab level, if the Arab governments are unable, we should ally
ourselves with the masses, with the revolutionary forces, and with
the Palestinian revolutionary movements inside the Arab nation.
We should ally ourselves on the Islamic level with Afghanistan,
Iran, with the Islamic revolutionary forces, and with the jihad
movements. On the international level, we should become allies
with the socialist bloc to confront the imperialist bloc. But,
everything starts from the beginning. Every Libyan should pay
the price of a Kalashnikov. If he cannot pay it immediately, he
should pay on an installment per annum basis or for every more
years. It is only 200 dinars. I would like one million Libyans to
arm Libyan cities, to prepare slaughterhouses and guns for the
American sheep. We say to them as Churchill told the Nazis
during wwii during the Battle of Great Britain. He told them
sarcastically: This Hitler is continuously threatening: I will
invade Britain, I will invade Britain, I will mobilize ships, air-
craft, and submarines and defines like America mobilizing [word
indistinct] [sentence as received] Hitler with his great power
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defeated France, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. He occu-
pied them and turned them into bases. He defeated Norway and
Scandinavia. He established air bases in Norway, France, and
Holland. Every day he threatened verbally to attack Britain; I
will occupy the British isles, and: it must give in. Everyday he
asked them whether they were going to give in or not. Churchill
sent him a message and sacastically told him: We are waiting for
you and so are the fish. In fact, Hitler's soldiers came and they
were eaten by fish and the fire of Britain at that time. The great
Battle of Britain was the beginning of the end of the Nazi empire.
From there, Hitler proceeded to Russia and he was destroyed in
Russia, and that was the end of Nazism. We also say to the
Americans, we, o you Americans, o you sheep, we are waiting for
you, and so are the fish of the Mediterranean. [crowd shouts God
is great]. Let them understand that there are no prisoners
between us and them; there are no prisoners between us and
them. Every American who falls in the hands of the Libyans will
be killed because. when the Libyan_ ship was hit_ anti when the
crew of this ship left the stricken ship by rescue boats, American
aircraft tried to kill the crew which was on board the rescue boats.
This is internationally banned. When the warships are destroyed,
its soldiers are considered prisoners and should be rescued. When
a dredger tried to rescue this ship American aircraft bombed
them.
We declare that there will be no mercy and no prisoners will be
taken in the battle between us and the Americans. Any American
who lands on Libyan territories will be massacred. We will build
slaughter houses and we will build storage places in which we will
receive the American sheep if they land on Libyan shores. We
will turn the Libyan land into a burning fire. There are 1 million
libyans in the Libyan cities who are prepared to defend the Great
Jamahiriyah, to raise the flag of the Arab nation, and to raise the
head of the Arab nation.
Brothers, under no circumstances will we be subservient or
capitulate, however great the hostile force might be.
Brothers, under no circumstances will we shame our fathers and
ancestors who destroyed the huge Italian military columns. We
will never shame our children and grandchildren. We will leave
them victory and glory. Brothers, we will fight and we will never
surrender. Brothers, we will never retreat. Immortality for our
martyrs! glory for the Arab nation! Death to the Americans.
Death to NATO! Death to aggression! Death to the aggressors!
Defeat is for the aggressors! Victory is for the masses! March
forward, brothers! Forward in the battle of glory, the battle of
honor, and the battle of dignity! We will never surrender! We are
waiting for you, and so are the fish!
USSR Envoy Praises Al-Qadhdhafi, Declares Support
NC091112 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic
1000 GMT 9 May 86
[Text] Dr Oleg Peresypkin, the USSR ambassador to the Great
Jamahariyah, has affirmed that the Soviet Union highly eval-
uates the efforts and initiatives of the brother leader of the
revolution to make the Mediterranean a lake of peace and
security and safeguard the interests of all peoples in the area, and
to fend off interference by racist U.S.-NATO imperialism.
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Dr Peresypkin told Channel One of Jamahiriyah television that
the Soviet Union vehemently condemns the U.S. Government's
blatant, provocative policy against the Libyan Arab people. He
stated that the Soviet Union, which highly appreciates the
steadfastness of the Great Jamahariyah and its firm resistance
to imperialism, reaffirms its boundless support for the Libyan
Arab people and their revolutionary leadership. The Soviet
ambassador strongly attacked the results of the Tokyo summit
of capitalist states, saying: This conference, which has deviated
from its professed aims, is the kind of meeting devoted to attack-
ing states like Libya and the Soviet Union.
Al-Qadhdhafi Receives Lebanese CP, PFLP Officials
NC091047 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic
1000 GMT 9 May 86
_ _ [Textj The brother_leader of the revolution has received George
Hawi, secretary geneial of the Lebanese Communist Party, and
Taysir Qubba`ah, member of the PFLP political bureau.
Al-Turayki Says Israel Planning Attack on Syria
LD081944 Kuwait KUNA in English 1740 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] United Nations May 8 (KUNA) ? Libya said Thursday
[8 May] the United States and Israel were preparing public
opinion ?for a U.S.-Israeli attack against Syria. Speaking to
reporters, Libyan chief delegate 'Ali A. al-Turayki warned,
however, the Soviet Union probably would not remain silent if
this type of aggression continued. Al-Turayki, who until recently
was his country's foreign minister, said Libya had received
assurances of Soviet aid that go "beyond encouragement" and
that Tripoli may formalise its "very friendly relations" with the
Soviet Union by joining the Warsaw Pact treaty.
On the expected attack against Syria, Al-Turayki said Israel
would not act on its own but with approval from Washington.
This could drag the entire Arab world into a war with Israel and
the United States, he warned. Al-Turayki also demanded that
the United States apologise to Libya for the killing of Libyan
women and children during the recent air attack on his country
and for using undignified language in dealing with leaders of
other nations.
Al-Turayki said Reagan was waging a "crusade against the
Muslim and Arab world" and that the administration's "anti-
Arabism is very clear." "The hatred Mr Reagan has for Islam
and pan-Arabism is very well known now to everyone, and Libya
is only a scapegoat," he said."
Al-Turayki dismissed Reagan's support for arms deliveries to
Saudi Arabia in the face of Congressional opposition, saying this
support was nothing but a "comedy." "What kind of arms are
given to Saudi Arabia?" he asked. "As (former President Jimmy)
Carter himself said yesterday (Wednesday), such arms are avail-
able in Belgium, in France and in other parts of Europe,"
Al-Turayki said. Even Saudi Arabia was now being accused in
the United States of supporting terrorism, he said.
Returning to his claim that an attack on Syria was imminent,
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Al-Turayki questioned the credibility of information given to the
American public by the Reagan administration. "First the
Americans and the Germans said they had 'irrefutable evidence'
of Libyan complicity in the Berlin discotheque bombing, and now
they are accusing Syria for the same incident," Al-Turayki said,
adding the mass media also were being prepared for an attack.
As evidence that preparations for a military strike were under
way, Al-Turayki cited recent claims of Syrian involvement in
terorist attacks by Vice President George Bush and Israeli
Defence Minister Rabin.
On the final communique issued after the seven-nation economic
summit in Tokyo, Al-Turayki ridiculed the U.S. contention that
a victory had been achieved on fighting terrorism. "All they
achieved is including the name of Libya in the communique, but
they failed to get a strong condemnatin. Reagan's 'victory' is a
failure," Al-Turayki said. The official recalled that the vast
majority of nations ? the 101-member Non-aligned Movement
and the socialist group ? had condemned the U.S. air attack,
thus isolating not Libya but the United States.
On the reported cooling off of relations with the Soviet Union,
Al-Turayki said, on the contrary, "they have never been so solid
and friendly as they are now." Asked to comment on why the
Soviet Union failed to come to Libya's aid during the Mediterra-
nean conflict, Al-Turayki said, "We are a nonaligned country,
we are not part of the Warsaw Pact, for the time being, not yet,
but the Soviet Union gives us full support."
He said if a strike against Syria is carried out, there would be a
war between the Arab states and the United States and Israel.
"It is now time, like every ten years, for a new aggression by Israel
in order to take more land, and, I think, the failure of (secretary
of State George) Shultz in Lebanon makes the administration
more furious about the Arab countries," Al-Turayki said. Asked
why Israel apparently had picked Syria as a target, Al-Turayki
said: "I think everybody has his own preferences. Israel prefers
Syria as a target, the United States prefers Libya."
YAR's Al-Iryani Arrives in Tripoli 8 May
LD090837 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 1800 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] Tripoli, 8 May (JANA) ? Dr 'Abd al-Karim al-Iryani,
member of the Permanent Committee of the General People's
Congress and deputy prime minister of the YAR, arrived this
evening in Tripoli on a visit to the Great Jamahiriyah.
SUDAN
SPLA Spokesman Rejects Al-Mahdi Cease-Fire Call
EA082315 (Clandestine) Radio Qf the Sudanese
People's Liberation Army in English
1300 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] A spokesman for the SPLM-SPLA has described the
recent statement by Sadiq al-Mahdi, the prime minister of
Sudan, on the constitutional conference as contrary to the spirit
of the Koka Dam declaration signed last March between the
SPLM-SPLA and the representatives of the National Alliance
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for National Salvation. In principle, the SPLM-SPLA does not
recognize the present government in Khartoum. But as a de facto
government and also headed by Ummah party, which is a signa-
tory to the Koka Dam declaration, Mr Al-Mahdi is bound to
create an atmosphere conducive to the holding of the constitu-
tional conference scheduled to take place in Khartoum next
month. The call by the prime minister that the SPLA should
declare a cease-fire and his threat to use the Army to wipe out
the SPLA before he could solve what he called the southern
problem are a violation of the Koka Dam declaration, the
spokesman said.
It is to be mentioned that the agenda of the proposed conference,
as stipulated by the declaration, is about finding solutions to
Sudan's fundamental problems and not the so-called southern
problem alone. The declaration also deferred the question of
cease-fire to a future date because the SPLM-SPLA considers
that as a logical sequence to the prevalence of climate free of
obstacles to security, safety and other restrictive laws. Sadiq
al-Mahdi, however, has been persistently giving press conference
to Arabic language press outside the country that he is going to
destroy the SPLA, after which he could solve what he calls the
problems of the southern Sudan.
The SPLM-SPLA spokesman concluded that the movement is
committed to the constitutional conference which its leader
initiated in March last [as heard] year. And because of that, the
spokesman said, we will ignore the provocative statements by the
prime minister of Sudan, Mr Sadiq al-Mahdi.
Samuel Aru Demands Cancellation of Islamic Laws
JN081208 Khartoum SUNA in Arabic 1052 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] Khartoum, 8 May (SUNA)? Samuel Aru Pol, chairman
of the Southern Sudanese Political Association [SSPA], has
demanded that the Constituent Assembly cancel the Islamic laws
issued in 1983, and resort to the Addis Ababa agreement for
self-rule in the Southern Region. He said this will make room for
negotiations with all the southern parties to reach an agreement
on urgent national issues. He also demanded freezing all standing
issues at the present time until the convocation of the constitu-
tional conference that will discuss the form of rule in Sudan. In
a statement to the newspaper AL-AYYAM issued today, Smauel
Aru asserted that the SSPA's contacts with the Al-Ummah Party
and the Democratic Unionist Party continue to be in complete
agreement on all national issues and on the charter issued by the
two parties. He pointed out that the previous negotiations
resulted in positive steps. Aru appealed to the southern parties to
freeze the differences, particularly on how to [word indistinct] the
southern regions until the constitutional conference is convened.
Defense Ministry Entrusted to Army Commander
JN081058 Khartoum SUNA in English 1015 GMT 8 May 86
[Text] Khartoum, May 8 (SUNA) ?Prime Minister Al-Sadiq
al-Mahdi yesterday issued a decree entrusting the commander in
chief of the People's Armed Forces to assume the charges of the
defense minister. The premier also entrusted the police general
director to undertake the minister powers concerning immigra-
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