AL-QADHDHAFI SPEECH MARKS EXPULSION OF U.S. BASES

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V. 12 Jun 86 NORTH AFRICA
Al-Qadhdhafi Speech Marks Expulsion of U.S. Bases
LDI11720 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
1602 GMT 11 Jun 86
[Speech by Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi on 11 June
to mark the 16th anniversary of the expulsion of the U.S. bases
from Libya; place not specified - live or recorded]
[Text] [Words indistinct] May God bring back this day to the
revolutionaries of the Arab nation in victory and to the coward
and submissive rulers of the Arab nation in defeat and loss. May
God make this day a blessed day for the progressive revolutionary
Arab movement and an ill-omened day for the rulers of the Arab
nation and its reactionary forces which are drowning in humili-
ation and subservience.
On this occasion, I wish to speak about current issues and say
something about the future.
While we are celebrating the anniversary of the expulsion of the
U.S. forces, we are facing a cruel and unjustified attempt aimed
at the returning of these forces to Libyan territory again. The
United States is angry because it suffered a defeat at the hands
of the Great 1 September revolutionaries, because their forces
were evicted from Libyan territory, and because the five bases
that existed on Libyan territory were being undermined in the
days of humiliating independence [as heard] and the days of the
traitorous coward and defunct royalty; in the days of its deputies,
ministers, and ambassadors and all those who were part of the
disdained humiliated era; and in the days of a national flag and
a recorded national anthem championed by that agent [not
further identified] together with all those who took part in the
defunct regime who share the disgrace, shame, national treason,
and cowardice - be they small or big.
May the curse of the Libyan people be upon them on this day of
evacuation, and upon them the [word indistinct] of the martyrs
on the day of evacuation: That moment was considered to be a
form of independence such as the Arab states have now. But the
revolution exposed the truth and showed that was in fact occupa-
tion, not independence. We have independence and freedom
today which is why the United States is trying by force to return
to this land; but it is being turned away defeated. This shows that
this is a free country which defends its independence. The U.S.
forces are now advancing in Egypt and are not being turned
away; on the contrary they are being welcomed, received, and
hosted. They are carrying out maneuvers to occupy Egypt one
day and they practice maneuvers so they can implement them in
occupying Libya. The U.S. raids on Libyan soil prove that this
land is free and dear and that it resists; it is no simple matter to
enter it or for the dirty American foot to step on it. So, the
attempts which the United States is making now are aimed at
returning their forces to the same bases from which they were
expelled. This in itself is an indication that this country is now
free and is resisting this return. And indeed, the United States
was defeated in its attempt to enter the Gulf of Sidra; it was
defeated in its attempt to enter Tripoli and Banghazi and in the
attempt to reach its goal.
On this occasion we are celebrating the anniversary of the
expulsion of the forces whose dangerous presence on Libyan soil
before 1970 cannot be underestimated. The United States used
to maintain the biggest bases outside its territory on Libyan soil
and it used to occupy the long coast of the Arab homeland.
It controlled the Gulf of Sidra from inside Libya. It was also in
control of the southern Mediterranean and conducted its impe-
rialist strategy from inside Libyan territory. It controlled Libya's
air, land, and sea from these bases. Britain also maintained full
military control over the east of the country which it secured after
World War [I. It used the Adem base in Tubruq as a support
point, and its forces in the Mediterranean and in Europe came
and held annual maneuvers without permission from and without
telling the Libyans. They crossed from the Gulf of Bumbah, the
port of Tubruq, and the Adem base to hold maneuvers in the
Batnan hills and in the Jabal al-Akhdar as if they were part of
Britain.
Britain too is very angry that it was deprived of this possibility
after the revolution. It used to occupy an Arab land and a base
situated on the border between Libya and Egypt which has a
strategic importance in fighting Arab unity, the Arab revolution,
and the growing Arab nationalist movement. Despite the fact
that it was defeated and deprived of all this by the insurgents of
the Great 1 September Revolution, Britain felt the same rancour
and wrath as the United States and shares the desire to try and
return to these bases it was driven out of. Therefore, the aggres-
sion becomes clear. It was a direct American-British aggression,
[carried out with the help of] the platform offered by NATO to
this aggression in the form of bases and facilities in Italy and
Spain as well as in Turkey and the rest of the occupied areas; as
well as the Arab areas which are considered to be semi-occupied
and whose independence is regarded as false and which are
considered to be under effective control even though they appear
to be independent states. The Arab states around us have been
submissive and subjugated and they bowed before the U.S.
aggression and offered all their facilities to the U.S. fleet.
However, the day will come when they have to pay the price. The
United States will not save them when the greatest crisis occurs,
when the revolution will be inevitable, and when their fate will
be the same as the fate of the shah of Iran, Idris al-Sanusi, and
Haile Selassie. I know that they will not learn their lesson until
they have been toppled.
We celebrate this anniversary of the evacuation of the U.S. forces
from Libyan territory on 11 June while we are witnessing an
attempt to return by force. From this we learn that the choice of
Libya to build U.S. and British bases on its land is a strategic
choice to benefit the Western powers which are hostile to us. So,
the occurrence of the revolution and the evacuation of these bases
do not cancel the strategic importance of Libya to Western
countries. Libya is still of strategic importance for Western
countries in their international conflict and for controlling the
Mediterranean, Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, North Africa, and
the Mediterranean. [repetition of `Mediterranean' as heard] They
are trying to move closet to the USSR and the Warsaw Pact to
surround them so that they could defeat them if another world
war occurred. The strategic importance of Libya remains firm
and quite valuable for these colonialist countries. Therefore, their
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evacuation from Libya does not cancel the strategic importance
of Libya as far as they are concerned. The location of Libya is
very important to anyone who wants to control the Mediterra-
nean, or North Africa, or even to influence Central Africa, the
Arab region, or even the European region.
I want to show the Libyans that the position of their country is
very dangerous and strategically sensitive. Whoever controls it
can control the region and has a number of strategical keys in its
hands. Thus, the attempt to control this tempting position
prompts new aggressions. In addition to the fact that the pop-
ulation is small, the surface area is very large and Libya's
potential is huge - to the extent that the Libyans cannot manage
it. I mean, the Western countries and the Zionists too have
always studied and asserted that Jabal al-Akhdar is not fully
utilized, the Libyans are not able to exploit it, and therefore this
Jabal must be occupied. This was the very good reason why Italy
occupied Libya in 1911. At that itme they used to say that
Libya's map was merely a piece of paper' except for Jabal
al-Akhdar. They say that oil is too big a resource for the Libyans
and they cannot exploit it. What do the Libyans do with this
wealth? They cannot exploit it usefully. They say the Libyans
are not educated, that they are ignorant and therefore cannot
manage (?this resource). The colonialist pretext is always'there.
Wherever there is a vaccuum it must be filled; it is a natural thing
that wherever there is a vaccuum it must be filled. As we have
repeatedly said, whenever there is an area of low air pressure, air
from a higher pressure zone will come and fill it. This is why wind
disturbances, storms, and even rain occur.
The vacuum is always filled in. But what has been filled in cannot
be filled in a second time; like a glass full of water when you bring
in another glass of water to pour into it: If it is'empty you bring
in another glass of water to fill it. This aggression is in fact aimed
at Arab leadership, Islamic leadership, African leadership, and
revolutionary leadership. It is against Arab revolution because it
is an established fact. There is no justification for it; not because
an American was killed at a club in Berlin or a plane was hit.
Even if this happened, even if the perpetrator was a Libyan he
could be taken to court in Berlin, or Rome or Athens. At this
moment they still do not know who carried out these operations.
Do not try to find justifications for the aggression. The aggression
was aimed at controlling the Arab nation and undermining the
strong shout which was raised at the dawn of 1 September
Revolution in 1969. The aggression was aimed at destroying the
Arab nation and guaranteeing the existence of the Israelis in the
Arab region. The Arab nation must be occupied to effectively
ensure the existence of the Israelis in the'future and to put an end
to the problem of so-called Judaism, so that Europe can get rid
of the problem of Jews by establishing a state for them in'the
Arab nation and at the expense of the Arabs. Then in the future,
the occupation of the Arab nation is plausible; the occupation of
Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, and
Morocco is plausible. All these Arab countries and the states of
the Arab peninsula can be occupied plausibly to ensure the
existence of the Israelis in the future. Obviously, [word indistinct]
several things out of the reality of its analysis and what it [word
indistinct]. On 11 June 1977 at Darnah, I delivered a speech and
I talked about what has now happened in 1986. People who
listened then applauded and after that it was entered in the
national register and it was not heard again. I will tell the radio
Q 2 NORTH AFRICA
to rebroadcast it during the coming few days to prove that what
I said in 1977 has been proved now. I said that this desire to
control Libya has been evident since the 18th Century.
In April 1805 when the United States attack took place -
imagine it, against Darnah by the U.S. fleet; four U.S. destroyers
shelled Darnah on April 1805 so that the United States could
occupy Darnah and Tripoli - during that time did Berlin exist?
And [words indistinct] or even the Palestinian cause? Or Al-
Qadhdhafi? Or someone called Abu Nidal, or the presence of the
Palestinian resistance, or the fact that there are operations
against U.S. imperialism all over the world? The entire world
hates the United States and fights it everywhere. If we have to
pay the price for all operations against the United States this
means that they have to attack us a hundred times every day.
The whole world hates the United States and pursues it every-
where. Several operations against the United States will take
place there. We are [word indistinct] for it. All peoples are now
fighting against imperialism. Do we instigate every incident
against the United States? [Words indistinct] tyranny, injustice
is instigated by force because the United States, formerly com-
posed of fifty countries has become one single state. We the
Arabs are composed of 20 states and we are trying to become 21
states; and if we become 22 states, afterward we will be weak. As
long as our number increases we will become weak. If the Arab
nation was one nation the United States would not have dared to
threaten Libya, Syria, or any Arab country. It has restricted the
call for Arab unity which we have raised since the beginning of
the revolution [words indistinct] for the establishment of Arab
unity. There are those who are aware of the necessity of unity; I
mean the necessity without which the Arabs will be harmed, This
is the meaning of the word necessity in the Arabic language -
a word which we utter thousands of times every day, we say
necessary, necessary, necessary [word indistinct]. This is not
related to [word indistinct].' If unity does not exist this will be
harmful. Human beings need air; without air a person will come
to harm. This is why we say something is necessary, when we say
that Arab unity is necessary; this means that without it the Arab
nation will be harmed. In fact this aggression is harmful; the
occupation of Palestine is harmful; bombing Tunisia is harmful;
bombing Lebonon is harmful; the Palestinian resistance and the
Palestinian people who are being destroyed - all this is harmful
to the Arab nation. Therefore, Arab unity is necessary. It will
ward off this harm. We.are not calling for unity for sentimental
reasons but because it is necessary; consequently, the struggle
should continue to achieve it. Even if we lose, and even if we make
sacrifices to achieve this aim, we have done something right. If
we are going to die, let us die. They strike us in our tents, in our
homes, in our camps, and in our towns. They want to strike us -
let them strike us. But we will fight. We will fight to change the
Arab map and to establish Arab unity. Arab unity can be
achieved through faith. We must enter into battle for the sake of
establishing Arab unity whether peaceably or by war. This is
because it is necessary. He who (?opposes it) only wrongs himself.
For this nation wants to be united. The United States alone and
Washington alone [words indistinct] by force. Bismark unified
Germany, by force; Garibaldi. unified Italy by Force; Mao
Zedong unified China by force.
We are a divided nation which should be unified by whatever
means. I call on all the living forces in the Arab nation to take
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up arms and fight to change the map and unify the Arab nation.
They must not show any respect to these false scepters and these
submissive rulers and these borders which were delineated by the
British, Americans, French, and Italians. They were the ones who
changed the map of the Arab homeland and created these states.
They must be trodden underfoot. The rulers, scepters, and bor-
ders must all be trodden underfoot.
The aggression had its reasons: the desire to dominate the Arab
nation and to destroy Libya as a country which instigates Arab
unity and liberation and rejects the existence of the Zionist
entity. We recognize nothing and we will fight and teach our sons
and their sons how to fight against something called Israel. We
do not [word indistinct] Israel.
We are with the Jews and we support the rights of Jews to live
in peace and equality anywhere in the world. The French Jew
must live in France. If he comes to Palestine, this would mean
that France is persecuting Jews. We ally ourselves with the Jews
against such persecution. If a group of Jews comes from Germany
to Palestine, since they are Germans, this would mean that
Germany is persecuting Jews and we must ally ourselves with
them against this persecution. We side with the persecuted
wherever they may be.
But we do not accept the establishment of an Israeli state on Arab
soil. We will resist it until we destroy it. This is because its
existence conflicts with our existence.
The United States has sent me its ambassador to the Vatican. He
is a good man who supports the Arab cause. He is an ambassador
to the Vatican and he wanted to give us an opportunity [words
indistinct]. Italy mediated. The Italian ambassador came to me
and so did the Italian Government and said to me: Please let him
have 5 minutes. He came to me in the tent they described. He
said: In fact the problem between you and us is not concerned
with the Gulf of Sidra or the Palestine issue. We know that the
Gulf of Sidra is a Libyan gulf. As regards Palestine, we cannot
agree with you about it.
What is the cause of the conflict then, I asked him. He said the
conflict first concerns Tunisia. Why Tunisia? He said: because
of the succession to Bourguiba. Reagan says we must agree who
should succeed Bourguiba. After Bourguiba what will Tunisia's
destiny be? In fact, I scolded him and through him, I scolded his
President. I told him first that Reagan cannot guarantee that he
himself will be alive after Bourguiba goes. Who can guarantee
that Reagan will not die before Bourguiba?
This is one point. The other point is that this constitutes an
unbearable insult to the Tunisian people. Tunisia has its people
who will decide the fate of their country after Bourguiba and
after those who succeed him.
What right have you and I to consult behind the curtain on the
future of Tunisia, as though Tunisia was a cow, as though it was
a [words indistinct] cow? Who is to carry it, or look after it, or
slaughter it? How can this be? Tunisia is a people, a people (?that
does not need Reagan) to hold consultations on the future of
Tunisia after Bourguiba. Indeed, I closed this door and told
him: If you want tension to end...[Al-Qadhdhafi apparently
changes thought] He said: Tension will end if you reach
agreement with us on the future of Tunisia, the future of Chad,
and the future of Egypt. At that time the [words indistinct] had
fallen. I told him: If you want tension to end, you should not
talk about Tunisia, Chad, and Egypt and you should not interfere
in Tunisia, Chad, or Egypt. [Words indistinct] Why should you
care what state Tunisia will be in after Bourguiba? Tunisia is an
Arab state and we are more entitled to be concerned about it than
you. We are Arabs and we are more entitled to be concerned
about each other. And then there are [words indistinct].
Do we or the Tunisians, I told him, have the right to talk about
the future of the United States after Reagan? I told him: This
is an American nonsense and insolence which we do not accept,
and we tell you to leave Chad, Egypt, and Tunisia and not to talk
about these regions. Then (?they committed) the aggression, and
said, by God, it was for the sake of the Gulf of Sidra. Well, the
Gulf of Sidra problem ended. Then they committed aggression,
saying: You have SAM-5 missiles. [Words indistinct] Does the
Soviet Union have the right to attack us because I have inter-
continental missiles? These missiles are a danger to the Soviet
Union [words indistinct] constitutes a danger to the U.S. aircraft
in the Mediterranean. All these battles around the SAM-5 and
the Gulf of Sidra ended, and then they said it was because of the
Berlin night club of which we had not heard and [words indis-
tinct]. They indeed carried out a very insolent aggression.
If we had strategic aircraft which could reach London or New
York, then on the same day we would have launched raids against
these capitals as they launched raids against our capital. The
issue is not just a raid which was carried out and finished. By
God, if we had a force similar to theirs, then today we would be
bombing and destroying their capitals. What do (?they think of
us)? Not because there are justifications for stopping the war,
stopping the war. [sentence as heard] If anyone commits aggres-
sion against you and your children in your house - if you have
a force similar to his then you should reply, and reply twice as
hard. If we had a military power, then on Apirl 15th we would
not have hesitated to attack New York or London. This is a
legitimate action and self-defense. But we are a small country
which does not have the resources of the United States.
Therefore, we will reserve our right to self-defense, (?as we have
repeatedly said). When they launched the attack, we should have
repelled them even if the whole of our people died.
Because of this, every Libyan should come forward, through the
Basic People's Congress, to pay 200 dinars. Anyone who can pay
it immediately should do so; those who cannot should pay it by
installments even over a year. This is so that with this 100 million
dinars we can buy rifles for 1 million Libyans.
Yesterday I learned that Darnah will remain an armed city
because it is a target of U.S. aggression. Whenever there is a
landing in an attempt to occupy positions on the Mediterranean,
Darnah will be among these positions. They think that it is
isolated. In 1805 they attempted to occupy it. A fierce battle took
place in the streets of Darnah between us and the Americans,
and they were defeated and they were expelled, and the evac-
uation treaty was signed on June 11th 1805. The second evac-
uation was on June 11th 1970.
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This means that there was a continuous struggle. That is a state
which wants to dominate the region. Libya is attractively located
and it has a small population, so they believe that they can bring
it under their control once more in order to use it in their strategy
of aggression.
It follows that Libyan towns must be armed so that any future
U.S. landing would be annihilated. Defense lines must also be
built to protect everything on the coast, deep into the Jama-
hiriyah, so that we can fight indefinitely.
Concerning this subject, I tell you that if the United States
persists in its provocations and encroachments, and when it
becomes clear to the world that the operation is meant to humil-
iate and to encroach on Libya, then we must urgently convene
the people's congresses to decide what must be done, to discuss
the question of war. Because if we are to enter a war we must
bear the consequences of war with a superpower. We should not
be surprised by any destruction, but we must be fully happy and
satisfied to fight in combat the infringement of national sover-
eignty, and the official state terrorism which the United States
wants to impose in its desire to humiliate one of the peoples of
the Arab nation.
Then the battle would effectively engulf all the Arab region and
the Mediterranean. Masses from Africa, from the Arab home-
land and from all over the world would participate with us in the
fighting. As for the United States, it must realize that it is a
cowardly state, avoiding entering into battle with us face to face.
But we might force it into this and prevent it from attacking from
a distance.
At the same time, if we decide on war we will have to destroy its
fleet and bases in Europe and bear the responsibility for that,
even if it takes nuclear weapons; it.used them against Japan.and
Japan is now economically stronger than the United States. We
have deserts and wide areas that would absorb many an atom
bomb. We are not densely populated. As for the cities, we would
leave the combatants in them and move out to the countryside
and the suburbs which we would use for building farms and
breeding livestock. We would then live as sultans; we would
confront the United States while singing and dancing.
This is why I was extremly angry when people left their homes
and switched off their lights. That is not right. It tell you: if we
are to fight we must fight while dancing and singing, and if we
are to die we will die with joy. If you are to die, whether
frightened or not, you will die when you must.
But there is a tremendous challenge and great resistance and our
streets will be shining with lights. Let the bombs hit the gener-
ators; only then will the lights go out. So what? We were
expecting the attack on Bab al-'Aziziyah and still the lights were
left on, and as some construction and repair work was being
carried out, there were some searchlights; but even lights in the
houses were on, as normal, until they hit them with some bombs,
when some lights were smashed and wires were cut. The lights
went out in some parts of house only as a result of the shelling.
We challenged and everything had to stay normal. We do not
leave our houses, and when we leave them we only leave them to
go out demonstrating. The time that Bab al-'Aziziyah, was
shelled - at 0200 - should be taken as a time to organize
demonstrations of challenge, defiance and to demand arms. We
do not leave the cities.
The Americans [word indistinct]. If we decided to take out the
children and grandmothers to stay outside the cities, the rest of
us, men and women who can carry arms, should stay in the
buildings, the streets, and holiday resorts in order to fight,
whether the fighting.is face to face fighting, fighting a seaborne
landing or air raids. If they decide, however, to use inter-
continental missiles, then we should use some other means to
fight. We have some horrifying means to use against the
Americans but we have not authorized their use yet. The
Americans must understand that they are facing a stubborn
challenger and they will never find respite in their war against
us. They must also understand that they have only one course -
to recognize our rights and to negotiate with us on equal footing,
as their bombs and their huge weaponry will not frighten us. At
the end is only death, and we are ready to die while saying "no".
However, our leadership of pan-Arabism, the Arab revolution,
and the international revolution - America claims that we have
taken the revolution to its doors. Reagan said that they have
created another Libya at his doorstep - he means Nicaragua.
Our leadership of pan-Arabism and the Arab revolution, and our
historic and brave resistance to imperialism and to NATO, has
been baptized in blood, in the blood of our sons and the blood of
our soldiers, and the Gulf of Sidra started to actually become a
red gulf, as we said it would, because of the blood of the Libyan
martyrs, the Libyan fighters, the soldiers of the Navy and Air
Force, and the blood of the U.S. aggressors. We are continuing.
As we said, our motto is always similar to what Churchill said to
the Germans: We are waiting for you, so are the fish.
The position of [word indistinct] is in fact an immoral position. I
would like to tell you that the immoral stand of the whore
Thatcher [words indistinct] has no justification for aggression
against Libya. Libya placed its resources at the disposal of
Britain during World War II. The Libyans allied themselves with
the British. They enabled them to defeat the Italians and the
Germans. This was a favor presented by the Libyans to the
British forces during World War II, until they were able to defeat
Germany and Italy on Libyan soil. The Libyans allied themselves
with the British during World War II and granted them all the
facilities which enabled them to defeat the axis and the forces of
the axis. This was a favor which Britain should have remembered.
But as I told you, regarding the British prime minister - what
sort of a person is she anyway - the issue is a moral one - she
is not an honorable person and is not even good enough to repay
favors; she is not good enough to lead a country like Britain. She
made her country into a U.S. aircraft-carrier. The aircraft took
off from aircraft-carriers in the sea and from Britain together.
Therefore, the British isles became a U.S. aircraft-carrier.
Therefore, it deserves to be called a U.S. aircraft-carrier. This is
a shame and a humiliation inflicted by the British prime minister
on her country. In books and newspapers and officially we will
insist on calling it a U.S. aircraft-carrier until we see that it has
been liberated and it is no longer an island which carries U.S.
aircraft anymore.
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That woman got in touch with King Hassan II and told him: I
beg your friend Al-Qadhdhafi to save me becauseI am about to
fall, by convincing his people to release the four British detainees
and in return I will do him a political service. I cannot release the
detained Libyans because of purely legal considerations, but I
can do something political in the interest of Libya from now
onwards. She did this through doctor, whose name...[Al-
Qadhdhafi tries to remember the name] He came to me. King
Hassan II telephoned me and conveyed this message and then
the doctor and said the same thing [words indistinct] because he
was the one who met with Thatcher.
I said alright for the sake of King Hassan and in view of her
pleading and her saying that her fall was in the hands of Al-
Qadhdhafi and that her success was in the hands of Al-
Qadhdhafi. He could ease matters for me by releasing the four,
she pleaded with King Hassan. We Arabs have gallantry and
manners. However, we have come to realize in the end that the
West is very mean and they are creatures that come somewhere
between gorillas and pigs and human beings. In fact, they must
not be respected as human beings. They are backward Berbers
although they describe us as Berbers when in fact they are the
Berbers. It became evident that they have no conventions nor
ethics nor logic and cannot understand where right lies and where
wrong lies.
However, I asked the people's congresses to release them and so
they were released.
See now how this fallen woman has rewarded us. She allowed the
Americans to use their bombers to attack us and to attack my
house particularly. I mean, the entire operation was intended to
kill Al-Qadhdhafi, who had done her this favor. She rewarded
him by preparing the most sophisticated planes equipped with
lasers which can steer bombs toward their targets.
See the morals of the English! See the morals of the British prime
minister! See the decadence! When the aircraft were attacking
from the British bases, the despicable king of Jordan was toasting
Thatcher. He was in Britain at the time, and he has now crossed
to his master, Israel's rabid dog Reagan; to lick his feet. And
Reagan scorned him as he scorned Husni Mubarak before him,
when he left him waiting for 3 days before seeing him. Reagan
- God forbid it from you - was with three of his dogs at the
[word indistinct] park, quite indifferent. He left him 2 or 3 days,
cut off, then he kindly met him some time, as an insult to the
Arabs, to Jordan and the people of Jordan, for its king to be
degraded that way.
I ask that today, l 1 June, we stage a noisy demonstration in order
to spit - God forbid it from you - in the face of the despicable
king and send cables to the fraternal people of Jordan and its
forces, institutions and the Jordanian Army, its officers and
soldiers, through teleprinters and the Voice of -Greater Arab
Homeland in order to denounce Husayn's meeting with Israel's
rabid dog Reagan. He shakes his hands while they are still
dripping with the blood of our children, martyrs and soldiers.
They are Arabs who no longer have dignity and do not feel shame.
They have lost everything and have become pigs. They no longer
have dignity, pride or honor. And, indeed, since the occupation
of Beirut, since the siege of Beirut and the attack against Beirut
in 1982, in such a month the Arab regimes have ended up under
the ruins of Beirut. They should have hidden themselves in
shame, and the bottom of the earth would have been more
appropriate for them than its surface. Since that time we have
said that the Arab regimes, the Arab parties and the Arab armies
have lost the reason for their existence, and only the Jamahiri
[word indistinct] remains. It should officially replace them.
I want to say to the Arab armies and, the Arab revolutionary
force, the Arab peoples, the workers, the peasants, the students,
the small employees, and all the toilers in' the Arab homeland,
especially the ones who have weapons in their hands, that their
governments have lost the justification for their existence, that
their survival only records more shame on the Arab nation, and
that the matter is now in their hands and the responsibility rests
on their shoulders. They should advance in order to kill off the
official Arab regimes who failed in the face of the U.S. raid to
meet even at the foreign ministers level. And the Arab kings and
presidents failed to hold an extraordinary meeting, while Europe
met at all levels until it was able to [words indistinct] which was
aborted by the Japanese people. And we greet the Japanese
people and the leftist revolutionary force in Japan and ally
ourselves with it in our joint struggle against imperialism, in
order to defeat imperialism and remove the hegemony from the
great people of Japan and remove the hegemony of the big
powers, the dirty imperialists, from the world. But the Arab kings
and presidents, and even their foreign ministers, failed to meet.
The Arabs looked very shameful to the world. These ministers.
these rulers, councils and generals ought to hide themselves in
shame and disgrace. The lieutenants, NCOs, troops, youths, the
poor, the peasants, the wage-earners, the toiling workers and the
junior civil servants must come forward to replace the defeated
generals and the submissive puppet rulers.
On this day I make a strong appeal to them, on behalf of the Arab
nation and its martyrs, on behalf of its threatened future and
great past, to begin organizing their ranks in secret with a view
to provoking the explosions that will change the Arab map, bring
about Arab unity and ensure the emergence of the great Arab
revolutionary progressive force in the Arab land.
This appeal will certainly fall on attentive ears. But the response
might not come within a week, a month or even a year. The
response to Al-Nasir's calls to us, the eternal and heroic battle of
Algiers, the 1958 unity [between Syria and Egypt] and the
revolution of 14 July 1958 [in Iraq] came in 1969 with the
Al-Fatih Revolution. So I am sure that this appeal will be like an
order to all the Arab revolutionary forces, both military and
civilian, to begin secretly. organizing their. ranks in revolutionary
committees. A day will come when they will say that the day
when we addressed the Arab revolutionary forces was a historic
day, I 1 June, and the ranks began to be organized on that day.
They will say in the future: we began organizing our ranks in
response to that call on that remarkable day. For him who
expects, tomorrow is near.
In reality, we would like to show the world that we are an
oppressed people. In 1911 the Italians attacked us without justi-
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our soil; they massacred us and took us to Italy. I am now asking
on behalf of the thousands of prisoners taken by Italy - where
are they now? Where is their [word indistinct]? Where did they
bury them? I am asking for the corpses of the thousand of
Libyans and I will not drop this matter. In 1977, under orders
from the United States, Al-Sadat launched an air attack on our
cities, our villages, and our bases. At the beginning of 1986
France attacked us in the south of our country at the Dumah
airport; they fought us in Chad. Its forces are still there creating
a state of war for us on our southern borders.
European countries go to Africa. They say they have a right to
fight on the borders of another African state. What is this
nonsense? If France is fighting in Chad, we have a right to fight
in Chad. [Word indistinct] In 1986, immediately after the inva-
sion of France, the United States - a superpower - attacked
us; Britain attacked us; Italy and Spain lent their facilities. In
reality there is the question of thanks to France because it did
not allow the aircraft to cross its skies, yet I do not thank France.
On the contrary, France is required to justify the immoral and
contradictory stand in its permanent seat in the United Nations
because it knows that a superpower attacked a small independent
state which only had aircraft which will cross its own skies.
France should take responsibility for international security as a
country which was given a permanent seat on the Security
Council after World War II. Its veto immediately informed the
Security Council that night that there was a dangerous aggres-
sion and that peace in the Mediterranean was threatened. What
is this immoral stand by France? From the part of this [word
indistinct] we should have informed [word indistinct] we should
have said leave your house, there is an attack on your house. Huge
aircraft supplied with laser beams are ready to attack your house
to destroy you and your family. Italy knew that there was to be
an attack against Al-'Aziziyah gate. It was aimed at destroying
Al-Qadhdhafi. Spain, France, and Britain knew what the U.S.
planes were aiming to do. These people have got no morales.
Should we thank them? I will not thank them.
On the contrary, we despise them and we consider that they have
no morals.
If the Italian prime minister is, as they say, a socialist and a
democrat and a friend to Arabs, and if he is conscientious, why
did he not inform me even by telephone and tell me: An attack
is planned on your house? The United States will attack. Why
did the Spanish prime minister not [warn me] if he has any
morals, and since we ate and drank together in the Island of
Palma de Majorca, even for the sake of friendship and
acquaintanceship?
Perhaps they were considering their own interests. [Word indis-
tinct] They should think about their interests with the Arab
nation and with Libya. Billions [currency not specified] are
earned from Libya by Italian companies. They will be deprived
of them. France will be deprived. The NATO West will be
deprived. Japan will be deprived. From now on, regarding the
clothes in the markets and those you are already wearing, any
Libyan who wears clothes made in Japan, Western Europe, or
the United States will be wearing the shroud of our martyred
sons, the martyrs of our people. If the Libyans are still eating
food imported from Western Europe, then they are eating zaq-
qum [an infernal tree with exceedingly bitter fruit mentioned in
the Koran]. Do you know what zaqqum tastes like? It is eaten by
the inhabitants of hell. It is zaqqum. Anyone who drinks anything
that comes from Europe is drinking ghislin, hell's Ghislin - pus
of the infidel.
God be praised, this is a chance to [words indistinct] of Europe.
They are the ones who benefit from us. Their companies, their
workers, and their unemployment which they put on our
shoulders; their deficit budgets which we support with billions.
We do not need anything. (?They) have the complex of the space
stations and the nuclear stations. What is the matter with you
Libyans? What do you have which makes you need these coun-
tries? You pay billions to these countries. The U.S. cruisers
which they are threatening us with, and the missiles - they cost
$1 billion, equivalent to 300 million Libyan dinars. Can you
imagine a wall [word indistinct] in a radio studio, in a new
building, there are things which we' can live without (?if the
circumstances necessitated that). [Words indistinct) 300 million,
400 million, 500 million Libyan dinars which can build a number
of cruisers like the cruisers with which they threatened your
existence let alone your independence. Your existence is
threatened by these cruisers. Why are we paying these billions?
No reason. I'll tell you now.
We must decide to deprive Western Europe, Japan, and the
United States and severely punish them so as to bring them to
their knees and make them say: We wish the past days would
come back. We beg you, you our Libyan masters, forgive us and
forgive our companies. Unemployment has escalated; buy our
goods, let our companies operate in your country, sell to us. We
have stopped selling them anything. Even the oil. To hell with
them, we must not sell it. Anything I want [words indistinct] We
can live as we did in the past.
They rail against us and say: We will fight Libya economically
and we will punish it and we will stop selling it butter. If there
are some bourgeois who have always been submissive and who,
after the raids, [words indistinct] and say we are submissive and
pledge independence, they and the imperialists may go to hell.
When I go just a few steps into the bourgeois quarter, I find that
the people know nothing about butter and cheese from the
Netherlands, Denmark, and the EEC and they have never used
them.
Why should we pledge the future of the nation and the future of
the revolution on the needs of a few bourgeois people, bourgeois
men and their wives. The bourgeois used to go out on every
occasion and every week to buy a new dress. Let the bourgeois
pass [words indistinct] Cuban. Let them pass [words indistinct]
America. They brought out about 20 million more Cubans [words
indistinct]. Let the dogs go to America.
The bourgeois are dogs. They go along with the stray dogs. The
stray dogs eat the remains of the food of the Jews and Christians.
The bourgeois among you live on the (?products of the) Europe-
ans. Let him go and live on the (?products of the) Europeans.
By God, I will personally intervene tomorrow to permit any
Libyan bourgeois who want to run after the smell of the Jews and
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Christians and eat their butter and drink their wine to leave. We
will allow him to go. Let them go in a column to the Belgian
Embassy which represents U.S. interests or to the other Western
embassies. We will allow them to go. [passage indistinct]
Adam and his wife were living in paradise but they did not like
it and sought other pleasures. They fell to earth in misery. [Words
indistinct] to toil until doomsday.
Libya now is paradise. It has glory and pride. It has been renamed
the Great Jamahiriyah after all that glory, because it was sub-
jected to the NATO offensive, NATO [word indistinct] the earth.
A small country boldly faced the machine guns. Indeed, the
United States (?covered) the Russian missiles; it destroyed them
and jammed them. We did not use one missile. We resisted with
machine guns. An ordinary soldier, resisting with machine guns.
Can there be greateness more great than this? We faced up to
NATO with machine guns. We turned the skies of Tripoli into
an inferno. [Words indistinct]
As I have told you, they prepared (?33) planes; only 8 of them
remained safe. The others, thanks be to my God who sent soldiers
you could not see, fell in squadrons as they came from the sea in
the north. Every time, only 7 returned, or 8 or 10. The last raids
took place at 2 o'clock at Bab al-`Aziziyah. They told them: You
cannot do it. It is hell there. So they dropped their bombs in the
sea and went back.
Libya was called great beacuse of this glory, great because it
repulsed the attack of NATO and the attack of the United States.
The United States, against which the Soviet Union is measuring
itself - which one is the strongest? - attacked us by the decision
of its president. The Israelis (?told) him: Rid us of Al-Qadhdhafi,
the Arabs, Arab unity, and the future of the Arabs. The future
of the Arabs must end; only Israel's future must live on. After all
this it was imperative for Britain, a great country to agree; even
Italy and Spain gave bases to the U.S. fleet in order to carry out
its attack on Banghazi. The aircraft-carriers came out from
Italian ports and returned to them. (?What was the matter with
Italy?) and what is the difference between this and the Grazielli
campaign. (?Why did Italy do this?) [Words indistinct] One day
we might take thousands of Italians [words indistinct].
Italy destroyed our countries. [Words indistinct]. Germany gave
the Israelis (?compensation). They were compensated by Ade-
nauer - Adenaeur was only there yesterday. Nazi Germany
never did it; it was the contemporary new Germany which
compensated the Jews, the Israelis. It was Germany which helped
them to gain strength. [Words indistinct] The Germans compen-
sated them. The Italians must compensate the Libyans otherwise
the war between us and them is still on.
We do speak up, whether in Banghazi or Jabal al-Akhdar, and
state that we want peace in the Mediterranean, Arab-European
interests should be preserved and developed, and cooperation
should be developed, but we do not accept having U.S. bases,
which hit us, stationed in these countries. The Italian prime
minister made a speech and stated that Al-Qadhdhafi had spoken
with anger, rancor, and religious fanaticism. Well, Well [words
indistinct].
There is no understanding between us and them. As for Italy, (?if
it wants) to preserve its interests, we welcome that. However, if
it allows U.S. bases on its soil to attack us, we do not accept this.
[Words indistinct] They knew at least there was an aggression,
and that it was against Al-Qadhdhafi's house. [Words indistinct]
We are going to deprive them. We have in the forthcoming
economic plan, in the coming period, projects to the value of 12
billion Libyan dinars, that is, $36 billion, of which Europe and
Japan must be deprived. All these billions would have gone to
Europe. Italian, Spanish, German, British, Japanese, American,
Dutch, Belgian and [words indistinct] were going to benefit. All
these countries and firms were going to benefit from the $36
billion, which were to be spent on agrarian reform, light indus-
tries, heavy industries, oil, gas, exploitation of power stations,
education, health, transportation, maritime transport, railways,
electronuclear power, and the information and service sectors.
For all this we are going to spend $36 billion. All of this would
have, undoubtedly, gone to Western Europe, the United States,
and Japan had it not been for the U.S. aggression against Libya.
The U.S. aggression against Libya, with Europe's collusion, has
burned $36 billion which would have gone into the pockets of
West Europeans and their firms. We must, however, deprive
them. We are the power and we have the power. Who is going to
lose? Was it Libyan firms which were going to take $36 billion
from Eruope or Europe that was going to take such a sum from
us? As for the railway lines, let them not be built! If they have
to be built then we will build them ourselves. We will call in
China. We will give these billions to the Soviet Union, to Eastern
Europe, Austria, Yugoslavia, China and those countries which
stood by us. These are the countries to take our billions.
As for Europe we must prohibit everything from it, and - God
be thankful, - it was all due to you, the mosque. You know the
story of the man who went to pray on the spur of the moment,
and found the mosque closed. Originally we had no intention of
cooperating with the crusaders, the rancorous and vile Atlan-
ticists. They are our enemies; they are the ones who sow the seeds
of all our problems in Africa and in the Arab countries. They
have colonized us without justification. They came at dawn in
1911, hitting us with warships while we were in mudhouses in
Tripoli, Banghazi and Darnah. [Words indistinct] Is this logical?
The Libyan people knows what [words indistinct] in 1911 [words
indistinct] even Turkey; it has U.S. bases, and all the U.S. bases
were used in this aggression. We must take a stand on this. It is
our friend; it is welcome, but you must differentiate between the
Italian people, the peoples of West Europe, the American people
and the Turkish people, and between the regimes, parties and
armies and officials ruling them.
I greet the Italian people, a friendly people. I salute the Spanish
people; they staged demonstrations that Arabs could not stage,
except in Sudan, Jordan, Tunisia, South Yemen and Syria. Those
were the countries where demonstrations were staged, dem-
onstrations of anger and clashes in Tunisia and Jordan. You have
seen what the people of Sudan did. Americans were killed in
Morocco, Tunisia, and in Sudan. Americans were attacked and
killed. Some of them were killed with knives. Italian youths
attacked Americans from the Navy, killing one in Naples.
We must realize that we are friends and I am a friend of the
Italian people, the people of Lampedusa, Sicily, Pantellaria, and
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I hope that those people will be independent and get out of the
Atlanticist hegemony, if the Italian state offers Sicily to the hell
of America. It is indeed a hell. Nuclear missiles stationed in
Sicily! [Words indistinct] We want peace for the people of Sicily,
and therefore they must expel the U.S. bases so that they have
peace.
We hit and shelled Lampedusa with missiles and destroyed the
telecommunications station belonging to the U.S. Sixth Fleet
because Lampedusa was used in the aggression against us. The
Italian state offered Lampedusa to the Americans and sacrificed
the peace of 5,000 Italians, 5,000 Italians because some of them
are of Arab origin and are therefore despised. Italy, the Italian
state, wants to eliminate the Sicilian people and the peoples of
Lampedusa and Pantellaria because those islands are Arab
islands and oppressed. That is the cause of the separatist move-
ments in those islands, where there are indeed persecuted people,
and the new world war will destroy them because the U.S. bases
are stationed in their lands on orders from the Italian state.
We are friends of those peoples. The people of West Germany
love us and are with us. You have seen the demonstrations they
started. America is very, very much hated. The Germans and the
West European peoples hate the Americans even more than
[word indistinct] who went to kiss Reagan's shoes, and the other
Arabs. We must decide a punishment for them; a punishment for
these governments, these parties and regimes, and we must ally
ourselves with the peace movement, the new alternative and the
Green Movement, and the new democratic people's mass force,
the new alternative in Europe. We must ally ourselves with them.
We must not help the imperialist institutions because they would
get strong at the expense of the masses and the toilers.
You saw the British people and you saw the messages which I
received from the American people. An American woman who
does not know us, nor we her, contacted me and told me: They
will attack you. She said: They will attack on the weekend. I
said that this may be propaganda or psychological warfare. She
said: I love you and I am sincere and you should take care because
they are about to attack your house. I said that that could have
been psychological warfare by U.S. intelligence. That was a
woman whom we did not know. Look at the messages I received
from the United States.
But the military machine - the capitalist class and the party
establishment - ruling West Europe should be punished. We
should now impose sanctions as we are strong - strong in
fighting and strong in our economy. We should put forward to
the people's committees in the (?same area) a huge project located
between the town of Al-Bayda and the town of Darnah which
will take up 100,000 dairy cows. Libya only needs 34,000 dairy
cows. This project situated between the two towns will take
100,000 cows. That will yield three times Libya's milk
requirement. We will export two-thirds of the output. We will
manufacture cheese. [passage indistinct]
It is now a vacuum; there are only seven people living on every
square kilometer. The project will produce milk sufficient for the
area and for (?Libya). We will export. Each one of you Libyans
who [words indistinct] vegetables, parsley, here is the land: Go
and cultivate it. Have someone acting on your behalf to market
your surplus produce. As for the state's production, this will be
exported abroad. All the output of the poultry stations should be
exported. Even the cattle stations - each one of you should have
cattle, breeding a Maltese goat or a camel or a cow. Even the
milk produced by the cattle breeding stations should be exported.
We export in order to compensate for the war. The state's
capabilities should be used for building arms, factories and
strategic matters.
There is no state which distributes its budget, saying take this as
a salary, take this as assistance, take this as a grant, take this
[words indistinct] tourism, take this to buy [words indistinct], take
this to buy an electrically-operated wheelchair because you are
handicapped. In New York there are tens of thousands of people
who are homeless and live in the streets; they have their babies
in the streets. But the money is spent on destroyers and aircraft-
carriers. [Word indistinct] the poor people [passage indistinct] the
detonation of the atomic bomb. [Words indistinct] to help the
poor; the poor (?must) beg (?so that we can have) the atomic
bomb. They die in the streets. They live in the sewage tunnels.
The state does not care for the individual [words indistinct] but
it is (?respected). It can [words indistinct] the Arabs with the
Israelis, because they have atomic bombs and aircraft. The
Israeli citizen [words indistinct] if you die you die, and if you live
you live.
This is your land and you must cultivate it. Also, there is another
advantage, for you Libyans. The state will no longer compete
against you in the market. The foreigners will no longer compete
against you in the market. Fill the market with your own personal
products. You farm owners satisfy the needs of your family and
bring the surplus products to the market. If there are tourists or
others who buy from the markets then they will buy your own
products. This is better than marketing the products of a public
project - if the latter markets its produce for 5 [currency not
specified] and your produce has cost you 10 then the project will
sell its produce and take the market from you. No; the public
project should export. You should export dates, melons - all
these products are in demand. [Passage indistinct] and export it.
The cement factories which we have, their capacity and produc-
tive capability do not exist in the Mediterranean states. (?They
are idle) and produce little. These should be operating at full
capacity and exporting. [Words indistinct]
On the other hand I suggest to you barter: As of the new year
[words indistinct] you buy rice. Bring two sacks of wheat and here
is a sack of rice. Here are sacks of barley, give me a sack of rice.
Give me two sacks of wheat and here is a sack of Farina flour
from Australia. [Words indistinct] this should apply even to
sugar, tea, cloth, and all imported goods. If you want them, take
what is available but through barter. [Words indistinct] as to
money, we no longer need it [words indistinct] give me rice to the
value of money. [Words indistinct] If your farm or your workshop
is producing then you have money. But if you have printed paper
from a bank, it is no longer worth anything. [Word indistinct] the
one who has a sack of money [words indistinct] I propose this to
you in barter and I know that the toilers will be with me in this
program. The revolutionaries will also be with me in this pro-
gram. The bourgeoisie, God willing, will leave tomorrow for the
hell of the United States and Western Europe [words indistinct].
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All the socialist (?regimes are) with us and have all the cap-
abilities. All Asia, and Africa, are with us. They are all with us,
why should we leave them? Cars? If we want to buy cars we buy
cars from [word indistinct]. God willing, from any eastern coun-
try [words indistinct]. By God they hit us with bombs and we give
them (?billions). [Words indistinct] 2 billion Libyan dinars, that
is $6 billion (?iron capacity) we used to give to Western compan-
ies [words indistinct]. Listen you Europeans, companies: Die of
grief and envy! (?Complain] to your governments and spit on
Reagan who has sacrificed the interests of Europe - sacrificed
these billions in return for his caprice and his wish to dominate
the earth and his hatred of the Arabs. We shall present a file on
Reagan, we are preparing the documents now. He cannot dispute
that he was in the Gestapo, cooperated with Hitler, and partici-
pated in killing thousands of Jews. Then in order to conceal this
past he went to Hollywood as an actor to represent the Israeli
intelligence and he was a Mosad agent at the time. And he is
sacrificing the Americans throughout the whole world to satisfy
his sick caprices. All the U.S. companies will be deprived of the
railways project which cost $6 billion and of the electric power
station project which they are competing for. Normally there are
stations and not one station. [passage indistinct]
We are punishing them. They saw where their interests are and
changed their policies. As for the [word indistinct] Arab regimes,
we are telling them in advance that they will definitely collapse.
God willing, we will celebrate the collapse of Mubarak every
year. The popular revolution is coming. We are instigating it. All
the Arab military men, from the ocean to the Gulf, are listening
to me. The youths are listening to me. I call on you to rise in a
revolution. This is because their regimes have failed and are
paralyzed and have brought shame and humiliation on the Arab
nation. They must be erased by fire, blood and fire, and not by
(?shame). They must understand [passage indistinct].
The Jews must understand that we are with them and we will be
their allies against Zionism. They must achieve their rights in
their countries, and they should not be thrown into this hell.
[Name indistinct] said to them: You Jews must go away imme-
diately and [word indistinct] the state of Israel. [passage indis-
tinct]
Palestine is dangerous, a graveyard, a graveyard for the Jews. It
is better if you leave it. We, the Arabs, one day, will close this
graveyard because it constitutes a danger to us. Not [word
indistinct] you. We are against those who occupied Palestine. The
Jews might be the closest people to us. Therefore, we struggle
with the Jews to fulfill their rights in any country in the world.
[Words indistinct] in Palestine. Palestine is a graveyard. Why do
they throw the Jews into the graveyard? The Jews should live in
every homeland in which they exist. [Words indistinct] in Pal-
estine the graveyard? [passage indistinct]
Cueta and Melilla are a shame. The Moroccan youth should rise
in a revolution in Cueta and Melilla to liberate them from the
Spaniards, who allied themselves against us [words indistinct].
They ignored our joint culture, joint interests, and joint history.
[sentence indistinct]. The Spanish military pride does not accept
the independence of Cueta and Melilla. This means that Moroc-
can and Arab military have no pride, and accept the occupation
of Cueta and Melilla. [sentence indistinct].
If there is one [word indistinct] Arab nation, then tens of aircraft
would not have passed over Tangier and in front of the Algerian
coast, and over Tunisia, and (?over) Egypt. In fact I am [words
indistinct] participated in the aggression against Libya.
How did dozens of aircraft cross between Europe and Arab
countries [words indistinct] between Spain and North Africa?
[Words indistinct] dozens of aircraft took off. [Passage indistinct]
to defend our homes [passage indistinct]. The ruling institution
is still the same. [passage indistinct] The Turkish people are
friendly people, but the people should now unite and [words
indistinct]. I would [words indistinct] the group of [word indis-
tinct] of South Angola, UNITA, a terrorist. It [word indistinct]
its president, the free man. [passage indistinct].
Nicaragua comprises independent terrorist groups. America
trains and arms terrorist bands and infiltrates them through
[word indistinct] to Libya. [passage indistinct]. We should meet
and decide the way [word indistinct] with courage. We should
present historical examples. There will be a turning point in the
history of mankind afterwards. It will not go calmly. If one is
strong and one is weak they cannot live together.
Either they are all strong or all weak. Therefore, we are looking
for power. We are serious in alliance with the Soviet Union and
the socialist community so as to strike a balance. We followed
neutrality and we did everything for nonalignment and neutral-
ity; obviously neutrality does not provide you with water if the
nonalignment organization does not protect its members, what is
there in it? What shall we do with it? Seek its blessing? This is
a neutral state, it was attacked by a superpower which is in
alliance with other superpowers. The nonalignment organization
did not provide any protection. Therefore, we have not benefited
from nonalignment, then let it go to hell.
We must open the doors of our universities to the students
expelled in Jordan, Tunisia or any other Arab country persecuted
by their governments because of their participation in demonstra-
tions of wrath against the U.S. invasion. They must come to us
by any means, overt or covert. We must give them preference
over our sons. They must have priority in our universities and
schools. Let them hear this call.
We are responsible for all the persecuted and expelled Arab
students. And not just students. Every persecuted Arab can come
to our country.
If we are to die then let us die; if the [word indistinct] are
determined to kill us, they can kill us because they possess all the
means to do so. But we can challenge them. We can stage a heroic
battle without precedent.
Our paradise does not belong to (?America) so that it can kill us.
We decide [words indistinct]. We must be brave. We are not
afraid of anything. [Words indistinct] we do not flee the towns,
we do not panic or do anything. If they land on the shores, they
will find before them I million Libyan fighters and they will
inevitably be annihilated. If they fire their missiles, we will give
them the opportunity to do so until they run out of missiles and
then we will come out to fight them. If it is a matter of sabotage,
we will commit acts of sabotage. If they want to destroy the
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world, then we will destroy the world. If they want to destroy the
Mediterranean, we will destroy the Mediterranean.
We will do all that until they realize that this is a nation which
should be respected. Negotiations should be held with it and they
should abide by their limits. But if they want to attack us [words
indistinct] we must bring on their ruination.
We must live in the world in respect. If we know that we live
persecuted and without respect, then we must destroy this world.
Let it go to hell. We must depart this world quickly but like
martyrs.
The Libyan citizen who has any sense of patriotism thinks of how
to work the land and live off it. Brokerage and trickery [word
indistinct] are no longer acceptable. A day might come when
[words indistinct]. The Jabal al-Akhdar area is a heaven. All
these oases are paradises. The great artificial river, God willing,
will be completed. God willing, production of the huge 4 meter
radius pipes will begin in September. We have laid the corner-
stone of the plant in Brikah. God willing, it will begin production
next September. After that, God willing, the water will reach the
spacious areas covered by the first stage. Probably after 2 years
from that the second stage will be completed. Then we will have
paradise and we will not need anything from abroad. We can
dispense with all of them.
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many wives. [Words indistinct] and steal from the Libyan budget
to get married - his wife is the wife of all Libyans [words
indistinct].
The Egytian attitude, of course, which should be taken into
consideration, is worse. The Egyptian Government should under-
stand that it went beyond its limit. In 1977 it attacked us by order
of the United States and it has now joined their ranks. If the
United States attacks us, Egypt attacks us: What is the differ-
ence between Egypt and the United States in this case? The agent
Egyptian regime recognized the enemy. Their spies came with
aircraft guiding instruments. Is this not, by God, [words indis-
tinct]. Let the Egyptian brothers, the Egyptian people, hear what
I am saying. [Words indistinct] Your government sent spies, one
by one, carrying instruments for guiding aircraft into Libyan
territory. Did we do it? Did we send a Libyan with instruments
for guiding aircraft, a Libyan spy, to Egypt? The Libyans who
went to Egypt went to liquidate Libyans. Libyans against Lib-
yans. It does not concern the Egyptians. We continue with this
and this is the resolution of the Libyan people. Each people is free
to (?liquidate) its enemies. Did we, dear Egyptian brothers, send
Libyan spies with instruments and ask them to spy on Egypt in
the interest of the U.S., Russia, or Libya? We did not. Look at
your government, it sent Egyptian spies to be executed and to be
sacrificed - them and their families - in order to implement
U.S. orders.
I have forgotten to mention Greece. Greece is a friendly country.
It has a European government that has taken a stand better than
that of any Arab country, and has been punished. They give to
Italy, France, Germany, Britain and America but they deprive
Greece. If the Greek bid is 20 and the Western companies' bids
are 15 [units not specified], we must accept the Greek bid even if
it is 20. Greece, Yugoslavia and Austria are all European coun-
tries.
The attitude of Greece was (?great) and at the popular level as
well. This is the reason which made us refrain from hitting the
island of Crete in fact - the Americans are in Crete. We did not
hit it like we did Lampedusa, where the Italians are. We did not
hit it because it is not right to kill its people for the sake of the
American criminals. God willing, in 2 years' time Greece will
leave NATO and expel the U.S. bases. Greece gave an example
that should be followed. All the countries of Western Europe
should expel the U.S. bases. If they decide to stay within NATO
they are free to do so - that will entail special arrangements
which are privately theirs. As for the U.S. aggression being
launched from the territory of a particular country, and as for
U.S. aircraft taking off from a particular country, then this
means that that country launched the aggression - it is as if
Italy itself or Spain itself had actually launched an aggression
against us.
As for someone who died in the Gulf who was a sailor or a pilot,
or someone who happened to be at his post when a bomb fell on
him, or someone who has 4 wives and 1000 goats [words indis-
tinct] - how can you compare these people? How can you
compare a sailor in the navy who has nothing but his salary -
he is poor and was martyred for the sake of Libya - he was
martyred [words indistinct], and a capitalist who got rich with
the money of the Libyans in an illicit way. Poor men do not marry
The U.S. maneuvers carried out in Egyptian territory were
applied to Libya and Egypt. This is in fact a state, a regime,
which has exceeded the limit and has become a danger to our
security and the future of the Arab nation. This should be taken
into consideration by the entire Arab nation and by Libyans in
particular. Since the issue of terrorism is on the agenda of the
world, let Egypt then train the terrorists, let the United States
train terrorists, let Britain protect the terrorists, and let Germany
protect the terrorists. They protect them [words indistinct] Those
who are responsible fr the explosions in Syria are the Muslim
brothers trained in West Germany, in the United States, and in
Britain. The ones we caught in the building said the attack was
against Bab al-'Aziziyah. Rasberry! What is Bab al-'Aziziyah?
Did they attack Bab al-'Aziziyah? They were (?hiding) in a
building and then one of them came and informed on the others
and we caught them. Where did they train? Where did they get
the weapons from? They were trained in Britain, trained in
America. All right, since any place from which terrorists set out
should be attacked, we will attack, with our own means, any
traitor to the revolutionary Arab regimes who trains in any state.
We do not have an aircraft-carrier but we do have suicide
(?teams). So, let them know that there is mutual deterrence and
that nothing is useful but recognition of the rights of others and
sitting down with them to end the problems so that the world may
live in peace.
If they had the power and could strike without anyone striking
at them, then they would continue and control the world. I have
not reached the point of saying to you: That is it, we must
convene the emergency Basic People's Congresses and we must
decide the way by which we die and live. This point might come.
It depends on what these vile and dirty persons will do. The
picture might not be as bad as that. I have drawn the worst
picture. The way we die - this is what we should decide. But
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death might be to the United States and not us. We might live
victoriously, as Vietnam and its people were victorious. We might
fight the United States for tens of years. But we have to forget
things like seaports, airports, power stations, factories, and
coastal bases. They can destroy all these things with their mis-
siles. But we can hit the United States; we can smash its mouth;
we can exhaust it; and we can make it see reason. A war like this
might end with the unity of the Arab nation - a revolutionary
Jamahiri unity - and the United States will lose completely.
We are uniting the Arab nation. If the United States helps us in
uniting the Arab nation, then this unity will be a friend to the
United States. If the USSR is the one who helps to unite the Arab
nation, then this unity will be a friend to the USSR. Our enemy
is whoever stops the establishment of our unity. We will unite in
spite of our enemy, and all our enemies will lose.
It might happen. I do not like - in fact no one likes - war. I
know its effects, especially with a superpower like this. Someone
might say: He is asking and looking for war. Never. This is not
bravery. Declaring war is not bravery. Bravery is standing firm
in a war when it is declared and forced on you, and by accepting
it when it is forced on you and by not escaping from it. Any
coward can declare war. Bravery is not in guaranteeing the end
of the war and in bragging and saying: We will be victorious.
Bravery is presenting all the possibilities to the fighters. Victory
or defeat will depend on their bravery and resources.
I hope that no war will occur in the whole world or in the
Mediterranean, and no world war will occur. I know that a world
war would be a disaster. I do not hope for war with a superpower.
Is it reasonable for a small country to seek war with a super-
power? But if they try to humiliate us, then we should fight them.
We fight them and we forget everything. We forget our lives as
a whole and accept martyrdom, and we will be victorious. After
that we will live again.
The aircraft carriers cannot enter the desert. Their field of action
is limited. If they strike with missiles, a missile might go astray
in a mountain, valley, desert, or in one of our sand hills and it
might not even explode - any missiles, even an intercontinental
one.
Suppose the United States has a free hand in the world and is
perpetrating all these trivialities. The maximum it can provide
could be contained. When the United States lands on the coast
it should be burned; its soldiers should become roasted sheep -
and eating them afterward is permitted. If it wants to annihilate
us let it annihilate us [words indistinct]. They plotted against us
and they attacked our homes. If we had had aircraft which could
reach New York on 15 April we would not have hesitated to
attack London and New York; but we did not have aircraft
carriers or [word indistinct] bases. Not because we do not deserve
[word indistinct], no, because we are a small country and we have
certain capabilities.
The Arab nation should have replied with war against the United
States and Britain. It should have boycotted the United Stales
and Britain. The cowardly rulers failed to take this positive
action. But they have determined their own end by this stance at
the hand of their army, their youth, and their peoples [words
indistinct]. Our leadership of the Arab revolution as I have told
you and told the Arab masses, our resistance against imperialism
[word indistinct] with blood and nothing after that. [Words
indistinct] on the personal and public levels more than this attack.
Never before throughout world history has the official state
residence of a person's home been attacked by a superpower state.
[Words indistinct] Al-Qadhdhafi's home should be bombarded.
Right, how did you leave your homes? I have only one house and
they thought that they had destroyed it. They turned all their
bombs into smoke. [Words indistinct] the 2d month of 1986, and
especially made it for Al-Qadhdhafi. [Passage indistinct] made
in the 2d month of 86, they brought it from Britain and dropped
it by plane on Al-'Aziziyah gate. They were made especially for
this purpose. May God defeat them, and God's hand is stronger
than theirs. Their bombs turned into smoke. Even the soldiers
who were guarding me were standing all about and were fighting
on top of buildings, they were brave and they were not hit by any
shrapnel. One cut his tongue that is all - a soldier. Two heavy
bombs exploded, one in front of him and one behind him. Even
the barrack where they were was bombed. You wouldn't believe
anyone could still be alive if you had seen it. He cut his tongue,
that is all. This is only [words indistinct] but surely there is a bomb
which in fact exploded. But the angels are stronger than the
United States and than all this fury.
This may be mere talk, but on the other hand, it may be that
history, the future [words indistinct]. In April 1805 no one could
have thought that the battle will be fought again with the same
warships and the same navy against the same country in 1986.
Imagine! After nearly 200 years. They attacked us in April in
Darnah with their warships. They brought someone called
Ahmad Karamanli from Egypt - a nobody - and declared in
Darnah that he had become the ruler of Libya. When Darnah
resisted them, they were slaughtered when they landed on the
coast [words indistinct]. During April and May they occupied
Darnah and declared Karamanli the ruler, and he handed them
200 American prisoners of war in Tripoli where they were
captured.
But in May, help for Darnah came from various parts of Libya.
The battle was waged and after 11 days they were defeated.
Karamanli the shameless ran to Darnah harbor to beg (Eaton),
the commander of the U.S. campaign, to evacuate him with the
rest. He said to (Eaton): Did I not bring you the Arabs who
killed (?the Americans)? Did I not bring you agents? Did I not
hand Darnah and Libya over to you? Did I not make it easy for
you to enter Libya [words indistinct]? The American commander
replied: I have no time for you. Then one of their soldiers
[words indistinct] the supplies. A month earlier Karamanli was
the ruler over all Libya [words indistinct]. The bourgeoisie and
the agents wanted the same thing and asked to be saved: Save
us! How can you leave us behind? The Americans said that they
would save their soldiers first. They left them to be captured by
the Arabs and left them at the mercy of the Arabs [words
indistinct].
This the fate of those who cooperate with the United States.
Look! About 200 years later the aggression is repeated. Go back
to what I told you in Darnah on 11 June 1977. 1 do not want to
say something that you do not take in and understand. We should
appreciate our responsibility. This is our destiny. We want the
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well-being of ourselves and the well-being of mankind. We want
to liberate ourselves and live in peace and security on our land.
There were children - imagine, our children were asleep in their
homes and they did not know that while they slept modern
aircraft equipped with lasers and the biggest bombs came to hit
the children while they were asleep. The children were in a deep
sleep and were asleep beside their mothers but they did not know
that there were aircraft in the air - that destruction was on its
way. These dogs are still using the excuse that we are terrorists.
Are we terrorists? We defend Palestine, our land, and our
freedom. On the contrary, we give our money to the Palestinian
people and the Palestinian resistance so that they can escalate
their operations. Any European state which recognizes the Israeli
enemy should pay the price because Israel is our enemy. Wher-
ever the Palestinians go, the enemy is in pursuit.
The Palestinians have a right to resist in every field. (?Wherever
there is a Zionist presence) it should be resisted. The Israelis
[words indistinct]. We hit wherever there is a Zionist presence.
Yes, he is an enemy occupying my land. [Words indistinct] the
Palestinian people are an oppressed people. Why do they not
[words indistinct]. Because they are spiteful and crusaders and
antisemitic. The Arabs are semitic. Europe is antisemitic. The
parties and parliamentary establishments and capitalism of Eur-
ope are antisemitic and anti-Islam and very hateful. They adopt
the American attitude and do not adopt the Palestinian attitude.
The Palestinians are an oppressed people. [Words indistinct] The
struggle goes on and, God willing, we await [words indistinct].
[Video shows Al-Qadhdhafi, wearing a military uniform, seated
behind two microphones throughout the speech. Speaking in
colloquial Arabic, Al-Qadhdhafi refers from time to time to a
stack of papers in front of him. He occasionally shifts position
behind the microphones causing poor audio reception. The
broadcast was in black and white throughout]
Demonstrations Held, Effigies Burned
LDI 12222 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
2030 GMT I I Jun 86
[Text] Immediately after the brother leader of the revolution
addressed his important speech to the Libyan Arab masses and
the masses of the Arab nation, huge popular demonstrations took
place on the streets in various municipalities throughout the
Jamahiriyah.
In the municipality of Tripoli, thousands of people gathered in a
demonstration in Green Square, where effigies representing the
traitor Husayn and the two child murderers, Reagan and
Thatcher, were burned. The Arab ambassadors participated in
this mass demonstration, where they were handed protest notes
from the gathered masses.
[Video shows blurred pictures of mass demonstration in Tripoli
showing large numbers of Libyans shouting slogans; the video is
accompanied by someone shouting slogans which are indistinct]
`Mammoth Marches' Continue
NC120703 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic
0500 GMT 12 Jun 86
[Text] The great popular celebrations marking the 16th anniver-
sary of the expulsion of American bases from Libyan Arab soil
are continuing in towns throughout the Great Jamahiriyah with
various sectors of the population taking part.
In Tripoli, the masses of the people's congresses, along with
students and producers, staged mammoth marches last night in
the city's Green Square in 'support of the important speech
delivered by the brother leader to the Libyan Arab and Arab
people on the 16th anniversary of the expulsion of U.S. bases.
A number of speeches and statements were made during the
marches, which converged in the Green Square. They con-
demned the shameful visit that the agent King Husayn paid to
the American Black House, and his humiliating kiss of the hand
of his master, the rabid dog and Mosad agent, Reagan, whose
hand drips with the blood of martyrs. The statements called on
the Arab masses of Jordan to revolt and topple the agent King
Husayn in order to rid Jordan of its agent regime and to liberate
Palestine. The masses also burned effigies of agent King Husayn
and the rabid dog and Mosad agent, Reagan.
The masses handed copies of cables which protested and con-
demned this visit to Arab ambassadors attending the festivities
in the Green Square.
Moroccan Group Joins in Anniversary
LDI 11124 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 0715 GMT I1 Jun 86
[Text] Tripoli, 11 Jun (JANA) - Members of the large del-
egation of the Moroccan people who are now visiting the Great
Jamahiriyah have participated, in a big gesture of solidarity, with
their brothers the Arab people in the eastern part of the African
Arab Union in the popular celebrations which began in Tripoli
yesterday evening marking the start of the festivities of the 16th
anniversary of the eviction of the U.S. imperialist bases from the
homeland.
The members of the Moroccan delegation at this solidarity
meeting held high the pictures of the brother leader of the
revolution and King Hassan II and the flags of the African Arab
Union. They also joined their brothers in the eastern part of the
union in cheering for the revolution and for the long life of the
leader of the revolution, King Hassan II, and the union. They
chanted slogans of defiance and of determination to rout U.S.
imperialism and realize comprehensive Arab unity.
The masses and members of the fraternal Arab Moroccan del-
egation chanted "down with America" and "one people from
Marrakesh to Bahrain" and "No to capitulationist solutions;
Palestine is Arab."
The fraternal Moroccan delegation which arrived in Tripoli 2
days ago to join their brothers in the eastern part in their
celebrations of the anniversary of the eviction of the U.S. impe-
rialist bases also comprises a brass band; a modern musical
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