REPORTAGE ON 7 OCT CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN EXPULSION

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Reportage on 7 Oct Celebration of Italian Expulsion
Al-Qndhdhaf Speohs et Rally
LD071840 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic 1620 GMT
7 Oct 86
[Speech by Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi at rally in
Surt to mark 16th anniversary of expulsion of Italians from
Libya; date not given - live or recorded]
[Text] Brothers: Today, as we celebrate the 16th anniversaryof
the destruction and elimination of the Italian colonialist's traces
after the revolution, we feel that we are still the target of the same
colonialism and from the same source. The enemy is still planning
and dreaming to subjugate our country, to confiscate our inde-
pendence as well as to exploit our resources for its own benefit.
Colonialism had, however, thought it would triumph over the
Libyan people and that it had succeeded in fulfilling its aims to
settle in Libya as well as to annex the Libyan coast to Italy to
become a fourth coast, as the Italians used to say. The arrival of
the Italians on the Libyan shore did not take place easily, as the
world knows. The Italians went through colossal difficulties that
they, themselves, had not foreseen. It was an abortive war for
Italy. Brothers, Italy, as well as America and the whole world,
should know today that this anniversary we are celebrating today
is the anniversary of the elimination of the traces of Italian
colonialism from Libyan soil.
This aggression took place in 1911 and was carried out by a state
that at that time was regarded as a big power, namely Italy. It
formerly possessed fleets and formidable military might as well
as an air force. It used to ride at the crest of the wave of
colonialism in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
century. Thus, the colonial tide was the dominating one. The map
of the world used to be changed in view of this tide to be colored
according to the ambitions and nationality of the colonialist. Italy
used to believe that, with its military power and by riding atop
the wave of the European colonial march toward the Third
World, and compared with the poverty of the Libyan people at
that time and the the Libyan people's shortage of weapons,
ammunition and equipment, and owing to the treason committed
by Turkey in abandoning Libya at the Treaty of Ouchy in 1912
- all those factors worked in favor of colonialism.
Italy also used to believe that reaching Libya, and in occupying
and annexing it so that the Libyan coast would become the fourth
coast of Italy, could be achieved quite easily only by a sea trip.
But what happened? Decades of torture and blood; decades of
killing and heavy losses were inflicted by Italian colonialism so
that it could realize its ambition. The sea trip was turned into
death and Hell and gruelling war. That went on for about a
quarter of a century. For a quarter of a century, the poor and
unarmed Libyan people, whose power could not be compared
with the power of Italy at that time, fought the warships. They
fought an enemy that had artillery. They fought that enemy with
rifles, and sometimes with daggers. Finally, our fathers and
forefathers realized great glory in every part of Libyan territory.
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In every bit of Libyan territory there are memorials in honor of
the battles fought by our fathers and forefathers.
Finally, we wrote - our forefathers and ancestors wrote - in
the line of great glory, there are commemorative statues all over
Libya to commemorate the battles of our fathers and forefathers.
[break in transmission for few seconds] After that, the Libyan
people won. (slogans, chanting) After all this, Italy was defeated
and the Libyan people recovered their freedom, not because of
World War II, nor because of its alliance with Britain. Yes, the
Libyans allied themselves with Britain during World War II
against the Axis states. And Libya provided services that Britain
and Germany are now denying. They are rewarding the Libyans
for their services with harm, which proves the baseness of British
and German morality. They did not reward the Libyan people
with goodness, they rewarded it with aggression and harm and
by allying themselves with the United States against us until now.
The Libyan people allied themselves with Britain against the
Axis states. They provided the Allies very important services, but
the Allies to whom we gave these facilities and assistance have
tuned into a colonizer and replaced Italy.
What is more, they plotted with Italy itself and handed over all
of Tripoli Province to Italy. The Allies shared Barqa and Jazzan.
The British forces occupied all Libyan territories: land, sea,
and air. Libya became a British colony after World War II. We
all know that the independence, particularly after the revolution
and when this era was exposed, was a masked independence. The
colonial agents, the king, his ministers, his senior ministers and
deputies were brokers for the colonizer and subservient minions
of the colonizer; they were lackies. The Libyan people are inno-
cent of all those who served after the masked independence under
the forged royal flag, because they harmed the Libyan people. If
we carry out research, we will find that they do not belong to the
pure Libyan Arab people, but belong to non-Arab families. They
are families of foreign tramps who came to sell their homeland
with their stomach. They left their homelands and settled in
Libya.
From these despicable families they: came prime ministers at the
time of the king until the rise of the revolution. There also came
a number of ministers and deputies, as well as all the middle men,
traders, contractors and all the dogs of the old era, all the foxes
of the old era, all the despicable people, middlemen, cowards and
traitors of the old era, the followers and agents of colonialism
who we curse at every chance, and which history and heaven
curse.
On this occasion, 0 brothers, on this occasion we wish to declare
that everyone who collaborated during the royal era and betrayed
this people, and everyone who betrayed and offered services to
the Italian colonialists, we must expose them and uncover their
past. We must expose their families and children and register
them in a black book. This is so that they will be in the hands of
the Libyan people and so that that these families and their
children will be at the mercy of the Libyan people who will do
with them as they please.
O brothers, we say that the Libyan people have regained their
independence and freedom - however, not by allying itself with
the Axis or Allies. However, Libya remained colonized, and its
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land occupied until the rise of the revolution in the dawn of
September 1969. On that day we snatched our independence and
freedom, not by alliance with Britain, France, the Allies or
others, but in alliance with ourselves. By the sons of Libya and
through their free will, independence and freedom was regained,
dignity was achieved and once again pride returned to the great
Libyan people. Pride on the Libyan land returned to the Libyan
people alone. This was achieved in the dawn of September 1969
and not by alliance with the Allies, not by foreign assistance or
help, not by action with a foreign source, and not with the help
of U.S. intelligence or any other foreign entity. The revolution
was achieved by the free unionist officers and their brave soldiers.
This was done by our will, planning, and courage as well as our
readiness to shoulder our responsibilities and our prepardness to
sacrifice in order to regain the independence of our country and
the dignity of our people.
Brothers, we must remember that Italy did not leave Libya
during World War II. It left Libya following the Al-Fatih
revolution of 1969. Italy was still then controlling whatever
territories it wished to control. When we undertook the rev-
olution, Tripoli was still colonized by Italy and was dependent on
Rome for everything. Even the Libyans, who the Italian colonists
proposed to take seats in the Libyan parliament, used to defend
the right of the Italians to colonize Libya when speaking before
Libya's Representative Assembly as well as before the Libyan
Senate, which existed on the eve of the revolution.
We remember very well those despicable people who were mem-
bers of the Representative Assembly and Senate, who used to
defend Italy's presence in Libya and used to work toward con-
necting Tripoli to Italy. The proof of this was that all communi-
cations, maritime cables, telephones, postal services, airlines, sea
links, and commerce, as well as all other dealings, were connected
to Rome. Italy was colonizing those who themselves were colo-
nizing Libya and thereby it connected this colony with its capital.
This was the situation when the revolution took place and even
now it is still difficult to cut off the thousands of maritime cables
connecting Libya to Italy, the colonial power. However, we are
seriously thinking of cutting them off. We do not want ourselves
connected with the capitals of colonialism nor do we want to be
connected with Europe at all. It is Europe that needs us, we do
not need it. We are still going through a stage of development,
during which we do not need Europe's complications and its
complicated industrial and electronic industries. Europe is the
one that needs us. We are thinking seriously of cutting off all
communications that colonialism has established with our capi-
tal. Among these means are maritime cables, thousands of which
connect Libya with Rome. Libya no longer has any interests in
Rome.
We did not triumph against Italian colonialism and expel it by
allying ourselves in World War II with the Allies, the Allies who
reneged on this alliance. We have expelled it with revolution.
Although Italy colonized this people when it was poor and
unarmed, with time, this people, thanks to the revolution of its
sons, was able to expel the Italians and send them back across
the Mediterranean on the same ships they came on to colonize
Libya. They were expelled to Italy on the same ships on which
they came. This, brothers, means that peoples, however weak,
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small, or poor they may be, will win in the end against their
colonizers, those coveting them, and against the tyrants.
Brothers... [cheers and chanting of slogans] Brothers, today we
learn this lesson from history because today we are before a
colonial power to which we are absolutely unmatched. This power
wants to colonize this land. It wants to occupy this coast once
again. But by observing this day and recalling the colonialism
that we defeated on this day, remembering how we triumph, we
are celebrating, singing, dancing, challenging, and chanting
because we are free. We say that we have achieved this freedom
though our will and through revolution. We are prepared to resort
to such will once again.
Brothers, we are now called upon to face new aggression and new
colonialist ambitions in our country. At this time we must rise,
men and women, and be ready to face this aggression. Brothers;
we must now undertake serious work in order to strengthen the
defensive capabilities of the Libyan people to face the new
ambitions. We must, brothers, head toward the coast in order to
mine it, to fortify it, to militarize it, and to train for fighting over
it as well as to defend it. We must, brothers, go from (Ras
al-Jadir) to Tubruq; men and women must be mobilized through
the battalions of the armed people and plant strategic mines
along all Libyan shores as well as erecting defensive forticiations
along these shores; we must arm all the towns and turn them into
armed fortifications; we must train for the defense of these
shores. We must not allow the United States, Italy, or any other
power to gain a foothold on Libyan shores. We must, brothers,
erect defensive lines and battle lines deep within, line after line.
We must erect more trenches, fortifications, and barbed wires;
plant more mines; and train ourselves to use arms, own weapons,
and turn every house into a trench, every building into an armed
fortification, and every town into a barrack.
Brothers, thousands of people have begun working on the coast.
During the coming days we expect that thousands and thousands
of armed people will join in - each one within the framework of
the military unit that trained him. Units of the armed people will
occupy their sectors along the coast and they will defend these
positions and die in defense of them. We have to prevent the
enemy from setting his foot on this free coast - this free land -
this land over which the banners of freedom and dignity of the
free Arab citizen wave, the banners of the Jamahiriyah - the
revolution of the masses which has decided that it will never be
defeated and will defend this free land to the last Libyan man
and woman. [audience cheers]
When we say that we have to sing, dance, and fight, this,
brothers, does not mean that Libya's military force or armed
force is so powerful that it makes us overly confident, that we can
sing and dance. I want to explain the meaning of this expression,
so that no one can say - as some have - how could U.S. aircraft
reach Tripoli or Bab al-Aziziyah? No one has said that they did
not reach Tripoli or Bab al-Aziziyah. These aircraft may even
reach Moscow. Their arrival at Tripoli or Bab al-Aziziyah is not
important. This is because any air defenses in the world are
estimated to take out 30 percent of an attacking force, and
therefore it is inevitable that the rest will arrive at their targets.
Despite the fact that those aircraft dropped their laser-guided
bombs while they were over the sea and not over Bab al-Aziziyah
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- but the important thing is the confrontation - whether the
raiding aircraft reached their targets or not is not the issue; the
issue is what we should do ourselves: Do we submit? Do we
surrender? Do we fear? Do we flee? Or do we stand our ground,
fight and challenge, and decide to die? This is the important
thing.
Therefore, when I say to you, we must dance, sing, and fight, this
does not mean that the enemy will not reach us, and that his
power will not overcome us, and we can dance, sing, and fight.
Therefore, we are singing, dancing, and fighting because we are
safe from the power of the enemy.
I am telling you that anyone who has [changes thought] We...
[changes thought] [audience chants slogans]
Let me explain this by saying: Anybody who possesses a great
power might not need to sing, dance, or chant slogans because
his power compensates for this, but anybody who faces a strong
and powerful enemy such as we are now facing - the United
States and NATO - there is no comparison between this force
and our force; therefore, we need to sing, chant, dance, and fight
because in doing so we compensate for any lack in our military
power while confronting this enormous international force, and
we compensate for the smallness of our population in confronting
this force's army. This is our source of strength in the battle
because if we do not sing, dance, and fight, or if we only fight,
this means that we are afraid of this force and we have not used
our effectiveness against it, or it has damaged us and paralyzed
our ability to confront it and there is nothing before us but
fighting and the sounds of the gun, the machine gun, and the
tank. This force - the gun, the machine gun, and the tank - in
reality does not meet the U.S. force of NATO force which is
confronting the Warsaw Pact and the whole socialist community
and the big Soviet Union; but the one who sings, dances, fights,
and chants slogans is the one who challenges; he is the brave one;
he is the one who is not concerned that his force is small and the
enemy's force is large; he is not concerned that, afterward, the
enemy will annihilate him, kill him, or defeat him; this does not
concern him. What concerns him is to shout the challenge.
The proof of this is that he shows contempt, defies, resists, and
fights; he sings, dances, chants, and fights. This is what we must
do in the coming days. We must prepare ourselves to sing, chant,
dance, and fight the great power, the power that has no compari-
son with us.
But at the same time we must understand... [changes thought] It
must not be understood from this that there is no possibility of
victory. On the contrary; I gave as a first example the fact that
we finally triumphed over Italy which was then a great power, as
America is now. Despite all that Italy did, it failed to liquidate
this people. The Libyan people is still free and its population is
now bigger. It still sings and celebrates. It still challenges Italy
and those who are behind Italy. The United States is like the Italy
of that time.
Even if the United States comes, even if it occupies this land, in
the end we will triumph over it because this is our land, our right.
We are more brave than the United States. Our soldiers are more
courageous than U.S. soldiers, and our people is more brave than
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the people of the United States because our people is authentic
while the U.S. people is a bastard people, without glory, without
glory, history or past. It is not linked by a national or religious
unity.
No matter what is said about us now we need to seek help in our
authenticity, our nationhood, our Arab character, our civilization
and our deeprooted glory, because all this represents ammunition
in the battle to confront a power that does not possess this
ammunition, this authenticity. We are the ones who possess
ideals, the courage passed on by history. We are the teachers of
the world. We taught the world about civilization in the Middle
Ages. We are the ones who possess the eternal missions. We are
the builders of civilization. All this is ammunition that makes us
realize that whatever the power of the United States, we will
triumph over it in the end, because we have authenticity,
greatness, and great glory. History is witness to our heroic deeds
and sacrifices. Even if we are not at this moment at the same
military level as they are, we know that in the end we will
triumph, given this authenticity, this greatness, this deep-rooted
glory, our right to our land, and with the decision we have made
to die.
Brothers, we must prepare ourselves, only prepare ourselves. We
do not want to declare war, or to say that we have to prepare for
attack, or what we should prepare for war. We must prepare
ourselves for defense, and we must be determined to smash
aggression.
We must resolve on this land, on this coast, that if an aggression
is launched on this coast it will inevitably be destroyed and that
we will inevitably trample American flags as we trampled the
flags of Italy which were made of silk [cheers and applause] -
as our fathers and forefathers trampled the flag of Rome which
was made of silk - they trampled that flag with their bare feet.
[cheers and applause] If the United States wants to set its dirty
feet on this pure coast, we tell it today, and it must listen, that its
feet will be burned.
We announce to the United States that we have decided to
transform the Libyan coast into embers - into Hell. If the
United States wants to occupy Libyan towns then it should know
that during the coming days these towns will be transformed into
fortresses of mighty, stubborn resistance. They will not be like
the Arab towns that were invaded by the Israelis. There will be
no women with their hands raised up high to shield themselves
from the enemy's bayonets. They will not cry. They will not be
afraid. There will be women who will raise their arms holding
their rifles and machine guns. There will be women firing guns.
There will be no crying, but resistance, fire and defiance!
The United States should know that Libyan towns are different
from the Arab towns and should realize that these towns are more
developed than the towns of Vietnam used to be, and that the
Libyan coast will be more developed than the Vietnamese coast
was. The United States should know that it will be facing a real
problem from the Libyan coast. In this event, cowardly America
will resort to the long stick of the coward, and this does not
frighten us. No matter how long his stick may become a coward
does not frighten anyone. Peoples are not afraid of a coward no
matter how long his stick may be. The long stick of the coward
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does not frighten us. If the United States strikes with its long
stick, we will then use our special means, which are not aircraft
carriers nor intercontinental missiles. We will then have the right
to actually practice terrorism against the United States and
against the U.S. presence everywhere. We have not practiced
anything of the kind in the past. We were continuously opposed
to terrorism and have condemned terrorism in the past. We are
revolutionaries. We are fighters for the sake of our freedom and
dignity, and defend our borders only. However, if the United
States commits aggression, bypasses its limits and humiliates the
Arab people represented by the Arab nation, the Libyan people,
then we will open a new page in the confrontation with the United
States. We will then turn into real terrorists. We will then declare
that we are terrorists and will practice any kind of terror on the
United States. We will terrorize the citizens of the United States
and terrorize the U.S. presence everywhere. We will then have
the right before the world, before the United Nations and before
the Security Council to practice terrorism against the enemy who
wants to bypass all limits, shows disdain of all international
norms and laws, and wants to humiliate peaceful peoples and
encroach upon them.
The first stage, brothers, is to declare with firmness, courage, and
challenge that we will fight over the Libyan soil with bravery.
We will fight over Libyan soil without respite, and we will deny
the enemy the chance to put his foot on this coast. As for
America, by God, if we had aircraft carriers and intercontinental
missles, we would not hesitate to respond to it and strike its
capital and its streets. We retain this right forever. However,
today we are a small people that does not possess aircraft carriers
or intercontinental missiles. We possess our right to defend our
country. We have to become prepared, in the first stage, to fortify
Libya and turn it into a fortress. We must make it impossible for
the United States to put its dirty feet on this pure soil. The first
thing we should do is not chant. Chants are not for now, they are
for the time of work and struggle.
The first thing we should do is to divide the coastline into sectors
where units of the militarized people will be sent. These units will
carry out the fortification of these sectors, and they will be
prepared to die for it. We declare before the world that we are
prepared to fight, and we will raise large placards saying: 0
Americans! We are waiting for you, and so are the fish. We will
say that when we have fortified this coastline, when we have
planted large strategic minefields, built strong fortifications and
armed the cities - then we will be prepared to sing, dance, and
fight, and say: We are waiting for them, and so are the fish.
Brothers, the second stage will be when we are certain that the
United States is prepared to continue with its encroachment, its
tyranny, its unjustified aggression that is aimed at the homeland
of the Jamahiriyah as well as at subjugating the Arab nation. If
the United States continues in this manner, the second stage will
be, after the mining, the planning for and the militarization of
the Libyan shore as well as preparing it to be turned into a hell
- fighting firmly over it with men and women. The second stage
will be what I have already committed myself to before the world;
what I had repeated in front of the Nonaligned Movement, before
the representatives of more than 100 countries in Zimbabwe: I
will leave Libyan soil and begin forming the international army
that will finish off the U.S. empire not only in other parts of the
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world but in its own territory. The fighting will continue year
after year until the empire of evil, aggression, the new fascist
crusade, is finished off. Brothers, I can assure you that the only
thing that frightens this arrogant empire and this new Satan is
the international army, because it knows that its end will be the
emergence of this phenomenon, the emergence of this interna-
tional army, which I have committed myself to form and lead
when things reach a head.
The United States, its National Security Council, and its
analysts, know, however, the exact meaning of these words. This
army is not the resistance army of Vietnam that put an end to
the U.S. presence on Vietnamese land. It was not Libya that put
an end to the U.S. presence, bases and allies on Libyan soil; it
was not the resistance of Lebanon that liquidated the U.S.
presence - the soldiers of its Navy and its ships - from
Lebanese territory, from Lebanese beaches. This army will turn
the whole world into a Vietnam; this army will turn the whole
world into a Lebanon. This army will be in every part of the
world, every U.S. presence will be a target, civilian or military,
because the aim is to put an end to the United States as a
colonizing empire that threatens the people, threatens peace,
threatens mankind.
The Soviet Union is afraid of confronting the United States
because it fears a world world - that the United States might
not be defeated by the Soviet Union. If any country, on its own,
cannot defeat the United States, the conclusion then is that we,
mankind, must defeat the Devil. The conclusion is, out of neces-
sity, that an international army will be established to put an end,
on behalf of the Soviet Union, Grenada, Nicaragua, Libya,
Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, South Africa, on behalf of all peoples
confronting this obstinate enemy - on their behalf the interna-
tional army will uproot this evil.
The aircraft carriers cannot confront the international army;
intercontinental missiles cannot hunt one single squadron of the
international army. The international army will not finish until
the end of the world. It will be in every street, every forest, every
shop, every house, every office, every plane, every ship. When
time comes and the international army is established, the United
States will be finished. It will be eradicated as an empire from
the world.
The United States might be pushed toward this end because of
its satanic policies that only serve Zionism. When we said that
Reagan is Israel's rabid dog, this is because Reagan has no job
but to use the United States to guarantee Israeli presence on
Arab land. He does nto want to limit the battle between Arabs
and Israelis, he does not want to limit the battle between
Palestinians and Israelis, he does not want to adopt neutrality,
he does not want respect for himself as a major power, he does
not want to work for peace - he wants to use the force of the
gigantic United States to confirm the Israeli presence on Arab
land. He is pushed by hatred for the Arabs, he is pushed by
feelings of anti-Semitism which run deep in his blood - feelings
against the Arab Semitic nation. He is pushed by the crusading
spirit: He hates Islam, he hates the Arabs, he hates the East;
he seeks to destroy, he seeks to kill. His method is to terrorize us,
to destroy us - his direct military intervention against any
position that might represent a danger, in the future, against the
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Israeli presence. Therefore, Reagan has deserved this adjective;
that is, he is Israel's rabid dog because he acts insanely. Like a
rabid dog, he does not think before acting.
When he attacks children with aircraft - attacks houses with
aircraft, attacks streets in Tripoli and Banghazi with aircraft -
even Hitler did not behave like that. Hitler was a war criminal,
but he was not mad. This one is a war criminal and mad too; he
works in Israel's interest. He is a mere dog of Israel. He wanted
to avenge the Rome and Vienna operations - those were oper-
ations against the Israelis, carried out by the Palestinians against
the Israelis. What has that dog got to do with those operations?
He decided to avenge the Rome and Vienna operations in the
interest of his masters - the Israelis. We want to point out to
the American people themselves that such a policy leads to the
abyss and danger of confrontation with the Arab nation and to
the seeking of revenge [by the Arabs] against everything which
is American. If I form an international army I swear that I will
take revenge against everything which is American, and every
American will pay the price.
But there is still an opportunity before the Americans. We do not
care about life. We let their bombs drop on our heads and destroy
our houses over our heads and therefore we no longer covet life.
To hell with life and to hell with those who care about it and those
who try to preserve it. And to hell with the United States. When
we take revenge we do not think about life at all; we think only
about revenge. [applause, cheers]
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- they say this is the plan, and every day the radios of Iraq and
Egypt and the U.S. and Western radios talk about it, and it was
published in the papers. They say that such things do exist, that
the Libyan people are looking for food, clothing. They say that
every Libyan is doubting his Libyan compatriot. They say that
every Libyan is saying: Other Libyans are no longer with me as
they look for food and clothing and want the United States. These
are lies, as every Libyan knows what the other Libyans are doing.
But when a Libyan hears such things on the radio he begins to
believe that other Libyans have abandoned resistance, confronta-
tion, dignity, and freedom - every Libyan doubts other Libyans
look at this plan! The plan says: We [the United States] tried
assassination but that did not materialize; we tried to attack the
military but that did not work; our aircraft have failed; our
challenges have failed; the reactionary Arab regimes have failed
while the revolution continues. We pinned our hopes on Numayri,
and he has been toppled; we pinned our hopes on AI-Sadat, and
he has failed. We pinned our hopes on the shah of Iran, and he
has been toppled; we pinned our hopes on Haile Selassie, and he
has failed; and so on and so forth - the rest of names on the list
will eventually fall - the names of their lackeys around us on
this or that side - their days are numbered. They [the United
States] said that there was no alternative but to resort to lies -
imagine, the president of the most powerful state, saying that
they should resort to lies - he signed and endorsed this. He
said: We resort to lies and say that Al-Qadhdhafi is facing a
problem and that the Libyan people are facing a problem, and
that the United States would attack and that we would strike at
such and such a place.
He is now facing a scandal similar to Watergate, which Nixon
had to face. Now it has become apparent that all the talk you
have heard on the radio and which was repeated by the
Americans - it has become apparent now that the national
security adviser of U.S. President Reagan prepared a plan which
he outlined in a 3-page memorandum submitted to Reagan on 14
August, which Reagan signed - and they believe that it will
remain secret. That memorandum said that we [the U.S.] should
create a campaign of lies and misleading statements and launch
it in the Western, U.S. and Arab media. You have heard this
campaign on Egyptian radio and the radios of the rest of the
lackeys around us, and you have heard it on London radio and
the Voice of America, and you have seen it in the U.S. papers,
and the Iraqi media was entrusted with broadcasting this plan -
now they have been exposed. The 3-page plan that was signed by
Reagan stated that we [the U.S.] should lie - create a plan of
lies - against Libya and against Al-Qadhdhafi and say that
Al-Qadhdhafi is facing opposition and that Al-Qadhdhafi's col-
leagues have turned against him, and that the Libyan people are
demanding rice, flour, chocolates, and underwear which Al-
Qadhdhafi has failed to provide, and that the Libyan people are
attacking Al-Qadhdhafi and his revolution, and that they side
with the United States for the sake of obtaining these goods. They
say let Al-Qadhdhafi silence the Libyan people. They say that
the Libyan people have begun to hate Al-Qadhdhafi, hate the
revolution, hate dignity, freedom, and Arab unity and also
Palestine, and love the United States. Why? Because money has
become scarce or because there is a shortage of clothing. Let the
Libyan people - they say - doubt. Al-Qadhdhafi has chal-
lenged us with the Libyan people, saying that the Libyan people
- men and women - will fight on water and bread because they
do not care about life and do not care about sweets or clothing
I have told you from the very first day that you will be subjected
to psychological warfare and asked you not to believe what you
hear from London radio or the Voice of America, or what you
read in the Western papers, or what you hear from the reaction-
ary Arab radios. I have told you that they will try to sow doubt
in your hearts and make you doubt your own capability.
We are well, our country is well, and we are brave. It is they who
face an adverse situation because they have been defeated -
defeated, crushed, disgraced, and lost before the world on all
levels - politically, economically, and militarily. This despite
their might and strength. Lately they have resorted to psychologi-
cal warfare. Now there is a scandal in the United States. If there
were a vital force in the United States that could salvage the U.S.
reputation and save it from the mistakes of Reagan and his
Zionist secretary of state and all his gang it would put them all
on trial. This scandal is even dirtier than Watergate. The whole
world is talking about this scandal in which Reagan is involved.
Reagan has misled the American people and deliberately fed
them false reports about Libya. You heard them allege after their
failed aggression that fighting broke out with mutineering forces
in Bab al-'Aziziyah. They [not further specified] brought a
journalist from the Grand Hotel after he had sent a news
dispatch; they brought him to Bab al-'Aziziyah and told him to
have a look. Do you see any fighting in Bab al-'Aziziyah? Is there
anything, they asked him. He said: I had my orders. That is the
United States, the intelligence, not the U.S. intelligence. [sen-
tence as heard] This is Reagan and his gang.
Even U.S. intelligence opposes such falsehoods. The United
States is no longer credible before the world. It is not believed
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even by its own people because of resorting to this method. The
U.S. Government had charged this journalist with disseminating
reports of this kind. I often heard them saying that Al-Qadhdhafi
- didn't they say it to you; I was in Bab al-'aziziyah when they
said it - Al-Qadhdhafi had gone to Yemen. Certainly you heard
it in London [as heard]. We laughed at this report. We are here
and we resist them and yet they claim that Al-Qadhdhafi has
arrived in Yemen. They said that Al-Qadhdhafi's plane was seen
in Greece or somewhere. Al-Shahhati, or someone from the
People's Bureau for Foreign Liason, went to Greece. They said
Al-Qadhdhafi is over Greece. They want to raise doubts in you.
If AI-Qadhdhafi has gone to Yemen or to Greece it means that
you are finished. But the fact is that I am among you. This was
what had prompted me to address you on the radio and to dismiss
their falsehoods. I, we, do not escape - they are the ones who
escape. We fight to the end. This is not our character, nor is it
that of our fathers and forefathers. [words indistinct drowned in
cheers]
This is not the first time Reagan has lied to the U.S. people and
deceived them. We would like to remind you once again of what
[changes thought] Reagan announced years ago that there was a
squad that Al-Qadhdhafi sent to the United States in order to
kill Reagan. Up to now the entire world wonders about the fate
of this squad and its whereabouts. We now tell the American
people to ask Reagan and to question the vile devils once again
and ask them: where is the squad that you said years ago that
Al-Qadhdhafi had sent to kill you? Where is this information?
When he says that Libya is a terrorist and has carried out a
terrorist action, it comes within the same plan, lies, deception,
and fabrications. Even though Britain has prohibited Libyan
airline flights, we are very happy that there are no more journeys
to Britain. What would we want there? What is our interest in
Britain to make us want to go there? We have gotten rid of it and
its products. It is Britain that will be blockaded and it is Britain
that has isolated itself. We have a future and the masses and the
peoples are with us. It is these peoples that are going to triumph,
and they are the ones that are going to lose and regret it one day
when regrets will not do any good.
This action that has been carried out by Britain is in reality not
surprising because Britain is a crusader state. It is just like the
United States - a state that has a historical hatred for the Arabs.
It is Britain that implanted the Zionist entity on Arab land. It is
the one responsible for this historical crime. Britain is now a state
that is very anti-Arab people, and very anti-Arab nation. It is just
like the United States and has now become a mere follower, a
follower of the United States and has lost any respect and
balance.
So when the British government decided to stop the flights of the
Libyan airlines, it became clear that the British paper Newsline
had uncovered this scandal. The paper said that this was carried
out according to a decision issued by a British court in a case
based on what the agents of the defunct royal regime in Libya
said - agents, who work for the British police amid uncertain
circumstances. It added that Thatcher's decision to ban the
Libyan airlines flights is based on imperialist hypocrisy that
spans decades. Even while the flights of the Libyan airlines were
banned, the government closes its eyes to the fact that many
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airlines smuggle arms for regimes that are pro-imperialist, such
as South Africa, Israel, Indonesia, and Chile.
This British paper revealed that the decision of Britain to ban
Libyan airlines flights is based on the report of a Libyan spy who
works for the British police and is an agent of the defunct royal
era.
The paper ridicules the British Government, which adopts this
decision based on this trivial foundation. Obviously, this is
Britain's hatred for the Libyan people and for the Arab nation.
In reality, these countries have become morally debased, morally
backward. They have manipulated the situation through a cru-
sading spirit and hatred. Therefore, we should be aware of them
and prepare ourselves to confront them because they are moti-
vated by hatred. They seek to annihilate the Arabs, annihilate
the Semites, annihilate Islam and destroy the complete founda-
tion. These countries do not want the Middle East to wake up
and become industrialized, to become electronic or to invade
space. Now they are talking about the emergence of Islam, the
emergence of pan-Arabism, the emergence of the Middle East.
Imagine, therefore, that there are no justifications, the stories of
airlines, the stories of explosives, terrorism - this is all lies.
The essential motivation is a crusading hatred on the part of the
imperialist capitalist in Western Europe and the United States,
a rooted hatred against the Middle East. This is what makes us,
the Arabs, the non-Arabs, the Chinese, and others, compelled to
establish one front against this danger which is aimed against the
entire Middle East. If Islam is the target, all Islamic peoples
should form one front, if pan-Arabism is the target, the Arab
nation should form one front. If the Middle East is the target all
the East should form one wall of resistance against this enemy.
The matter is now up to Italy.
I am not now talking to the president of state or republic, no
flattery and no diplomacy. First of all, Italy knows that relations
of friendship exist between our countries: Their companies are
cashing in billions, Italian diplomatic-level, attitudes toward
Arab matters are very good, even the Italian intelligence services
are embarrassed about the Zionist and U.S. interference in
Italy's affairs. There are friends on the official level; I am talking
about the official level. We, as Arabs, have friends [word indis-
tinct, while the Italian people is crushed, it is exploited, it is
enslaved by the capitalist institutions, by the United States. The
Italian people and the Italian youth consider their country a
colony since World War II. The people consider themselves a
U.S. colony.
One day we will see a new Garibaldi, not to [word indistinct] Italy,
but this time to liberate Italy from U.S. bases. We will then be
their base of support for the Italian youth and people to liberate
Italy from U.S. dominance. Italy now represents a real danger
against you brothers, Italy is now [words indistinct]. Italy is now
the base of U.S. official terrorism, the state that is sheltering the
U.S. 6th Fleet. The fleet departs from Italy to destroy our houses
and cities, this, the state's enemy number one. I am not interested
in flattery or any interests between our countries if this hides the
real dangers represented and manifested by Italy. Italy of the
year 1911, Italy of the year 1986, Italy of 1986 is the same Italy
of 1911. Grasiani's campaign which departed in 1911 is the same
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one being launched now in 1986. We are not children, we can
compare 1911 with 1986. Italy must understand that it is taking
a hostile attitude toward the Libyan people.
Italy is still a colonialist state. It shelters U.S. bases aimed
against the Libyan people. The agreement between Italy and the
United States, along with NATO, is not aimed against the
Libyan people, it is aimed against the Warsaw Pact. The Italian
people should judge its successive governments and should, tell
them that the U.S. bases in Italy are basically not aimed against
the Libyan people but against the Warsaw Pact. U.S. forces in
Italy are there to oppose the Warsaw Pact.
It was out of fear of communism, fear of the Warsaw Pact, of the
Soviet Union, and in the interests of defending the West that
Italy accepted joining NATO and establishing U.S. bases on its
land.
But now these bases have become a source of aggression against
the Libyan people. This means that Italy has accepted these bases
of aggression against the Libyan people. Italy is indebted-to us
because of the black colonial era. The Libyan people demands
revenge. Italy took thousands of Libyans prisoner, men and
women, and transferred them to Italy. Where are they? We are
now asking for them. Where, even, are their tombs? And their
children, their descendants?
Italy had destroyed our land, which is still planted with mines.
Let it come and remove these mines. After having refused to
disavow the ugly crime, Italy refused to show the film "Umar
al-Mukhtar." Italy has now refused to show the film "Umar
al-Mukhtar" because Italy is sympathetic to the fascist era. The
film "Umar al-Mukhtar" exposes fascism and Italian pre-fascist
colonialism. Italy has sympathy and so is accused of being fascist,
colonialist. Why should it not show the film "Umar al-
Mukhtar?" Let the Italian people hear this. Why does it not
compensate the Libyan people? Why did Adenauer compensate
the Israelis for the Nazi era? Is this because the West is allying
itself with the Israelis against the Arabs? Or is it because of an
alliance of the Christians with the Jews against Islam?
If the European states perpetrated crimes against these peoples
and must then pay compensations, why, did West Germany
compensate, during the Adenauer era, the Israelis for what
Hitler and Nazi Germany did to the Israelis? This is a precedent
we stand by. Italy must therefore compensate us for the fascist
and colonial eras. As long as Italy does not do this, [words
indistinct]. We will never accept that U.S. forces move from Italy-
for aggression against our country.
If U.S. forces move from Italy against our country, then Italy
will be considered to be the number 1 aggressor state, and we
would then direct all military acts of violence against it. Let Italy
understand: We will attack any land from where forces hostile
to us move, if we can do this.
Italy is to blame for the destruction it inflicted on our country
and the price of colonialism must be paid so that it may not be
repeated. Yes, a price must be paid for colonialism so that it may
not be repeated - so that it may not be repeated again in the
world. If Italy fails to take positive positions on these two grave
points: making its country a base for U.S. forces for aggression
against Libya, and its obduracy in not paying compensation for
the losses and damage it inflicted during the colonial period, I
tell you the Libyans who have suffered - all the Libyans have
suffered from Italian colonialism; every Libyan family has suf-
fered from Italian colonialism: he who has not been killed by
Italy was killed by Italian mines. The Libyans must be ready to
exact revenge, individually and in groups, not on behalf of the
Libyan state - no, never - but on behalf of every family, every
individual: Anyone whose grandfather had been taken prisoner
by the Italians must look for an Italian and take him prisoner
until they tell him where the body of his grandfather is, and he
is entitled to this before the world [chanting]. Libyans would then
be permitted to exact revenge on anything Italian.
This means that we will enter a very bad stage in relations across
the Mediterranean. Unless Italy gives up its intransigence and
proves that it has renounced the fascist and colonialist era [words
indistinct] the Libyan people, and unless it puts an end to military
aggression from its territory against Libyan territory - unless
Italy does so then it has not yet disavowed the fascist era and
colonialist Italy, and we would therefore regard it as still being
the (?fasict) Italy.
If the European countries are allied with Italy and wish to defend
it, then the European countries must understand this fact - to
convince Italy to compensate the Libyan people for the losses it
incurred so that colonialism will not [words indistinct] once again.
Colonialism must pay the price so that it will not recur in the
world. The European countries, before participating with Italy
in defense or in aggression or in defending.Italy, must realize the
facts of the situation in Italy - namely, that the U.S. bases on
Italian territory are now being used for aggression against the
Libyan people, threatening its independence, and terrorizing it.
If the European countries agree that Italy can be used by U.S.
forces and bases in order to terrorize and destroy the Libyan
people if they accept this, then they must bear the responsibility.
They will all be regarded as being responsible.
For our part, we can also deal with them in our own way. But to
say that they defend Italy without knowing is wrong; they must
understand the reason. They must understand why we attack
Italy,when we do so. We attack it because it has turned its land
into a base for aggression. Italy must be ashamed of its aggression
against Libya in 1911, its [words indistinct] the Libyans, its
occupation of their land, and its intransigence over paying com-
pensations. After doing all that it committed another aggression
this century. It receives U.S. aircraft carriers and the 6th Fleet
and allows them to be refueled, to be ready, and to carry out
exercises as well as to carry out landing maneuvers on the Sicilian
coast so that they will be able to make landings on the Libyan
coasts. Italy is now a base of aggression. Italy must understand
this; [words indistinct] the common interests between us. There
are no common interests. Our interest is that they should respect
us, adopt a neutral stand, [words indistinct] we are not in need of
their electronics - to hell with it;. we are not in need of ther
technology - to hell with it. [words indistinct] no aviation, no
navy, no tourism, no [word indistinct] no rice, and no shit on their
face.
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The European countries that reduced the staffs of the Libyan
people's bureaus and banned arms sales to Libya are unjust; they
are unjust governments that mislead their people and world
opinion. No European country has a justification to take any
steps against Libya. Libya is 100 percent wronged; Libya has
been persecuted; they attacked it and tried to humiliate it and
terrorize it. This is a terrorist action committed by Western
Europe. Western Europe is hypocritical; it speaks to the United
States with one voice and to us with another. I do not care for
diplomatic language. I [words indistinct] before 'its peoples and
its masses and our own masses. Hypocritical Western Europe
took measures against Libya, such as the reduction of the Libyan
people's bureaus. Britain banned the airlines; sales of arms to
Libya have been banned. Why is this? What is the reason? No
European country has any evidence against Libya. Why do they
take such measures? We reject these measures on the grounds
that they are unjust and a kind of collective official terrorism
against this people.
We (?mention) Western Europe [words indistinct] they say, let us
cooperate with you. [words indistinct] we are not in need of them.
Otherwise they should say and declare that we are under U.S.
terror, and so we are compelled to apply these sanctions [words
indistinct] in the United Nations.
Unless they admit this we tell them: produce any evidence
against Libya and then we would allow you to take these mea-
sures against this small nation.
Look at this collective official terror. Western Europe adopts
unjust measures without justification.
We are not aware of the events of which they are talking; we do
not know anything about them. We, too, ask for evidence of these
events, and we say: Who blew up the night club? Who blew up
the U.S. airplane? Who attacked... [changes thought] even the
Palestinians who attacked Rome and Vienna... [changes thought]
we do not know'to which ?Palestinian organization they belong.
We, know that some Palestinian organizations or some sons of
Sabra and Shatila exacted revenge themselves on the Israelis.
We do not know who undertook these operations. How can they
punish us, not knowing who the culprit is.
Well, if a Libyan undertook this act then let them show him to
the world and try him. If it transpired that such a Libyan were
an official sent out by the Libyan state then the Libyan state
would assume its responsibility. If we undertake an action we
assume responsibility for it. If we were to engage in terrorism we
would declare so and we would announce any act of terrorism.
But we have not undertaken this so far. This would be undertaken
by the internationalist army if they were to continue their high-
handedness and their attempts to humiliate us.
Let the foreign and Western ambassadors hear and report to their
governments. Every European state ought to show the world any
evidence it holds justifying any measure against Libya; otherwise
such a measure would be considered unjust. Libya would then be
able to take an unjust measure and not be held accountable for
it. We could close any embassy and expell any ambassador.
Why? According to our whims. They have done these things
whimsically. Why did you do these things? They say: Well, it
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was a whim. Well, we too can expell ambassadors; we can take
away their cars; we can prevent them from walking in the streets.
Why? Well, it was a whim, we could say. You also have taken
measures against our country without any justification, whimsi-
cally. On the other hand, you could say: The United States has
ordered us to do this; Libya has been wronged, and it was the
United States that ordered us to do this. In this case we would
consider you U.S. colonies, and we would ally ourselves with you
to struggle against the United States.
We told them: We are for any international action against
terrorism. Libya is a state against terrorism, ready to contribute
with the states of the world to fighting terrorism. If they consider
Palestinian action terrorism, well then, resolve the Palestinian
question. If the action of black Americans is terrorism, well then,
resolve the problem of black Americans. resolve the question of
the dispersed nation of American Indians; resolve the problem of
the Kurds, the Kurdish nation; resolve the problems of the
African peoples, South Africa, Namibia; hands off the Lebanese
people, the Lebanese land.
Well, we sit down and discuss these issues. What is the cause of
terrorism? They are the ones who have the Red Brigades, the
Basques, the thing in Germany - I do not know what it is called;
they' have the Irish Army, the Red Army; they have Direct
Action; all these organizations exist among them. They are the
ones who (?created) terrorism. We are people struggling for
independence. Libya is defending its independence, the unity and
honor of the Arab nation; Palestine is defending its freedom and
independence; a people which. wants to recover its farms and
homes taken by the Israelis with the help of the West. Iran is
defending itself. The African people are defending their freedom.
The blacks are defending their right to their land in South Africa
and in Southwest Africa. Is this terrorism? These are struggling
people.
They are the ones who commit terrorism. The Europeans are the
ones 'who commit terrorism, and they are the ones who sponsor
the Arab terrorist organizations among us., There are anti-Syrian
terrorist organizations in West Germany, ? France, and Italy.
These countries sponsor anti-Syrian terrorist organizations, and
these terrorists hasten to condemn Syria. They murder the
innocent. A bus full of passengers - they blow it up. A bus full
of military college students - they blow it up. A factory - they
blow it up. A military barracks - they blow it up. Where does
terrorism come from? It comes from. Europe. Europe [words
indistinct] terrorism. Europe sponsors the Muslim Brotherhood,
sponsors the CIA agents who are the Muslim Brotherhood, and
sponsors all those who escape and run away, who were part of the
royal and fascist eras toppled in the arab homeland.
These people - they are not people. They are states that are
obstinate and need someone to make them understand, otherwise
they need a knock on the head [words indistinct]. Western
Europe. They sponsor terrorism against us, then they say to us,
you are terrorists! There are Libyan terrorists in West Germany,
in Italy, in Britain, and in the United States. The ones you caught
in the apartment building and slaughtered, were they not trained
in the United States [terrorist caught in Tripoli last year and
executed]? Did they not bring explosives from the United States?
Is that not terrorism? They want us to keep quiet about their
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scandals and crimes. We are not afraid of them. Raspberry to
them.
Add to that, the fact that we are not the police. Those who
pretend to combat terrorism, let them combat terrorism.
The peoples will gain their independence. Their borders should
be respected; their waters should be respected. The Gulf of Sidra
is part of Libya, not part of the United States. This is an injustice,
an aggression. What do they think after 100 countries recognized
the Gulf of Sidra as being part of Libya. [words indistinct] the
United Nations recognized that the Gulf of Sidra is part of Libya.
They are still committing aggression against it, and they say it is
an international gulf.
They combat terrorism! The whole world combats terrorism, and
we are with it. As for Libya, it is not responsible for the lives of
Americans. We are not international police, and we are not an
insurance company. If Reagan, Thatcher, or any such dog dies,
we are not an insurance company with which the lives of the
Americans or English are insured. (?They think), if Reagan dies,
then Libya should pay the price. If Libya is an insurance com-
pany that insures the lives of Americans, then they should come
to us, and then we will pay the price when one of them dies. If
they fall on their heads, why should Libya pay the price? Is Libya
an insurance company for U.S. aircraft? They think that if the
United States wants to protect its aircraft, then this would
require an agreement with Libyan intelligence. All right; Let
them make an agreement with Libyan intelligence. If Libyan
intelligence agrees to become responsible for protecting U.S.
aircraft - but' there is no agreement specifying that Libya
protects U.S. aircraft or the U.S. interests, or U.S. embassies.
This is an injustice. These are very feeble justifications. This is a
crusade and an aggression against the Arab nation, Islam, and
the East. This is neocolonialism and imperialism, and an attempt
to control the oil deposits and the Bab al-Mandeb Straits, the
Hormuz straits, the Suez Canal, and Gibraltar - the entire
region, and it moves gradually toward the Soviet Union to destroy
it. The Soviet Union is the one who pays the price at the end. If
the United States vanquishes us and the other peoples, the
ultimate target is the Soviet Union. Therefore, it is in the interest
of the Soviet Union to defend the frontlines, because there is a
mutual enemy crawling toward the Soviet Union.
Before the revolution, when the United States occupied the
Libyan coast and established five military bases there, that was
not against Libya, because Libya was in the hands of the United
States, but that was aimed at using the position of Libya against
the Soviet Union. Now the United States wants to return again
to Libya in order to use it against the Soviet Union. Because of
this the struggle between us and the Soviet Union is a joint
struggle against the United States.
We are extremely sorry that the leader of the Soviet Union is still
relying on Hitler number two, and wants to meet with him. We
condemn this meeting. In the name of all the peoples who fight
against imperialism, we declare that this meeting between
Gorbachev and Reagan will lead to nothing, that it is a meeting
that will fail even before it is held. Even before this meeting is
held we are convinced that it will be a failure whose price will be
paid by the peoples friendly to the Soviet Union. This meeting is
aimed at hurting the credibility of the Soviet Union, and making
the friends of the Soviet Union, and friends of friends of the
Soviet Union, doubt the credibility of the Soviet Union.
We say to our friend the Soviet Union that imperialism is
conspiring against you and against your friends. Something
might happen to Libya and then be attributed to this meeting, so
that we will interpret the aggression againstus, if it happens
again, to be the result of the meeting in Iceland, as when the
aggression took place against us and imperialism gave us the
impression that the aggression against Libya last April was
because of the summit.
[Al-Qadhdhafi] In Geneva between Gorbachev and Reagan. We
know that Gorbachev does not plot against his friends, and that
he is an honest friend of the Arabs - the Soviet Union is an
honest friend of the Arabs. However, imperialism wants to
involve Gorbachev because he harbors good intentions toward
peace. Imperialism wants to exploit this and transform it into a
weak point in the Soviet Union and in Gorbachev himself. As a
matter of fact, the ordinary citizen how has a question mark
before him about the credibility of the friends of the Arabs, not
because these friends are not honest in their friendship but
because imperialism has conspired agianst the Soviet Union and
created doubts about the Soviet Union among the friends of the
Soviet Union.
We condemn the upcoming meeting. And because Gorbachev is
a man of peace he should not shake hands with the war criminal
and child-killer, the rabid dog of Israel, the enemy of peoples, the
enemy of humanity, the enemy of peace - Reagan, the warmon-
ger. It is not becoming for anyone to shake hands with Hitler,
Hitler number two. When Gorbachev shakes hands with Reagan
he is shaking hands with Hitler. This is the view of the peoples,
the view of the revolutionaries in the world, the view of the
universal and international front, the view of the revolutionary
pan-Arab forces, the view of the liberation forces throughout the
world, the view that I am expressing now about the coming
summit. We declare profound regret that Gorbachev accepts to
meet Hitler, the child-killer and war criminal.
We also declare beforehand that this meeting will not produce
anything but harm to the credibility of the Soviet Union, more
skepticism in the Soviet Union, more plotting against the Soviet
Union, and more schism between the Soviet Union and its
friends. It will be another gain for imperialism in its plotting
against the Soviet Union and the cause of liberation in the world.
We salute the European peoples and even the U.S. people because
these peoples are on our side. They have staged demonstrations
against their governments. They look up to the Green Book and
to the final liberation.
We will defeat imperialism with its new generations of men and
women; with this generation, which is seeking to liberate itself
from imperialist establishments, from capitalist establishments.
The youth of Italy and the Italian people are with us. The U.S.
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youth and the U.S. people are with us; the white, the black, and
the red. The peoples of Western Europe are all with us. Every
day you read the letters addressed to me from the citizens of all
these countries. We will defeat them with their own citizens.
These peoples are with us. We will defeat them by our theory and
by the fundamental solutions that we put forward. We will defeat
them by our thoughts. At that time their weapons will become
mere rusted iron. We invade the minds, and if they invade our
land, we invade their thoughts, we enlighten their thoughts. We
wash the thoughts of their youth and rid them of the rot of
capitalism. Those who support me in the United States now
amount to more than those who support Reagan. The European
peoples support us and do not support their governments. The
Italian people support (?their government), support our stands.
They write on the walls: We support Al-Qadhdhafi, we support
Libya, we want Al-Qadhdhafi as leader, we want Jamahiriyah,
we want a revolution like the Libyan revolution. The Italians
write these sentences on the walls in their streets. [chants]
We want the West European governments to [word indistinct]
the government of Greece, the government of Malta and the
government of Austria. These governments are Western, and
some are members of NATO, like Greece, but all are govern-
ments that stem from the people, from the masses, which express
the interest of their masses. They have established good strong
relations with us and the Arabs, and now Greece has priority,
Malta has priority, and Austria has priority. As to the rest, they
are all on the black list until they review all their shameful
terrorist stands against the Libyan people.
Dear brothers, we do not stop at applauding and cheering, and
forget what we have said. What I have said today, tomorrow and
the day after tomorrow turns into action, turns to sweat and could
at times of need, turn into blood. [words indistinct] We stand here
with only the sea behind us. As the Jordanians say: There is no
going from this place, after this line, there is nowhere to go. Now
we stand with nothing behind us but the [words indistinct]. In
front of us is the water and behind us is the land. We intentionally
celebrated this anniversary of the elimination of the traces of
Italian colonialism in the city of Surt, on the shore of Surt city,
because this has significance. First, this place is the heart of
Libya. This is also a place that Italy stepped on and wanted to
[words indistinct] of Libya. But all the Libyans, from the west,
the east and the south, gathered in Al-Qardhabiyah and
destroyed the campaign of [name indistinct] which formerly split
Libya into two parts, and tried to destroy Libya totally. They
used to believe that 1915 was the year of decisive victory, because
they massed their force in Surt and staged a huge campaign
southward in order to split Libya into two. But the Libyans were
the ones who (?foiled) the campaign at Al-Qardhabiyah in 1915
and destroyed this campaign. The Italians fled and drowned in
the sea and they began to run to [words indistinct] on their feet
out of fear. And the ones who felt fear threw themselves into the
sea and died. We took their cannons in Al-Qardhabiyah and their
vehicles and weapons as the spoils of war because all Libyans
were united in this battle.
This was the battle of national unity, the battle of Al-
Qardhabiyah, a decisive war that Italy knows very well. It is
recorded in history with letters of light and fire, with blood, the
blood of our fathers and grandfathers. We are here in Surt
marking this anniversary in order to recall the picture of Italian
colonialism that has begun to renew itself in 1986, because the
same military campaigns that set out from Italy to this place are
now setting out in the name of the U.S. 6th Fleet and want to
reach this place once again. But now we must fortify this place.
If in the past we destroyed aggression in Al-Qardhabiyah, the
next time we will destroy them on the beach. We will even deprive
them of reaching this place. Forward! The struggle continues
until victory. [cheering and applause]
AI-Qadhdhafi, Jallud Attend Celebrations
LD071936 Tripoli JANA in English 1836 GMT 7 Oct 86
[Text] The Gulf of Sidra, Safar 3, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY - The leader of the revolution, the leader of victory
and defiance attended this evening the massive people's celebra-
tions (?here at) the Gulf of Sidra - the gulf of victory and
defiance - to commemorate the 16th. anniversary of the eviction
of the remnants of the Italian colonialism from the Libyan Arab
land.
This big people's exhibition was attended by Staff Major 'abd
al-Salam Ahmad Jallud.
On the arrival of the leader of the revolution to the place of the
celebration, the masses joined solidly with him loudly chanting
'long live the Great Al Fatih revolution' which had liberated the
will of the Libyan Arab people from all its chains and made it
head towards building, construciton and establish the new
civilization of the Arab land which it cleared from U.S. and
British military bases and smashed for ever the feeble thrones of
the abolished era.
Masses Celebrate Anniversary
LD072318 Tripoli JANA in English 1635 GMT 7 Oct 86
[Text] Tripoli, Safar 3, al Tomor 7, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY - The masses of the basic people's congress and the
international congress have placed in Tripoli this morning a
wreath of flowers at the historical monument of the martyrs in
Al-Hani battle. This comes in the midst of the people's celebra-
tions in the 16th revenge feast on the occasion of expelling the
remnants of the invading italians.
On this occasion a massive people's celebration has been conduc-
ted in which groups of art school have participated in addition to
the buds, cubs and arms of the Great Al-Fatih Revolution
together with the groups. of people's arts in Tripoli.
The combatants laid a wreath of flowers at the above monument
to commemorate this battle of jihad (holy war) conducted by the
Libyan Arab people against the invading Italians. Also, they
recited the chapter of Al-Fateha from the Holy Koran to bless
the souls of the martyrs. Meanwhile, the assembled masses
chanted in support of the Great Al-Fatih Revolution which has
scored a victory expelling the remnants of the invading Italians
from the Libyan Arab soil.
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The masses of the basic people's congress in the municipality
branch of Ain Zalah [name as received] in Tripoli have celebrated
in this feast placing a wreath of flowers at the historical monu-
ment of Ain Zalah martyrs.
The speakers have stressed the greatness of this occasion made
immortal by our forefathers baptizing it with their blood while
repulsing the Italians, the invaders.
In their chants, the masses have reiterated their resolve the
repulse all schemes and conspiracies that are directed against the
people's power and their revolutionary choices. They stress that
they are on the standby to defend the civilized gains brought
about by Great Al-Fatih Revolution.
JANA Lauds Anniversary
LD071910 Tripoli JANA in English 1748 GMT 7 Oct 86
[Text] Tripoli, Safar 3, Al Tomor 7, JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS
AGENCY - The Basic People's Congresses, national and inter-
national congresses on the land of the Great Al Fatih together
with all the free people of the world celebrate today - Tuesday
- the 16th anniversary of the revenge feast of expelling the
remnants of the fascist Italian invaders from the Libyan Arab
soil thanks to the Great Al Fatih revolution which liberated the
will of the homeland from all its chains amongst which were the
remnants of the fascist invaders who used to form a fifth column.
Their existence symbolised the brutal ugly crimes and massacres
the invaders committed during their colonial occupation of Arab
Libya since al Tomor Month - October 1911.
JANA's editor greeted this anniversary by confirming that the
revenge feast embodies the victory of the Libyan Arab People's
will and determination, which was freed by the Great Al Fatih
which smashed the thrones of the abolished monarchy era. That
monarchy that laid its sympathies with remnants of the invader
and had enabled them to continue their colonial role and rob the
wealths of the people, looting its resources, controlling its des-
tinies and sucking its sources of its well being.
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He added: "Our Libyan Arab people had scored on the 7th of
al Tomor - October 1970 another victory in the battles for
liberty the Great Al Fatih Revolution had fought under the
leadership of the revolutionary thinker Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi
who crowned the struggle of the forefathers and ancestors by
unleashing the revolution and consolidating the freedom of the
Libyan Arab people, by confirming its liberty, Arabism and
religion after it had offered caravans of martyrs and had suffered
bitter hardships, need and abject poverty under invaders' despo-
tism and the might of the reactionary authority and its tyranny
and treachery".
He said: "The 7th al Tomor - October - will remain one of
the decisive immortal days in the history of nations' struggle that
was embodied by the will of the Libyan Arab people as a bright
victory thanks to the revolution and its leader who always stress
the greatness of sacrifices our people offered for the sake of
liberty".
He confirmed: "On this day we are inspired by our past struggle
to make, from our material and moral strength, our aspired
future. We will increase our insistance and determination to
combat our enemies - imperialists, Zionists, racists, agent
reactionaries until the final victory is ours and the pan-Arab
unity is established".
He said that the Libyan Arab people, which courageously had
confronted the invaders and had defeated the forces of the most
viscious fascist imperialist power on the face of the earth then,
today continues its confrontation and challenge the most for-
midable imperialist forces on the face of the earth inflicting on
it material and moral defeats and at the same time it continues
its revolutionary role in instigating the peoples of the world to
destroy the American empire of evil which aims at the freedom
of mankind by setting a broad front that includes all the forces
of liberation to confront a U.S. imperialist front and who ever
goes around its orbit.
KUNA Reports Protest to UN Over U.S. `Interference'
LD072051 Kuwait KUNA in English 1904 GMT 7 Oct 86
In a commentary today, he said: "Our people's celebrations
with the free people of the world of this anniversary has deep
meanings in reminding nations that the Italian invasion of Libya
and the imposition of direct colonial rule on its Arab people for
35 years was a barbarous savage invasion. This people fought a
bitter struggle and offered more than half of its enemy successive
caravans of martyrs and will never forget those dark years of
despotism, tyranny and the catastrophic destructive sabotage
inflicted by the Italian invaders which regretable secrets still
draw the attention of historians, research and documentation
centres, authors and journalists".
"People's masses in Libya and in the Arab homeland will never
forgive or forget the 700,000 martyrs who were brutally executed
on the hands of the invaders in the concentration camps because
they had risen to defend their country, the honour of their dignity,
religion, language, inheritence, culture and their nation's his-
tory".
[Text] United Nations, Oct 7 (KUNA) - Libya urged the U.N.
secretary-general, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Tuesday to fully
assume his responsibilities to establish peace and security in the
Mediterranean region.
In a letter addressed to the U.N. chief the Libyan permanent
representative to the U.N., 'Ali al-Turayki, accused the U.S. of
intervening in the internal affairs of Libya, endeavouring to
disrupt its stability and security and escalating tension in the
Mediterranean region.
"Your assumption of the responsibilities placed on you by the
Charter has become more imperative and urgent than at any time
in the past," he said.
Al-Turayki said it has become clear from the statements of the
U.S. Administration that it has misled world public opinion
through the use of the American press for the purpose of attaining
its goals of committing military aggression against Libya.
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