AL-QADHDHAFI ADDRESSES TRIPOLI STUDENTS

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Presidential Office in Heliopolis. Dr 'Ismat 'Abd al-
Majid, deputy prime minister and foreign minister, and
Mutahhar Muhammad al-Mutahhar, chief of the YAR
interests section in Egypt, were both present at the
meeting.
Following the session, Al-Ahmar said that he had handed
Mubarak a message from the YAR president in which he
renewed his invitation for President Mubarak to visit
and underlined the need for closer cooperation in all
fields, including security in the Red Sea and the Gulf.
Al-Ahmar said that President Mubarak will decide on
the exact time of the visit, expected in April or May. The
YAR envoy added that Egyptian and YAR officials are
engaged in continuing consultations. Egypt is our second
home, and we cooperate in many areas, Al-Ahmar said.
YAR Envoy Departs 24 Jan
NC240656 Cairo MENA in Arabic 0620 GMT
24 Jan 88
[Text] Cairo, 24 Jan (MENA)-'Abdallah al-Ahmar,
special envoy of YAR President 'Ali 'Abdallah Salih, left
Cairo this morning after a 3-day visit during which he
handeda message to President Mubarak from the YAR
president.
Mubarak Receives Message From King Fahd 24 Jan
NC241857 Cairo MENA in Arabic 1845 GMT
24 Jan 88
[Text] Cairo, 24 Jan (MENA)-President Muhammad
Husni Mubarak has received a message from King Fahd
Ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz of Saudi Arabia.
As'ad Abu al-Nasr, the Saudi ambassador in Cairo,
conveyed the message when President Mubarak received
him at the Presidential Office in Heliopolis tonight.
Troops Reportedly Sent 'Secretly' to Gulf States
LD232337 Tehran IRNA in English 1906 GMT
23 Jan 88
[Text] Beirut, Jan. 23, IRNA-The Egyptian regime
secretly dispatched 13,000 troops to Kuwait and Hijaz
(Saudi Arabia) last November in accordance with a plan
designed by the U.S. War Department, said a report
published by the Lebanese weekly AL-KIFAH AL-
'ARABI here Saturday.'
The report said the Egyptian ruler Husni Mubarak's
coming visit to the U.S. following the implementation of
the Pentagon plan indicates efforts to renew the role
played by Anwar al-Sadat.
As per the plan 13,000 Egyptian soldiers, mainly para-
troopers have arrived in Kuwait and Hijaz in November
under various guises, most of whom are stationed in
Kuwait while the rest are deployed in Saudi Arabia's
Jubayl region on the Persian Gulf, the report said.
The weekly, referring to the crisis facing the Cairo
regime, said that the measure was taken under U.S.
pressure and that it was an appeasement paid by Muba-
rak for his upcoming visit to Washington.
AL-KIFAH AL-'ARABI also quoted high ranking Amer-
ican officials as saying that Mubarak had frightened
Egyptian factions opposing the Camp David accord by
saying that Israel would eliminate Egypt with a nuclear
bomb if it abrogates the treacherous accord.
Scientific Research Minister Returns From Jordan
NC221919 Cairo MENA in Arabic 1900 GMT
22 Jan 88
[Excerpt] Cairo, 22 Jan (MENA)-Dr'Adil'Izz, minister
of state for scientific research, returned to Cairo from
Jordan this evening. During his 5-day official visit to
Jordan, he held talks with the Jordanian ministers of
energy, higher education, and agriculture. [passage omit-
ted]
OAU Secretary General Arrives for Jubilee
NC241812 Cairo MENA in Arabic 1800 GMT
24 Jan 88
[Text] Cairo, 24 Jan (MENA)-OAU Secretary General
Ide Oumarou arrived in Cairo from Addis Ababa tonight
on a 4-day visit to Egypt. During his visit he will take
part in the OAU jubilee festivities which will begin in
Cairo tomorrow.
In an arrival statement, Oumarou expressed his pleasure
at being in Egypt, a country which plays a key Arab and
African role. He also praised Egypt's contribution to
economic and political efforts in the continent.
Ambassador Nabil al-Silawi, head of the African Desk at
the Foreign Ministry, welcomed the OAU secretary
general upon his arrival.
Religious Extremists Arrested for Arson Attack
NC231335 Cairo MENA in Arabic 1255 GMT
23 Jan 88
[Text] Cairo, 23 Jan (MENA)-The Higher State Secu-
rity Prosecution today ordered 15-day detentions of
three religious extremists for interrogation. The three
were arrested at dawn yesterday when, bearing arms,
they tried to force their way into a nightclub in Al-Jizah
to burn it down.
Libya
Al-Qadhdhafi Addresses Tripoli Students
LD212336 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
2040 GMT 21 Jan 88
[Speech by leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi at 21 Janu-
ary meeting with students in Tripoli-recorded]
[Text] All those who are members of a revolutionary
committee, raise your hand. [chants] The reason for this
meeting is that the youths who are at your stage-
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intermediate education, secondary, or other-who are at
this level, who about to enter a university or graduate
and enter into employment, I have noticed that a period
has passed without sufficient revolutionary mobiliza-
tion, even as the challenges and battles continue around
us. I do not feel that there is sufficient mobilization to
confront these challenges.
Political and revolutionary awareness is needed to con-
front the enemies and to defeat them. It is you who will
fight the coming battle. We must teach you, and you
must learn to rely on yourselves in deciding your fate,
exercising authority, carrying out defense, and making
material progress. This is your responsibility, not that of
your families or grandfathers. You are the ones who face
this battle. Sometimes one is mistaken and believes that
the matter does not concern him, that the battle is not his
battle. One relies on his father, his grandfather, his uncle.
He believes that they are responsible; but in fact, you are
responsible for your fate. You are responsible for the fate
of this generation.
When they say the liberation of Palestine, do you think
that someone is going to liberate it on your behalf? You
are the ones who will liberate it, if you want to liberate it;
or you are the ones who will give it up. The confrontation
with the United States as an enemy determined to
destroy the Arabs, to eliminate them and occupy their
land, and to back the Jews to the utmost to enable them
to control the Arab homeland-you are the ones who will
defeat them. If you languish and grow weak, then they
will triumph over you also. We want to remove from
your minds the belief that there is someone who will act
on your behalf, or that if a defeat or a disaster or any
stumbling should occur in your life, that this does not
concern you.
As if anything bad that occurs in the future happens to
other people, not you [passage indistinct] This is the
spirit of indifference. It is not the truth. It is ignorance
and foolishness. Therefore, you would be foolish to think
that this enemy is not after us, to think that anything that
might happen in the future, whether good or,bad, does
not concern us. To think that the people who are
struggling now and who are at the forefront are the ones
responsible and that the results, good or bad, will be
reflected on them, is wrong. The people who are strug-
gling now, like us, are struggling for your benefit, not for
their own benefit. You are the ones who in the future are
going to marry and have children, and your children will
have children, and you are also going to live through the
coming stage, with its good and bad points. Thanks are
due the people who are now defending you in Aozou and
the Gulf of Sidra and who are fighting political or
revolutionary battles and battles of economic construc-
tion. In fact, even the farms that the people are planting
and the agricultural projects and the factories are for
you. They exist so that you can eat and drink and have
tools and equipment in your hands. You must under-
stand these things.
I do not think that this feeling exists. There is no strong
feeling of this. This a danger that threatens the future.
This is indifference. Indifference is fatal. Therefore, we
must warn this, new generation, which is the future,
against this dangerous aspect, the feeling of indifference.
Who are you relying on? There is nobody to rely on.',
You can rely on God. That is different. However,.even
relying on God requires commitment: You must. have
will, commitment, and decisiveness;?after that, you can
rely on God. Then, when thou hast made a decision.,, put
thy trust in God. [Koranic verse] This does not ean
.that you have no decisions to make or that you are: not
committed to,march and struggle and work, or that you
can say simply: I rely on God. Relying on God must be
coupled with commitment: When thou hast made a
decision; this is the condition. Therefore, the condition
is to make a decision. Making a decision means commit-
ment and resolution. Then you rely on God after that.
But indifference is a dangerous thing. There is a _feeling
of indifference: This feeling results from the fact that
there are things that become available to you without any
'effort, and you think that.heaven rains manna and quails
or gold and silver. . .
This is. why I would like you to think seriously. about
your future. There is no time now for indifference. You
have reached an age at which you,must think about that.
There is a long and difficult march ahead of us. In order
to get rid of these difficulties, we must resort to revolu-
tionary action, not just traditional action. Therefore, the
overwhelming majority of you must be' members of
revolutionary committees. Even more, we can not do
without the revolutionary committees in such circles.of
youths, boys and girls, at these intermediate colleges and
in intermediate education. The generations in them are
supposed to be revolutionary generations. We should be
able to come to a class of 1,000 and ask: Who is not a
member of a revolutionary committee? and see no.one
raise his hand. All of them should be members of the
revolutionary committee. This would mean that revolu-
tionary awareness had reached a stage at which the
revolutionary committee disappeared. Similar to the
basic people's congress.
If this is were a basic people's.congress, we would find
that 10 of its, members were members of the revolution-
ary committee who were the instigators and movers and
the ones who' had awareness. They would be the ones
who instigate and move this basic people's congress to
exercise authority. We said that this was acceptable
because the basic people's congress, consists of a genera-
tion different from yours. The revolutionaries in that
generation are naturally a minority. In this way we
carried out the revolution. We were a group, not large,
within the Army or within the Libyan people as a whole.
At that time there was no readiness for the revolution.
There was only the vanguard who were, according to
their own nature, ready for action:'Now the basic peo-
ple's congress is backward to a great extent, and in it
illiteracy and ignorance prevail.
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But if there is a basic people's congress made up of the
students in front of me, then it will be different from the
basic people's congress in the street. When I ask: Who is
a member of the revolutionary committee, then every-
one should raise his hand, all of you should be revolu-
tionaries. We say: In the future the revolutionary com-
mittee will disappear within the basic people's congress.
This will happen when. the basic people's congress
reaches the level of the revolutionary committee. This is
in the future, when the people's awareness reaches the
level of the revolutionary, committee now. You are
supposed to have reached this level. Your awareness is
supposed to reach the level of any revolutionary. Why is
it that one young man is a revolutionary and another is
not? The one who is not a revolutionary is someone who
does-not understand. Does not understand means back-
'ward.
How can any of you accept to be backward, ' not to
understand, and to be marginal and worthless? This is
impossible. This is a shame, especially at your level. Any
of you, boys and girls, who is not a member of a
revolutionary committee admits that his or her ideas are
backward, that he is a reactionary, and that 'he has not
tried to understand revolutionary theory and does not
know that revolutionary theory is his weapon and the
means by which to understand his cause. We said that
your cause is your freedom, your food, your drink, your
happiness, your dignity. This is to live proudly on earth.
When we talk about pride; land, dignity, freedom, and
independence, we are talking about revolution. We are
talking about the essence of revolutionarytheory. This is
revolutionary theory. This is the revolution. It is the
same as the words we are uttering. If you do not
understand their meaning, then you will not understand
the things that concern you. Your freedom concerns you,
your dignity concerns you; so does your food and drink
and the security in your town, street, and home. When
you understand this, then this is revolutionary under-
standing and revolutionary awareness.
How can anybody not understand these things? Anyone
who does not understand them is not a revolutionary and
is'a reactionary.- It means that he does not understand his
future and does not understand his situation.
Relying on Turkey is what made us fall into the hands of
the Italians. We paid the price, not Turkey. Have you
seen what happens to those who rely on others, those
who leave everything open? They'are our ancestors, who
paid the price: They relied on Turkey to defend us; they
relied on the sultan and the state that rules and the
governor. Then the sultan left us, the governor left us,
and Turkey left us. We paid the price with our lives.
Our ancestors confronted the Italians face to face. They
were not ready for'the Italians, and they did not know
the Italians at all. They were so ignorant and stupid that
they did not know about a country called'Italy across the
sea which had colonial ambitions in Libya. They did not
know it. Look where ignorance led the ignorant! It led
them to death. Loads of martyrs, because an enemy came
to their home. The Libyans did not even know the map.
They did not know from where the Italians came from.
The Italians came from Italy,' but where is Italy? They
did not know. Why did they come? They did not know.
Until when? They did not know. Who are the Italians
and who are those with them? They did not know. You
Libyans, who are your allies and who is with you? By
God, they did not know. They did not know about the
treaty between the sultan and the, Italians. They did not
know about the Ottoman empire at that time. They did
not know the signs of World War I. They did not know
the colonialist ambitions and the treaties between the big
nations on dividing the world and spheres of influence,
and that Libya was within Italy's share, Algeria within
France's, and Egypt and Sudan within Britain's. They
did not know these things. This is foolishness. They were
fools. They were ignorant. What are the reasons? The
reasons that made them, backward and ignorant are
.known. The first is, naturally, Turkish colonialism. But
the nature of the era also was that people were ignorant.
I mean ignorance, foolishness, and unawareness, to what
do they lead? You will pay the price from your inherit-
ance. Reliance on others; look at its result.
We are now fighting this spirit, because I feel that this
spirit of indifference exists. You rely on Mu'ammar, you
rely on such-and-such a person, and this and that, and
the Armed Forces. Why do you rely on them? You are
Mu'ammar, you are the Armed Forces, you are your own
future, and you are everything. Starting today [words
indistinct] and leave them in this hall, and no one should
rely on anyone but himself.' This generation relies only
on himself.
The Arabs, who number 150 million, what did they do
for the Palestinians who they see everyday on television?
There is nothing but video footage about the Palestinians
these days. What do the Arabs do? They cross their legs,
smoke, and get drunk and watch the television because
there are'films about persecuting the Palestinians.
All right, maybe the Palestinians have been relying upon
an Arab nation and saying to themselves: Where is the
Arab nation and what has it done for us? Maybe if the
Palestinians were fighting with arms and were on the
verge of a win, then the Arabs might take up arms and
aid them. It means that everything depends on you if you
are serious in your struggle and you are near enough to
achieving a triumph. Then allies and friends will join
you. But if you are on the way to losing, they will
abandon you'. If you are weak, they will abandon you too.
The Israelis are strong; they have money and gold. They
control the world and Zionism 'is in control. Everybody
is afraid of them and therefore they are .trying to flatter
the Zionists and support them. The Palestinians are,
however, wary, and therefore there is nobody who will
sympathize with them, even though there is repression
against them. Sympathy is always with the Jews and the
Zionists. Why? Because the whole world is afraid of
Zionism. It does not rely upon the world, it frightens it.
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Upon whom would you rely if you stop your studies?
Upon whom would you rely if you fail in your studies?
This matter, the matter of dependence upon people,
should be stopped as of today. Leave such dependence to
one side and rely upon yourselves. You should know that
the future of the people's authority is your future; the
authority will be yours. All the factories, whether
planned or under construction, whether they are profit-
able or not, are all your factories; they are the factories of
.tomorrow. The lands being reclaimed, the farms being
started, our directives to plant and look after olive trees,
for whom are all these? They are for you. You must
understand this. When someone says today let us plant
some vegetables here, is he planting it for your fore-
fathers?
No, he is planting for you. Yes, you should say this is
right and these are the ideas of the future. The coastline
should be planted with date palms; date palms for
whom? For this generation. You should not henceforth
use sun-dried bricks to build here instead of growing date
palms because the sun-dried bricks are for the one who is
alive today, as the house built of sun-dried bricks might
not be there later. It means that the house is only for the
person who exists today. But these date palms are for
you, the generation of the future.
When we say: Do not build a house, plant date palms, we
mean that we are thinking of your future. When we say
the coastline should be cultivated and housing construc-
tion must stop there and more care should be accorded
to it, we are saying: To care for it for whom? For the
future. Who is the future? You. Well, this should be a
matter of your concern. But if you are stupid and what I
am saying disappears with the wind and you are unable
to understand it, then you would become indifferent and
say: What is all this about olive trees and the cultivation
of the coastline [words indistinct] all this we are saying
now about date palms, olive trees, the cultivation of the
coastline, water for the future and oil mean that we are
talking about your own future. You should be thankful to
him [Al-Qadhdhafi], repeat his words, and answer his
calls [words indistinct]. Whatever destroys the coastline
will destroy your future, will make you hungry.
When you feel hunger, you will stretch out your hands,
stretch out your hands abroad. And this foreigner to
whom you stretch your hand will not give you charity.
What he gives you is in return for your freedom and
dignity. The United States starves people and when they
stretch out their hands, the United States says: Sell me
your land, your dignity, your resources, leave your
political decision to me, and we will give you wheat.
When the people begin to stretch out their hands to
America, when they feel hunger, they will be conceding
everything. The hungry say feed me and [words indis-
tinct]. This is what happened.
I know that there is no one at present showing interest in
this talk who is willing to say so. Had I known that your
families tell you this and that the school tells you this in
a serious way, one would not have come and tired
himself talking to you about this subject. But I know that
there is a great failing in this aspect. Consequently, it is
my duty to tell you this, to this generation in particular,
at this stage. The challenges we are talking about are
challenges to you. When they, say the Libyans should not
learn about the atom-America expelled the Libyan
students studying the atom-what does this mean? It
means they should not use the atom, which is the
effective force in the coming age, and which is, in war
and peace, the effective force. It is depriving this new
generation of owning this effective force. The United
States does not talk about one who is 70 or 80 years old
to deprive him, it talks about you. When it deprives the
Libyans of studying the atom, it deprives you of using it
in your future, in your lives, in your days, the days of
your sons and grandsons.
Thus, the United States is fighting you. Now it is possible
for it to deceive and say: I am fighting Al-Qadhdhafi. In
fact, the United States is fighting you. What does it mean
to fight Al-Qadhdhafi? The United States fought `Abd
al-Nasir and `Abd al-Nasir died, and they took Egypt.
Why did they not say: `Abd al-Nasir died, we used to
hate `Abd al-Nasir. He died, then farewell, between us
two brothers and two grandfathers. They said: Did `Abd
al-Nasir die? The Egyptians answered yes, and the Israe-
lis and the Americans entered Egypt. Did you not say
you were looking for `Abd al-Nasir? They said: Yes we
are looking for `Abd al-Nasir. Well, he died, then
goodbye. Did they not say if `Abd al-Nasir dies, we will
leave you? They said no, the truth is `Abd al-Nasir was
preventing us from entering Egypt and now that he is
dead we will enter Egypt. We want Egypt, we do not want
`Abd al-Nasir.
`Abd al-Nasir was an obstacle in our way. Here are the
Jews taking the oil, taking the iron, tourism, normaliza-
tion, alliance with the Americans, the maneuvers, the
plundering of all Egyptian resources, and the starving of
the Egyptian people. In the end, Egypt became a U.S.-
Israeli base used for their imperialist policy in the world.
This is an old objective. They said: We want Egypt to be
a base for U.S. imperialism, a base for the West, a base
for Zionism, not to threaten Zionism, not to threaten the
Israelis in Palestine. This is the objective. `Abd al-Nasir
prevented us from achieving this objective. He fights the
Israelis,. fights the Americans, he fights the Western
countries, he liberates the Arab homeland, unites the
Arabs, and all this is against our interests. We want the
Arab world to be disunited, torn apart, weak.
We would like to cross this Arab homeland. We want to
cross it from the east to the west, from the north to the
south, and from the west to the east. This is a crossing
region. If someone comes to dispute over it with me, I
would say no to him. We want one independent strong
united Arab nation. Brother Arab, raise your head in
pride. We want the Arabs to lower their brows. That is
why we fought `Abd al-Nasir. We started to fight him.
Then he died. God be praised. We are fulfilling our aims.
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Let us cross this bridge, desecrate it, and desecrate Egypt,
make Egypt hungry so that Egypt will become in need of
American wheat. Then we will impose our will on Egypt.
If we are to give you wheat, then you must give us your
dignity and land, and Egypt will become a base for the
U.S. Rapid Deployment Force in the Arab region and in
the world. Egypt will give the Israelis breathing space in
order to settle its accounts with the Palestinian, Leba-
nese, and Syrian peoples. When they become secure
while Egypt protects them from the south as they settle
the north, then they can go back to the south and take
Egypt. This is our policy.
'Abd al-Nasir was against this policy. So we fought him.
But it's all right, he has died. We are fulfilling our aims.
It was a trick. They used to say to them: Without 'Abd
al-Nasir you have no problems. They said to the Israelis:
This means that without 'Abd al-Nasir, the Israelis could
take Egypt without resistance. To the Americans, with-
out 'Abd al-Nasir, the United States can come peacefully
and take Egypt without resistance. Correct, no problem.
Is there a problem now between Egypt and the Ameri-
cans? By God, no. They are quite harmonious. What is
this. harmony? The Americans entered without resis-
tance. Egypt is open for the Americans. The fools used to
say after getting rid of 'Abd al-Nasir that there would be
no problems with the Americans and Israelis. This
means. that you go away from us and do not come near
us. [ords indistinct] he died. Stay away in your coun-
tries. They said: No, we want your countries, but he was
stopping us. After he died we came to take your coun-
tries. God be praised, we were welcomed as we entered
because there is no one now to resist us; he used to resist
us, but now no one resists us. Now American [words
indistinct] and Israel now you hear them, you can hear
them every day: By God, we have no problem with the
Libyan people, we have a problem with Al-Qadhdhafi.
Correct. This is right. If we get rid of Al-Qadhdhafi, we
can take the Libyan people.
It is impossible that they are looking for one person
because he is a single person whose weight is such-and-
such and his height is so-and-so and is flesh and blood.
They are not looking for that. Definitely he is depriving
them of something, or they want something from him.
That is it. He is depriving us of Libya. We want Libya.
Why does he stop us? We will attack him. The attack is
not against him as flesh and blood. No, the attack is
against the things behind him. If'we get rid of him, we
can enter the Gulf of Sidra and carry out our maneuvers.
[chants: All the revolutionaries are Mu'ammar, and
anyone who is hostile to us will be destroyed]
The Americans want to enter here, here at this point.
[video shows Al-Qadhdhafi pointing at positions on a
map of the Arab world behind him] They want to enter
this point and put their positions there. We said no to
them. They said all right, we will attack Al-Qadhdhafi.
They do not want to attack Al-Qadhdhafi, they want to
take this position. Al-Qadhdhafi is a person like anyone
else. But through this point they want this Gulf and they
want this region to camp in and to carry out their
maneuvers in. If they enter here, this will be as though we
never evicted them from Al-Mallahah, Al-Watiyah,
Tajura', Sidra, and Bir al-Usta Milad, and those five
bases which existed in the past. It would be exactly as if
we had not evicted them if the Americans were to return
here to this position. It would be exactly as if they were
on the Libyan coast as before. This means that there
would be no Eviction Day, and we would have to stop
celebrating I I June, the anniversary of the evacuation of
the U.S. bases.
If they were to return to the Gulf of Sidra, to this place,
then that would be it, they would be using Libya again.
The Gulf of Sidra is inside Libya. Here. The Americans
want to come here, to rid us of Al-Qadhdhafi. What they
mean is not to rid us of Al-Qadhdhafi-what would they
want of Al-Qadhdhafi? They mean they want to rid us of
him so that we may reach this point. All right, let us take
Aozou. They could not take the Gulf, so they came from
the south to take Aozou. The important thing is to keep
attacking Libya, either from the south or the north. They
exert pressure on Libya either from the south or the
north; that is, they exert pressure either from here or
from there, or perhaps from both sides, perhaps from
both sides. If Aozou is to be taken by Chad now,
remember that Chad is under French, American, Israeli,
and Egyptian control, because the Americans and Israe-
lis gave their orders to the rulers of Egypt to fight against
Libya from Ndjamena. [chants] If Aozou is to belong to
Chad, and Chad is as it is now, then Aozou could become
a U.S. base, a French base, an Israeli base, or an Egyptian
base.
If we say Egyptian, we mean an American base. Egyptian
only in name. The Americans want to construct a base. If
someone says no to them, then they would want to get rid
of him. The Americans are looking for a person called
Al-Qadhdhafi who comes to them with a pistol or rifle
and invites them for a duel anywhere in the world, then
they say we want to get rid of him, this would be no
problem. But after that, they would say, we do not want
him personally, but we want this country and this nation
in order to corrupt them. We want its fate to be similar
to the fate of Egypt after'Abd al-Nasir. This is what they
think. What I say now is you should not rely on Al-
Qadhdhafi or anyone else. This is a person and he will
eventually end. The ones who should say no are you
because this Gulf is your Gulf, and Aozou is yours and
the future is yours.
This is one of the things I told you about, the indiffer-
ence that should end. It should remain in this classroom,
in this hall; you must leave without it, this indifference.
You are the ones who should say no. You are the ones
who should know that the Americans, if they come here,
will constitute a danger to your lives. In this region they
will carry out their maneuvers. Understand this, then
you will spontaneously say no. It will not be Mu'ammar
who says no, but it will be you who say no.
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You should say no because this concerns you too. [video
shows Al-Qadhdhafi looking behind him to a map and
pointing out Aozou] This is Aozou here with its moun-
tains. If they are to fall under American control, this
would mean that all of Libya will be under U.S. control.
They might build on it military bases, satellite stations,
spying centers, lasers, electronics, and any other calam-
ity. When you understand this, you yourselves would say
no. Even if someone says yes you should still say no;
someone like the traitor Ibn Halim [official before Al-
Qadhdhafi's era] or Idris al-Sununi [former King] or
other officials who gave in to France [referring to France-
Libya treaty on Libya-Chad borders]; nobody said no to
them. And we are now paying the price for it.
Hundreds of people died because they surrendered to
France. Whose future had they bargained with? Our
future, of course. The same generation as you now; that
is, the generation that was there at the time and did not
say no is the one that later had to pay the price. All those
people who died or who were martyred in Aozou (?Sara),
or Chad, they all died as a result of treachery and because
someone said yes to colonialism, said this Aozou is not
for us but for our neighbor. You can take it in exchange
for money, they said, in exchange for -a post, like the
premiership or money. Those who did not say anything
or object to the deal later paid the price with their lives.
They were indifferent and they thought there used to be
a government, a monarchy, ministries [words indistinct].
If you were to ask those who died: Why did you not say
no? they would have said to you it was not their business;
there was a government and so on. Well the government
vanished, but he had to face his fate and paid for it with
his life. When you do not, say no now to the Gulf of Sidra,
Aozou, regionalism, Zionism, imperialism, reaction, or
exploitation, you will pay the price for it later.
Who says no? And how many are there? You all have to
say no otherwise it will lose its importance. `Abd al-Nasir
said no, no, but he was on his own and therefore his no
has no significance today. It was only said by one person
and we buried it with his death.. Nobody says no today!
Egypt is being desecrated and nobody says no! The Nile
is being hampered and nobody says no! The High Dam is
being hampered and nobody says no! `Abd al-Nasir's
lake, which can be seen on the map, and nobody says no!
Egypt is being tranformed into a sphere of U.S. control
and nobody says no! Egypt has given the Jews breathing
room so that they can concentrate on the northern front
and destroy it, and nobody says no! Even when Egypt has
begun begging nobody says no!
The one who said no has now died and his no has been
buried with him. If the Egyptian people had said no,
`Abd al-Nasir's death or thousands of other deaths like
`Abd al-Nasir's would not have mattered; no would
always be there: no to colonialism, no to hegemony, no to
subjugation, no to foreign invasion, no to the hampering
of the Nile, no to recognizing the enemy, and no to
America. Look at the people who depend upon others.
The result would be the same even if `Abd al-Nasir were
still alive.
We and others who depended upon him are paying the
price. He used to say no, but when he died nobody else
would say no. The enemy came and nobody would say
no. When they were made hungry they began to beg. Let
those who did not say no beg now and pay the price..The
Egyptian begs today and looks forward to U.S.' wheat
because he did not say no and used to depend upon `Abd
al-Nasir.
What we want is a new generation that will start here in
Libya and then spread out io the rest of the Arab
homeland and say no; a whole generation to, say no.
Otherwise, the whole operation will fail and so will the
revolution and the mobilization. We are going to lose the
confrontation if you will not say no, all of you, and will
object. This is the generation of anger and rejection.
This is the generation of rejection and anger at every-
thing that exists today, like borders, reaction,' exploita-
tion, occupation, and insult. The thing is, you should get
angry because your own nation is insulting you. Listen,
the American nation said the Arab nation is low and
therefore let us insult it; the Arab nation should be under
the shoes of the American nation. This should make you
angry. Otherwise, when we say the generation of anger,
what does this mean? You get angry because in your era
there is a nation which encroaches upon your nation and
says that this is a despicable nation, and that the Arabs
cannot shoulder the responsibility for the Arab world.
Imagine! The Americans who occupy a whole continent
still come and say we want to take the Arab homeland.
One comes and says*how can they take it; leave it; they
take nothing. The bases which are now being built in
Morocco, and about which the king of Morocco says: If
the U.S. bases leave Spain, welcome to Morocco-what
does this mean? The Americans are not taking the Arab
homeland? When he says-we give them facilities-
what does facilities mean? They mean that my land is at
your disposal. Egypt now says we do not give bases to the
United States, but facilities. What does facilities mean?
It means making it easy for them to stay, pass through,
and hold all the military operations. That is it. This is
better. When we have a base in a country, every month
we pay rent and it costs a lot; and it might be exposed to
any danger. But facilities,are better. Facilities mean that
you sign with me that your country is ,at my disposal. The
day I bring my army to it, you do not say no.. Why pay
rent and pay costs?
Understand it: The most dangerous thing is what they
call facilities. Egypt now boasts; they think that the
Arabs are stupid; they dupe this generation; they make a
fool of it and regard it as a generation of chickens and
sheep that does not understand. Someone like the Egyp-
tian president comes along and says: Egypt does not
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grant bases to the United States, it provides facilities.
You stupid man, facilities are more dangerous than
bases, because bases constitute clear colonization that
can be resisted, and then bases earn rents, and we can
besiege them. But facilities mean that Egypt is at the
disposal of the United States whenever it wishes. It is
open when necessary.
Numayri used to declare this: We provide facilities to the
United States. They all boast. Therefore, when you hear
the'word facilities, curse the father of the one who utters
it as a traitor and agent; it means that he is duping us. He
thinks that we are stupid, as though we do not under-
stand, as though we do not know that facilities are more
dangerous than bases. All the Arab traitors boast: We
give'facilities, we do not provide bases. They believe that
this generation, those Arabs, are so stupid that Al-Sadat
recognized the Israelis ai-d made them believe his expla-
nations, and that a few families are now ruling. And few
crowned presidents-or rather uncrowned kings-are
going'around, and this gave them the impression that the
Arabs are useless, are stupid, and lack the ability to
reject. But despite what they said or did not say, we must
create a generation of rejection, a generation of anger.
[crowd chants] [students shout slogans] All right, indif-
ference is the thing which would put us in the same
situation as in 1911. Indifference is our number one
enemy-when we feel indifferent and when we rely on
somebody else.
We were not sure upon whom we were relying when the
Arab homeland was given to the Turks. Did'such a thing
take place or not? Who among the Arab citizens signed
and said-I give up my country to the Turks-and put it
under their control for 600 years, a matter which has
made us lose out as far as progress is concerned? Who
did so? There was not one. But we were relying upon
other people. Who were they? You should read history to
find'out who brought the Turks here to us. Well, they
were those' who used to talk on our behalf, upon whom
we used to rely and to whom we left our affairs-they are
the ones who brought the Turks to us. The price was 600
years of colonialism.-
After this, we relied upon Turkey, the Ottoman state, the
sultan and his armies. After Turkey, Italy, France, and
.Britain came here to us and took us bit by ' bit and
slaughtered us. And for dozens of years we had to pay the
price of relying upon Turkey, which used to control us.
Everyone was indifferent when Italian .bombs fell upon
people: fisherman, shepherds, farmers, craftman and the
rest. Those peoples' houses fell upon them because of the
bombs of an aggressive country; still those people were
not aware of what was taking place, because they were
stupid and were relying upon somebody else. Look at
how many catastrophies stupidity can cause, as well as
reliance upon others.
I am not saying all this in order to give more information
or [word indistinct]. I am saying this because the matter
is a fateful one; it is related to the fate of your house,
ARAB AFRICA
which might fall upon you head if you are stupid enough,
or if you rely upon someone else [word indistinct].
Someone, maybe from the enemy's army, might enter
your house and occupy it and you are not aware that
there is an enemy, there are preparations and ambitions
against you as well as all the enemy's threats against you.
Threats are being made against you day in and day out.
Just listen to all those radios which are against us. You
will hear that there is no aggression, no colonialism or
rancor against you. They say: We are friendly with the
Libyan people. Listen to Husni al-Barik [Mubarak] when
he says there is no enmity between him and the Libyan
people. The Libyan people are all right, go along with
him. So who is the enmity against? It is against those who
say no, and who are against treachery. Look this is
obfuscation; it means that the Libyan people are stupid
and therefore would accept treachery. Never: His prob-
lem is with the Libyan people. And if these Libyan
people are conscious and have dignity they will refuse
treachery and says to him: You are a traitor; you have
nothing to do with Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhafi so leave
him alone; we, the Libyan people, say no to you Husni
al-Barik; no to treachery, no to the Israelis; and no to the
Americans-so that. he might know that he has a prob-
lem with the people, when the people are conscious.
I want you to understand this [words indistinct] when
the United States says there is no problem between it and
the Libyan people, that its problem is with Al-Qadhd-
hafi. This means that the Libyan people should accept
the United States, slavery, bow their heads and bow to
the United States; that they should not consider the
United States as an enemy and should not resist it and
thus the one who is resisting the United States is Al-
Qadhdhafi. This means that the one who is resisting the
United States is Al-Qadhdhafi and not the Libyans; if
they want to enter Libya, they can do so just by playing
music.
This is a great insult to you, when they say in the United
States every day that there is no problem between them
and the Libyan people; their problem is with Al-Qadhd-
hafi and the Libyan people. What does all this mean? It
means that you should accept U.S. colonialism, should
accept insults, subjugation, arrogance, hegemony and
U.S. arrogance, should accept the cowboys who would
put their (?spears) in you and would not dare to say no.
It means that he who says I would not allow the cowboy
to ride over me, who says no to this arrogance and
haughtiness; who says I put a limit to the United States
and would not allow it to enter his country: the United
States will-have a problem with him. He will be repre-
senting the Libyan revolution, he will be a revolution,
and he is Al-Qadhdhafi.
Listen to it. I want you to listen to the Voice of America,
the BBC, Monte Carlo, all the radio stations, the radio
stations of the Israelis and the hostile radios of Egypt in
order to ascertain the truthfulness of what we are saying
today. Listen, let the whole Libyan people listen.
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The first thing that you will hear them say is that there is
no problem between them and the Libyan people, and
this is the biggest insult to the Libyan people. It means
that the Libyan people accept treason. It means the
Libyan people are not conscious; had they been con-
scious they would have rejected treason and colonialism.
It means that there is only one person who is conscious,
or a conscious revolutionary group in the revolution
command, or there are conscious revolutionary commit-
tees, and they are the ones with whom there is a problem,
whether this is with the Egyptian regime, the Israelis, or
the Americans.
Even in Chad they say there is no problem between them
and the Libyan people. This means that the Libyan
people agree to concede their land-concede Aozou and
give it as a base to the United States. It means that they
are stupid-they say that the Libyan people are stupid,
submissive and subdued, and consequently there is no
problem with them. It is true that there is no problem
with these stupid people. You can take everything from
them and dupe them, make fun of them. If this is so, then
who is the problem with? It is with those who are
conscious; it is the conscious person who becomes your
opponent-because he is conscious he knows that they
are unjust, tyrants, and evil.
Their logic is very weak because they say this, and
consequently subject themselves to being exposed by the
truth. When we talk between us and say that these words
insult the Libyan people, their logic is then unmasked,
because their logic is weak, because they are traitors and
aggressors, enemies of the peoples, enemies of freedom,
food, the future and happiness. Thus, what is the logic
that justifies depriving people of their freedom, their
happiness, tranquility, land and dignity? What is this
logic? There is no logic. Therefore, their logic is very
weak. They have nothing with which to defend their
policies. How can a kneeling Mubarak defend the recog-
nition of Israel, what he called Israel? There is no longer
a Palestine. Israel-which had occupied the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip-how can he defend this treason?
When I am opposed to him and he wants to reply to me
what does he say? He says he is unjust, he says: My
problem is not Libya, my problem is not with the Libyan
people, it is with so and so. If his problem is not with the
Libyan people, this means that the Libyan people are in
the stable [endorsing the Camp David accords], that they
accept this treason, as though the Libyan people are
stupid and do not know that he is involved in treason
from head to toe.
All right, he has a problem with the Egyptian people. He
has a problem with his own people; everyday there are
demonstrations, prisons, arrests, assassinations, shoot-
ings, rebellion and rejections; everyday. He has a prob-
lem with his people who reject it and say no, leave the
Libyan people alone. At least the Libyan people support
their fraternal Egyptian people. And consequently, as he
has a problem with the Egyptian people, he has a
problem with the Libyan people, not with Mu'ammar
al-Qadhdhafi alone. But this is an attempt to dupe
people and deceive them. See this logic exposed. He has
a problem with his people everyday. Everyday there are
demonstrations, arrests, tear gas bombs, and prisons.
How is it that he has no problem with the Libyan people,
who at least show their solidarity with the Egyptian
people, with whom he does have a problem? He has no
problem with the Palestinian people being massacred by
the Israelis, whom he recognizes, and with whom he is
hand in hand? All right.
Can they say we have no problem with any people?
Before the whole world, they have a problem with the
Palestinian people. Exactly the same as they have a
problem with the Libyan people, they have a problem
with the Palestinian people. They have a problem with
the Libyan people, but because the Libyan people find
support for themselves, they say: No, the problem is not
with the people, it is with such-and-such person. But in
fact, similar to their problem with the Egyptian people is
their problem with the Palestinian people. Their prob-
lem with the Palestinian people is the same as their
problem with the Libyan and the Egyptian people and
with any other people. This is because the Libyan
people's fate will be similar to the Palestinian people's if
they do not say no and create problems for them and
oppose them. The Egyptian people's fate will be similar
to the Palestinian people's fate.
Perhaps because `Abd al-Nasir was not a fool and was
alert and understood, they were afriad of him and he
constituted a danger to them. And he kept telling the
Arab masses and calling on the Arab nation, and he
wrote in "The Philosophy of the Revolution" and he said
since 1948-when the Israelis entered Palestine and
Al-Nasir found a little Palestinian girl the same age as his
daughter killed, he. imagined that his daughter would be
killed-that if the Israelis remained in Palestine they
would come to Egypt and kill an Egyptian girl the same
age as this girl. And it happened. When the Israelis were
established in Palestine, they began to fight Egypt and
killed Egyptian girls, similar to the Palestinian girls
whom `Abd al-Nasir saw killed n 1948. Then he said:
How can we escape this? He said: Defending Palestine is
self-defense. Today they kill a Palestinian girl, tomorrow
they will kill an Egyptian girl. Correct. When they had
established themselves in Palestine, they went and killed
an Egyptian girl, like they had killed a Palestinian girl.
When we reject Egypt's recognition of the enemy, we are
in fact defending ourselves. Recognition means that the
Israelis have reached our borders. In the days of Al-
Nasir, the Israeli chief of staff could not have reached the
Libyan borders. He has reached them now. He comes
and visits and inspects the Libyan borders. Then he says:
I have no problem with the Libyan people. This means
that the Libyan people are stupid and applaud the Israeli
chief of staff when he visits their borders. The Libyan
people applaude the Egyptian [as heard] chief of staff,
when kneeling Husni [Mubarak] brings him to the Lib-
yan border in order to inspect. them. We have no
problem with him?
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You must destroy this indifference. Most of what the
basic people's congresses say is for you. When they talk
of the great artificial river, when they talk of the iron and
steel, when they talk of petroleum, the future of petro-
leum, fortifying the coast, building dams and reservoirs,
these will remain for tens and hundreds of years. For
whom are these things? They are for you. How can you
not feel that?
You must feel your future, do you understand? If anyone
obstructs this course, you must remove him. Even if it is
your father, mother, or brother or anyone else. All the
obstacles must be removed from your path. You must
decide your own destiny by yourselves. Anyone who
understands this becomes a revolutionary. Then when
we ask who is not a member of a revolutionary commit-
tee, and someone raises his hand, and he is not a member
of a revolutionary committee; this means that he did not
understand. He is stupid. Write on his desk at school:
does not understand, stupid, [words indistinct]. Write all
these phrases, write them on a paper and stick it on him.
Pay attention, because he does not understand.
USSR's Polyakov Meets Foreign Ministry Official
LD231553 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 1515 GMT
23 Jan .88
[Text] Tripoli, 23 Jan (JANA)-In Tripoli this morning,
a member of the People's Committee of the People's
Bureau for Foreign Liaison met with Vladimir Polyakov,
head of the Middle East and North Africa Department at
the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
During the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on
several international and regional issues of common
interest, foremost of which is the uprising of the Arab
people in occupied Palestine.
The talks also covered various aspects of bilateral coop-
eration.
Delivers Gorbachev Message
LD240732 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 0710 GMT
24 Jan 88
[Text] Tripoli, 24 Jan (JANA)-Yesterday evening, the
brother leader of the revolution received Vladimir Pol-
yakov, member of the Consultative Council of the Soviet
Foreign Ministry [title as received] and envoy of Mikhail
Gorbachev, general secretary of the CPSU Central
Committee.
Polyakov conveyed to the brother leader of the revolu-
tion a message from Gorbachev concerning international
issues, at the forefront of which are the Arab people's
uprising in occupied Palestine, the Afghan issue, Gorba-
chev's nuclear disarmament initiatives, internal devel-
opments in the Soviet Union with regard to the recon-
struction being carried out by the Soviet leadership in
the republics of the Soviet Union, and bilateral relations.
Al-Qadhdhafi Receives Foreign Leaders' Envoys
Given King Fahd Message
LD240847 Tripoli Voice of Greater Arab Homeland
in Arabic 0015 GMT 24 Jan 88
[Text] The brother leader has received Shaykh `Ali
Musallim, who handed him a letter from King Fahd.
Receives Moroccan King's Envoy
LD231428 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 1415 GMT
23 Jan 88
[Text] Tripoli, 23 Jan (JANA)-The brother leader of
the revolution has received an envoy of the Moroccan
king.
Receives Senegalese Envoy
LD231604 Tripoli JANA in Arabic 1415 GMT
23 Jan 88
[Text] Tripoli, 23 Jan (JANA)-The brother leader of
the revolution has received an envoy of Senegalese
President Abdou Diouf.
JANA Rejects UK Remarks on Support for Irish
LD221137 Tripoli JANA in English 1030 GMT
22 Jan 88
[Text] Tripoli, Ayn al-Nar' [January] 22, JAMAHIRI-
YAH NEWS AGENCY-The British minister, respon-
sible for the war waged by Britain against Northern
Ireland, made false accusations through misleading
statements against the Great Jamahiriyah in an explict
effort to conceal the heroic Irish resistance to British
occupation.
The political editor on foreign affairs in JANA com-
mented on the statements, saying:
"We are not surprised that such accusations and efforts
to mislead, come from a government which once joined
America in the barbaric unsuccessful attack on the
innocent sons of the Great Jamahiriyah. Starting now on
a campaign, the least that could be said of is devious and
misleading, proves that British motives are colonialists
targeted at progressive regimes opposed to its policy
based on provocation and expansion. [sentence as
receives]
The political editor referred that such a new campaign
comes at a time when the acts of resistance of the Irish
people are intensifying against all forms of British occu-
pation.
The Great Jamahiriyah, he added, which supports the
just cause and the struggle of the Irish people, knows that
this fundamental stance is not a support to terrorism,
and so the Great Jamahiriyah denies these accusations
truly and totally, and cannot accept in anyway such
accusations being attached to it.
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Britain, he said, should concede to the freedom of the
Irish people and should realise that the era of occupation
and colonising nations was long gone.
Egypt Employs Repression After Consulate Attack
NC230735 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic
0600 GMT .23 Jan 88
[Text] Press reports in Cairo revealed yesterday' that
thousands of leaflets have been distributed urging the
overthrow of the Egyptian regime. The, reports added
that the leaflets were distributed among citizens all over
Cairo, Alexandria, and some cities along the Suez Canal.
They claimed that a certain organization that opposes
the U.S.-Zionist presence is responsible for both the
attack against the U.S. Consulate and a land survey
office building in Alexandria and for another attack in
southern Sinai.
Meanwhile, the Arabic-language, Paris-based: magazine
AL-MUSTAQBAL has reported that the Egyptian
regime's repressive forces arrested a large number of
young men and university students in Alexandria after
the U.S. Consulate was attacked. The., magazine also
disclosed that an anonymous.caller telephoned the Egyp-
tian opposition newspaper AL-AHALI and claimed that
the National Front for the Liberation of Egypt [Al-
Jabhah al-Qawmiyah li Tahrir Misr] had resumed its
armed struggle against the Zionist-U.S. presence on the
territory of Arab Egypt.
Foreign Minister Leaves for Tunis Meeting
LD231356 Rabat MAP in English 1204 GMT
23 Jan 88
[Text] Rabat, Jan 23 (MAP]-Moroccan Minister of
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Abdellatif Filali left
'here Friday for 'Tunis to attend the extraordinary meet-
ing of the Arab League Ministerial Council due today
here to look into the latest developments in the occupied
Arab territories.
The meeting is to debate ways of consolidating the heroic
upheaval of the Palestinian people in the territories and
the intensification of efforts at the international level to
ensure the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the occupied
Arab territories as well as the securing of the legitimate
rights of the Palestinians to self-rule and the creation of
an independent state.
MAP Rebuts Reagan Message With Hassan Speech
LD221350 Rabat MAP in English 1210 GMT
22 Jan 88
' [Text]'Rabat, Jan 22 '(MAP)-The Moroccan' Govern-
ment handed to the national and international press the
.message addressed by President Ronald Reagan to King
Hassan II following the call made by the sovereign last
January 5 in Ifrane during the Al-Quds [Jerusalem]
Committee meeting regarding the role of the United
States of America in the defense of liberty and human
dignity. .
Following is the full text of Reagan's message:
"Your eloquent remarks to January 5 meeting of the
Jerusalem Committee evoked the memory of historic
U.S.-Moroccan cooperation in defense 'of liberty and
human dignity. Those principles continue to guide our
search for peace and stability.
Nowhere is the need for stability felt more acutely than
in the Middle East. The tragic events we have witnessed
in the West Bank and Gaza remind us all of the need for
renewed urgency in the search for a solution to the
Arab-Israeli' dispute.
The U:S. has urged calm and restraint, calling on' both
sides to redouble efforts to avoid confrontation.
Realism is needed on all sides, and all sides must be
willing to take practical, not just rhetorical, positions
that make progress more likely.
The U.S. has made clear its belief that the legitimate
rights of the Palestinian people must be addressed in any
agreement on the final status of the occupied territories,
and that there should be Palestinian participation at
every stage in the negotiating process.
The U.S. will continue to work for a solution, urging and
encouraging activities which will enable voices of reason
and moderation on all sides to prevail. This is vital if the
essential work of peace is to go forward."
The sovereign had in fact said in this regard, "It is not
my intention to speak of my feelings of pain at the sight
of those children, those women and those elderly people
falling victim' of violence and finding no compassion
from the super-powers, particularly from one of the most
powerful, who had, not long ago, fought for the liberation
of the world and struggled to liberate peoples from
Nazism and fascism, this power, by the side of which
Morocco had fought.
This is where lies the reason for the words I address to
the United States of America which is an old-time friend
of ours,' a close and loyal friend for sure, but we say to it:
No. In the same combat, thousands and hundreds of
thousands of our soldiers and yours have died to free
humanity. '
This is why your ally of yesterday cannot help being
surprised to see you scorn.the principles for which your
children and ours have died, all the more so as the
Moroccan soldiers, when they particpated in the Second
World War, did not do so as forces supplied by a
colonized country nor as mercenaries. Never. Rather,
they went to war in response to repeated calls of my
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