KADAFI'S GAME

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000505250060-0
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: October 1, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BALTIMORE SUN
1 October 1984
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Kadafis
Game
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THE SCENE is the People's
Hall, Tripoli, March 2, 1984.
The speaker is (who else) Colonel
Muammar Kadafi, ruler of Libya
and a linchpin of the world terror-
ist network. His words that day,
as broadcast by Radio Tripoli, are
important reading for those who
think that the latest bombing of a
By Morton Kondracke
U.S. Embassy was "senseless vio-
lence," as a Reagan administra-
tion spokesman put it.
Before getting to his plans for
America, Mr. Kadafi has some
words for his own people, specifi-
cally about popular resistance to
his plans to draft women into the
army.
This, he says, is the work of
"reactionary fcrces in Libya. This
group (the reactionaries) is very
dirty. There is no point in it living
on earth. It drinks, it eats, and
does not produce. It is an agent
for America. It constitutes a fifth
column for America and for the
Israelis."
The resistance to military ser-
vice for women is the only con-
crete internal trouble that Kadafi
refers to, but it's known now that
there has also been violent resist-
ance to his rule, which has been
put down ruthlessly.
"It is the task of the revolu-
tionary forces," he says, "to settle
accounts with the reactionary
class." In Libya, this is accom-
plished by public hangings.
Abroad, Kadafi's opponents are
assassinated.
Kadafi makes it clear in this
speech that he is bent on the de-
struction of other than Libyan
"reactionaries," specifically Egyp-
tian President Hosni Mubarak
and President Numairy of the
Sudan.
"They are the agents of Ameri-
ca. The ones who enter Camp Da-
vid and those who welcome
Mubarak, who is head-to-toe
sinking in treason. They entered
the list of [Anwar] Sadat, the
camp of shame, which must be
liquidated either individually or in
the form of a revolution against
their regime," Kadafi says.
Most of the terrorist leaders of
the world profess to believe in
peace; Kadafi, possibly because he
burns with such intense fanati-
cism, comes right out and says
what he's, up to. We should listen
closely to him. _
In this remarkable speech, he
goes on to talk about Lebanon,
where he says the "revolutionary
forces" have won a great victory.
"The defeat which the Ameri-
cans suffered in Lebanon," he
says, "is not less than its defeat in
Vietnam....
"The [battleship] New Jersey,
the most powerful vessel in the
world, was used. The Marines,
who can land and occupy any
place in the world - they were
dealt a powerful blow by the blow-
ing up of the U.S. and French
headquarters, and were forced to
leave."
Kadafi goes on to gloat over
the imminent abrogation (which
occurred three days later) of the
Lebanese government's May 17,
1983, disengagement agreement
with Israel and looks forward to
more victories.
"If we are able - we the revo-
lutionary forces, the Libyans, the
steadfast Syrians and the Pales-
tinian resistance - to overthrow
the May 17 agreement, it would
mean that we have the power to
overthrow the Camp David agree-
ment," by the "liberation" of
Egypt.
And beyond that, he says, "we
must force America to fight on
100 fronts all over the earth. We
must force it to fight in Lebanon,
in Chad, in Sudan and to fight in
El Salvador..
"We must escalate the people's
liberation war in Somalia so that
we may force America to fight
there," and he says the same
should happen in Namibia, Latin
America and South Africa.
"We must wage a people's war
of liberation which America can-
not face up to and thus make the
United States realize that it is
proceeding along a road harmful
to America itself so that reason
will return to this maniac power.
"I say this so that Reagan, the
chief, may hear. We have defeated
him in Lebanon and we are cele-
brating our victory over him. We
have forced him to flee," he de-
clares.
The clear message in all this is
that war has been declared on the
United States, and bombings of
our Marine barracks and embassy
buildings are a part of it.
We would be foolish to take up
Kadafi's challenge and commit
troops to 100 fronts, but we do
have to rally our allies to help re-
sist the advance of Kadafi-style
barbarianism in the Middle East,
Africa and Latin America.
If we want to avoid committing
our own soldiers, we are going to
aye to spend money. vrgv e
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litically and use covert action very
il1fully. We haven't eon doinz
that up to now.
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