AL-QADHDHAFI CABLES MOROCCO'S HASSAN ON SAHARA DISPUTE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400370040-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: February 27, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AL^QADHDHAFI CABLES MOROCCO'S HASSAN ON SAHARA DISPUTE
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TRIPOLI ARNA IN ARABIC 1!530 GMT 27 FEB 76 LD
((EXCERPTS)) TRIPOLI,' 27 FEBRUARY.-BROTHER COL MU'AMMAR ALm
QADHDHAFI, CHAIRMAN OF THE REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL,, YESTERDAY
SENT THE FOLLOWING CABLE To THE KING OF MOROCCO!
BROTHER KING HASSAN !hI, '((PASSAGE OMITTED QUOTING KORAN VERSE))
FROM MY BELIEF IN THE KORAN AND SUNNA AND FROM PANmARAB MOTIVES,
I' PERMIT MYSELF TO ADDRESS THIS CABLE'TO YOU AT.A TIME WHEN I
HELIEVE DESERVES IT TO BE SENT, FOR THE SALE OF CALRITY, I
WILL SAY AT THE OUTSET WHAT THE SUBJECT OF THE CABLE IS
WESTERN SAHARA,- WHICH INCLUDES AS-SAQIYAH AL_HAMRA', RIO DE ORD
AND THE AL^KHALIDAT ISLANDS *((AS RECEIVED)):
DEAR BROTHER THE KING, ON 11 JUNE 1972 I SAID IN A GENERAL
SPEECH THAT THE LAR WOULD SHOULDER ITS NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND
UNDERTAKE A PEOPLE'S WAR IN WESTERN SAHARA UNLESS SPAIN WITHDRAW
FROM THIS REGION, NO ONE AT THE TIME SAID THAT I WAS INTERFERING
IN MOROCCAN AFFAIRS. I DID NOT SPEAK ABOUT CEUTA AND MECILLA,,
UNDER SPANISH OCCUPATION TO THIS DAY,, BECAUSE THIS DOES
CONCERN MOROCCAN NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY.
AT THE START OF 1973 THE LIBERATION WAR BECAME A REALITY IN
WESTERN SAHARA, LED BY THE NATIONAL FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION
OF AS,.SAQIYAH ALmHAMRA AND WADI ADH-CHAHAB,. THE LAR CARRIED
OUT ITS NATIONAL DUTY AND SUPPLIED THE FRONT WITH ARMS AND OPENED
AN OFFICE FOR IT IN TRIPOLI. IT IS WORTH MENTIONING' THAT COUNTRIES
INVOLVED TODAY DID NOT COOPERATE WITH THE CAR IN SUPPLYING THE
FRIJNT AND DID NOT COOPERATE WITH THE FRONT I'N ANY WAY. ON THE
CONTRARY, QUANTITIES OF ARMS WERE CONFISCATED BY THOSE COUNTRIES
WHILE EN ROUTE FROM THE LAR TO THE FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF
AS^SAQIYAH ALmH4MRA AND WADI ADM-DHA.HAB.
NOW TO 1975; WHEN YOU BECAME A PROMINENT PARTY TO"THEPROBLEM
I CONFIRMED TO YOU THRQ8GH YOUR ENVOYS THAT THE LAR'S MILITARY
CAPABILITIES WERE AT YOUR DISPOSAL IF YOU DECIDED TO LIBERATE
ASmSAQIYAH ALmHAMRA FROM COLONIALISM, BUT WHAT
HAPPENED IS THAT YOUR FORCES TOOK PART IN A TRANSFER OPERATION',
((SENTENCE OMITTED QUOTING THE KORAN)) I DECLARE BEFORE HISTORY
THAT I WOULD NOT OPPOSEMOROCCO IF I BECIEVEO THAT THE SAHARA
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PEOPLE, LED BY THE POPUIIA.R FORNT, DID NOT OE?POSE JOINING MOROCCO,
;I" WOULD HAVE THANKED GOD FOR THE ENDING OF THE LAR'S ROLE,
CROWNED BY THE DEPARTURE OF COLONIALISM FROM AN ARAB LAND.
GOD KNOWS HOW MUCH I TRIED TO PERSUADE THE LEADERSHIP OF THE
FRONT TO JOIN YOU AFTER INDEPENDENCE, AND YOU MUST REMEMBER
THE GUARANTEES WHICH I ENSURED, THAT YOUR ENVOYS WOULD CONFIRM
TO MEMBERS OF THE FRONT IN GENERAL, I DO NOT DENY THAT YOU
CONFIRMED THOSE GUARANTEES T ME THROOGH YOUR ENVOYS AND THE
AMBASSADOR IN TRIPOLI.
DEAR BROTHER THE KING, WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY IN WESTERN
SAHARA IS A VERY SERIOUS MATTER, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE PITFALLS
THAT LED TO THIS', THE PEOPLE OF THE SAHARA LED BY THE FRONT
HAVE TOLD THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE NOT MOROCCANS, ALGERIANS OR
MAURITANIANS AND THAT THE TRUE SONS OF TIE SAHARA WERE THOSE
WHO TOOK UP ARMS AND LIBERATED THEIR LAND. THUS THE ANNEXATION
OF THE SAHARA TO MOROCCO IS UNEQUIVOCALLY A FORCED ANNEXATIONs
HERE I AM SPEAKING FROM FACTS AND RESULTS AND NOT REASONS AND
EXCUSES I AM STILL NOT OPPOSED TO TIDE SAHARA JOINING MOOROC-CO
OR MAURITANIA, AND I CANNOT BE AGAINST THE FRATERNAL MOROCCAN
PEOPLE OR THE MOROCCAN ARMY, WHOSE SONS BLOOD STILL RUNS ON
THE GOLAN, BUT I AM.A BELIEVER IN ARAB UNITY FROM THE OCEAN
TO THE GULF, AND IN THE FOREFRONT OF THOSE WHO WORK FOR IT AND
HERALD ITS INEVITABLITY;; IT IS UNREASONABLE THAT I SHOULD IGNORE
THE WILL OF PART OF THE ARAB MASSES WHO OPPOSE THIS ANNEXATION
TO THE EXTENT OF MASSING ALONG THE ALGERIAN BORDERS, THE TENTS
OF THOSE WHO FLED FROM THE ANNEXATION ARE CROWDING TINDOUF
RESEMBLING ARAFAT, IN THE PILGRAMAGE SEASON', WHO DENIES THIS
TRAGEDY,, WHO DENIES THE WILL OF-THE PEOPLE OF THE SAHARA AND
WHO DENIES THE RIGHT OF THOSE WHO TOOK UP ARMS TO LIBERATE THEIR
COUNTRY BY THEMSELVES?
I AM ONLY MENTIONING FACTS. I AM NOT A PARTY-TO A TERRITORIAL
ISSUE AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT ANNEXATION OR THE LACK OF IT,
SINCE ANNEXATION HAS BEEN IMPOSED BY FORCE AND ITS SUCCESS OR
FAILURE DEPENDS ON THE ANNIHILATION OF THE SAHARAN PEOPLE OR
THE MOROCCAN ARMY, AND EITHER WOULD BE A TRAGEDY,"ONE IS MY
FATHER WHEN I NEED HIM, THE OTHER MY UNCLE',&
IF WE FOLLOW THE METHOD OF IMPOSING UNIT; ON PEOPLE BY
FORCE, THE MAP OF THE ARAB WORLD WOULD CHANGE, INCLUDING YOUR
COUNTRY AND MINE,
HAD YOU BEEN FIGHTING SEPARATISTS INSIDE YOUR KINGDOM WE
WOULD HAVE FOUGHT WITH YOU', HAD YOU BEEN F'GHTING THE COLONIALISTS
INSIDE THE SAHARA WE WOULD HAVE FOUGHT WITH YOU. BUT TO FIGHT
A PEOPLE WHO SAY NO, WE WILL NOT BE WITH YOU.
THE VOICE TO WHICH THE WORLD SHOULD LISTEN IS THAT OF THE
SAHARAN PEOPLE, WHETHER IT BE FOR UNITY WITH YOU OR INDEPENDENCE
NEXT DOOR TO YOU, ((PASSAGE OMI'TTED)) 271590 HODGSHON/MF
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