AL-QADHDHAFI ANNIVERSARY SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: March 29, 1985
• Content Type: CABLE

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((TEXT)) BY GOD, THE ARAB PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE WIVES TO THESE
RULERS. IT WOULD BE A DISGRACE. I PERSONALLY HAVE NO RESPECT OR
APPRECIATION FOR THESE RULERS, EXCEPT THOSE WHOM YOU KNOW AND WHO
ARE IN THE SAME TRENCH WITH US. ((CHANTS OF SUPPORT FOR
AL-QADHDHAFI.))
ON 2 MARCH, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE JAMAHIRIYAH,
WE PROPOSED UNITY TO THE ARAB REGIMES THAT WE BELIEVE ARE COMPETENT
TO ENGAGE IN UNIONIST ACTION. MEETINGS BEGAN IN DAMASCUS LAST
WEEK AND THEY PROCEEDED WITH DIFFICULTY. NOW THERE REMAINS A SERIES
OF MEETINGS NEXT MONTH FOR WHICH WE WISH SUCCESS. BUT THIS WILL BE
A TEST: BECAUSE IF EVEN THESE REGIMES WHICH WE BELIVE ARE PROGRESSIVE
AND COMPETENT TO ENGAGE IN UNIONIST ACTION FAIL TO BRING ABOUT
UNITY BETWEEN THEM, THEN ALL THESE REGIMES SHOULD STAND TOGETHER IN
ONE LINE. I HOPE THAT THE REGIMES ON WHICH WE PIN HOPES WILL NOT
DISAPPOINT US. THIS WOULD BE THE FAILURE OF THE UNIFICATION OF
ALGERIA, LIBYA, SYRIA, AND THE YEMEN,, ALONGSIDE THE AFRICAN ARAB
UNION BETWEEN LIBYA AND MOROCCO.
WE USED TO SUPPORT POLISARIO. IN FACT, WE FOUNDED IT IN 1972:
THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF AL-SAQIYAH AL-HAMRAH AND
RIO DE ORO FROM SPANISH COLONIALISM. IN 1972 THE SAHARA WAS A
SPANISH COLONY, AND NEITHER THE ARABS NOR THE AFRICANS NOR THE
AFRO-ASIANS SPOKE ABOUT THE SAHARA. THEY DID NOT EVEN KNOW IT.
ONLY WE KNEW THAT PART OF THE ARAB LAND HAD BEEN OCCUPIED BY SPAIN
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THIS WAS A SHAME, AND ON 11 JUNE 1972 ON
A PLATFORM WHERE THE LATE BOUMEDIENE WAS PRESENT I DECLARED.
((UNFINISHED SENTENCE AS HEARD)) BOUMEDIENE THEN DID NOT KNOW WHAT
THE SAHARA WAS, NOR WHAT THE POLISARIO WAS. HE DID NOT CARE WHEN
I SAID THAT PART OF THE ARAB HOMELAND WAS OCCUPIED BY SPAIN, THAT
THIS WAS A SHAME AND IT MUST BE LIBERATED, AND THAT IF SPAIN DID
NOT LEAVE WE WOULD FORM A LIBERATION FRONT. AFTER THAT SPEECH WE
FORMED THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF AL-SAQIYAH AL-HAMRAH
AND RIO DE ORO, WHOSE ACRONYM IN SPANISH IS POLISARIO. ITS LEADER
WAS (WALIY AL-REGUEBI), MARTYR (WALIY AL-REGUEBI). HE WAS AN EXAMPLE
OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONARY MAN WHOM WE CHERISH.
THE AIM WAS TO LIBERATE THE SAHARA FROM SPANISH COLONIALISM.
THE POPULAR LIBERATION WAR BEGAN IN THE SAHARA; WE TRAINED THE
POLISARIO ELEMENTS, WE AND THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE. WE SMUGGLED
WEAPONS TO THE POLISARIO BEHIND THE BACKS OF ALGERIA AND
MAURITANIA -- THE ARMING OF THE POLISAR-10 BY ALGERIA OR MAURITANIA
WAS PROHIBITED. WE UNLOADED CONSIGNMENTS OF WEAPONS IN THE SAHARA
WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALGERIA OR MAURITANIA; CONSIGNMENTS OF
WEAPONS FELL INTO THE HANDS OF ALGERIA AND WERE CONFISCATED, BECAUSE
THEY WERE DESTINED FOR SAQUIYAH AL-HAMRA AND RIO DE ORO.
AFTER THOSE MILITARY OPERATIONS SPAIN LEFT IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE IT
WAS NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT A POPULAR WAR IN THE SAHARA. IT STAYED
THERE WHILE THE SITUATION WAS CALM BUT WHEN THE SITUATION EXPLODED
IT QUICKLY LEFT. (WALIY AL-REGUEBI) USED TO SAY: IF WE MAKE OF THIS
SAHARA A STATE, I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO UNITING IT WITH MOROCCO,
ALGERIA, OR MAURITANIA. MOUKHTAR OULD DADDAH CAME TO ME AND SAID:
IF YOU LIBERATE THE SAHARA, I URGE YOU TO MAKE IT AN INDEPENDENT
STATE SO THAT IT WILL BE A BARRIER BETWEEN ME AND MOROCCO. YOU
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SAW HOW AFTER THE MADRID TREATY, AFTER THE WITHDRAWAL OF SPAIN,
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT MAURITANIA AND MOROCCO EACH TOOK HALF OF THE
SAHARA WHEREAS MAURITANIA WANTED IT TO BE A SINGLE INDEPENDENT
STATE, A BARRIER BETWEEN IT AND MOROCCO.
AS FOR ALGERIA IT HAD NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THIS MATTER.
THE FACT IS THAT AFTER THE MADRID AGREEMENT AND THE INCURSION OF
THE SAHARA BY BOTH SIDES, THE INHABITANTS WERE MADE HOMELESS
BECAUSE ABOUT 1 OR 2 THOUSAND HOMELESS CHILDREN ARRIVED IN LIBYA.
WE EDUCATED THEM AND GAVE THEM SHELTER HERE. I FOUND THE SITUATION
TO BE TRAGIC. WE STOOD BY THE POLISARIO IN ALL ITS DEMANDS. IT
SAID THAT IT WANTED INDEPENDENCE, SO WE STOOD BY THEM. IN FACT
THERE WAS NO DESIRE AT THAT TIME TO ADD ANOTHER DWARF STATE TO THE
21 OR 22 ARAB PAPER STATELETS WHICH COULD BE BLOWN AWAY BY A MAJOR
POWER. BUT IT WAS BECAUSE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION -- AT THAT
TIME MOROCCO WAS IN CONFLICT WITH LIBYA -- THEREFORE, THAT WE BACKED
AND ARMED THE POLISARIO WITH ALL WEAPONS. WE SAY THAT THIS WAS
NOT A SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT; IT WAS A REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION. BUT
WE TELL YOU WITH REGRET THAT THE POLISARIO FAILED TO TURN INTO A
REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION. WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND WITH CHANGES
IN ITS LEADERSHIPS AND WITH THE MARTYRDOM OF (WALIY AL-REGUEBI) IT
TURNED INTO AN INDEPENDENCE-SEEKING MOVEMENT.
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