QADDAFI ADVOCATES 'SUICIDE' TERRORISM

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• Publication Date: April 2, 1985
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By Gus Constantine
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Libya's Col. Muammar Qaddafi,
the world's staunchest advocate of
state-sponsored terror, has called on
guerrilla groups in the Middle East
to launch organized "suicide oper-
ations" in an effort to bring down
moderate governments in the
region, according to reports from
Tripoli yesterday.
There is "no way out but confron-
tation" and the "adoption and prac-
ticing of revolutionary violence:' the
colonel told a newly established
"command" of revolutionary groups
in the region Sunday night, the offi-
cial Libyan news agency, JANA,
reported.
The new organization, the
National Command for the Arab
Revolutionary Forces, was estab-
lished last month to unify guerrillas
from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and radi-
cal factions of the Palestine Liber-
ation Organzation.
Only last year, on the 14th
anniversary of the closing down of
the old U.S. Air Force base at
Wheelus Field outside Tripoli, Col.
Qaddafi boasted: "We are now in a
position to export terrorism, arson
and liquidation to the heart of
America - and shall do so if neces-
sary."
Col. Qaddafi's kamikaze call was
the shrillest and most sweeping yet
in a 16-year career built on
preaching and practicing radical
upheaval as the answer to the Middle
East's problems.
In the process, he has, bought
huge amounts of weapons from the
Soviet Union, acted as patron of ter-
rorist groups throughout the world
and openly interfered in the affairs
of neighboring nations.
. Yesterday in Cairo, Egypt's Mid-
dle East News Agency reported that
police arrested five men and
accused them of being part of a
Libyan-backed group planning ter-
rorist attacks in Egypt. MENA
reported Egyptian intelligence
sources had been trailing the group
members for months.
MENA's report on the arrests of
the five suspected terrorists said
Egyptian police agents had been
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socialism in the tradition of Egypt's
monitoring the' groups activities Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Since he toppled the monarchy of
King Mohammed Idris al-Senussi in
1969, at age 27, Col. Qaddafi has
interfered in the internal affairs of
no fewer than 4S nations.
In the past year alone, there have
been reports of Libyan-orchestrated
plots to mine the Red Sea, sink a ship
in the Suez Canal, bomb the Aswan
including contacts with an mtel- JANA said yesterday the Tripoli
ligence sources, for seven months meeting included guerrillas from
and recorded their actions "in voice Syria, Iraq and Lebanon as well as
and picture:" ~ from factions of the Palestine Liber-
It said the suspects had received ation Organization opposed to PLO
training in the use of arms and leader Yasser Arafat. Libyan-backed
explosives, and received rebels from Sudan and Chad have
instructions from Libyan agents at also joined the Qaddafi group, JANA
meetings in Greece, Turkey and i said.
Libya. I "Our mission in this command is
Dam as a way to cripple Egypt's agri-
culture, seize Mecca by dispatching
terrorists disguised as pilgrims to
Islam's holy city and assassinate
moderate Arab leaders.
Col. Qaddafi has displayed a
capacity for sharp tactical shifts in
pursuit of his grand design for the
Arab world. Just last year, after sup-
porting for a long time the Polisario
guerrillas battling Morocco for con-
trol of the Western Sahara, he
announced a union with Morocco.
The deal involved abandonment of
the Polisario in exchange for a free
hand for Col. Qaddafi in his attempt
to install a government beholden to
him in Chad.
The sweep of Col. Qaddafi's med-
dling in the affairs of foreign coun-
I tries was illustrated by published
reports in London that linked the
leaders in Britain's long miners
strike with one of' Col. Qaddafi's
intelligence paymasters in Paris.
The Libyan's chief's connection to
the Soviet bloc goes beyond arms
supplies from Moscow. Libya's Muk-
habarat, or secret service, has been
under East German management
since 1974. While East German intel-
ligence does not direct operations, it
has been known to offer suggestions
to Col. Qaddafi's secret service chief
who then, in turn, passes them on to
the colonel as his own.
At home, the Qaddafi regime is a
blend of puritanic Islamic behavior
codes and Arab nationalism, or Arab
i to turn the individual suicidal oper-
ations and the aspirations of the
I Arab citizens in liberation and sacri-
fice into an organized civilized act;'
Col. Qaddafi said Sunday night,
according to JANA.
"It does not matter how big or
small is the number of the party or
front:' he said. "The question is to
launch a battle.in an individual or
suicidal action.
"There is no escape and no way
out but confrontation. That is to say
to confront violence with violence:'
he said while urging the "adoption
and practicing of revolutionary vio-
lence for the liberation and unifica-
tion" of all Arab lands.
The colonel accused Israel of
trying to destroy Arab nations and
said that "covered by the American
umbrella, the Zionist enemy is work-
ing with great ease:"
The Libyan leader said his mis-
sion can only be accomplished by
revolutionary groups because "for-
mal regimes and governments are
by their very nature incapable of
meeting the demands of this stage."
The National Command also said
it planned "to resist imperialism,
specifically American imperialism,
and to work to liquidate its military
and to foil its designs."
In Cairo, MENA reported there
I were seven members in the group
planning terrorist attacks. Two are
still being sought, according to the
agency.-
It identified the five arrested as
Abdel-Samad Al-Sharkawi, Khaled
Abdel-Meguid, Abdel-Aziz
Mouwafi, Mohamed Hassabo and
Rifaat Sayed Ahmed.
MENA said Mr. Ahmed was a
journalist and worked for Al-Shaab,
the newspaper of the left-wing oppo-
sition Labor Party, but gave no
details about the others.
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