AL-QADHDHAFI U.S. EVACUATION ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS

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• Publication Date: June 11, 1981
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[Speech Eby Col Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi at 'Uqbah ibn Nafi Airbase on 11 June marking
anniversary of evacuation of U.S. bases from Libya--live]
[Excerpts] Brothers, at the time when the Libyan people are celebrating the anniversary
of the evacuation of the American bases, another Arab nation is bowing its head before
the U.S. bases, which were kicked out of Libya and went to Egypt and the Sudan. This,
brothers, saddens us at this hour when the feelings [words indistinct] in the Arab home-
land are renewed and when there is a mixed feeling of joy and sadness. Every time an
Arab will triumphs in one Arab region, an Arab will is defeated in another. Every time
the colonizer is kicked out of an Arab region, other Arab regions are opened to him. The
more constructions we make in Libya [words indistinct] in other Arab countries. This,
brothers, is the reality of your Arab nation today.
With its imperialist expansion, brothers, which disregards the will of the peoples, parti-
cularly-on Arab territory, the United States presents itself to the world and talks against
terrorism and it also [word indistinct] human rights. The world is called upon to fully
scorn and disregard everything that the United States is (?bragging about) as it is false
and [word indistinct] and international demagogy.
Constantly accusing others of terrorism while claiming innocence is in itself an exerci\
sing of terrorism in the full meaning of the word. Standing up to the struggle of the
peoples who are fighting for their freedom, primarily the Palestinian people, who have
been kicked out of their land, Palestine; who have been made homeless by military force;
and who are now being pursued in their camps by U.S. aircraft and by the most up-to-date
U.S. weapons of complete destruction. And also the people of Namibia and other peoples
struggling for their independence and for the return to their land from which they were
driven out by force. By opposing just struggle of these peoples the United States is
committing a crime and disregarding all moral human values, first and foremost freedom,
without which man cannot exist.
-Brothers, we wish to express our disdain for all U.S. accusations and (?lies) by which it
is trying to intimidate us and to weaken our determination to continue to (?support) the
'just struggle of peoples fighting foreign domination.
Therefore, the United States is the master of terrorism. Constantly accusing the
Palestinians--who are fighting for the liberation of their homeland, which they have been
driven out of--of terrorism, is a practice of terrorism by the United States at a high
level.
to live so that we may have a place on earth under the sun.' Earth was not created for the
even for 1 minute, by frivolous U.S. propaganda, because we know that the United States
is the one which practices terrorism, and we know that we are practicing our natural right
The whole world, dear brothers, must, with us, strive to scorn the stupid American attitude.
On the basis of the concrete proofs provided by the U.S. each day, the world should be
convinced that the United States exercises terrorism with the full meaning of this ugly
word. And I say to the United States: No matter how much it concentrates its false
propaganda against us, falsely accusing us of terrorism, we will not in any way be affected,
sun shines for all. [chanting of slogans].
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Dear brothers, [chanting of slogans continues] the United States, which [word indistinct]
criminals and (?shelters) fugitives from justice [words indistinct due to continued chanting]
the United States, dear brothers, which every day provides its [word indistinct], presents
the dirty criminals who are fleeing justice, those who plundered the funds of the Libyan
people and who were recruited into the service of American intelligence, as victims of
terrorism. This stupid logic we confront with other material (?present), today we present
the victim of American terrorism, the child [word indistinct], victim of American terrorism
who is not a plunderer of Libyan money, is not a fugitive of justice [words indistinct].
This child, named [indistinct], killed by the Americans in 1958 and which we [words indistinct
Dear brothers, this is the victim of terrorism and to immortalize the victim of American
terrorism, as from today this base shall be named as the [word indistinct] base. [chanting
of slogans) Also the 11 June base shall be named the'Uqbah ibn Naf'i. [chanting of slogans]
Dear brothers, while we celebrate the victory over the United States, thanks to the revolution
and we celebrate the expulsion of its bases and forces at a time when the United States did
not dream that it would [words indistinct]. It was implicit for this base to remain 99 years
on Libyan soil. It was destined that this and other U.S. bases remain 99 years on Libyan soil,
but the U.S. and its agents failed to take the revolution into account, they failed to take
into account the Libyan people's will for a revolution; they failed to take into account
the will of the Libyan people. They planned only on the basis of the wills of their agents
and their colonialist masters, and when they set up this and the other bases they failed to
consider the real will [words indistinct]. They did not take into account the revolution.
The 1969 revolution surprised them. In a few months it destroyed the American bases, and the
Libyan people triumphed.
The United States, brothers, which was driven out [words indistinct], the United States
wants to come back once more to the Libyan land. 'he United States is now, brothers, leading
-a frenzied campaign against the Libyan people because it still resents and wail forever resent
the heavy loss it incurred at the hands of the Great 1 September revolution.. The United
States, which follows the law of the jungle, based on blind force, wants to defeat all
peoples and remain the only [word indistinct]. For this reason it is suffering and resenting
the heavy losses it incurred at the hands of the revolutionaries of 1 September, and wants
by all means to inflict a defeat on the Libyan people and to return to the Libyan land, come
what may.
The United States is now focusing its foreign policies on fighting Libya. The main activity
of American foreign policy now is fighting Libya [words indistinct] and now it is conducting--
and this is of course an honor, a great honor, and international medal of honor for the
Libyans, men and women--the United States is now mobilizing NATO against Libya. The United
States is now conducting a large-scale mobilization of NATO in order to confront Libya.
Daily, [words indistinct] at official levels between the U.S. Government and the governments
of Western Europe, the members of NATO, so that they may stand by the side of the United
States against Libya. This is a great honor for Libyans, men and women. [applause]
Every day the United States incites the states of Western Europe to join the American anti-
Libyan position. It has reached the point of sending official letters to the heads of the
states of Western Europe threatening them if they should [word indistinct] a visit by
P.1-Qadhdhafi to any I!estern European state. The United States has been so crazy as to reach
this point [words indistinct] unusual in international relations to see a superpower standing
against a small people that only wants to deservedly occupy its own place on earth and under
the sun, backs the causes of freedom everywhere and wants to establish equal relations with
America and other states, big or small.
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which (?activates) the entire NATO alliance. The world superpower, which controls well
over half the globe is mobilized against Libya. Let the world be a witness and let it
know how (?absurd) U.S. policy is [words indistinct]. [cheers]
Naturally our slogan will be this slogan. The United States must (?not expect us to sur-
render) to it. It must not believe that it can establish bases on Libyan soil while we sit
and watch or while we are still alive. This is impossible, impossible. [cheers] Whey has
the United States mobilized this international force, the NATO alliance, and sent the
letters, copies of which we have obtained, to a number of heads of state--naturally, the
African and Asian states that are subservient to the United States. In these letters the
United States invited them to join it against Libya. It means that the United States to-
day is mobilizing the NATO alliance and the hireling states in Africa and Asia and inciting
all of them against Libya. For what reason? By God, we have not invaded the United States.
We did not occupy Alaska. We did not establish a hostile base in the United States or
colonize it. We did not threaten American shores or American airspace. We have decided
to become (?martyrs) or live free on our soil. We have committed ourselves to supporting
just issues of freedom to triumph, peace to become universal and the yoke of foreign
domination to be lifted from mankind.
Brothers, we have irrevocably resolved to defend our legitimate right to live on this
earth and under the sun even if it leads to our (?annihilation)--all of us, men and women.
We shall resist and become another Vietnam if the United States tries to invade us by one
means or another. [chanting of slogans] This is the slogan that the United States must
hear; it is not mere talk because behind it there is death, martyrdom. [chanting of slo-
gans] The United States and others had tried us and were convinced that the slogans held
aloft were carried out with blood and victims. 'Now, the Libyans effectively carry out
their slogans with blood and lives, and the world knows this and is a witness to this.
[chanting of slogans] -
At the same time, brothers, we shall never do an about-face, no matter how many great
powers the United States mobilizes against us. We shall never go back on extending every
effort, including our lives, to the Palestinian people until they liberate Palestine,
inch by inch. [chanting of slogans] Nor shall we ever go back on supporting the just
causes of all the peoples fighting for freedom.
We are convinced of what we are doing, and determined to carry out our historic duty in
accordance with our free will. The United States must be aware of this determination,
and therefore it must realize that it is conducting a'losing policy if it believes that
-the terrorism it is carrying out against us, with all the pressures and various warlike
means--if it believes that this will bend our determination or make us capitulate. If
it believes this, we say to the United States that it is conducting a losing policy and
that it should try another policy.
As for Western Europe, we want to tell them today: Despite the renewed pressures exerted
by United States on its NATO allies, and we are aware of the fact these states are, to a
small or large degree, under U.S. domination as result of the presence of U.S. military
bases, especially in West Germany, from whom the United States took its independence as
a result of World War II and has prevented it from building its own independent military
force which would enable the German people to live free. [sentence as heard]
The German nation will triumph one day. The United States is willing to sacrifice Germany
and its people for U.S. interests. To the states of Western Europe which the United
States wants to throw into a decisive battle against Libya we should like to say, to the
United States and to these states individually--we say to Italy, for instance, that if
it wants to sacrifice these huge interests and the large-scale cooperation between Libya
and Italy it can join the United States.
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We want to say to the United States, which wants to involve Italy in this
stupid confrontation
we say that economic cooperation between Italy and Libya totals well over
$3
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is only contracts and projects, not including oil and the trade exchanges.
The United
States should be aware of the size of Italian interests in Libya. It should also know that
well over 11,000 Italian workers are working in Libya. The United States wants them to be
expelled and to have them sacrificed, and to force Italy to lose this cooperation, which is
worth all these billions, for the sake of American (vanity).
If Italy wants to sacrifice this cooperation and be involved in this adventure we do not mind.
It is because we will not lose. Libyan oil will stay in Libyan soil [words indistinct] we
have lived our -lives without oil. ~'As we say to the United States: To Hell with you! We
also say: To Hell with the oil, if oil is going to make us (?a satellite) of the United
States! [shouts of approval]
And we say to West Germany, which is facing increasing pressures from the United States to
join it in the confrontation and sacrifice all its interests in Libya. We say to Germany
that the United States wants it to lose this economic cooperation with Libya which is worth
$6 billion. The United States (?could not care less) about this large volume of cooperation
between West Germany and Libya. Well over 3,000 German workers are working in companies
and on projects in Libya. We say to the United States that Germany has these large-scale
interests in our country, but the United States does not consider German interests, as I
said. It wants to make Germany lose-so that it may benefit.
More than 2,000 French workers are working in companies and projects in Libya. Moreover,
these projects account for a huge volume of cooperation between France and Libya--more than
$1 billion. The same is true of Libya and Britain, and there are more than 7,000 British
workers in Libya. These billions of dollars and thousands of workers in fact represent
mutual interests between the Libyan people and the peoples of Western Europe. The United
States wants these countries to suffer losses in these economic matters and interests so
that the American aggressive policy can succeed. We want to warn the states of Western
Europe that we are ready to accept this [words indistinct] but we are ready to enter the
adventure. They and the United States should understand that limiting cooperation could not
constitute pressure on the free will of the Libyans. We, dear brothers, are ready to live
as I said: without oil., without modern houses and [words indistinct].
Dear brothers, yesterday, American aircraft supplied with Arab fuel carried out the biggest
terrorist and criminal operation, which has shattered what was left of international law
and its principles and all considerations. American aircraft supplied with Arab fuel and
piloted by the Israelis, usurpers of Palestine, attacked the capital of an Arab country
and destroyed Iraq's nuclear establishment. Had any Arab state done such a thing, what
would the U.S. attitude have been? The United States would doubtless have occupied that
state and considered the action illegal. But what did the United States do? It wants to
scorn the Arabs, to scorn the world, to scorn the United Nations and to scorn international
law. It declared yesterday that it had suspended the delivery of four aircraft to the
Israelis.
Look at this feeblemindedness which the United States presents to the world [words indistinct]-
'Is the punishment for this mad action and aggressive [word indistinct] the delay of the de-
livery of four U.S. aircraft? But, brothers, such talk is out of place if we address it
to the Israelis, the warmongers, the invaders, the usurpers of Palestine, the ones who
caused World Wars I and'II and will cause World War III. The United States will regret its
support for the Israelis when it is too late. Such talk will be out of place if we address
it to the Israelis or to the Americans, since the United States owns the aircraft which
raided Baghdad; the United States is the (?creator) of the Israelis; Israel is the base for
terrorism in the Middle East and they actually threaten world peace.
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Such talk will be in its proper place if it is addressed to the (?Arabs); it will be
useful if we address it to our borthers. This raid, which started from Egyptian
territory and passed through Jordanian and Saudi skies to reach Iraq--there is no
doubt that it constitutes an insult to the entire Arab nation, not just to Iraq; it
constitutes a defeat for the Arabs from the ocean to the Gulf, not to Iraq alone. if
there were any Arab blood left the king of Jordan and the king of Saudi Arabia would have
been [word indistinct] on the land of Sinai before this disgrace. This is a disgrace
before the world; Israeli aircraft pass through the skies of four Arab countries. This
is [words indistinct] that demands that those through whose skies the aircraft passed
resign and throw their crowns and scepters in the garbage can.
You are aware, brothers, that the Iraqi Government [words indistinct] the Libyan revolution;
every day it spends millions [words indistinct] You also know that it was Iraq which
[words indistinct] and withdrew its ambassador. But [words indistinct]. We must be
prepared to quickly welcome the Iraqi ambassador back [words indistinct] [applause], and
our slogans will be: Support your brother, right or wrong. We shall also have another
slogan: My brorher and I against my cousin, and my cousin and I against the alien.
[applause]
This Israeli raid is likely to sound the alarm for the Arabs from the ocean to the Gulf
and bring home to them the fact that the real enemy is the Israelis. It is also likely to
impress on Iraq that it was wrong to turn its back on the real enemy and fight Iran.
Fighting the Iranian revolution is in the interest of the Israelis and the Americans.
The real enemy, no matter what aid one can give it, will remain an enemy until it destroys
you or brings you under control. Despite the fact that the war Iraq is waging against the
Iranian revolution is in the interest of the Israelis and the Americans, when the opportunity
arose the Israelis did not hesitate to deal a blow to Iraq.
But what does this mean? It means first that the United States, into which Arab oil is
figuring, has enabled the Israelis to subjugate the Arab homeland, (?humiliate) the Arab
nation and impede its progress. The oil with which the United States is fighting us, the
money with which the United States and the Israelis are fighting us is in fact Arab money,
brothers. Libyan, Algerian, Saudi money [words indistinct]. In our current situation, we
are faced with daily U.S. gains as a result of the reduction of Saudi. Oil prcies. The
United States gets from Saudi Arabia scot free--that is, Saudi. Arabia gives the United
States without anything in return 3 and 1/2 billion [not further specified] a year.
This is just as a result of the reduction of Saudi oil prices. In other words, it is as
if Saudi Arabia gave the United States 3 and 1/2 billion a year for the United States to
hand over to Israel, and for the Israelis to hit the Arabs wtili.
U.S. companies make $10 billion profit from Saudi oil. Thus U.S. aid to the Israelis
[words indistinct), U.S. assistance to the Saudis, and U.S. aid to other countries
[words indistinct] comes from Arab oil. The U.S. [word indistinct] of anything. We, the
Arabs, with our oil, give the United States money to [words indistinct]. We believe
that the Isaeli raid on Iraq has exposed the Arab nation, [words indistinct] it has
exposed the truth. It has also exposed the truth about the United States to the Arabs
who are its friends. If Saudi Arabia builds a nuclear reactor tomorrow, Israeli
aircraft will destroy it. [Passage indistinct] The Israelis are determined to (?humiliate)
the Arabs, whether Saudis, Iraqis, Palestinians of [word indistinct]. This is the (?immortal)
truth. [words indistinct] let Saudi Arabia build a nuclear reactor; we challenge Saudi
Arabia to build a nuclear reactor [words indistinct]. Therefore, brothers, what is now
required from Saudi Arabia and the Arab nation [words indistinct] to reconsider
this attitude which will inflict destruction on the Arab nation. [passage indistinct]
(?they claim they have given) $20 million to Al-Fatah. Twenty million dollars. This
compared to $10 billion [words indistinct].
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When this oil is used in the interest of the Arab nation--if this oil is used for the
destruction of the Arab nation the latter should destroy it, including Libyan oil
[applause] Algerian oil and the oil of the Gulf and Peninsula--if this oil means our
destruction we should destroy it before it destroys us. [applause] We should prepare
to live without oil if the oil is to become a danger to the independence of the Arab
homeland and a danger to Arab borders. But there is another final attempt. If it fails
there will be nothing for us but to choose the difficult road and accept all perils,
because the enemy will destroy us if we do not defend our existence.
Brothers, in face of this situation, there is one truth--namely, the Israelis, in agree-
ment with the United States and with the material support from the United States,
declared yesterday that they are determined not to allow the Arab nation to enter the
nuclear age. (Words indistinct] by force. Any Arab state which constructs a nuclear
reactor, even for electricity, will have it destroyed by force by Israel. This was
declared yesterday. Israel said: If Libya builds a nuclear reactor we will destroy it
just as we destroyed the Iraqi reactor; if Iraq rebuilds its. reactor we will destroy it
by force. If Saudi Arabia builds a reactor Israel will destroy it. This means that
Israel has made a decision to prevent the Arab nation from making progress, to prevent
and deprive it from using the atom, even for peaceful purposes. What domination and
what terror will befall the Arab nation after this terror? As the Israelis say that
building nuclear reactors in the Arab homeland is against their security, we declare to
the world that the existence of Israel itself is against the security of the Arab
nation. [loud cheers] Brothers, this is the comparison which the world must under-
stand. We declare that the existence of Israel is against the security of the Arab
nations. The Arab nation does not accept the existence of Israel because it is against
its security and existence.
Brothers, the Arab nation, following this scandal, this challenge, this decision the
Israelis have made--namely, to prevent any Arab state from using the atom for peaceful
purposes--after this, brothers, the Arab nation has nothing before it except to unite
and defend itself.
Destruction of the Israeli nuclear reactor in Dimona should be the forefront of current
Arab action. It must be destroyed by force. [loud cheers] This is the (?logic which
the Israelis understand). Just as the Israelis say they will destroy any Arab reactor'
by force, so the Arabs (?must also) destroy the Israeli reactor.
Thus, dear brothers, the Arab nation should mass all its capabilities, first to destroy
the fascist atomic station because it produces atomic bombs and second, the wager
becomes either the existence of the Arab nation or the existence of the Israeli entity.
bear brothers, if Iraqi aircraft, or Syrian or those of any Arab state destroy the
'Israeli reactor is there a punishment which this state will suffer? Is there any
obstacle? No. Such action has become legitimate and the Israelis are the ones who made
it so, and they are the ones who gave the Arabs this strong pretext and gave us this
right to destroy the Israeli atomic reactor, as the Israelis have done. [applause]
(Dear brothers, the Israelis may raid Libya or Syria or Algeria or any Arab state; this
is expected and is not important, but what is important, dear brothers, in as much as
we [word indistinct] acts of aggression from the enemy we must prepare to address acts
,of aggression to the enemy.
This grave development must convince even ,the Saudis, and it should first and foremost
convince the Iraqis. I think that this development should make us, even temporarily,
drop all inter-Arab differences, at least in order to preserve what remains of Arab
dignity before the world, and face up to the Israeli enemy together, because the Israeli
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Let us look at the most reactionary and most hireling Arab state: If it acquires any
progress, or builds a nuclear plant, well, the Israelis will destroy it.
In the end, and with American power, the Israelis are aiming to control all Arab home-
land--their ambition is even to control Mecca and Medina. Let the Saudis know that the
Israelis consider the holy Medina as their own city, and that the Muslims had driven them
out of it. They also claim that Mecca was built by Abraham and that Abraham was a
Jewish prophet. They claim a right to Mecca. They say so, and they will gain control in
a period of--and I hope, if this is meant to be, that it will be in the lifetime of the
Saudis now in power--they will see the Israeli flag over Mecca and Medina. [sentence as
heard] They do this while paying tribute to the Saudis, of course. They want to laugh
at anyone likely to laugh at them. But [words indistinct]. They laugh at the Lebanese
Christians, at the Phalangists. The Arab Lebanese are Arabs, and the Israelis are
laughing at them. [Words indistinct] The Israelis would achieve their objectives in the
Arab homeland at the expense of both Christians and Muslims. Their objective is the
Arab homeland. They are aiming at the Arab existence.
Therefore, there is no more justification for the continuation of the war between Iraq
and Iran even for a single day, by any standard or criteria: Arab, Islamic, Eastern or
Western or crusade criteria. From now on, there is no justification for the continuation
of this war.
Personally, I will drop all the differences that have arisen between myself and the Arab
rulers who, through hatred, ignorance or because they are hirelings, had adopted an
extremely hostile policy to us. I am charging Brother Yasir 'Arafat [applause] to go to
Rabat, Riyadh, Baghdad and Tehran in order to bring an end to the war between Iraq and
Iran, not as end to itself but in order to ensure that the Iraqi and Iranian powers are
directed against the real enemy of the Arabs and the Muslims, namely the Israelis.
[applause] In such a case, I personally, after that, will go to Baghdad and will go to
Tehran. Also, after that I will, if there appears to be a possibility to link up the
Arab forces from the ocean to the Gulf, setting aside the revolutionary issue which must
not [words indistinct] the revolutionary committees [words indistinct]. This is talking
politics, but despite this I have no objection to going to Rabat and Riyadh and elsewhere
in order to muster an Arab force that can (?defend) the Arabs and put an end to aggression
which is aimed at all Arabs, whether they are progressives or reactionaries. [applause]
This is not the only issue which requires this kind of action. There is the question of
the Sahara.
We have here with us Muhammad al-Amin, the prime minister of the SDAR [applause]; we have
with us Brother Misa'diyah, member of the Central Committee of the Algerian FLN. [applause]
The question of the Sahara--if we compare the enmity between the Saharans and the Moroccans
with the enmity between the Saharans and the Moroccans on one side and the Israelis on the
other, the fact remains that the first enmity, that between the Saharans and the
Moroccans, is less. The historic and real and (?severe) enmity is the one which is
between them--as one side--and the Israeli enemy. [Words indistinct] but we should work
to solve this problem through negotiations [words indistinct] under the shadow of
force--the force which Morocco has because Morocco is a big state in comparison with the
Sahara and Morocco has a large and well-(?equipped) army. The Polisario has a revolutionary
force and a military force which has grown and become [word indistinct]. Therefore, in
this case negotiations will take place in an atmosphere [words indistinct]' strong and weak,
and not between a victor and a vanquished like the Sinai or the Camp David negotiations,
which too..., place between a winner and a loser, between a weak nation and a strong nation,
between a victor and a vanquished.
The Polisario is strong and Morocco is a strong state. This does not help solve the
problem as much as it relates to the confrontation of the real enemy which aims at
Tehran, Morocco and others. The Lebanese problem--[words indistinct] the Arab deterrent
forces and the Lebanese National Movement--the sparks also reach the members of the
Palestinian resistance every now and then.
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If we compare the enmity that exists today between the Lebanese and Syrians, if this is
correct, with the enmity that exists between all these sides and the Israeli enemy, the
inter-Arab enmity in fact diminishes and becomes nothing in comparison with the enmity for
the Israeli enemy which aims at all Arabs, right and left. Even the [word indistinct] is
a target of the Israeli enemy, but he is now using it for [words indistinct] to strike at
Syria, the Palestinian resistance and the Lebanese National Movement. When the Israeli
[words indistinct] and will not admit any favor which the Phalangists have given to the
Israelis. This is the real enemy who aims at dominating Lebanon as he has dominated
Palestine and ultimately encircling Syria and putting an end to the last trench of Arab
resistance in the region.
As for Jordan, Saudi Arabia and others, and even Iraq, [word indistinct] the Israeli
planes flew in daylight and no one (?stopped) them. This means that the Israelis can hit
They passed over Tabuk Airbase [in Saudi Arabia]. Where were the Saudi early warning
aircraft about which they said, when I protested against them at 'Id.al-Adha: These
are our aircraft, which protect our skies and are against the Israelis and the enemy, and
Al-Qadhdhafi wants to keep Saudi Arabia from being strong? Where were these planes?
Why did not they detect that squadron? [words indistinct]
Brothers, the Americans told you; they said to the Israelis do not be afraid of the early
warning aircraft in Saudi Arabia, as they are American aircraft and cannot be used against
the Israelis; they will be used against the Arabs or in the interest of the Israelis.
Where were the early warning aircraft? Let those in Saudi Arabia answer us. Did they
detect this raid and (?protected) it so that it would strike at Baghdad or did they not
detect it and this means that these aircraft are not actually directed against the Israeli
enemy, but against Iran and the Arabs. This is another scandal.
Praise be to God, the truth has revealed itself now. But now we shall let all this pass;
(?we are prepared) to place our hand in the hand of the Saudis if they agree to direct their
power in the interest of the Arab nation and against the common enemy. As for the question
of revolution, it is left to the revolutionary forces and to the will of the Arab peoples;
it is inevitably coming.
As for the question of Lebanon, about which we are talking in the face of this fresh and
grave Israeli action [word indistinct], it is'possible to find an Arab solution for the
problem of Lebanon, a solution that protects the Palestinian resistance, protects Lebanese
sovereignty, preserves the unity of Lebanon and removes all the powder kegs which are now
in Lebanon. In this respect, I ask Brother Walid Junblatt, leader of the Lebanese National
Movement, and Brother Muhisn Ibrahim, the movement's executive director, to contact the
capitals of the steadfastness and confrontation states about this [word indistinct].
I would like to say finally that if this attempt does not succeed we shall take the diffi-
cult path. We have to because the enemy will definitely destroy us one state after the
other--we do not accept Israeli domination and reject defeat [words indistinct]. If this
attempt fails, we have to turn to the revolutionary liberation and address the masses which
the enemy will be destroying. Then every wavering person will bear the consequences. The
traitors and the wavering will then learn of their fate.
Unless we do this, dear brothers, [word indistinct] and there is no third choice. Unless
we gather the Arab force existing now in confronting the enemy from Iraq to Morocco and
we [word indistinct] the cause of revolution to the revolutionaries--and it is inevitably
coming and is not for debate but will [words indistinct]. It is possible to freeze or
eliminate all Arab political disputes from Morocco and the Sahara to Lebanon and all the
groups in it to Iraq and Iran--and I personally shall not hesitate to go anywhere, to
any capital of these countries, irrespective of its attitude in the past.
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all the rulers in the same cage with the Israelis and the Americans, because they all
constitute a danger to the Arab nation. Afterward, every Arab ruler will become a
guardian of Israel and will be called guardian of Israel. Then the Arab nation should
first of all get rid of the guardians of Israel in order to (?reach) Israel.
This is the issue facing us [words indistinct]. In any event, we shall not give up
the cause of revolution. Let the Arab revolutionaries everywhere be assured. The
revolutionary leadership [words indistinct] and Libya shall not give up all its historic
obligations toward the revolutionary forces in the Arab world, with all their various
groups. I believe that after this [words indistinct] the subject of the Camp David
stable and the peace procession about which As-Sadat boasts. [sentence as heard] This
is the procession of peace, it is the procession of the aircraft of destruction which
destroy Arab capitals, it is ending the war in the Sinai in order to move on the destroy
Lebanon. Is this peace? The world now is witnessing the false peace which they want
to impose on the Arabs. This is not peace; the destruction of Baghdad, the (?destruction)
of Lebanon. Let the world see the peace deal made at the Camp David stable, the stable
of (?solutions). Is there still justification for As-Sadat to talk in the name of peace?
But the last [word indistinct], as it is said, is this raid which gave Sadat the biggest
support for abandoning Camp David stable and bringing Egypt back to the Arab nation, and
march on. The struggle continues. [chanting and applause]
[Text] Beirut, 11 Jun (JAMAHIRIYAH NEWS AGENCY)--The Libyan Arab volunteers in Lebanon
have sent the following message to the leader of the revolution on the occasion of the
eleventh anniversary of the eviction of U.S. troops from Libyan soil:
With blood we write the name of the revolution and deepen its meaning, and with blood
alone we will map the spirit of the green thought and embody in practice the Lebanese
arena the motto of the battle's pan-Arab character in which the Great al.-Fatah
Revolution believed and raised its banner aloft.
Dear Leader, we the Libyan Arab volunteers in Lebanon affirm to you that we will fight
side by side till the last shot in order to liberate the Arab land and to become martyrs.
What a glorious martyrdom we aspire for while we are present in the front trenches of
the Palestinian revolution.
Dear Leader, just as al-Fatah's cry resound shattering the suspicious Arab silence and
dealing a blow to the citadels of America's Arab agents, we the Libyan Arab volunteers,
after the blood of our comrades merged with that of our Palestinian brothers, we pledge
to take the sacred revenge for the blood of the freemen shed on the Lebanese soil
in defence of their Arabism and the Arab nation.
With the blood of successive martyrs who believed in the aims and principles you
instilled in us, we will carry the rifle in one hand and the Green Book in the other.
While the masses of Al-Fatah are celebrating one of our days of freedom, the day of the
eviction of U.S. bases from our soil, we cannot but greet the souls of our martyrs who
are today pointing to the horizons of freedom. Those martyrs who fell fighting for
freedom when they resisted these bases which trampled upon our land.
With blood we will write its thought and with revolutionary practice we will stay with
the leader of the green march.
Signed: Libyan Arab Volunteers in Lebanon.
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