AL-QADHDHAFI MARKS SPANISH OCCUPATION OF TRIPOLI

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• Publication Date: July 26, 1991
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29 July 1991
The Iraqi official affirmed that efforts are currently
being made to repair the Iraqi telecommunication
system despite the economic difficulties the country is
currently facing.
The Iraqi official was welcomed on arrival at the airport
by Sulayman Mutawalli, minister of transport, commu-
nications, and maritime transport.
*Mubarak Expected To Meet al-Qadhdhafi, al-Bashir
91P40376A London AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT in Arabic
25 Jul 91 p 4
[Excerpt] Cairo, AL-SHARQ AL-AWSAT bureau-
Knowledgeable sources have said that Egyptian Presi-
dent Husni Mubarak is expected to visit Libya after he
returns from his European trip. He is expected to hold
important discussions with Libyan leader Col. Mu'am-
mar al-Qadhdhafi on recent Arab and international
developments.
The same sources noted that an Egyptian-Sudanese
meeting may be held at the summit level in the Libyan
capital during President Mubarak's visit, since Lt. Gen.
'Umar al-Bashir is expected to arrive in Tripoli during
Mubarak's visit.
This anticipated meeting comes as part of Libyan
attempts to reconcile Egypt and Sudan and clear the air
in their bilateral relations. The sources noted that
arrangements for this meeting had been discussed
through direct diplomatic contacts among Egypt, Libya,
and Sudan.
Sudan had contacted Col. al-Qadhdhafi on an urgent
basis following the sudden crisis with Egypt at the
beginning of this month. [passage omitted]
Mubarak Receives Phone Call From al-Qadhdhafi
NC2807200091 Cairo MENA in Arabic 1940 GMT
28 Jul 91
[Text] Cairo, 28 Jul (MENA)-President Muhammad
Husni Mubarak received a phone call from Libyan
leader Mu'ammar al- Qadhdhafi this evening. The two
leaders exchanged views on a number of international
issues of mutual interest, as well as on bilateral relations.
Mubarak Receives Delegation, al-Qadhdhafi Message
NC2907101491 Cairo Arab Republic of Egypt Radio
Network in Arabic 0900 GMT 29 Jul 91
[Text] President Muhammad Husni Mubarak received a
Libyan delegation at the Presidential Palace in 'Abidin
this morning. The delegation, which includes the Libyan
secretries of justice, interior, communications, elec-
tricity, industry, and trade, is led by 'Abd al-Qadir
al-Sawsa', secretary general of the Libyan General Peo-
ple's Congress, who conveyed an oral message to Presi-
dent Mubarak from brother Colonel Mu'ammar al-
Qadhdhafi, leader of the Libyan revolution.
People's Assembly Speaker Dr. Ahmad Fathi Surur, who
attended the meeting, said President Mubarak's meeting
with the members of General People's Congress was
friendly. He also emphasized the president's wish to
promote Egyptian-Libyan relations and to eliminate all
obstacles.
For his part, 'Abd-al-Qadir al-Sawsa' said he had con-
veyed an oral message from Colonel Mu'ammar al-
Qadhdhafi, leader of the Libyan revolution, to his
brother President Mubarak as part of their ongoing
contacts on bilateral and international issues.
Libya
Al-Qadhdhafi Marks Spanish Occupation of Tripoli
LD2607195491 Tripoli JANA in English 1433 GMT
26 Jul 91
[Excerpts] Tripoli, Nasser [July] 26, JAMAHIRIYA
NEWS AGENCY-The leader of the revolution Colonel
Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi confirmed that the aggressive
attack carried out by Spain on the city of Tripoli in 1510
was not the first attack and will not be the last attack. In
the significant speech he delivered, last evening, in the
ceremony which was mounted in Tripoli, on the occa-
sion of marking the Spanish occupation of Tripoli, he
said a thousand years before this attack, another attack
took place. The Vandals launched an attack from the
same place in Europe, from Spain and Italy. They
attacked the city and massacred its people. [passage
omitted]
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi said that America was
seeking any justification for aggression against Libya or
Iraq or any other Arab country. It always produces a
thousand false pretext as a justification to carry out its
aggression over the Arab nation. Col. al-Qadhdhafi
stated: We are not idiots. Humanity is not idiot, it
realises the aggression recurs without the existing pre-
texts. He indicated that if there were some justifications
now, what were the justifications then when Spain occu-
pied Tripoli in 1510? What were the justifications for the
Italian occupation of Libya in 1911? What were the
justifications for the [Roman] aggression over Carthage
in 218. [passage omitted]
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi said that Europe always
looked at the Arab homeland as a whole single target,
which it could not occupy part of unless it occupied the
other parts. Col. al-Qadhdhafi added: What we must
understand from this lesson is: even the Israelis-who
are a European assault, occupying Palestine-and Pales-
tine was not occupied from the east or from the south but
was occupied from the north. [sentence as received]
[passage omitted] He added that the Israelis now con-
sider the international conference as nonsense and that
they are manufacturing atom bombs and nuclear mis-
siles with 4,000 miles range indicating that such range
will reach the region of North Africa, the Arabian
Peninsula, Iraq, Sudan, and Mauritania.
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Col. al-Qadhdhafi said that Jews and Christians were the
Crusaders now and they are imperialism and Zionism:
Those will never be satisfied with us unless we become
slaves flowing them. This is their character. The leader
talked in his important speech about what is called: the
peace conference and the recognition of the Israelis,
asserting: The war plants still produce atom bombs. The
enemies continue to build their air and naval forces, day
and night. Millions of immigrant Jews continue to flock
into Palestine from all over the world and years later will
attack Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and establish their state
from the Euphrates to the Nile. They cannot settle down
until they drink from the Nile and Euphrates because
they have no water of their own, this is inevitable.
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi said that the Israelis did
not care much whether the Arabs recognize them or not,
because they continued to manufacture atom bombs
relentlessly. He asserted that the U.S. did not intervene
with the Israelis as it has done with Iraq, to destroy their
weapons: The American Security Council [as received]
did not issue a resolution stripping the Israelis of their
atom bombs. Only the Arabs can strip the Israelis by
force, and this does not come about except with Arab
unity. The leader added: If Arab unity is not reached, the
fate of the Arabs, everywhere, no matter how friendly
they were by demanding peace, is the same as the fate of
the Libyans on Thursday 25 Nasser 1510. [passage
omitted]
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi asserted: We will strike
Italy and Spain if any attack or aggression against Libya
was launched from them, despite our sentiments, feel-
ings and wish for peace and more friendship with them.
He indicated that if those nations were seeking to live in
security and peace, then they must close all the bases of
aggression against the Arab nations, do not assist aggres-
sion, and not make their ports stations for the fleets of
aggression, for ever.
The leader said: From now on, all those nations must
bear all the harm, the reaction and the counter attack
from those upon which the aggression is launched
whether they be Libyans or non Libyans. We are hostile
to whoever is hostile to us and peaceful with all who seek
peace with us, after that we do not care how many
children and women die in Italy or Spain or their homes
demolished, as our children and women die and our
homes being demolished. Their children and their
women must die and their homes must be demolished
because whoever starts aggression is more tyrannical.
The leader asserted the need to amass all potentials to
build the economic and defensive capability, fortify the
coast and plant the Libyan land with mines and thorns so
that no one can set his feet upon it, and that is inevitable.
He asserted that the Libyan Arab people wished to live in
peace and security and develop its land but the invaders
do not want that for us. They come to us all of a sudden
in order to occupy our land as they occupied Tripoli on
such a day 481 years ago. He pointed out that the
inhabitants of Tripoli at that time were not trained to
carry arms and did not have any weapons to defend
themselves.
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi said in his important
speech: We say to Europe, to Italy and to Spain: Now we
have good relations with Spain which did all those things
to us, but this problem reoccurred seventy five years
later and after four hundred years the attack by Italian
fascists was relaunched against us, and the attack from
Spain was repeated against us, and in 1986 the attack
from Italy was repeated against us.... The leader said: We
call for friendship and peace. We demand that we and
them be friends and trade, tourism and cooperation exist
between us. They made us accustomed after a while to
expect an attack from them against us. We love peace
and we are peaceful, but this is no good with them, we
must be prepared to confront them and defeat them
when they turn into degraded beasts as they turned in the
past, many times. Such readiness must start from now.
The leader indicated that so long as we have good
relations with Spain and Italy, and as long as they remain
friends with us, and I said that Andreotti is a man who is
a friend of the Arabs, and a peaceful man, so why they do
not defend Libya in international gatherings and
demand the lifting of [the] economic embargo imposed
on it. Also Spain, why doesn't it do the same thing and
the Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzales or the king
of Spain, as they are now our friends, defend us against
America and Zionism and say to them this is a revolu-
tionary state and not a terrorist one, and that the nature
of the revolution is independence, construction and
unifying itself, as did Italy, Spain, and America. They
unified themselves.
Col. Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi demanded a committee to
be set up to search for the families of those who were sent
to exile and were sold in Sicily and Italy and remained
slaves. Some got married, and stayed a slave with them,
and they multiplied there.
The leader of the revolution said: We want them and
their descendants back after conducting biological tests
by specialized doctors to enable us to know the descen-
dants of 5,000 Libyans who were taken from Tripoli and
were sold in Italy. He said: We set up in the past a
committee to identify the Libyan Arabs who were taken
by force in 1911 to Italy, we discovered that thousands of
Libyans were taken to Italy four hundred years ago, and
were sold there. This is something that we cannot be
silent about. [passage omitted]
`Text' of New Law Governing Political Parties
LD2607180191 Nouakchott ORTM Radio in Arabic
2331 GMT 25 Jul 91
["Text of law on political parties" adopted at an extraor-
dinary session of the Military Committee for National
Salvation, CMSN, in Nouakchott on 25 July-read by
announcer]
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