QADHAFI'S OCTOBER 7 SPEECH

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 9, 1975
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SUBJECTt OADHAFI+S OCTOBER 7 SPEECH
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1, SUMMARY: IN A THREE AND ONE-HALF FOUR SPEECH BE-
FORE A LARGELY BEDUIN AUDIENCE, QADHAFI WARMED UP
WITH A BITTER ATTACK ON DEPARTED ITALIANS, THE
U.S. AND THE SINAI AGREEMENT.
HE MADE MUCH OF THE FREE UNIONIST OFFI-
CERS, WHOM HE SEEMS TO. BE PREPARING FOR SOME POLITI-
CAL ROLE FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE SAID THAT TWO COUP
ATTEMPTS AGAINST HIM HAD BEEN CAUSED BY PERSONAL
DISAGREEMENTS, AND HE DENOUNCED TRIBAL INTERVENTION
IN POLITICS, WHICH HE SAID HAD SPOILED HIS EARLIER
EXPERIMENTS IN MASS POLITICAL ACTION, HE DENIED
HE HAD ANY INTENTION OF GRANTING THE SOVIETS BASES,
AND DEFENDED FOREIGN AID BUT SAID LIBYA MUST BE ECO-
MONICALLY STRONG FIRST. HIS REMARKS REFLECT BOTH
AN AWARENESS OF DOMESTIC CRITICISM AND A DETERMINA-
TION TO BROADEN HIS CONTROL OF THE ARMY. END SUMMARY
2, AT THE SITE OF ONE OF
DETENTION CAMPS WHERE LIBYAN BEDUINS WERE ROUNDED
UP DURING THE ITALO-SENUSI WARS OF THE 1920'S,
COLONEL QADHAFI MADE ONE OF HIS VINTAGE STREAM OF
CONSCIOUSNESS SPEECHES. FBIS HAS COVERED THE
EARLY PARTS OF THE SPEECH, DEVOTED TO AN UNSURPRISING
ATTACK ON THE DEPARTED ITALIANS, THE U.S. AND THE
SINAI AGREEMENT, THROUGHLY. (QADHAFI ACCUSED THE U.S,
OF SENDING 100 PLANES FROM AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO
THREATEN HIM LAST YEAR, PROBABLY A REFERENCE TO A
JANUARY 10, 1975 INCIDENT,) THIS MESSAGE REPORTS
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AND COMMENTS ON SIGNIFICANT PASSAGES IN THE QADHAFI THREE
AND ONE-HALF HOUR SPEECH WHICH WERE NOT COVERED
BY FBIS, IT SHOULD BE BORNE IN MIND THROUGHOUT
THAT OADNQFI?S AUDIENCE WAS LARGELY MADE, UP OF
DEDUINS FROM THE SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE,
3, TWO COUP ATTEMPTS8 QADHAFI SAID THERE HAD BEEN
TWO ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW HIM SINCE HE TOOK POWER, ONE
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVOLUTION,, AND THE SECOND A SHORT
TIME AG08 "YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM ANYWAY,, THE
REASONS WERE PURELY PERSONAL,, TWO PEOPLE BECAME
ENEMIES AND ONE OF THEM DECIDED TO CARRY OUT A COUP.
THE FIRST TIME,, ONE FELLOW HAD SAID TO ANOTHER,
YOUQRE A MONKEY, AND THE SECOND FELLOW SWORE TO
CARRY OUT A COUP SO THAT HE COULD PUT THE OTHER
ONE IN PRISON, IT WAS ALL FOR PURELY PERSONAL
REASONS, I TELL YOU THIS SO THAT YOU WILL BE
WIDE AWAKE AND UNDERSTAND EVERTHING,vv
4o TRIBALISM AND ARMY OFFICERS8 AN EXTENDED
DISCUSSION OF HIS PLAN TO SET UP "BASIC POPULAR
CONGRESSES" LED QADHAFI INTO A DISCUSSION OF
TRIBALISM, "THE WORLD MUST UNDERSTAND,, AS I
WILL SET FORTH IN THE.GREEN BOOKo THAT THE TRIBE
IS AN EXTREMELY FINE AND USEFUL SOCIAL ORGANISM,
BUT IT MUST NOT INTERVENE IN POLITICS 0 . GO
AHEAD AND SPEND THE HOLIDAYS WITH YOUR TRIBE.
MARRY WITHIN YOUR TRIBE,, AND HELP EACH OTHER .
BUT FOR THE TRIBE TO INTERVENE IN POLITICS IS
MORALLY WRONG . o . o NO ONE WILL PREVENT YOU
FROM BEING DEVOTED TO YOUR TRIBE OR CLAN . .
BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE HAS TO BE
ONE PERSON FROM MY TRIBE SITTING ON A POPULAR
COMMITTEE, TRIBAL CONFLICT AND CLAN FANATICISM RUIN
OUR DEMOCRATIC EXPERIMENTS , o . , I DO NOT WANT
ANY ONE TO COME TO THE NATIONAL CONGRESS BECAUSE
PEOPLE FROM HIS TRIBE HAVE CHOSE HIM TO LOOK OUT
FOR THEIR INTERESTS, THE NATIONAL CONGRESS IS
A SERIOUS, SERIOUS MATTER,,"
5o QADHAFI SAID THAT THE FREE UNIONIST OFFICERS
MOVEMENT HAS SUCCEEDED IN OVERTHROWING THE
MONARCHY BECAUSE ITS MEMBERS FROM ALL PARTS OF LIBYA
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HAD IGNORED TRIBAL AND REGIONAL CONSIDERATIONS.
QADHAFI SAID THAT THE FREE OFFICERS HAD NOT BEEN
INVOLVED IN EITHER OF THE COUP ATTEMPTS AGAINST THE
REGIME. "THE FREE UNIONIST OFFICER MOVEMENT IS STILL
SOUND AND FAITHFUL TO IT PRINCIPLES." ITS
INFLUENCE WAS SPREADING ELSEWHERE IN THE ARAB
WORLDI TO JORDAN FOR EXAMPLE. IT WAS A MODEL FOR
ARABS EVERYWHERE, THE LIBYAN PEOPLE SHOULD LOOK TO
THE FREE UNIONIST OFFICERS FOR LEADERSHIP. AND
PUT THEM AT THE HEAD OF POPULAR CONGRESSES BECAUSE
"WE ARE SURE OF THEM," BUT NO "FACIST INFILTRATOR"
WOULD BE ALLOWED TO LEAD A BRIGADE OR A PLATOON. AND
SUCH PERSONS WOULD BE CRUSHED.
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6o NO SOVIET BASESs QADHAFI MADE A PASSING
REFERENCE TO THOSE WHO ACCUSE HIM OF GIVING THE
SOVIETS BASES, NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE
TRUTH, HE SA ID o "IS IT REASONABLE THAT AT THE
SAME THE WE CELEBRATE THE EXPULSION OF THE
AMERICAN WE WOULD ALLOW THE RUSSIANS TO SET UP
BASES?"
9o FOREIGN AID AND ARAB UNITYg QADHAFI
SAID DEFESIVELY THAT SOME PEOPLE COMPLAINED THAT
LIBYA WAS GIVING TOO MUCH MONEY AWAY TO "BLACKS"
IN PLACES LIKE CHAD AND SUDAN, "I TELL YOU THAT LIBYA
IS THE MOST MISERLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. I AM
ASHAMED SOMETIMES," LIBYA WOULD B ABLE TO
EXTEND AID TO ARABS, FRIENDS, AND BROTHERS WHEN IT
WAS ECONOMICALLY STRONG, "WHEN WE BUILD LIBYA,
WE HASTEN THE DAY OF ARAB UNITY AND THE FINAL VICTORY
OVER IMPERIALISM," SOME PEOPLE COMPAINED THAT
PALESTINE WAS A LONG WAS OFF0 AND THAT THERE
WERE MORE URGENT PROBLEMOU AT HOME, BUT THE
DEFENSE OF PALESTINE AMOUNTED TO THE DEFENSE OF
LIBYA,
8o TOWARDS THE END OF THE SPEECH, AFTER DWELLING
AT LENGTH ON HIS PLANS FOR REORGANI'ING THE
LIBYAN ASU INTO CONGRESSES, AND ON THE NECESSITY
FOR EVERY LIBYAN TO REGISTER FOR THE ASU ON
PAIN OF BEING A POLITICAL NON-PERSONo ?ADHAFI
TURNED TO HIS OWN ROLE, AFTER NOTING THAT HE
HAD PRESENTED HIS RESIGNATION ALMOST EVERY YEAR
SINCE 1969, ?ADHAFI SAID THAT NOW HE FELT HE
MUST REMAIN "NEAR YOU TO LEAD THESE REVOLUTIONARY
ACTIONS DIRECTLY," HE MIGHT PASS FROM THE SCENE
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HE MIGHT EVEN HAVE A "HEART ATTACK", BUT THE
REVOLUTION WOULD GO ON.
9, COMMENT; THERE IS MUCH OF INTEREST IN WHAT
DADHAFI HAD TO SAY, PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE NEW
POLITICAL ROLE HE SEEMS TO Be PREPARING TO GIVE
TO THE FREE UNIONIST OFFICERS, AN AMORPHOUS
BODY OF HIS SUPPORTERS IN THE ARMY WHOSE
MEMBERSHIP WE HAVE ALWAYS HAD TROUBLE IDENTI-
FYING. IN CONTRAST TO THE RCC, WHICH HAS BEEN
TORN APART BY BICKERING AND MUHAYSHI'S PLOTTING
("THE SECOND ATTEMPT").
THE FREE UNIONIST OFFICERS ARE ABSOLVED OF ANY
TAINT FROM MUHAYSHI'S CONSPIRACY, AND DECLARED
TO BE FIT TO LEAD THE MASSES. "FACIST INFILTRA-
TORS" IN THE ARMY, ON THE OTHER HAD, WILL GET
NO MERCY. THE CHOICE QADHAFI IS GIVING TO
THE OFFICER CORPS OF THE ARMY IS CLEAR. AS IS
HIS DETERMINATION TO RETAIN AND BROADEN HIS
CONTROL OF THE ARMY.
10. ALSO NOTEWORTHY ARE QADHAI'S DEFENSIVE
ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY FOREIGN SPENDING AND FOREIGN
ENTAGLEMENTS, HE IS OBVIOUSLY TAKING DOMESTIC
CRITICISM OF HIS FREE SPENDING ABROAD
SERIOUSLY. AS HIS REMARKS REFLECT, MANY RACIALLY
CONSCIOUS LIBYANS ARE PARTICULARLY INCENSED
AT THE IDEA THAT THEIR MONEY IS GOING TO
AFRICAN "BLACKS." QADHAFI WILL NOT DRAW HIS
HORNS IN IF HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT. BUT HIS
SILENCING OF PROPAGANDA ATTACKS ON
PRESIDENT SADAT, DESPITE HIS BITTER OPPOSITION
TO THE SINAI AGREEMENT, IS A SIGN THAT
HE DOES NOT HAVE THE COMPLETELY FREE HAND
IN THESE MATTERS HE USED TO HAVE. STEIN
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