AL-QADHDHAFI TO ARM THE MASSES, WARNS AGAINST COUPS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: October 25, 1975
• Content Type: CABLE

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((TEXT)) TRIPOLI, OCTOBER 25, ARNA--COLONEL MU'AMMAR AL-
QADHDHAFI, THE LEADER OF THE LIBYAN REVOLUTION, TODAY ANNOUNCED
THAT ARMS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TO THE MASSES IN LIBYA TO
DEFEND THE REVOLUTION AND DECLARED THAT EVEN 100 ONE
ZERO ZERO PERSONS EVERY DAY CAN BE SACRIFICED TO PREVENT ANY
FASCIST FROM IMPOSING HIMSELF ON THE PEOPLE BY THE FORCE OF ARMS.
IN AN IMPORTANT ADDRESS TO THRONGS OF CROWDS GATHERED AT THE
HEADQUARTERS OF THE RFVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL IN TRIPOLI,
THE LIBYAN LEADER REVEALED DETAILS OF ATTEMPTS TO OVERTHROW
THE PRESENT REGIME AND LASHED OUT AT THE "TRAITORS DISLOYALS
AND HYPOCRITES, WHO LIVED WITH US FOR LONG YEARS" ((WORD INDISTINCT))
THAT THEY WERE "ABSOLUTELY MISTAKEN."
COLONEL AL- QADHDHAFI SAID THESE PERSONS "WHO WERE PROBABLY
COLLABORATING WITH FOREIGNERS OR WHO MIGHT HAVE GONE TO EUROPE
Td) COLLABORATE WITH THE AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE OR WITH ANY OTHER
FOREIGN GROUP, BELIEVED THAT THEY COULD IGNORE THE LIBYAN
pr-UPLF."
"THEY WERE MISTAKEN BECAUSE THEY CANNOT TAKE OVER AUTHORITY
FVEN FOR 1 ONE DAY AS LONG AS STRONG AND RESOLUTE PEOPLE WITH
DETERMINATION TO DEFEND THE REVOLUTION
EXISTS," HE ADDED.
COLONEL AL-?OADHDHAFI.'S ADDRESS WAS PUNCTUATED BY THUNDEROUS
SLOGANS BY THE CHEERING AND DANCING CROWDS DRAWN FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE REPUBLIC. THE RALLY, WHICH STARTED IN THE EVENING,
CONTINUED ALL THE NIGHT AND WAS CLIMAXED BY THE ADDRESS
DEL?VERED BY THE LIBYAN LEADER WHICH BEGAN AT 3 THREE A.M.
"THF LIBYAN PEOPLE," HE SAID, "ARE NUT A FIFLD OF EXPERIMENTS
GGFOR THOSE DESIRING TO GET TRAINING IN RULING THE BEDOUINS (LOCAL
PEOPLE OF THE DESERTS) AND IN THE PROCESS, LEAD THE COUNTRY BACK
TOWARDS THE AGES OF DARKNESS."
PFFERRING TO THE ATTEMPTED COUP9 THE LIBYAN LEADER SAID:
" ONE WHO THOUGHT HE SOUL(? GATHER TOGETHER HIS RELATIVES IN THE
ARMY, OR MUSTER SUPPORT OF 10 TEN OR 20 TWO ZERO OFFICERS OR
20 TWO ZFRU OR 30 THREE ZERO SOLDIERS, RUSH INTO THE BROADCASTING
STATION AND RULE THE LIBYAN PEOPLE, WAS A FASCIST WHO WANTED
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TO IMPOSE HIMSELF BY FORCE WITHOUT PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE
WILL OF THE PEOPLE."
"SUCH A PERSON," HE SAID, "FORGOT THAT WE CAN EVERY DAY
SACRIFICE 100 ONE ZERO ZERO MARTYRS TO KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE
BROADCASTING STATION OR THE R.C.C?,t
THE COLONEL SAID THr= PEOPLE HAD GATHERED IN LARGE NUMBERS
FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY HAD HEARD AND FELT THAT
THERE WAS SOME ONE WHO WANTED TO STEAL THE REVOLUTION AND GOVERN THE
PEOPLE FROM THE BROADCASTING STATION WITHOUT TAKING THEIR WISHES
INTO ACCOUNT.
"THE PERSON WHO WAS PLANNING TO PLOT AGAINST THE REVOLUTION,"
HF SAID, "SHOULD HEAR THESE SLOGANS AND SONGS OF THE PEOPLE,
AND ASSURE HIMSELF, WHETHER HE IS INSIDE OR OUTSIDE LIBYA,
THAT THE LIBYAN PEOPLE ARE IN THE FIELD AGAINST THE FASCISTS,
COUP-MAKERS AND PUPPETS, WHO CARED ABOUT NOBODY BUT THEMSELVES."
HE SAID THE PLOTTERS WANTED TO RETURN LIBYA BACK TO THE
BACKWARDNESS, WANTED TO DESTROY HER DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
AND USURP THE FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE, BUT THEY WERE SADLY MISTAKEN.
REFERRING TO THE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, THE LIBYAN LEADER SAID:
" WE ARE WAGING A BATTLE, A BATTLE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND A BATTLE
FOP POLITICAL FREEDOM. WE WILL BUILD CITIES AND THEY WILL BE
REPLANNED TO BECOME MODERN CITIES. ALL THIS WILL COVER THE
ENTIRE REPUBLIC THROUGH THE MASSIVE INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
DFVELOPMENT PLANS."
CUNCLUr)ING HIS SPEECH, COLONEL AL- QADHDHAFI, REAFFIRMED
HIS BELIEF IN THE SUPPORT OF THE MASSES AND REVEALED THAT WHEN
THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER REVOLUTION WAS STAGED IN 1969 SIX NINE,
THE FREE MILITARY OFFICERS WERE DEPENDING ON THE PEOPLE MORE
THAN THE ARMY WHICH WAS AT THAT TIME WEAKER THAN THE AMERICAN
AND BRITISH FORCES IN LIBYA AND EVEN THE ITALIAN FASCISTS
OCCUPYING OUR LAND. 251630 WILSON/GR 25/1828Z OCT
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TRIPOLI DOMFSTIC SERVICE IN ARABIC 1730 GMT 25 OCT 75 JN
((TEXT)) IN A SPEECH DELIVERED LAST NIGHT TO A HUGE CROWD OF OUR
PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN OUR MARCH WHO HAD ASSEMBLED IN FRONT
OF THE REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS, CHAIRMAN OF THE
REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL BROTHER COL MUAMMAR AL- QADHDHAFI
STRESSFD THAT OUR PEOPLE, WHILE NAKED AND POOR AND WHILE
PC;SSESSING ONLY OLD RIFLES, HAD BEEN ABLE TO DESTROY THE
ITALIAN ARMY AND TO VANQUISH STRONG ITALY IN MORE THAN ONE
TATTLE AND PREVENT IT FROM OCCUPYING
LIBYA FOR MANY YEARS. HE SAID: YOU ARE AWARE HOW THE FIGHTERS
CHARGED THE ITALIAN GUNS ON HORSEBACK. WE RELY UN OUR MASSES
AND HAVE TAKEN THEM INTO ACCOUNT.
THP LFA.)F R OF THE REVOLUTION CONTINUED: REGRETTABLY, THERE
ARE PEOPLE AMONG ()S WHO THINK THEY KNOW THE LIBYAN PEOPLE
PUT WHO DU NUT BELONG AMONG THEM BECAUSE, PERHAPS, THEY HAVE
COME FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES. THEY HAVE LIVED WITH US FOR A LONG
TIMF UNTIL THEY HAVE OBTAINED LIBYAN NATIONALITY AND BECOME
LIPYANS OR ARABS BY NATURALIZATION. THEY DO NOT KNOW THE LIBYAN
PFUPLE AT ALL. WE CONSIDER THEM ONE OF US,, BUT THEY ARE NOT
OF 0S. (?THEY RIDICULE) THE LIBYAN PEOPLE.. IT APPEARS THAT
T14FY ARE NOT ARAPS, OR ELSE WHAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS?
I THEY THOUGHT OF REVOLUTION AND OF CARRYING OUT A COUP
DETAT AGAINST THE 1 SEPTEMBER REVOLUTION WITHOUT TAKING YUU
INTO CONSIDERATION.
BROTHER COL MUAMMAR AL- QADHDHAFI STRESSED THAT THE ONE
WHO THOUGHT HE HE COULD GATHER HIS RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY
ANU THAT CIE COULD, THROUGH USE OF THE RADIO STATION, GOVERN
YOU, WAS A PERSUNIFIED FACIST WHO RELIED UN WEAPONS AND WHO
WANTED TO IMPOSE HIMSELF BY THE FORCE OF WEAPONS, DISREGARDING
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IF CONFRONTED BY THEM. HE ADDED: SUCH
IS THE THINKING OF A FASCIST WHO RELIES ON A NUMBER OF MILITARISTS
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TO RULE THE PEOPLE.. A FASCIST IS ONE WHO IGNORES THE LIBYAN
PEOPLE. I HAVE TOLD YOU THAT THE MOVEMENT OF THE FREE UNIONIST
OFFICERS, WHICH INCLUDED HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS AND THOUSANDS
Ol= SULDIFRS, HAD CONSIDERED THE PEOPLE AS THEIR STRATEGIC
Ra.;ERVE. THE MOVEMENT viAS CERTAIN THAT THE PEI h>LF wuULD SUPPORT
IT 3FCAUSE THE PEOPLE WANT1-n A REVOLUTION 4\$ i3ECALiSE THE RFVULUTIUC1
REPRESENTED THE FATE OF THE LIBYAN PEOPLE AND WAS INEVITABLE.
BUT A FASCIST MOVEMENT WHICH IS AGAINST THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND-
THE MOVFMENT OF A MILITARY COUP DETAT WHICH IS AGAINST THE
RrVOL!JTTON ARF TriF RESULT OF SICK THINKING.- EITHER ITS LEADFRS
DISREGARD ThE LI!iYAN' PEOPLE ANr THEIR INTERESTS UK RELY UN THEIi{
IWEANUNS AND WART TO GXTEEti~,iINATE THE PEUPLE BY ThE FORCE OF ARMS.
SUCH IS FASCISM AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.
AL- QADHDHAFI SAID: THE WORLD WILL TESTIFY THAT THOSE WHO
WERE WORKING AGAINST THE LIBYAN E EDELE, THINKING THAT WITH
A P,'(~~~1AER OF UF'FICERS AND SOLDIERS THEY COULD RULE LIBYA, AND
L*(J ;JAN'TED TO RFi,JR?J L IFiA Tu ITS STATE OF FACKWARDNESS AND TO DELAY
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PROJECTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS--IT HAS BECOME CLEAR TO THE WORLD
AND TO THOSE TRAITORS THAT THEY WERE 100 PERCENT WRONG. THE
PEOPLE HAVE DEFIED THEM IN THEIR PROCESSIONS WHICH HAVE CONTINUE(
':tH A MONTH. MOREOVER, THE FE U?LE ARE CONTINUOUSLY PROVING,
AN') ALL. THE WORLD CA"! TESTIFY TO THIS, TriAT NU ONE CAA RULE
UR ~AVF STABILITY IF Tr-F P=UPLF DC; NUT PAY As.LFGI,0~CE_ TO HIM OR
SUPPORT HIM
BROTHER COL MUAMMAR AL- QADHDHAFI SAID: THESE PROCESSIONS
HHAV'~ FEEM VERY FFNE'FICIAL, Ai!D HISTURY b ILL RECORD THIS. ONE
OTTH W.10M THE P"UPLE ARC SATISFIED CAN REST ASSURED AND
CJNTINIJF; JNE ;IITt WHOM THE PFUPLE ARE NUT SATTI~FIFD CANNOT
CONTINUE EVEN FOR ONE NIGHT, WHE1HER.INSIDE THE RADIO STATION,
THE REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS, OR EVEN IN HIS
OWN HO_'SE.
HE WENIT UN: THE L)F:FUNCT '2EGIi'iE NEGLECTED YOU CLIPiPLETFLY
';~CALISF IT DID i\UT WANT TU O ;:N THE UOURS OF LIFE TO FACTS.
THE ryASS":: WHU u-AVE MARCHED 1--RUM THE DTSTA.yyT RFGTONS HAVE PRUVFi,,
THAT THEY ARE A GREAT 2EOvLE AND THAT THERE ARE MASSES WHO
ARE MARCHING FROM EVERY PLACE, FIGHTING, AND NOT LEAVING THEIR
COUNTRY. THEY HAVE ALSO PROVEN THAT NO ONE CAN REMAIN ON THIS
EARTH IWIT'4,r1JT THE WILL uF THE LIt3YAiu PEOPLE. EVERY ONE .1r'U
I S CUNTPMPLATING DOMINATION 1t:tlST UC !)ERSTANG THAT Hi CAN'i`~UT LAST
AS LUNG AS THESE i LU: LF: ARF NuT SATISFIED vITH hIr''t, AND THAT THE
MASSES WILL TRAMPLE ON HIM AND DAILY OFFER MARTYRS UNTIL FASCISM
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TRIPOLI DOMESTIC ARABIC 251830 XXX COUPISTS ARE TOPPLED.
((TEXT)) THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO LIVE A GOOD AND HONORABLE
LIFE. YOU HAVE BEEN PATIENT A LONG TIME AND YOU HAVE GIVEN
GENEROUSLY WITHOUT ASKING FOR ANYTHING EVEN ((WORDS INDISTINCT))
IN YOUR AREA. NONE OF YOU HAS ASKED ME FOR A HOUSE. ((PASSAGE
INDISTINCT))
WE ARE READY TO GIVE MARTYRS DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY, AND
YEARLY ((WORD INDISTINCT)) THE ENEMY UNTIL WE TRIUMPH IN THE END.
((WORDS INDISTINCT)) AS WE DID WITH THE ITALIANS. UUR ANCESTORS
FOUGHT THEM AND WHEN WE CAME WE INHERITED 20,000 ITALIANS WHO
WFR.E OCCUPYING TRIPOLI. WE EXPELLED THEM UN 7 OCTOBER.
MAJ ABn AS- SALAM AHMAD JALLUD, REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL
MEMBFR AND PRIME MINISTER, DELIVERED AN ADDRESS TO THE MASSES
WHO HAD ASSEMBLED IN FRONT OF THE REVOLUTION COMMAND COUNCIL
HEADQUARTERS. HE SAID: THESE PEOPLE MOVED SPONTANEOUSLY AND OF
T-iEIR OWN FREE WILL AS (? PART) OF THE EFFORTS WHICH HAVE CONTINUED
FOR OVER 23 (?YEARS) AGAINST THE FASCIST ITALIANS. THE SONS OF
THE DFSERT AND THE SONS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE ON WHOSE WILL THE
ARROGANCE OF THE FASCIST ITALIANS FOUNDERED APE TODAY MOVING
IN HUGE MARCHES, RENEWING THEIR ALLEGIANCE AND EXPRESSING THEIR
READINESS FOR MARTYRDOM IF NECESSARY ONCE AGAIN FOR THE SAKE OF
T'-iE CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF THE REVOLUTION. THEY ARE CHEERING
AIN9 SAYING THAT THEY ARF THE SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION, AND THAT
J11ST AS THEY SACRIFIECED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS IN THEIR STRUGGLF
AGAINST THE ITALIANS THEY ARE NOW READY TU SACRIFICE HUNDREDS
IIOF THOUSANDS SO THAT THE REVOLUTION WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST.
HE ADDFD: BROTHERS, WE FEEL PROUD AND HAPPY IN SEEING THE
MASSES WITH THEIR HEARTS, CONSCIENCES, AND EXISTENCE FILLED
WITH STRENGTH AND PRIDE. THESE PEOPLE, WHOSE CHEERS HAVE RISEN
HIGH TO THE SKY, WERE THE TRUE INSTIGATORS OF THE REVOLUTION.
THEY WERE THE ONES WHO WERE CALLED BY THE FIRST APPEAL AND WHO
MOVED IN 1969 AND 1.975. THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MASSED HERE
TODAY KNOW WHY THEY ARE ASSEMBLED AND WHAT THEIR CHEERS MEAN.
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