AL-QADHDHAFI ANNIVERSARY SPEECH

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CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9
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December 22, 2016
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January 31, 2012
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March 29, 1985
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Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9 PAGE 0059 MSGNO 23 (FBXX) *03/29/85* *12:12:15.2.6* ZCZC 17:09:52Z (FB) UNCLASSIFIED PTTUZYUW RUDOMKA2992 0881611 MTMS-UUAA--RUEBHAA. -----P 291602Z MAR 85 FM FBIS LONDON UK TO RUTLAAA/FBIS WASHINGTON DC RAYWYA/ONA CANBERRA AS RHHMBRA/CINCPACFLT PEARL HARBOR HI RUCIFBA/MAC INTEL CEN SCOTT AFB IL//INO// RUCJACC/USCENTCOM MACDILL AFB FL//CCPA// RUCLAKA/CDR4THPSYOPGP FT BRAGG NC//SB// RUDHAAB/CDR USAITAC ARLINGTON HALL STA VA RUDOREA/FBIS LONDON UK//DW// RUDOVIA/USEUCOM AIDES VAIHINGEN GE RUEBFGA/VOA WASH DC RUEBHAA/STORAGE CENTER FBIS WASHINGTON DC RUEHDM/AMEMBASSY DAMASCUS RUEHEY/AMEMBASSY CAIRO RUEHJM/AMCONSUL JERUSALEM RUEHKH/AMEMBASSY KHARTOUM RUEHNM/AMEMBASSY NIAMEY RUEHKH/AMEMBASSY RIYADH RUEHSE/US SECRET SERVICE WASHINGTON DC//ID-FIB// RUEHTU/AMEMBASSY TUNIS RUEKJCS/DEFINTAGNCY WASH DC RUEOAJC/NAVOPINTCEN SUITLAND MD RUEOFAA/COMJSOC FT BRAGG NC//J-2// RUFHRA/AMEMBASSY RABAT RUFRMDA/CTF SIX ZERO RUFRQJQ/COMSIXTHFLT RUHGBAA/COMIDEASTFOR RUHQHQA/COMIPAC HONOLULU HI RUMRABA/CG THIRD MARDIV CP COURTNEY JA RUQMFV/AMEMBASSY TEL AVIV RUQMFV/FBIS TEL AVIV IS RUQMIF/FBIS AMMAN JO RUQMOT/FBIS GULF RUQMFF/FBIS NICOSIA CY RUQYSDG/FOSIF ROTA SP RUSNNOR/USCINCEUR ECJ2 VAIHINGEN GE ACCT FBLD-EWDK BT EZ 1 : UNCLAS 5Q/PMU MWR EZ2: ATTN TEL AVIV DFDF SUBJ REF LD291136 TRIPOLI DOMESTIC ARABIC 281652///SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS. TAKE 6 OF MANY -- AL-QADHDHAFI ANNIVERSARY SPEECH Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9 -w ? U14UWAJ01r 1GL _ lp LD291602 ((TEXT)) BY GOD, THE ARAB PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE WIVES TO THESE RULERS. IT WOULD BE A DISGRACE. I PERSONALLY HAVE NO RESPECT OR APPRECIATION FOR THESE RULERS, EXCEPT THOSE WHOM YOU KNOW AND WHO ARE IN THE SAME TRENCH WITH US. ((CHANTS OF SUPPORT FOR AL-QADHDHAFI.)) ON 2 MARCH, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE JAMAHIRIYAH, WE PROPOSED UNITY TO THE ARAB REGIMES THAT WE BELIEVE ARE COMPETENT TO ENGAGE IN UNIONIST ACTION. MEETINGS BEGAN IN DAMASCUS LAST WEEK AND THEY PROCEEDED WITH DIFFICULTY. NOW THERE REMAINS A SERIES OF MEETINGS NEXT MONTH FOR WHICH WE WISH SUCCESS. BUT THIS WILL BE A TEST: BECAUSE IF EVEN THESE REGIMES WHICH WE BELIVE ARE PROGRESSIVE AND COMPETENT TO ENGAGE IN UNIONIST ACTION FAIL TO BRING ABOUT UNITY BETWEEN THEM, THEN ALL THESE REGIMES SHOULD STAND TOGETHER IN ONE LINE. I HOPE THAT THE REGIMES ON WHICH WE PIN HOPES WILL NOT DISAPPOINT US. THIS WOULD BE THE FAILURE OF THE UNIFICATION OF ALGERIA, LIBYA, SYRIA, AND THE YEMEN,, ALONGSIDE THE AFRICAN ARAB UNION BETWEEN LIBYA AND MOROCCO. WE USED TO SUPPORT POLISARIO. IN FACT, WE FOUNDED IT IN 1972: THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF AL-SAQIYAH AL-HAMRAH AND RIO DE ORO FROM SPANISH COLONIALISM. IN 1972 THE SAHARA WAS A SPANISH COLONY, AND NEITHER THE ARABS NOR THE AFRICANS NOR THE AFRO-ASIANS SPOKE ABOUT THE SAHARA. THEY DID NOT EVEN KNOW IT. ONLY WE KNEW THAT PART OF THE ARAB LAND HAD BEEN OCCUPIED BY SPAIN FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THIS WAS A SHAME, AND ON 11 JUNE 1972 ON A PLATFORM WHERE THE LATE BOUMEDIENE WAS PRESENT I DECLARED. ((UNFINISHED SENTENCE AS HEARD)) BOUMEDIENE THEN DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE SAHARA WAS, NOR WHAT THE POLISARIO WAS. HE DID NOT CARE WHEN I SAID THAT PART OF THE ARAB HOMELAND WAS OCCUPIED BY SPAIN, THAT THIS WAS A SHAME AND IT MUST BE LIBERATED, AND THAT IF SPAIN DID NOT LEAVE WE WOULD FORM A LIBERATION FRONT. AFTER THAT SPEECH WE FORMED THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF AL-SAQIYAH AL-HAMRAH AND RIO DE ORO, WHOSE ACRONYM IN SPANISH IS POLISARIO. ITS LEADER WAS (WALIY AL-REGUEBI), MARTYR (WALIY AL-REGUEBI). HE WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THE ARAB REVOLUTIONARY MAN WHOM WE CHERISH. THE AIM WAS TO LIBERATE THE SAHARA FROM SPANISH COLONIALISM. THE POPULAR LIBERATION WAR BEGAN IN THE SAHARA; WE TRAINED THE POLISARIO ELEMENTS, WE AND THE PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE. WE SMUGGLED WEAPONS TO THE POLISARIO BEHIND THE BACKS OF ALGERIA AND MAURITANIA -- THE ARMING OF THE POLISAR-10 BY ALGERIA OR MAURITANIA WAS PROHIBITED. WE UNLOADED CONSIGNMENTS OF WEAPONS IN THE SAHARA WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF ALGERIA OR MAURITANIA; CONSIGNMENTS OF WEAPONS FELL INTO THE HANDS OF ALGERIA AND WERE CONFISCATED, BECAUSE THEY WERE DESTINED FOR SAQUIYAH AL-HAMRA AND RIO DE ORO. AFTER THOSE MILITARY OPERATIONS SPAIN LEFT IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE IT WAS NOT PREPARED TO ACCEPT A POPULAR WAR IN THE SAHARA. IT STAYED THERE WHILE THE SITUATION WAS CALM BUT WHEN THE SITUATION EXPLODED IT QUICKLY LEFT. (WALIY AL-REGUEBI) USED TO SAY: IF WE MAKE OF THIS SAHARA A STATE, I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO UNITING IT WITH MOROCCO, ALGERIA, OR MAURITANIA. MOUKHTAR OULD DADDAH CAME TO ME AND SAID: IF YOU LIBERATE THE SAHARA, I URGE YOU TO MAKE IT AN INDEPENDENT STATE SO THAT IT WILL BE A BARRIER BETWEEN ME AND MOROCCO. YOU UNCLASSIFIED Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9 Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9 640 SAW HOW AFTER THE MADRID TREATY, AFTER THE WITHDRAWAL OF SPAIN, UNDER THIS AGREEMENT MAURITANIA AND MOROCCO EACH TOOK HALF OF THE SAHARA WHEREAS MAURITANIA WANTED IT TO BE A SINGLE INDEPENDENT STATE, A BARRIER BETWEEN IT AND MOROCCO. AS FOR ALGERIA IT HAD NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER WITH THIS MATTER. THE FACT IS THAT AFTER THE MADRID AGREEMENT AND THE INCURSION OF THE SAHARA BY BOTH SIDES, THE INHABITANTS WERE MADE HOMELESS BECAUSE ABOUT 1 OR 2 THOUSAND HOMELESS CHILDREN ARRIVED IN LIBYA. WE EDUCATED THEM AND GAVE THEM SHELTER HERE. I FOUND THE SITUATION TO BE TRAGIC. WE STOOD BY THE POLISARIO IN ALL ITS DEMANDS. IT SAID THAT IT WANTED INDEPENDENCE, SO WE STOOD BY THEM. IN FACT THERE WAS NO DESIRE AT THAT TIME TO ADD ANOTHER DWARF STATE TO THE 21 OR 22 ARAB PAPER STATELETS WHICH COULD BE BLOWN AWAY BY A MAJOR POWER. BUT IT WAS BECAUSE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION -- AT THAT TIME MOROCCO WAS IN CONFLICT WITH LIBYA -- THEREFORE, THAT WE BACKED AND ARMED THE POLISARIO WITH ALL WEAPONS. WE SAY THAT THIS WAS NOT A SECESSIONIST MOVEMENT; IT WAS A REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION. BUT WE TELL YOU WITH REGRET THAT THE POLISARIO FAILED TO TURN INTO A REVOLUTIONARY ERUPTION. WITH THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND WITH CHANGES IN ITS LEADERSHIPS AND WITH THE MARTYRDOM OF (WALIY AL-REGUEBI) IT TURNED INTO AN INDEPENDENCE-SEEKING MOVEMENT. (MORE) 281652 FOX/CM 29/1639Z MAR BT ##2992 PTTUZYUW RUDOMKA2992 0881611 MTMS-UUAA NNNN EZ3 TEXT FLY MMUAMMAR ADHAFI ) BF NNDD Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/01/31: CIA-RDP05-01559R000400390059-9