AL-QADHDHAFI EVACUATION DAY ADDRESS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2012
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: June 11, 1985
• Content Type: CABLE

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REF LD112131 TRIPOLI TELEVISION ARABIC 112025 (TENTATIVE)///THE
LIBYAN TERRITORIES.
TAKE 10 OF SEVERAL -- TRIPOLI TV: AL-QADHDHAFI EVACUATION DAY
ADDRESS
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((TEXT)) WE ARE ALSO CELEBRATING TODAY, 11 JUNE, THE DAY THE
LIBYAN PEOPLE DEFEATED THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION LED BY (ETON)
IN 1805. AN EXPEDITION CAME FROM EGYPT AND ATTACKED DARNA WITH
SEVEN SHIPS. THEY ATTACKED DARNA FROM THE SEA AND FROM THE
LAND. HOWEVER, THE LIBYAN RESISTANCE TRIUMPHED OVER THE AMERICAN
EXPEDITION ON 11 JUNE 1805. THE AMERICANS WERE EXPELLED FROM
OUR HOME. WE CELEBRATED THAT DAY ((APPLAUSE)) AND BY CHANCE -- BY
CHANCE, OR BY THE REVOLUTION -- ON 11 JUNE 1970, THE AMERICANS
WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THIS BASE; IMAGINE, THE YEAR 1805, ON 11
JUNE, THEY WERE EXPELLED, AND ON 11 JUNE 1970 THEY WERE EXPELLED
ONCE AGAIN. SO WE ARE CELEBRATING THIS ANNIVERSARY IN OUR COUNTRY
BECAUSE IT COINCIDES WITH 11 JUNE 1805, THE DATE THE AMERICAN
EXPEDITION WAS DEFEATED. MANY MARTYRS FELL FIGHTING IT.
WHEN WE WERE SURPRISED BY AL-SADAT'S RAID -- HE BROUGHT A
SPECIAL TASK FORCE FROM INSIDE EGYPT; WHICH RAIDED A LIBYAN
POLICE POST INSIDE THE LIBYAN TERRITORIES, NEAR (AMSA'AD). THE
LIBYANS DRANK TEA TOGETHER AND TALKED UNTIL THEY SLEPT; WHEN THE
LIBYANS SLEPT, THE TASK FORCE CAME AND SLAUGHTERED MANY OF THEM
AND TOOK AWAY THE REST. WE WERE SURPRISED BY THIS TREACHEROUS
ACT; WE ASKED WHY? BUT THEY DID NOT REPLY. I SENT MESSAGES TO
AL-SADAT EVEN WITH YASIR 'ARAFAT AND OTHER PEOPLE, AND ASKED
HIM THE REASON FOR THIS ACT, AND FOR THE JUSTIFICATIONS BEHIND
IT. BUT HE DID NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO WHAT I SAID.
WE HAD A SHIP, WITH A CREW OF FIVE OR SIX MEN, PATROLLING
THE SEA, WHEN THEY WERE CONFRONTED BY A STORM AND THEREFORE HAD
TO SEEK REFUGE IN AL-SALLUM. THEY WERE DETAINED AND BROUGHT BEFORE
TRIAL. THEIR SOLICITOR WAS AN EGYPTIAN; HE WAS AN ARAB AND A
NOBLE MAN. HE SAID AS EGYPT IS PART OF THE ARAB FEDERATION, ANY
SOLDIER WHO SEEKS REFUGE IN THIS COUNTRY CANNOT BE CONSIDERED
AS A SPY OR AS A FOREIGNER AND THUS CANNOT BE INCRIMINATED. THE
EGYPTIAN SOLICITOR SAID THIS MUST BE A MISTAKE; THOSE ARE
LIBYAN SOLDIERS WHO CAME TO THE COUNTRY -- AL-SALLUM, AL-DARNA
AND TOBRUK. ((APPLAUSE)) DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY WERE ACQUITTED
BY THE COURT, AL-SADAT DETAINED THEM.. I CONTACTED HIM AND SAID:
MY BROTHERS, THOSE ARE SOLDIERS WHO SOUGHT REFUGE IN YOUR
COUNTRY, AND IT IS SHAMEFUL IF YOU DO NOT SEND THEM BACK TO THEIR
FAMILIES. AL-SADAT SAID NO, THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE IN THE
FRAMEWORK OF A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT. I SAID TO HIM: YOU SON
OF BITCH, HOW COULD YOU BARGAIN WITH THE LIBYANS IN A COMPREHENSIVE
SETTLEMENT? DO YOU THINK THE LIBYANS ARE SHEEP OR COWS? YOU
SEIZED THE POLICEMEN IN ORDER TO REACH A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT.
THE CARS ((AS HEARD)) WERE ONLY DEPOSITED IN TRUST IN EGYPT, AND
YOU ARE TELLING ME OF A COMPREHENSIVE SETTLEMENT. I TRIED TO
ADVISE HIM, BUT ALL WAS IN VAIN.
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REGRETABLY WE HAD TO CARRY OUT A RAID IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY
ON THE EGYPTIAN BORDERS, AND WE DETAINED A NUMBER OF EGYPTIAN
SOLDIERS EQUAL TO THE NUMBER OF LIBYAN SOLDIERS WHO WERE DETAINED.
I WAS IN TOBRUK, SHOULDERING THE RESPONSIBILITY, AND I WAS IN
CONTROL. THEY DETAINED 11 POLICEMEN AND WE DETAINED EXACTLY
11 SOLDIERS. THEY TOOK FROM US 11 POLICEMEN AND WE TOOK FROM
11 SOLDIERS. WE EVEN LEFT THE REST. WE TOLD HIM -- WE SENT
HIM A MESSAGE ON THAT SAME DAY. I TOLD HIM: LISTEN, YOU HAVE
TAKEN LIBYAN SOLDIERS AND WE HAVE TAKEN EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS.
WE SPOKE TO YOU AND SENT MEDIATORS, BUT THAT WAS IN VAIN. YOU
DO NOT WANT TO LISTEN TO US. WE ARE NOW COMPELLED TO TAKE BY
FORCE SOLDIERS SO THAT WE HAVE AN EQUAL NUMBER. I ASK YOU
PLEASE TO RETURN THE LIBYAN SOLDIERS AND TO COME AND TAKE YOUR
SOLDIERS.
I ALSO SEE THAT YOU ARE INSIDE LIBYAN TERRITORY BY SOME 20
KMS FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS. YOU ARE NOW BUILDING A BARBED-WIRE
FENCE. YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE BORDER WHICH WAS
ESTABLISHED BY THE ITALIANS AND THE BRITISH, BY WHICH THEY DIVIDED
LIBYA FROM EGYPT. THE BARBED-WIRE FENCE WAS ONCE ESTABLISHED BY
THE ITALIANS TO PREVENT SUPPLIES REACHING THE LIBYAN MUJAHIDIN.
THE EGYPTIANS ENCROACHED INSIDE LIBYAN TERRITORY BY SOME 20 KMS
BEHIND THE BARBED-WIRE FENCE. WE LEFT FOR 20 YEARS KNOWING THEIR
ENCROACHMENT. WE USED TO SAY: WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE, AS BOTH
LIBYA AND EGYPT IS ONE LAND. BUT NOW THEY CONSTITUTED A DANGER
TO US. THEY EVEN USED TO FIRE ON LIBYAN SHEPHERDS. WE TOLD
THEM THAT YOU ARE INSIDE LIBYAN TERRITORY. I SAID TO HIM: LISTEN
AL-SADAT -- I WROTE A MESSAGE TO HIM -- RETURN 11 LIBYAN SOLDIERS
AND WE WILL RETURN TO YOU 11 EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS. THIS IS BECAUSE
WE DO NOT PRIDE ON HAVING EGYPTIAN PRISONERS. THE PRISONERS
IN OUR HANDS SHOULD BE AMERICANS OR ISRAELIS. I SAID TO HIM:
RETURN THE LIBYANS TO THEIR FAMILIES AND WE WILL RETURN THE
EGYPTIANS TO THEIR FAMILIES. FURTHERMORE, YOU ARE INSIDE OUR
LIBYAN TERRITORY BY SOME 20 KMS. I ASK YOU TO RETURN TO WITHIN
YOUR OWN BORDER.
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