AL-QADHDHAFI INVITES REAGAN; DENIES BEING TERRORIST

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 12, 1985
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V. 13 Jan 86 NORTH AFRICA
~AI-Qadhdhafi Invites Reagan; Denies Being Terrorist
LD121923 Belgrade TANJUG in English 1740 GMT / 2 Jan 86
[By Dejan Lukic] ~"
[Text] Tripoli, Jan 12 (TANJUG)- "If President Reagan came
to this tent he'd change his opinion. He'd see that I'm no terrorist,
that I don't live in a trench and have no hand-grenades .and
revolvers tucked behind my belt. The American President thinks
I'm a man without a family, a man who never laughs."_
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The Libyan leader, Col Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhafi said this in an
interview with a group ~of American, British and Canadian
reporters. He invited Reagan to Tripoli for talks in order that the
two of them should no longer confront each other.
Al-Qadhdhafi said that Libya had no hostile intentions towards
the United States. "The Americans are afraid that we shall
attack the Pentagon, the White House, that we shall rush into
America from Canada. We laugh when we hear such things.
President Reagan believes everything they tell him. He also
believed that some time ago Libyan suicide squads infiltrated the
United States with the purpose of assassinating him," Al-
Qadhdhafi said.
Having assured the newsmen that Libya and he personally had
only peaceaceful intentions, and having invited Reagan, Al-
Qadhdhafi said: "It was inside this tent that I met and conferred
with such great men as Yugoslav President Tito and Cuban
President Fidel Castro." There have been no official commen-
taries on the invitation here today, nor has it been announced by
the domestic media.
AI-Qadhdhafi told a news conference three days ago that in
principle he had nothing against a meeting with Reagan but
thought that it would be of no use.
This shift in attitude towards a meeting with the U.S. President
is seen here as AI-Qadhdhafi's desire to reduce the tension in the
Libyan-American conflict.
have of late been always accompanied with offers of talks.
U.S. Residents in Jamahiriyah Assured of Security
Foreign Liaison Bureau Statement
LD/22005 Tripoli JANA in Arabic /930 GMT 12 Jan 86
[Text] Tripoli, 12 Jan (JANA) -The People's Bureau for
Foreign Liaison has issued a statement concerning U.S. subjects
who are residing in the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahir-
iyah. It says in part:
The People's Bureau for Foreign Liaison, in reply to the allega-
tions by the U.S. Administration concerning its nationals in the
Jamahiriyah, would like to clarify the following:
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The Social People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah hosts nationals
from well over 120 countries, including U.S. subjects. They live
in security and peace among the Libyan Arab people and they
enjoy complete popular and official protection and care.
Proceeding from the principle that permanent relations are with
the people and not the governments, the Socialist People's Libyan
Arab Jamahiriyah strives to strengthen and develop good rela-
tionswith all nations, and this includes the American people. The
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyah has always endeav-
ored to maintain the best relations of friendship and cooperation
with all these nations.
The People's Bureau for Foreign Liaison would like to stress that
all foreign nationals in the Jamahiriyah, including U.S. nation-
als, enjoy freedom of residence and movement in the Jama-
hiriyah, and they can leave at any time should they so desire.
Speaker at People's Congress
LD121829 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
1600 GMT 1.2 Jan 86
[Speech by unidentified speaker at AI-Mansurah Basic People's
Congress in Tripoli -live]
[Excerpt] The Jamahiriyah society will move forward to achieve
Arab unity from the sea to the river, and from the Gulf to the
ocean. The Jamahiriyah society will move forward to destroy
unjust bases wherever they may be found. We assure our dear
guests that our friends, the American workers in the Jamahiriyah
society, will be embraced by us; we shall offer them complete care
and they will be as safe as if, nay even better than if, they were
in their own country. We assure them that foreigners, especially
Americans, who are working in the Jamahiriyah society will be
safe; we will embrace them warmly and offer them safety, care,
and concern. We will protect them even from hostile U.S. planes;
we will offer them protection even from hostile U.S. planes,
because we are a free, civilized people, who do not attack. We
are not a terrorist people as imagined by the cowboy and shepherd
of pigs, Reagan; the satan of this decade; Reagan the damned
who wants to destroy the world, who wants to starve the Jama-
hiriyah society and harm its historic leadership embodied in the
leader, the teacher, and theoritician Colonel Mu`ammar al-
Qadhdhafi.
Tripoli Commentary on Shultz Press Conference
LDIOl603 Tripoli Domestic Service in Arabic
1330 GMT 10 Jan 86
[Station commentary]
[Text] It seems that the description given by U.S. analysts to
Reagan's press conference, "an information circus," and the fact
that it gave data in terms of quantity rather than quality, not only
applies to the President's press conference but also to those given
by officials of the American black house. What U.S. Secretary
of State George Shultz came up with yesterday at a press
conference in Washington was meaningless and without content,
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