AL-QADHDHAFI SPEAKS TO GENERAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS

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Israel are strengthening their ties in trade and other
fields. Israel has also intensified its oppressive measures
against the inhabitants of the occupied territories and its
efforts to expel the inhabitants of the security zone in
southern Lebanon to settle Soviet Jews there.
In short, the Palestinian leadership's support for the
invasion of Kuwait has given the right wing in Israel a
valuable justification for the majority of items on its
political platform.
On the economic level, there are signs that the Palestin-
ians themselves have had their interests harmed in the
occupied Arab territories. Certain facilities, like hospi-
tals, which used to render services to the Palestinian
people in the occupied territories, have come to a com-
plete standstill because they were run by Kuwaiti funds.
[passage omitted]
Terrorists Held in Cairo Admit Bath Link
PM0510103890 Cairo AL- WAFD in Arabic
30 Sep 90 pp 1-2
[Report by Wajdi Zayn-al-Din: "Iraqi Bath Party Ter-
rorists In Cairo"]
[Text] Security sources have confirmed that seven Pal-
estinians carrying Jordanian. passports were arrested
while trying to distribute leaflets in the 'Ayn Shams area
of Cairo. The leaflets incite hatred against the Egyptian
regime and urge people to support Iraq's position and to
attack the Gulf leaders.
Security sources confirmed that the Palestinians entered
the country after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
The State Security Investigation authorities have
obtained grave news about the terrorist 'scheme, which
targets Arab capitals including Cairo.
The three Palestinians and two Iraqis arrested recently
have made exciting and serious confessions. The ter-
rorist group emphasized that it was working for the Iraqi
Bath Party and revealed the existence of an Iraqi-
Palestinian scheme to undermine security and assassi-
nate politicians in Arab states. The terrorists also empha-
sized that the scheme is led by George Habash, leader of
the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and
that Nayif Hawatimah, leader of the Democratic Front
for the Liberation of Palestine, was involved in planning
the scheme. The terrorists also -emphasized that the
scenario for the terrorist scheme was drawn up in
Amman recently.
Authoritative security sources have emphasized that the
Egyptian Interior Ministry has raised its alert .to the
maximum level in order to confront any attempt to
undermine security and prevent terrorist elements from
infiltrating the country.
The sources quoted the. terrorists as saying that they
intended to carry out terrorist acts in Cairo, Syria, Saudi
Arabia, and some Gulf states. State Security Investiga-
tion interrogations have revealed the terrorist group's
intention to assassinate Egyptian journalists and politi-
cians because of their opposition to the Iraqi invasion of
Kuwait. AL-WAFD was the first newspaper to publish
the details of the terrorists' arrest a week ago. AL-WAFD
revealed that they were. working for a terrorist group
targeting several Arab capitals.
Mubarak, Interior Minister Discuss Terrorism
JN0510144390 Cairo AL-AHRAM in Arabic
1 Oct 90 p 1
[Text] The AL-AHRAM reporter has learned that Pres-
ident Husni Mubarak yesterday discussed with Interior
Minister Muhammad'Abd-al-Halim Musa security mea-
sures that various police and security units have taken to
confront the threats reported by news agencies that Iraqi
authorities are planning to carry out terrorist and sabo-
tage operations inside Arab countries that have not
supported the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and that Iraqi
authorities have sought the help of well-known terrorists
such as Abu-Nidal [Sabri al-Banna] and others to carry
out these terrorist operations.
The minister presented to the president the plans that
the security units are implementing to protect Egypt's
borders and secure its outlets against any attempts at
infiltration by terrorists in a manner that will neither
obstruct the flow of arrivals in Egypt nor undermine the
speedy completion of their arrival formalities.
Ghali Discusses Rwanda Situation with OAU Head
NCO510183090 Cairo MENA in Arabic
1657 GMT 5 Oct 90
[Text] New York, 5 Oct (MENA)-Dr. Butrus Ghali,
minister of state for foreign affairs, has discussed with
OAU Secretary General Salem Ahmad Salem the devel-
opments in Rwanda, in light of reports on the outbreak
of fighting in that country. During'the meeting, Dr.
Ghali agreed with the OAU secretary general on the need
to continue contacts to find a way to contain and handle
the crisis there.
In a statement after the meeting, Dr. Ghali said he is
closely following the situation in Rwanda.
Dr. Ghali held several consultations with the African
foreign ministers on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly meetings.
Al-Qadhdhafi Speaks to General People's Congress
LD0710212790 Tripoli Television Service in Arabic
1804 GMT 7 Oct 90
[Speech by Libyan leader Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhafi at
the General' People's Congress second extraordinary
session in Misratah-live]
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[Excerpts] In the name of God. Brothers,.we are pleased
this evening to meet in this place and on this day, 7
October. When we say October we recall 1911, and the
day the Italians were expelled in 1970 immediately after
the revolution.
It is fortuitous that the meeting of this new General
People's Congress [GPC], which is being held to mark
Vengeance Day, is taking place in Misratah. This city has
a record of honor in our history, in our jihad against the
Italian invasion of 1911, which afflicted our country on
the same date [7 October], and was expelled from our
country after the revolution also on 7 October.
[applause]
We greet this fort of jihad and resistance, Misratah
which, as I said, is a record of pride for its inhabitants,
for all of us, and for the struggle of the Arab homeland
against the invaders. [applause] Misratah has lost its
dearest sons and paid an enormous price without hesti-
tation in the battle against that barbarous invasion. It
has also given birth to Ramadan al-Suwayhali and
Sa'dun al-Suwayhali [applause], who are the pride of its
history and generations of struggle, as well as to hun-
dreds of thousands whose names we will not mention but
who are registered in the Center for the Study of the
Jihad of Libyans Against the Italians and. in the colo-
nialist documentation centers in Italy. They are also
remembered by Misratah and by their families.
The heroes whom we recall at the forefront of this epic
would certainly not have been heroes had the masses not
fought with them and the people not made sacrifices and
answered their call. Thus we are always proud of the
history of this city and its struggle and jihad for the sake
of the freedom of our Arab homeland. [passage omitted]
We should be alert that imperialism can come at any
moment because we have not filled the vacuum. The
essence of the matter is one of a vacuum, and a vacuum
means the total favorable conditions for. imperialism.
We have not filled the vacuum and consequently anyone
who draws into their shell within their regional limits,
even if they are rich and big and well-fed and feel safe,
would be deceiving themselves. All this can disappear in
one moment because its survival cannot be guaranteed.
No Arab state, not even an African one, can guarantee its
own survival. [passage omitted]
We must not deceive ourselves by saying: We have oil,
we have a flag, we have a national anthem, so we are free
men. There are no foreigners. We have expelled the
Italians and the Americans and the British. No, no.
Imperialism might return when it finds you weak.
We have obtained a secret plan, whose author was.
sentenced to 90 years imprisonment in the United
States.
For the United States to sentence a 60-year-old citizen to
90 years imprisonment is not unusual or an act of
democracy. Here we say he is an old man and so his
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sentence should not be too long. Give him 10 years.
'Umar al-Mukhtar [Libyan prerevolutionary hero in the
struggle against the Italians] was 70. He was hanged.
They did not say that he was an old man. That was
barbarism.
The United States leaked a plan to Libya in the 1970s
and consequently they sentenced him to 90 years'impris-
onment. He must stay in prison for 90 years. [passage
omitted] They sentence one who is 70 years old to 100
years imprisonment. They do not have any feelings or a
sense of responsibility. They are devoid of these things.
They have missiles and aircraft and things which com-
pensate for this, but. they are barbarians and savages.
This is their civilization. We are sorry to have to live
together with them on this planet. [passage omitted]
I believe the Western Hemisphere is an extremely dan-
gerous hemisphere to humanity and to civilization. They
have set up a bridgehead in Palestine. Israeli society is an
extension of them. You have seen this society's besti-
ality. We have not been dealing with civilized people at
all, or with logical people. [passage omitted]
How can the United States say that Libya should not
make airplanes which run on fuel and abandon its
offensive means and not make any chemical weapons?
All right. How about the United States itself? The United
States can make. intercontinental missiles, aircraft which
can be refueled in mid-air, and not only chemical bombs
but also nuclear ones. Have we stopped them? No.. Why
then should we be treated in the same way? No, they say
we are not the same. You do not understand. You are a
terrorist. There is no logic at all for any understanding.
There is only one thing you can do which is block any
hole through, which the monster can enter. Those mon-
sters. [passage omitted]
[Excerpts] The human race is a dangerous race. The ones
who have strength do not have mercy on the other
creatures. [passage omitted]
From now on work should start on the establishment of
Arab unity, irrespective of any other consideration. I
know that there are Arab countries that have recognized
Israel and others that are about to. All this should not
prevent us from establishing Arab unity, and if it is
established immediately, this is better. If there are sac-
rifices and problems, we accept them. But the result will
cover all our losses. I know that there is the problem of.
currency and that this country is rich and the other is
poor, that is one has a large population [as heard]. If we
start looking at these matters and make these calcula-
tions, colonialism will declare war on you. The reality
that exists between the ocean and the Gulf [the Arab
world] is a farce, as though its people were children. This
is a very backward Arab mentality and look at the
results. I say: Let us close our eyes and embark on
building Arab unity at any price. Libyans should be at
the forefront of those in North Africa who welcome it.
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Your turn will come if the United States and its alliance
in the Gulf triumphs. They will move to the Mediterra-
nean, to Libya. Thus, strength should be built and the
foundation of strength is unity. We can impose unity on
the hesitant. I believe that unity among Libya, Egypt,
Tunisia, Algeria, and Syria should be established imme-
diately. I have met the progressive and revolutionary
forces in the Arab homeland several times. The latest
meeting was in Sirte last week, and we decided that
beginning 1 January 1991 demonstrations and marches
all over the Arab homeland should start calling for unity
until unity is achieved. [applause]
We in turn should be ready on 1 January 1991 to start
the marches and demonstrations demanding the removal
of borders between Arab countries and the establishment
of Arab unity-like German unity. We should follow the
example of the Germans and in the aftermath of German
unity the Arabs should reconsider the borders that
separate them, which are weaker than the strong Berlin
wall which was demolished. [passage omitted]
The frightening plan I mentioned, which was handed
over to us by the man who today is serving 90 years in
jail in the United States, said-this happened quite a few
years before the Kuwaiti question-that the United
States will land in the Gulf. It will take the Gulf and Iraq.
And afterward, it will take North Africa-from Algeria
to Libya. In the third stage the Israelis will expand from
Egypt to Syria via Jordan. He said that the Saud family
will be replaced.
The truth is that at the time, this sort of talk seemed like
fiction. But because he revealed this plan and this secret,
they jailed him for 90 years. When they sentenced him to
90 years in prison the entire world knew the story. We
began to say that this fictitious plan seems to contain
some truth. Otherwise why jail him for this long period?
I talked with President Husni Mubarak after we met at
the conference. I told him there is a serious plan the
United States passed on to us. This was what he [the
American] told us. Mubarak said to me: This is impos-
sible. Is it conceiveable that the United States would
enter the Gulf or in Saudi Arabia? This is impossible.
When they landed in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, I told
him it appeared that the plan was true. Yesterday we
were saying this.
He said to me: Quite right. We did not think the United
States would land in Saudi Arabia. Events made them land.
I said to him: This means that at the second stage we
would expect them to land in north Africa. And we
should expect the third stage in which the Israelis would
expand and build greater Israel from the Euphrates to
the Nile.
And the Sa'ud family-I told them, I said to them [words
indistinct] you will be replaced. Replaced by whom? I do not
know. Someone says the Hashemite family and another says
someone else. And actually there are signs today. King
Husayn called himself the sharif of Mecca-Sharif
Husayn-the sharif of Mecca. What does it mean? It is the
land of his forefathers. Hejaz-Saudis, how did they enter
and take Hejaz'and expel the Hashemites to Transjordan?
As for Jordan, they say that Jordan is the Palestinians'
country, which means they want to expel the Palestinians
to Jordan. Dangerous things are expected to take place in
the Arab region. How could we have played a game
which has led us to this level in the situation? I do not
know how this happened. No one yet understands, but
the coming days might uncover the truth for us.
However, even now we are unable to understand how
matters reached this level. We were told that there was a
previous plan, but then came the problem of Kuwait, and
the United States arrived. How come? We now have two
fronts, since the Cairo conference the Arabs have been
divided-into two fronts. What I can see is that these fronts
are not real, and these alliances are not natural. For myself,
when I turned left and right I found myself among the
ranks of people who were not of my ilk, and I said to them:
What brings you to me? This means that these alliances are
in fact neither premeditated nor natural.
As far as the problem of Kuwait is concerned, the Arabs
have incurred a great loss. We lost the Arab Cooperation
Council which brought together Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and
Yemen; and those who cooperated with the Gulf Coop-
eration Council, perhaps the Arab Maghreb Union, then
this exploded.
We were going to hold an Arab summit next month, but
this is not possible now. During the summit next month
we planned to endorse the draft proposal for an Arab
federation, the one that had been put forward by Libya
which proposed the conversion of the conference into an
Arab federal presidential council; turning Arab prime
ministers into an executive council; changing parlia-
ments into a national congress, forming specialist coun-
cils on foreign affairs, industry, education, health, and so
on. All Arab League, common Arab market and common
defense agreements were to be implemented, and the
League's Secretariat was to be turned into a permanent
secretariat of the Arab federation. The whole Arab
homeland was to be turned into a federal state. Inside
this federation other developments could take place:
mergers-whoever wanted to merge could do so.
All this we have lost in the Kuwait crisis. When will the
Arabs hold a summit and when will they endorse the
draft proposal for an Arab federation which we pre-
sented? This is a regression. This could have been within
reach, but we have lost it. We felt that we needed to
establish a union after the European union in 1992, but
we are now divided into two halves.
The U.S. and Atlantic fleets used to keep a watch from a
distance, but now they have landed. We used to doubt
that the United States would land on Arab territory, but
they have now landed, and they have landed safely. No
one resisted -them except snakes and scorpions.
According to news agencies, they were the only ones to
resist. No one else resisted them. They said: That's it, we
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thought that when we landed [words indistinct] would
come to us, but nothing came. They though the Arabs
[words indistinct] their doomsday, but their doomsday
did not come-a few demonstrations, and some of the
demonstrations were said to have been organized by
governments, and that was it.
We can not rely on serpents and scorpions in the Arab
desert to resist forces. They are present there now. They
are probing the situation. They think they can stay if they
want. However, they might not stay after all. Well it is
their problem. We said, 0 brothers how can you bring in
the United States? How can we otherwise calm King
Fahd, they replied.
King Fahd said: I saw with my eyes how the Iraqi tanks
were heading toward Saudi Arabia. Do you want them to
occupy my country the following day? No. I cannot allow
such a fate to befall my country. He said: You, Mu`am-
mar al-Qadhdhafi, said yourself that you would ally
yourself with the devil to defend your country. And I am
allying myself with the devil. You may consider the
United States as a devil and that is what I am allying
myself with.
What can I say to him? He said: Look who would be
arriving first the next day, you to defend me-or Iraq.
The latter will arrive before you. I called for the United
States because they were ready. I asked if the United
States was coming to defend the Saudis. He said no.
They might even replace me. That was the way he put it.
He said, however, the United States is coming to defend
the oil. And that is why their response was quick to come
to defend this sensitive and vital area.
I asked: When will they be leaving? He said when Iraq
leaves Kuwait. I asked our brothers in Syria and Egypt
how can you send forces to stand by the side of United
States forces? This means that you would be fighting the
Iraqi soldiers with Syrian, U.S., and Egyptian forces side
by side. They said no. We have another explanation.
What is your explanation then? I asked.
`Abd-al-Halim Khaddam was with me yesterday. Safwat
al-Sharif [Egyptian information minister] was with me
today. I have been having daily telephone conversations
with them as if I lived in Cairo. I have sent Mustafa
al-Kharrubi once or twice to them. They said if we had
not sent Egyptian and Syrian soldiers, our brothers in the
Gulf and in those small countries would have always felt
that their protection would only be insured by foreigners,
and that Arabs would not come to their help. This was
one of their explanations.
The most important explanation, however, was this: If
we had not gone there, the Israeli Army would have gone
there alongside the United States Army. However, the
involvement of Syria, Egypt, and Morocco in Saudi
Arabia made it unlikely that they would invite the Israeli
Army to the region because the Syrian Army and the
Israeli Army would not stand side by side. They said our.
intervention in Saudi Arabia has prevented the involve-
ment of the Israeli Army. This was their explanation.
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What does all this mean. Does it mean that Saudi Arabia
would have called for the help of the Israeli Army had it
not been for you when you managed to restrain it and
send your forces. I asked: Can anyone confirm this? They
said no. Only Saudi Arabia and the United States have
the answer.
What I did was to exert effort and try:to convince the
world through messages to foreign countries, to the UN
Security Council, and the UN Security Council perma-
nent nent members that the United States is not the opponent
of the Arabs. So why should it get involved in this
matter? Kuwait is a UN member. A country which has
been lost to the United Nations. The latter should look
for it and 'the United States [as heard]. It is not a state in
the United States. It is a member of the United Nations
and not the United States. Therefore it is the United
Nation's responsibility to look for it.
However, after a while they made a move. They con-
vened the UN Security Council and said those are UN
forces. Anyone can send forces. It is the UN forces which
are carrying out the blockade of Iraq. They made some
sort of a 'response. It was, however, a fabricated one.
They wanted to uphold the status quo. Anyway they are
talking in the name of the United Nations and any
measures taken against Iraq they said are under UN
auspices.
We told them: Brothers, what happpened to you? You
invaded Panama. They said: What, did we annex
Panama to the United States? We launched an attack
against it, we took Noriega, a drug dealer-and I do not
know what-we put him on trial, and we told the
Panamanian people: You are free. Organize elections.
And they have organized elections.
We told them: Good, and what about Grenada? They
said: What, did we annex Grenada to the United States?
We invaded it, we toppled the Marxist government and
we left Grenada Alone.
We told them: And the Israelis? They said: What about
the Israelis? They took a part of Syria and a part of
Lebanon, a part from Jordan, a part of Egypt. They did
not take a whole state. They took border areas, the land
bordering them.
And they told us: And you, what have you done? You'
have taken over a state. Why should Kuwait disappear?
It is a member of the United Nations. Iraq did not
launch a raid and put Al-Sabah on trial; nor did it raid
and punish Kuwait over oil pricing. It also did not ask
the Kuwaiti people to hold a referendum on whether it
was part of Iraq or not.
They said: Why should a UN member state disappear?
You have heard the French president saying: Under
what article can one put this in international law? A UN
member state disappearing overnight. We cannot allow
that, they said. ,
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The Arabs told me: If such a law prevails, then every
small Arab state will fear a big Arab state and call
foreigners for help. Then we would find in every small
Arab state a foreign base for a superpower to intimidate
the neighboring Arab state. This would mean Tunisia
bringing foreign forces against Libya and Algeria. Mau-
ritania bringing foreign troops out of fear of Algiers or
Morocco; The Sahara, if it were to become independent,
would call for foreign bases against Algeria, Mauritania,
and Morocco; Abu Dhabi would call for forces; Bahrain,
Qatar, etc. Lebanon would bring foreign bases against
Syria or Jordan.
They told me: If such a law prevails, then every small
Arab state will call for help from a foreign force in fear of
its Arab neighbor. This is the logic of the brothers who
have dispatched forces to the gulf.
They also said to me: Apart from Libya all the others
have received bribes. I said: How? They said: One got
bribes from Kuwait, the other.from Saudi Arabia. I told
them: What is the reason behind you being on two
fronts? One with Kuwait and the Saudis and the other
with Saddam. They said: It is bribes. I said: What bribes?
They said: This one has obtained 10 billion, the other 20
billion, the other 15 billion. They have exposed them-
selves in this manner. I do not want to name those who
got 10 billion, and those who got 20. Each according to
the size of its population [laughs]
They spoke about bribes. Libya did not take bribes, and
therefore its position -remains the same: Against the
United States, and against Iraq in Kuwait; for Arab
unity. [applause]
They said to me: This is regionalist logic. The day before
yesterday they said to me: This is regionalist logic. I said:
How? They said: Iraq took over Kuwait and said: This is
part of Iraq. It did not say: It is an Arab state that we
want to unify with us, because it is small and we should
become unified. They said to me, Iraq said: No, Kuwait
is part of Iraq and the fact that Iraq said Kuwait is part
of Iraq is a regionalist nonunionist logic. This is no
unification of two states. What would you say to them?
Would you say: 0 Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia, get the
United States out. They would say to me: 0 Mu'ammar,
get the Iraqis out. What can you do with.them?
This is the situation in which we find ourselves. How did
this predicament come about? By chance, by a con-
spiracy, a scenario, fate and destiny; we do not know
how. An impasse in which the nation finds itself? But
what we must do is contain this impasse. In my view
unity must be declared from Syria to Algeria. We would
attract all we could from the other regions so as to
contain this deteriorating area.
Why should we do such things? Our brothers in Iraq say:
Egypt has recognized Israel. Egypt-has had relations with
Israel for a long time, and Iraqi has had relations with
Egypt. After the recognition of Israel, how can there be
[word indistinct] they said. For his part, President Husni
Mubarak-you heard him the day before yesterday-
saying: If we reveal files, then come and listen: A
teacher-I do not know her name-at Harvard Univer-
sity, has been a mediator between the Israelis and the
Iraqis from 1980 until 1988, eight years. She said she was
ready to meet the news media and make public the
mediation she undertook between Iraq and Israel.
Mubarak said: I have 15 cases of mediation between Iraq
and the Israelis, and I mention just one of them, and
leave the rest. If they reveal more cards, then I will reveal
more cards.
It is a scandal for us to go on exposing each other in such
a manner. They said: How can it be an Arab-Persian war,
and Libya and Syria have turned it into a non Arab-
Persian war and a revolutionary war. In Iran there is a
revolution and we must not fight it. A revolution against
America and against Zionism in Palestine, so we must
not fight it.
The Libyan and Syrian stands made the war a non-racial
war. It did not make it an Arab-Persian war, a war
between Iraq and Iran, but made it a revolutionary
war-the revolutionaries on one side and the others on
the other side.
They said: How was the war, as far as Iraq was con-
cerned, an Arab-Persian war? How has it become today
an Islamic war and a jihad? We were the ones who used
to say that Iraq and Iran were Muslim countries and
must stand in one rank. You told us: No, Iraq was Arab
while Iran was Persian, and there is nothing to link us.
Today the slogan has changed, and the war has become
an Islamic war. Until recently, Iraq was fighting Iran and
was against Libya. Who stands with Saddam now? They
are those whom he was fighting.
Did you not warn him against having relations with the
reactionary countries when he had gone far in these
relations with them? Now the reactionary countries have
become a threat to Iraq. This means Iraq must have been
mistaken in its past stand. He must apologize to you
Iranians because he was fighting you, you who are his
natural allies. [passage omitted]
There is only one solution out of the crisis we find
ourselves in: Iraq must leave Kuwait in accordance with
the Libyan initiative. Iraq would take the things that are
under dispute to compensate it for the losses it suffered
as a result of the increase in Kuwaiti oil production. A
number of Arab oil countries have undertaken to meet
this compensation.
If after Iraq leaves Kuwait, the foreign forces remain,
then we have no alternative but to resist them. For then
we would have the right to do so. [applause] This would
mean an act of imperialism. The Egyptian and Syrian
presidents and all have affirmed to me that as soon as
Iraq leaves Kuwait, we will be prepared to stand on your
side against the foreign forces, and we would never
permit them to stay.
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The foreigners themselves say to you: Get out, and then
we will get out with you, for we are not prepared to live
in this area. The Saudis have told me if Iraq leaves we
will ask the Americans to leave. We then must ask them
to go. [indistinct remarks from audience] Why should we
bring them into the area and thus enable them to
establish themselves there and begin to bargain with us
over our land? We told them: Give him a chance. The
Kuwaitis told me: How could your friend-naturally
they mean President Saddam, calling him your friend-
say in the past that it was an Arab-Persian war, and now
he has changed that, and says it is an Islamic war? How
did it become an Islamic war when it was an Arab-
Persian war before? They also tell me: How can the oil of
Iraq be said to belong to the Iraqis and the oil of Kuwait
to belong to the Arabs? Iraq's income is similar to that of
Kuwait. Iraq's oil production is as great as that of
Kuwait. The Arabs asked me: How have Arabs benefited
from Iraqi oil? Why do we ask how the Arabs have
benefited from the oil in Kuwait?
I said: We must form an Arab military force against
Israel. They said: The Israelis [words indistinct] media-
tion between Iraq and the Israelis. I personally did not
believe this.
I said: an Arab military force against the Israelis. They
asked: The Israelis? There have been 15 mediations between
Iraq and the Israelis. I, of course, did not believe this.
Then the pan-Arabists asked: How can we say pan-
Arabism? The Egyptians told me today: Every day we
receive three, four, five bodies of Egyptians killed in
Iraq, brought in boxes. A total of 1,000 bodies have
arrived in the past period. Why this story? Is this true?
By God, for this matter, we must contact the brothers in
Iraq. Even if they were chicken or sheep I do not believe
that we should allow four or five of them to die-an Arab
human being in an Arab country.
They asked me: Where is pan-Arabism? Where is Arab
unity? How can your friend send us three or four bodies?
Who killed them? Accidents? Among themselves? How,
people, 1,000 bodies? This is unreasonable! We are
freeing Palestine and 1,000 have not died? They told me:
Where is pan-Arabism? Has Saddam expelled all the
Arabs who were in Iraq?
Indeed, the solution is the Libyan initiative we pre-
sented. We continue to stress it, and without it there will
be disaster. We should not have allowed the foreigners to
arrive in our land, and we should not allow them to
remain in it.
If Iraq withdrew from Kuwait and guarantees were given
to countries which are afraid, and the foreigners
remained, they must be fought. All Arabs agree, and we
shall resist them. Egypt says it will be the first one to
resist the foreign presence if it continues after Iraq's exit
from Kuwait. Nothing is left before us other than to
pressure Iraq to leave Kuwait and to pull the carpet from
under the feet of those people. But this, following the
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planned European unity tomorrow, should not take our
minds off establishing Arab unity to fill the vacuum so as
to prevent the realization of the U.S. plan, which is the
occupation of Iraq, then North Africa; the Israelis would
then occupy Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. This you should
not forget. We announce it so that the Arabs can learn.
Another plan: They say the world has been divided, and
a new world will be created even though our will is not
considered. We will be part of this division. They said
Russia will create an alliance with Germany and Japan-
economic, industrial, etc.-and may become the Euro-
pean power. France will have North and Central Africa,
and its task will be to administer the region: Libya and
the Arab Maghreb, including Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco,
Mauritania, and Central Africa. The British will recover
their influence in the Southern hemisphere-India, Aus-
tralia and South Africa-which is why Thatcher's atti-
tude was different from the others concerning South
Africa. It was pro-white more than the other Western
countries, because Britain will take this region. The
United States is given the role of international
policemen. In return, who will pay the wages, car,
clothes, and allowances of this policeman? They who
appointed him policeman.
America is taking the role of policeman. It is safe-
guarding world peace with its forces, influence, and
intelligence, and in return all other states contribute
toward financing the task of the policeman. It is
becoming apparent, now that they are to be found in the
Gulf on account of the Kuwaiti crisis, they actually begin
to finance the policeman. Germany and Japan started to
pay up; (?I do not know who else will be paying). At least
Japan and Germany are known. They have been
financing the international expedition.
This means that even we, the Arabs-our partition has
already begun without us knowing about it. The Arab
Maghreb has become a follower of France. This means
that any meeting between France and the Arab Magh-
reb-or between Western Europe and the Arab Maghreb,
to be precise-may be a prelude to this plan which was
put to us. This is not an analysis. This is a plan from the
lobbies of Europe.
What is this? This is a disgrace. In the First World War
they divided us. In the Second World War they divided
us. After the end of the cold war, they are dividing us.
What are we? Are we a plantation or a herd of sheep.
This nation, from the Ocean to the Gulf, must be
respected. To hell with Kuwait. Is it right that because of
Kuwait we become divided into two fronts, lose the Arab
federation project, and lose the entire world and bring in
the Americans, bring in the world and have a calamity on
our hands?
Kuwait will be included in the Arab unity along with us, and
it will be included in the Arab policy and alongside Iraq.
When Iraq is strong and we do not allow the foreigners to
.destroy Iraq, what will Kuwait do? If he had made a raid and
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threatened Kuwait and got out of Kuwait, it would have
been better. [words indistinct] What is happening? It seems
that there is no more reason.
We want to play an important part because our position
and everything that Libya does has an influence on the
east and the west of the Arab homeland and on the
Mediterranean, right up to Europe and the [word indis-
tinct] in the African Continent. Consequently this has an
influence in the international arena.
On this occasion, the day of vengeance anniversary, I still
say to you: No matter how much we say, the Italians who
are present with us today are our friends. In actual fact,
they stand alongside Libya in international forums and
they oppose the Western blockade which is still being
imposed on Libya by the order of America; however, our
sons and their sons-vengeance is in their blood, especially
when this is not the first time that Italy has attacked us. It
slept for 1,000 years and then it came back and attacked
us. It went to sleep for 1,000 years and then attacked once
again, and went to sleep for another 100 years and attacked
for the third time. It went to sleep for 200 years and then
attacked us a fourth time. This chain might not become
broken except when an aggression against us becomes
costly and a loser; only then will they be unable to occupy
us. And as long as the links of this chain are repeated, we
are compelled to give Italy an account for its colonization
in 1911 and the wholesale annihilation of our people and
those who have been exiled.
The people they took away in 1940-the one who was 10
years old in 1940 means that he is 60 years or 50 years
old now. The one who was 20 or 60 or 70 means that he
was still alive. Even if he was dead; if they were alive, it
would mean that they would multiply and become 500 or
1,000. Banishment continued right up to 1940. We must
not keep quiet about this today. Today, if through a
cordial method and through friendship we demand that
this matter be settled, and we do so in order to avoid a
war between the two countries in the future, even after
100 years from now, and this is in order that we avoid
taking revenge and avoid the operation of taking
revenge. This is a country we cannot trust, because it is
not the first time it attacked us. It means that its
generations always repeat the aggression and harbor
aggression against us. We expect Italian aggression
against us any time in the future, whether after 10, 20,
50, or 100 years. They must come here and remove the
land mines they laid, otherwise laying landmines in each
other's country would become permissible. So, in that
case, we would also go to their country to lay mines, if we
can. We do not want it to come to that, people laying
mines in Italy or taking revenge on Italy. We do not want
it to come to that because we still speak with good
intentions. I believe the Italians now appreciate the
seriousness of this situation.
We have said on several occasions that we are not
denying Italy's friendly stand toward Libya at present. It
is the only European state that is not hostile to Libya,
which has not surrendered to the U.S. blockade and
defends us in the European Community.
However, this does not forgive this crime. Where are
those they took away in 1940? This friendly stand cannot
make us forget the people they took away in 1940; that
was not so long ago; they were taken away only yes-
terday. If they were taken as children, they would be 50
now. If they were taken as teenagers, they would be 60 or
70. If they were taken as adults, they would be in their
80s or 90s, or they died last year and not so long ago.
They died after the revolution. Where did they bury
them? They are not their children; they are Libyans they
took from their homes.
We cannot ignore the land mines under our feet. The
mines are exploding under our feet now. We cannot even
say it is a thing of the past. It is happening now. We
cannot ignore these things. I said that such a day will
eventually come-I mean 7 October, the day of ven-
gence, although in reality we have not taken our real
revenge-when we have completed the new people's
Jamahiriyah. From today, the revolution which we
talked about will start and its leaderships will come from
quarters other than those from where the previous lead-
erships had come. I have defined a number of sections of
society which will be responsible for leading the masses
in the new fields and in the new Jamahiriyah.
The task of the revolutionary committees is to entrench
the new people's authority. For the first time, the trade
unions will be in charge of political and management
affairs throughout the world. The people's committees
which exist today have been elected by the trade unions
to implement the resolutions of the people's congresses.
We have also entrusted the vocational unions with the
task of implementing the resolutions of the people's
congresses. Trade union activities worldwide are limited
to demonstrations and sit-ins, with claims for higher
wages or for participation in management and sharing
profits. These demands are not met. Moreover, workers
are thrown in jail, drenched by water cannons or asphyx-
iated by tear gas in the streets of Britain, the U.S., Italy,
and South Korea.
Libya is the only country in the entire world where the
trade unions are in charge of management and imple-
ment the resolutions of the people's congresses and
where the members of the trade unions, on top of being
members of those unions, are also members of the basic
people's congresses, which possess sovereignty and
authority.
From now on, work will start with every sector sepa-
rately. You define its responsibility in the face of other
sectors. If you bring along somebody who does not
belong to a trade union and elect him as head of a
people's committee, at whatever level, we say this should
happen only with the agreement of the masses of the
trade unions.
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When they elect such a person, then the latterbecomes one
of them, and they all become responsible for the self-
management of the sector in question. [passage omitted]
They will be responsible to the people. The people have
now set up people's committees for investigation and
control. These committees will control the sector in
question and see whether or not it carries out the
decisions of the peoples' congresses.
This jamahiriyah has a new look, built by trade unions,
where power belongs to basic people's congresses to which
all citizens, male or female, who have come of age, belong.
They must be members of the basic people's congress
because it is the one that decides, and the one to implement
are the people's committees, elected by trade unions. The
power is always in the hands of the masses of the trade
unions, as regards the trade unions, and it is in the hands of
the people's congresses, as far as the jamahiriyah as a .whole
is concerned. No one else has power.
Trade union federations have no power. It is the meeting
point of the secretaries of unions and their decisions.
The general people's congress that is here in front of me
has no power. It is the meeting point of the secretaries of
people's committees and the secretaries of people's con-
gresses. They bring with them the decisions taken in the
congresses and people's committees, only. If they dispute
something, then they take it back to the popular masses.
They cannot decide over such matters. The only. prerog-
ative of the general people's congress is to elect the
people's committee here in front of it, within the limits
set by the masses for electing this committee.
This is a new mission and a new phase and, God willing,
talks will begin with every sector separately. We would
like to see the new people's leaderships and sections lead
the new masses. I have defined these leaderships and
sections in specific areas. However, we are saying that
this new coming phase does not allow any laxity, spuri-
ousness, lies, or beating around the bush. Anyone who
thinks that they are bringing back any disease or negative
aspect of a previous stage should raise their hand and
say: I cannot do it. Why? Because they will say: I am sick
and I cannot help lying, falsifying things, exaggerating, or
being lazy. Anyone who is afflicted with one of these
diseases, anyone who loves money, pleasures of life,
speculation, has connections, accepts bribes, and loves
only his relatives and his region, such a person is sick and
there is no place for them. If they repent, there will not be
mercy for them.
The most important thing you have done is set up the
People's Court. Nobody in the entire world can object to
such a court, because it is a court dealing with numerous
degrees of litigation and it is not a special court. It is an
ordinary and judicial court, and throughout the Jama-
hiriyah there are offices affiliated to this court. The main
thing is that you introduced a law on the origin of wealth
and other similar laws which allow anyone-even anon-
ymously, as I told.you-to come before the court to say:
This person is a liar, a speculator, a person who encour-
ages favoritism, accepts bribes, and is immoral. If some-
body is seen somewhere in particular one night, they can
be denounced and! asked: to :appear before the court.
Nobody can prevent this. summons from reaching the
People's Court so that the person in question will appear
before the People's Court.- ,
Where did.you get this wealth? According to the law on
illicit gains; anyone who has a . post must declare his
possessions, starting with-his house. When he leaves that
post, he must declare his possessions, starting with the
house. When he leaves that post, he must declare what he
owns and a comparison will be made between his income
during that -period -of time and the possessions he had
before and the possessions he now has. [passage omitted]
We sometimes see a stationary bus and its driver
standing nearby. When he is asked what the problem is,
he says one of the wires has gone. Even if it is his own
property, he will be judged for it: Do not say it is state
property. State property no longer exists [as heard].
What is state property? Socialism means .distributing the
country's wealth among its inhabitants. All the buses and
the taxis you own and, if you can, you are entitled to own
planes and ships: Everything must be owned by individ-
uals who are either in association or on their own. Public
property means the rationalization of the national
wealth until, it becomes productive, and then it is dis-
tributed to individuals. If we have land, it will be
reclaimed by society: Society"will'spend money on it and
will divide it into farms to distribute'to the people.
We build a factory.from the state's budget and we may
pass its ownership to the people. Those who built farms,
agricultural projects, and factories, built and owned by
the state-this is the experiment which has collapsed in
Eastern Europe. This is not socialism. Socialism never
collapses. And those who say revolution relapses: revo-
lution does not relapse. Reaction ends, colonialism ends,
but revolution? Revolution is science, progress, building,
and liberation. This never suffers from a relapse and
does not die. (passage omitted]
When did people rule so as to say democracy suffered a
relapse? This-is the historic revolution in Libya which
has enabled the people to rule. The struggle continues!
[applause]
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