QADHAFI CHARGES US INVOLEMENT IN LIBYAN FEUD WITH EGYPT

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 13, 1999
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LIBYANN'S PRESIDENT QADHAFI HAS LEVELLED A VEILED ACCUSATION
THAT THE US MAY HAVE PROMPTED EGYPT'S RECENT MOVES AGAINST TRIPOLI.
HE MADE THIS REMARK IN AN INTERVIEW PUBLISHED EARLIER THIS WEEK
IN THE BEIRUT AND LIBYAN PRESS. LJHILE SPECULATING ON WHETHER
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTREIS COULD BE REPAIRED, QADHAFI
PONDERED THAT "PERHAPS AMERICA OR SOME OTHER PARTY" HAD INSTIGATED
CAIRO'S ACTIONS TO SUIT ITS OWN PURPOSES. IF THIS WERE THE CASE,
QADHAFI WARNED, RECONCILIATION WITH EGYPT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.
THE LIBYAN LEADER'S STATEMENT COULD BE SIMPLY AN EFFORT TO
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QADHAFI CHARGES US INVOLVEMENT IN LIBYAN FEUD WITH
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EXCUSE AN EMBARRASSING INTER-ARAB FEUD. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE
CHARGE MAY HAVE BEEN A RETORT TO SADAT'S SUGGESTION-LAST WEEK THAT
LIBYA WAS BEING USED UNWITTINGLY IN AN "IMPERIALIST PLAN TO DIVIDE
THE ARAB EAST FROM THE ARAB WEST"--A POORLY DISGUISED REFERENCE
TO TRIPOLI'S NEW COOPERATION WITH THE SOVIETS.
ALTHOUGH THE INTERVIEW MAY HAVE TAKEN PLACE SOME TIME AGO,
ITS PUBLICATION IS A VIOLATION OF-LAST WEEK'S PROPAGANDA TRUCE,
AND IT MAY PROVOKE A RESPONSE FROM CAIRO. SADAT INTRODUCED THE
THEME OF SUPERPOWER MANIPULATION OF THE FEUD, BUT HE PROBABLY WILL
SEE DISADVANTAGES IN PURSUING IT. CAIRO IS AWARE OF ITS VULNERABI-
LITY TO CHARGES OF COOPERATING TOO CLOSELY WITH THE US.
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