QADDAFI LENDS AID AS MUSLIMS GEAR FOR NATIONAL BATTLE

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• Publication Date: November 6, 1985
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ON PAGE
WASHINGTON TIMES
6 November 1985
Qaddafi lends aid
as Muslims gear
for national battle
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Second of four articles
By Ted Agres and Jerry Seper
THE MLSHING ON TIMES
It was June when Louis Farra-
khan, leader of the Nation of Islam,
returned to the United States after a
month-long tour of Libya, Syria,
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates.
He told 250 of his Black Muslim
followers, who cheered him at a rally
at Chicago's O'Hare International
Airport, that the pilgrimage had
been "very successful" and that he
had "established warm relations in
the Arab and, Muslim world."
The relations evidently were
more than fraternal. Mr. Farrakhan
also announced he had received $S
million, a "loan" from Libyan strong-
man Col. Muammar Qaddafi.
That was the first public pro-
nouncement of what appears to be
an economic alliance between the
blacks-only Nation of Islam and the
Libyan leader, an avowed enemy of
the United States. It's an alliance
that many believe is part of Mr. Far-
rakhan's desire to create a separate
nation for blacks within the borders
of America.
According to information gath-
ered by The Washington Times dur-
ing a month-long investigation, Mr.
Farrakhan mavbe operating under
some strict time
restraints, im-
posed by his own
Nation of Islam
teachings, to get
the job done. For
more than SO
years, Black Mus-
lims have believed
that 1986 is the
year for "slavery
in America" to
end.
"We must go to
war to see who's
going to rule on
His words have
been even
stronger when
privately deliv-
ered to the faith-
ful.
"Some of the
white people are
going to live;
maybe a few, quite
a few," he said in a
March 1984
speech taped for a
Chicago radio
show but then
later delivered
only to Black Muslims. "But [God]
doesn't want them living with us. He
doesn't want us mixing ourselves
with the slavemaster's children,
whose time of doom has arrived:'
Mr. Farrakhan, 52, often couches
his words in symbolic or spiritual
terms. But law enforcement
authorities across the country and
others, including members of the
Muslim organization Mr. Farrakhan
quit nearly 10 years ago to form his
own militant anti-white sect, say
they are beginning to take his
statements literally. [Warith Deen
Muhammad took over the original
Nation of Islam in 1975 after the
death of his father, Elijah. He
changed the name of the religion
and adopted strict Islamic
teachings, which opened the sect to
whites and eliminated the racist and
separatist teachings that had been
the foundation of the organization.]
"You can't keep telling me you're
going to punch me in the mouth and
not expect me to believe it after
awhile," said one Chicago Police De-
partment detective. "Particularly if
you keep waving your fist in my
face."
"There are those who believe the
words of Louis Farrakhan without
question:' said a former Washington,
D.C., Black Muslim official. "He has
said hateful words before and people
have died:'
this earth:' Mr. Farrakhan told a Calling whites "devils" and de-
cheering crowd of 20,000 blacks last mending reparation for "430 years
month at Madison Square Garden in Of slavery," Mr. Farrakhan seeks a
New York City. "The time of war is separate nation for blacks within the
here. We are not going to get liber-
ation by praying for it. It's time we
get up and do something about it:"
t -rintiiry tithe United Stift& He has
bo=ssed in f Alowo=s tha he has se-
aged "the Most awesome war ate.
clime that the earth has ever seen"
to win it
Fei other thou Mt Farrakhsv,
hoar whet the wa t really mean -
and hot not Ii I& Over a thiree-
week period The TSmes placed 16
phone calls to his C hiago besdgust-
lers rem an harvievs There
was ao reapoosn And neither Mt
Pyrrakb.s, his spoiresmsn our his
atforaey cespao'eel a guesttioas sb-
milted in writing
Law enaoeeement authorities are
not slue what the wo=rds mean eitbez
This may be partly doe to the
absence of any swbstaorive investi-
gation by federal or state
aatbacities. Lod police in several
states have collected same in6orma-
ti m, but they have nether the man-
power nor the money to condom fix,-
100[, ogaaieL
In Apn119S4, the U Anorneyh
Office m Chicago opened an investi-
SMOR two afeastians that Mt F n -
rak6sa had broken the law by mak-
ing tlu+eate _g tennis against a
black Washkipon Puss report=
Less then a month lstM then-U.&
Attorney Dan tgebb closed the case,
saying there were insufficient
grounds to pru' ire Mr FhrrakboL
No new investigation into the Na-
tion of Islam or Mr Fnrakban has
been anderm i since, a Justice De-
partment official said.
"Its viewed as a reftens otgm-
imtion a black religious orgsn-
imtim at that, and werre just not
gang to get into tt," the Off Cild M&
"And neither is anyone the until and
un something happen-"
a.?
Mr. Qaddafi has emerged as a
leading player in Mt Farrakbsn'sap-
parent bid for a separate nation. He
has become sae of the Nation of Is-
lam's most reliable money sources
and has offered to supply the orge-
imtian with additie ial support, in-
cluding weapons, if it ever decides to
wage war and 'destroy white
America."
In a February speech during the
Nation of Islam aomnl Iwerne-
tioutal Savior's Day celebration in
Cho, hosted by Mr Farrablow
the Libyan lender again denounced
the United States and called upon
America's 100,000 blwch soldiers to
desert and form their own army.
"This country mast be desnvyW
Mt Qaddaff- said during the speech
which was broadcast by satel6te
'hey refuse to accept you as
American cstizmt This macs you
are obligated to ieate a sepaaatts
and independent state,"
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