QADDAFI LENDS AID AS MUSLIMS GEAR FOR NATIONAL BATTLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000605740033-7
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2012
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: November 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Qaddafi lends aid
Muslims as gear
for national, battle
EivP 1 SER iE'S iv. r *Ml
Second of four articles
By Ted Agres and Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON 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 $5
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 50
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 manding 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
set un and do snmethina ahn,,t it"
territory of the UnitedStates- He tat
boasted to fdlowers that he has se-
ated "the most awesome war ma-
chine that the earth has ever seen-
to win iL
Few, other than Mr- Fan akhwo.
know what the words really mean -
three-
week period The Threes placed 16
phone calls to his Chicago heacignsr-
ters regal an interview: There
was no response- And neither Mr:
Fhrrakhan. his spokesman nor his
alt rneyresponddtoquestionssub-
mium in writing.
Law enforcement authorities are
not sure what the wards mean eithez
This may be partly doe to the
absence of any substantive iavesd-
gation by federal or state
authorities. Loral police in several
states have collected some m6orma-
tim, but they have neither the man-
power n r the money to conduct for
mal ingw
In April 1981 the U.S- Attorney's
Office in (Isicago opened an investi-
gation into aliegaos that Mt Far
rakhm had brolbea the law by mak-
ing threatening remarks agaiagt a
black Washington Post reporter
Less than a mouth later, then-LLS-
Attorney Dan Webb closed the case;
saying there were insufficient
gramds toprvsecute MI Far akhan
No new mvesngatim into the Na-
tion of Islam or Mt Fbrrakhan has
been undertaken since, a Justice De-
partment official said
"It's viewed as a retigioaa organ-
izatim a black religiousg orgsa-
izatim at that, and we're just not
going to get into it, the official said.
"And neither is anyone else until and
un sing happens."
?1?
--Mr Qaddafi has emerged as a
leading player in Mr- Farrakhan's ap-
parent bid for a separate natim He
has become one of the Nation of ht-
lams most reliable money sources
and has offered to supply the organ-
ization with additional srppia1 in-
cluding weapons, if it ever decides to
wage war and "destroy white
America"
In a February speech during the
Nation of Islam's annual Inowna-
tional Savior's Day celebration in
Chicago, hosted by Mr Farrakhhq
the Libyan leader again denounced
the United States and called upon
America's 400,000 black soldiers to
desert and form them own army.
l'ids country must be destroyed,'
Mr Qaddaffi said during the speeds,
which was broadcast by satellite
"They refuse to accept you as
American dkaeffi This means you
are obligated to create a separaoDe
and independent state."
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