18 Friday, December 2, 1983

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

State Department Report on Qaddafi Paints Evil Picture

tator, "hoWever unrealistic,
are to dominate the Arab
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the destruction of Israel.

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Qaddafi, the Libyan dic-

"His willingness to pro-
vide arms and money to
Arab groups that share his
views have been an impor-
tant factor inhibiting com-
promise and threatening
the stability of moderate re-
gimes in the Middle East."
These conclusions are
reached in a remarkable
study, "The Libyan Prob-
lem," prepared by the U.S.

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State Department and, re-
leased by its Bureau of Pub-
lic Affairs. The 10,000 word
report deals with all phases
of the Qaddafi phenomenon
and details his subversive
activities in nearly every
quarter of the globe as an
instigator of terrorism and
unrest. It uses no diplomatic
niceties in describing Qad-
dafi and his activities nor
does it offer an explanation
of his rabid anti-Semitism.
"Qaddafi," says the
brief foreword to the re-
port, "has energetically
dedicated himself to sub-
version in the pursuit of
his expansionist ambi-
tion and his ideology of a
militant socialist Islam.
He is funding an army of
dissident groups on sev-
eral continents. The ef-
fect of his international
activities, while often not
producing dramatic suc-
cess, has been to promote
radical forces opposed to
peace in the Middle East
and to undermine mod-
erate regimes in many
countries."
Qaddafi's Libya, the re-
- port declares, "is a potential
source of funds, arms and
safe haven for virtually any
group claiming to be anti-
Israel or anti-United
States."
It points out that "while
Qaddafi has not achieved
the influence he seeks in the
Arab world, he has played
an important negative role.
Libyan arms and money
have flowed to those who
have displayed the greatest
intransigence and willing-
ness to resort to violence.
"In 1981, for example,"
the report charges, "deliv-
eries of arms and military-
relayed financial disburse-
ments to various Palesti-
nian groups were
documented at nearly $100
million."
But Qaddafi termi-
nated his "checkered" re-
lationship with Yasir
Arafat and since last
April has been active in
promoting the revolt
against Arafat within
Fatah. His grievance was
that Arafat was not suffi-
ciently active against Is-
rael.
According to the State
Department report, Qaddafi
"supported the Iranian
revolution from its outset,
principally on the ground of
Khomeini's opposition to Is-
rael" and, the report avers,
"Qaddafi's support has been
far more than verbal, as
Libya has been one of Iran's
major arms suppliers."
Qaddafi took power in
1969, the report says, "as a
zealot with messianic pre-
tensions." He see's himself
"as one who has received a
special vision of religious,
social and political truth to
bring to the people of Libya
and which in time will serve
as a pattern for global revo-
lution."
His guiding slogan of
"freedom, socialism and un-
ity" has come to mean in
practice "implacable oppo-
sition to the West and Israel
and the rejection of corn-

promise in the Middle

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MUAMMAR QADDAFI

Qaddafi "no longer
places his faith in per-
suasion," says the State
Department's analysis.
"He has never had
qualms about resorting
to methods of terror and
violence, but he has in-
creasingly come to rely
on military might and
subversion to achieve his
international goals.
"In his pursuit of ex-
panded power and influ-
ence, Qaddafi has re-
peatedly employed tactics of
assassination and violence.
He has established terrorist
training facilities on Libyan
soil; financed and armed
known terrorists and mur-
dered opponents.
"Qaddafi repeatedly has
demonstrated that he is un-
constrained by accepted
standards of international
conduct."

"Qaddafi's relations with
the Soviet Union have be-
come increasingly close, the
report notes, although the
Soviet Union shuns overly-
close identification with the
Libyan dictator. "Libya is
the foremost Soviet arms
customer and in recent
years Qaddafi has increas-
ingly provided the Soviet
armed forces access to Li-
byan facilities.
"Libya serves Soviet
aims without a formal re-
lationship, for Soviet
arms find their way
through Libya to suber-
sive groups and ter-
rorists whose aims serve
Soviet interests."
Interestingly, the report
points out, Libya "is a cru-
cial source of hard currency
for the Soviet Union. Even
in a depressed oil market,
Qaddafi has shown no incli-
nation to reduce spending
on Soviet arms."
From his first arms pur-
chase contact with the
Soviet Union in 1974, the
State Department asserts
Libya has spend $28 billion
on acquiring arms — $20
billion from the Soviet
Union and East European
military suppliers. He is
currently negotiating a new
arms deal with Moscow
with a price tag of several
billion dollars.
Libya has an army of
85,000, over 2,500 tanks,
the same number of fighter
aircraft as France and West
Germany — about 550 —
and vast stores of modern
weaponry including self-
propelled guns, surface-to-
surface missiles, highly de-

veloped anti-aircraft sys-
tems and the largest missile
attack boat fleet in the Mid-
,

dle East. There are 4,000
foreign military advisers in
Libya, half of them from the
Soviet Union.
How to explain the
man? The State Depart-
ment experts do not
explore the reasons for
Qaddafi's violent hatred
of the Jews but they do
seek to explain his readi-
ness to go it alone.
"His desert upbringing in
a culture historically iso-
lated from Arab urban cen-
ters has made him rela-
tively comfortable in the
role of a loner and outsider,
more prone to confrontation
than accommodation."
He has been "frustrated
in many of his objectives
and yet he has had an im-
pact," the report admits.
"His, machinations
throughout Africa and the
Middle East, and now in
Latin America, are a de-
stabilizing force. Disap-
pointment has in no way de-
terred him."
He has not been suc-
cessful in many of his ven-
tures; he is dissatisfied with
his relationship with his al-
lies, including the Soviet
Union, but his setbacks, the
report concludes, tave not
deterred him from interna-
tional activism.
"In the Middle East," it
says, "Qaddafi is depre-
cated for his preaching
but the ever-present lure
of his money and his
Soviet arms has been a
constant fixture, tilting
the balance away from
moderation and com-
promise.
"Those bent on violence
and terror have found
encouragement, and those
inclined to compromise and
constructive resolutions to
complex problems have
often been bullied into si-
lence. They have had to cope
with the very real threat of
Qaddafi-supported ter-
rorism.
"Qaddafi's accomplish-
ment has been to increase
markedly the level of fear
amongst the weak or the
humane, to set back the
momentum of accommoda-
tion and peace in the Middle
East and to sow instability
among the poverty-stricken
fledgling states of Africa.
"Qaddafi's ambitions and
hatreds are so ingrained
that there is little prospect
for change."

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