Suicide force agreed to
NZPA-AP Tripoli Twenty-two Libyanbacked hard-line Arab revolutionary movements agreed yesterday to form a suicide strike force to hit at American interests “within the United States and throughout the world” in case of American attacks on Libya or any other Arab nation. A three-day meeting of the “Allied Leadership of the Revolutionary Forces of the Arab Nation,” under the chairmanship of Libya’s leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, issued a communique giving a warning of increased international violence but avoiding any direct reference to acts of terrorism. Palestinian delegates reported earlier that Colonel Gadaffi had opened the meeting on Monday with a demand for a campaign of violence in retaliation against the United States sanctions against Libya. The meeting, which included such relatively restrained Palestinian hardliners as George Habash, Ahmed Jebril, and Samir Gosha, apparently rejected Colonel Gadaffi’s demand for immediate and unconditional violent action.
The American sanctions were imposed after the terrorist attacks in Rome and Vienna attributed by the Reagan Administra-
tion to the Libyan-backed "Fatah Revolutionary Council” of Sabri Banna — alias Abu Nidal. Nidal was not seen at the meeting,' but his second-in-command, Abu Nizal, sat in the front row of the 200 delegates. All the 22 movements taking part in the meeting are believed to receive regular subsidies from Colonel Gadaffi. The 11-point resolution read to the meeting by the pro-Moscow Lebanese Communist Party leader, George Hawi — also regarded as relatively moderate among the hardliners — denounced the sanctions and the manoeuvres of the United States 6th Fleet off Libya, but made no reference to any immediate armed reprisal against the United States. The resolution said the conference had taken a number of secret decisions on “the mobilisation of all revolutionary Arab forces for the intensified struggle ... including the creation of revolutionary intervention groups and suicide squads to strike at American interests within the United States and throughout the world ... if the United States should dare to launch an aggression against ... Libya or any other Arab country. “He who sets a fire must be burned by his own fire.” '
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Press, 6 February 1986, Page 8
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