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University Daily Kansan
Confrontation with Libya
Wednesday, March 26, 1986
Libyans rally, warn the U.S.
United Press International
LONDON — Libyan leader Moammar Khadifa vowed yesterday to press his country's confrontation with the United States in the disputed Gulf of Sidra, and anti-U.S. demonstrations erupted in the cities of the north African country.
Libyan radio said demonstrators at a rally in Tripoli, the capital, were organizing themselves into
There was no word on the fate of about 100 U.S. citizens thought to be in Libya after being exempted from President Reagan's order in January that U.S. citizens should leave the country.
Libyan radio called for the killing of U.S. spies who are pushed forward as experts and consultants in Arab countries and called for the destruction of U.S. oil installations in other Arab countries.
Ibrahim Sager, a spokesman for the Libyan Information Ministry, told United Press International in a telephone interview from Tripoli that
several Arab countries had expressed their support for Libya.
"Syria has called (Khadafy) by telephone and placed its entire power at Libya's disposal," Sager said. "Also Northern Yemen, Sudan and Algeria."
He said revolutionary elements in Lebanon and Egypt had trailed to Libya's side.
"We are getting thousands of telegrams of support from all parts of the Arab world from the (Persian) Gulf to the Atlantic." Sazer said.
He said Libya would continue to defend with bravery against the iniquitous U.S. aggression until its end.
Sager's claims of Arab support could not be immediately confirmed.
The Libyan news agency, JANA, said foreign ambassadors in Libya were summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told that Libya would confront the United States with all its means in the Gulf of Sidra and elsewhere.
JANA quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying, "we will die for it and there is no capitulation on
that, whatever the cost. We in Libya will consider any American target and the American and Mediterranean bases hostile targets, which we will confront."
Libyan radio reported that thousands of Libyans staged demonstrations in Tripoli and Benghazi with protesters calling President Reagan an old, mad coward and bad actor, threatening to turn the Mediterranean into a sea of blood.
The radio also quoted a speaker at an anti-U.S. rally outside the Belgian Embassy in Tripoli. He said that retaliatory suicide squads had been formed throughout Libya and that the battle with the enemy had begun.
Khadafy's challenge came in his first public statement since the United States launched strikes to retaliate against Libyan missile attacks Monday across Libya's self-proclaimed "line of death" in the Gulf of Sidra. Khadafy claims Libyan territorial waters inside the line.
Terrorist threats increase embassy safety measures
United Press International
WASHINGTON — U.S. embassies tightened security last week before Libya's largest threat to attack U.S. citizens abroad, but precautions increased even more yesterday over concern that there may be a new wave of terrorism at home and abroad.
The Reagan administration said it held the Libyan government responsible for the safety of about 100 U.S. citizens still in Libya and warned it has the options and assets to respond to any Libyan-backed terrorist attack.
While Libya vowed to organize suicide squads to retaliate against the United States, officials said Li-
bayan leader Moammar Khadady
had few effective means of
fighting U.S. military power ex-
extent terrorism.
State Department officials said U.S. embassies in the area took precautions against possible terrorist attacks at the outset of U.S. maneuvers off the Libyan coast where Libyan and U.S. forces clashed in the early days of U.S. outposts worldwide have also been told to take precautions.
In Greece, authorities put in motion the biggest security operation in 27 years to protect Secretary of State George Shultz, who is there on a three-day visit. Libya has close ties with Greece's Socialist government.
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