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UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 01 TRIPOL 00003 021445Z 43 ACTION NEA-09 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 NEAE-00 CPR-01 NSC-05 PA-02 RSC-01 SS-15 USIA-15 PRS-01 /050 W --------------------- 042200 P 021410Z JAN 75 FM AMEMBASSY TRIPOLI TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 1829 UNCLAS TRIPOLI 0003 E.O. 11652: N/A TAGS: PFOR LY SUBJECT: QADHAFI SENDS A NEW YEAR MESSAGE 1. LIBYAN PRESS JAN 2 CARRIES TEXT OF NEW YEAR MESSAGE QADHAFI IS SENDING TO "MOST CHIEFS OF STATE", PROBABLY INCLUDING PRESIDENT FORD, ALTHOUGH NO LIST OF RECIPIENTS IS GIVEN. FOLLOWING IS OUR TRANSLATION OF THIS UNUSUAL MESSAGE. 2. DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH, AND PERHAPS EVEN THE ANGELS ON HIGH, ARE TIRED OF HEARING OVER AND OVER AGAIN EXCHANGES OF THE FALSE GREETING WHICH HAS NOT CHANGED FOR CENTURIES, THAT IS "HAPPY NEW YEAR". EACH CHIEF OF STATE SENDS THIS GREETING TO EVERY OTHER ONE, WHILE BY HIS DEEDS HE ACTS SO AS TO MAKE THE NEW YEAR CALAMITOUS AND WRETCHED. MR. PRESIDENT, EVEN ON THIS GREAT EVE OF 1975, THE EVE OF THE BIRTH OF THE MESSIAH, GOD'S PEACE BE UPON HIM, WE REPEAT THE SAME UNTRUE GREETING. DO WE HAVE, MR. PRESIDENT, A MOMENT OF DEEP REFLECTION IN WHICH TO RECALL TO MIND THE VERSES OF THE KORAN, THE TORAH, AND THE BIBLE, WHICH SAY "WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD AND REVERENCE AND NOT FOR SIN AND AGGRESSION". LET US BE MINDFUL OF HOW THE MESSIAH VIOLENTLY REBUKED THE PEOPLE, FOR THEY HAD FORGOTTEN THE WORD OF GOD AND GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO DECEPTION. HOW HE REBUKED THE PHARISEES FOR THEIR NEGLECT OF GOD'S SERVICE UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 02 TRIPOL 00003 021445Z AND THEIR GREED. HOW HE REBUKED THE SCRIBES FOR THEIR CORRUPT TEACHINGS AND ABANDONMENT OF GOD'S LAW. HOW HE REBUKED THE LEARNED MEN, FOR THEY HAD MADE A MOCKERY OF GOD'S LAW BY THEIR ACTIONS. HE SAID THIS IN THE FIRST SERMON HE GAVE IN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM. WHEREAS WE, MR. PRESIDENT, AT THE BEGINNINOG OF 1975 ARE WITHOUT A MESSIAH TO REBUKE US FOR HAVING FORGOTTEN GOD, TO REBUKE THE SELF-DECEIVERS AND THE COVETOUS AND THOSE WHO VIOLATE GOD'S LAW. WE CAN ONLY REBUKE EACH OTHER FOR OUR MISDEEDS AND BERATE OURSELVES FOR THESE SINS. WE MUST UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE VERY FAR FROM THE TEACHINGS OF THE MESSIAH, AND VERY CLOSE TO THE TEACHINGS OF SATAN. FOR THE GREAT AND RICH POWERS SPEND HUGE SUMS ON MAKING ATOMIC BOMBS AND DEVELOPING INTERCONTINENTAL ROCKETS AND PROGRAMS FOR SPACE EXPLORATION AND PLAN PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH SUFFER FROM SICKNESS ...FROM HUNGER ... FROM MALNUTRITION ... AND THE FOLLY OF INFLATION. THESE COUNTRIES ARE TRULY LED BY SATAN, AND THEIR BOOK IS THE THEORY OF MALTHUS, AND NOT SACRED WRIT. WE NEED TO RE-READ THE TEACHINGS OF THE MESSIAH, TO FIND IN THEM THAT WHICH SAYS TO US, TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF PALESTINE, THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MESSIAH, GOD'S PEACE BE UPON HIM, AND FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA AND IRELAND AND GERMANY AND THE AFRICAN COLONIES. THE WORLD'S GREATEST NEED TODAY IS FOR THE MESSIAH AGAIN. ITS GREATEST NEED IS ALSO TO TURN AWAY FROM DANCING PLACES AND BARS AND CRAZINESS EVERY NEW YEAR, AND TO TURN TOWARD PLACES OF WORSHIP, TOWARD PRAYERS, ASKING PARDON OF GOD FOR OUR SINS, AND BEING MINDFUL OF GOD'S LAW. MR. PRESIDENT, I KNOW THAT THE DELUSION OF THE WORLD TODAY AND ITS ERROR IS STRONGER THAN THESE CRIES OF DESPAIR OF MINE. ALL I CAN SAY TO THE WORLD ON THIS OCCASION UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED PAGE 03 TRIPOL 00003 021445Z ARE THESE WORDS.... BUT THE SACRED BOOK SAYS IN ITS FIRST SENTENCE, " IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD". WITH MY GREETINGS, COLONEL MU'AMMAR AL-QADHAFI, CHAIRMAN OF THE REVOLUTIONARY COMMAND COUNCIL OF THE LIBYAN ARAB REPUBLIC, JANUARY 1, 1975. STEIN UNCLASSIFIED NNN