Col. Qadhafi Speaks About Africa (extracts)

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"Now, America is stepping all over the world with its shoes.  It is not afraid or ashamed and has no conscience.  It scares everyone, and they fire missiles while they are drunk, and it sets the price of bread in the world. It orders the World Bank and the IMF to set the price of bread in Jordan.  It tells them to raise it by 300 percent, and that happens..."

"All our currencies collapse because the US currency is strong. What is the reason for that?  Consider the unity of blood, race, and, even, religion; all these are lacking in America.  The reason [for US strength] is that they are people who have come from everywhere and they have established a state, which they have called America, exploited its resources, established a strong economy and communications, manufactured missiles and satellites, established medicine, made radars, ships, aircraft carriers, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.  They have become a fearsome power. The reason is that all those people who came from everywhere created a single nationality and a single identity which they have called American; their identity is American.  The United States is the product of 50 states which have united."

"If Africa is to become stronger than the United States and the EU, because it has the resources that would make it strong and make the African citizen, who is now despised and regarded as a slave who could be sold in a slave market, become a master; if Africa does what America and Europe are doing;.."

Tripoli JANA in Arabic 0838 GMT 1 Oct 98 (Text from Libya News)

Something in the nature of an economic revolution is required. Our development has been held back for too long by the colonial-type economy. We need to reorganize entirely, so that each country can specialize in producing the goods and crops for which it is best suited. . . . . Few would argue against the need for economic planning on a national scale. How much stronger is the argument for continental planning. . . . In the process of obtaining economic unity there is bound to be much hard bargaining between the various States. Integration of different aspects of economic policy will proceed at different rates, and there may be disappointing delays and compromises to be worked out. But given the will to succeed, difficulties can be resolved.

Kwame Nkrumah 

The Libyan Rocket  -- Africa's premiere car.

Unveiled on the 30th anniversary of the revolution, the Libyan rocket is a five-passenger sedan. Libya says it is the safest vehicle in the world today. It was launched at a special summit of the Organisation of African Unity. The summit was organised by Colonel Gaddafi.

September 1999