From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Libya's Gaddafi says U.S. subverting Muslim states LUSAKA, July 8 (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that the United States is behind recent clashes in Nigeria, Chechnya and elsewhere around the world involving Muslims. "I say, beware of the Americans, do not allow them any influence in your countries," Gaddafi said in an address to Muslims in Lusaka on the eve of a pan-African summit in the Zambian capital. "The Americans are infiltrating everywhere, using their intelligence agencies. See the Muslims fighting in Nigeria, it is the work of the Americans spreading suspicion and confusion," he said, referring to religious clashes in Africa's most populous nation last year. Gaddafi also blamed fighting in the Russian republic of Chechnya and in Yugoslavia on the Americans, adding that Russia itself remained a target of the United States. Gaddafi, a self-proclaimed revolutionary leader, routinely attacks the United States and its policies, especially since U.S. warplanes bombed Libya in 1986 over its alleged support for international terrorism. He is a star attraction at the three-day summit opening on Monday at which the 38-year-old Organisation of African Unity will become the African Union, along the lines of the European Community. Gaddafi was the moving force behind the AU treaty, which has been ratified by a majority of the 53 OAU members. The Libyan leader has sought common cause with black Africa since its leaders backed his country when it came under U.N. sanctions for its agents' role in the bombing of the U.S. Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland in 1988. A total of 270 people died. Libyan officials had said Gaddafi would attend midday prayers at a mosque in a poor residential district of Lusaka, but journalists were told after hours of waiting that the venue had been changed. Muslims were then driven to the Libyan diplomatic mission where Gaddafi addressed them. Islamic leaders in Zambia say Muslims make up some 10-15 percent of the population of just over 10 million. 12:59 07-08-01 _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
