The World - News from Sept. 1, 1986
Libya’s leader, Col. Moammar Kadafi, said he will form an international army to fight the United States if it persists in threatening new attacks against his country. In a fiery speech in Tripoli on the anniversary of his 1969 revolution, Kadafi called President Reagan “Israel’s crazy dog.” He threatened to assemble an army including “fighters from Latin and South America, Asia and Africa to fight America everywhere.” It was his first public speech in the capital since the U.S. air raid in April, after Libya was linked to a terrorist bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen.
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