17 April 1973: Libya leader is growing increasingly impatient with his Arab allies, Syria and Egypt, who were not heeding his plea for a collective, pan-Arab strategy against Israel
Beirut, April 16
Colonel Gadafy has for the first time publicly and unequivocally expressed his dissatisfaction with the way Egypt is handling the Middle East crisis. In a wide-ranging speech yesterday to mark Mohammed’s birthday he declared that in his view “all Arab plans are leading in the end to another defeat.”
He said that he had no personal differences with President Sadat or President Assad of Syria. “But when it comes to the plan of battle we have a real disagreement… However, though we disagree at our meetings we emerge from them brothers as we were before them.”
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