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UNCLAS TRIPOLI 000874 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR S/ES-CR, S/ES-O, AND NEA/MAG 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OPDC PREL OVIP LY
SUBJECT: LIBYAN LEADER AL-QADHAFI'S CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE 
PRESIDENT-ELECT 
 
REF: STATE 118192 
 
¶1. (U) Post received on November 9 via telefax a letter from 
Leader Muammar al-Qadhafi conveying his congratulations to the 
President-elect.  We have not yet received the note in hard copy. 
 
¶2. (SBU) Post's informal translation of the Arabic language 
letter follows: 
 
Begin text of letter: 
 
Dear Mr. President Obama, 
 
I have the pleasure to send a congratulation note for the first 
time to an American president, and on behalf of all Africa, and 
of Cen-Sad, the base of the African pyramid, and on behalf of 
the Arab Maghreb Union, and in the name of all Arab leaders as I 
am their dean. 
 
Since relations are resumed between our two countries, we have 
the right to congratulate you from the bottom of our hearts 
because you are the son of Africa. 
 
God gives reign to whom He wishes and takes it away from whom He 
wishes; he holds dear whom he wants and humiliates whom he wants 
as well.  He retains all the good in His hands, and He is the 
all powerful; and He pledged to confer His favors on those 
deemed weak and to bequeath them the Earth. 
 
Blacks were deemed weak and were oppressed, and were taken to 
the American continent as slaves and indentured servants. 
 
The main point is that Blacks shall not have an inferiority 
complex and imitate the Yankees. 
 
They have to prove that they are partners to the whites and 
sharing the same continent; that the Whites themselves are not 
indigenous, but that they have come from overseas; that the 
black man is not less competent than the white man; and that the 
black color shall prevail in the world as predicted by the Green 
Book. 
 
I salute the American people who have chosen you in these 
historical elections for such a high position, so that you may 
lead the change that you have promised them and for which they 
have rallied around you. 
 
We hope that you lead the United States of America on the path 
of good and respect peoples' sovereignty and observe the policy 
of neutrality. 
 
Sincerely, 
 
Muammar al-Qadhafi 
 
End text. 
 
¶3. (U) Post will forward the original via diplomatic pouch 
if/when we receive it. 
 
STEVENS