The Nation - News from March 1, 1985

Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, said that he has no doubt that Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi was sincere in offering to help arm and train black Americans for an armed uprising against the U.S. government. Kadafi addressed the group’s convention in Chicago via satellite last weekend. But while “we are pleased that Brother Kadafi and the Libyan people see the struggle of blacks and Indians in America as a just struggle,” Farrakhan told a Washington news conference, “I cannot accept the carnal weapons of this world.”