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The
Libyan people commemorated on Tuesday the 23rd
Anniversary of the failed ýAmerican
aggression on their country that took place on 14 April
1986.ý
A
festival was held in front of the House of the Leader of the
Revolution which ýwithstood
against that aggression in Tripoli. Similar festivities were
also held in ýBenghazi and other
Libyan cities.ý
The
festival held in Tripoli was attended by Chairman of AU
Commission, Jean Ping, ýForeign
Ministers and Heads of delegations of AU member states.ý
A large
number of Libyan top officials and guests of Libya also
attended the ýcommemoration.ý
In a
speech to the large gather the chairman of the Social
People's Leadership said the ýhouse
as it is represents a symbol of victory and the will of the
Libyan people to ýconfront that
unjust American-NATO aggression on Jamahiriya in that year.
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He said
the Leader was targeted by the aggressors because he was and
still the ýchampion for justice
and a great fighter against oppression, racism and
imperialism as ýrepresented by the
Reagan administration that planned and wage such aggression.ý
He
added that Libya not only defeated that aggression, but it
also crushed all pressure, ýsiege
and hostile policies of the US by the firm resolve of the
Libyan people guided ýby the
leader of the Revolution, Jana the Libyan news agency quoted
him as saying.ý
A video
documenting the American acts of hostility against Libya up
to the night of ýý14 April was
screened at the commemoration festival.ý
The
video depicted the Libyan heroic steadfast to the American
aggression which ýtargeted the
Leader's home and the cities of Tripoli and Benghazi.ý |
