Kadafi Says Family Still Suffers From U.S. Raid

LONDON — Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi said in an interview published today that his family is still suffering emotionally from last April’s U.S. bombing raid.

Kadafi was also quoted in today’s edition of the weekly Observer newspaper as saying he increased arms supplies to the outlawed Irish Republican Army in retaliation for Britain’s role in the raid.

The Observer interviewed Kadafi at one of the remote desert camp sites where he has spent much of his time since U.S. fighter-bombers based at the Lakenheath Royal Air Force Base destroyed his Tripoli home.

President Reagan ordered the raid in retaliation for terrorist attacks in Western Europe linked to Libya. Kadafi said his family is still suffering “psychologically” from the attack, in which two of his children were wounded and a 15-month-old adopted daughter killed.

“I was disappointed with a superpower conspiring and attacking a small nation and attacking a family . . . when they are sleeping,” he said. “Britain is a great nation and America is a superpower. We believe now that by doing this, the Americans and the British, they are not humans, but they fall somewhere in between--between monkeys and human beings.”