Saif al-Islam Qaddafi (quote p. 2):
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By Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images.
LOSING HEIR? Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the second son of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, wrote a doctoral thesis on justice and democracy and cultivated influential friends in the West…
Until the violence erupted in Benghazi, in the days before he gave his television address, Saif had somehow managed to straddle two worlds. Occasionally his father clipped his wings: his television station, al-Libya, was reined in, and his stated desire for political reform, reflected in his Ph.D. thesis (which endorsed, ironically, the need “to hold war criminals personally responsible”), was continually under challenge. He did manage to get a few political prisoners released from Libyan jails. Some small degree of free expression entered Libyan society. To the extent that Saif was ever sincere—and this remains an open question—the problem was his father and his name: sources both of opportunity and of constraint…
Via Arts & Letters Daily.
I may be wrong but I believe there was considerable controversy as to whether his Thesis like that of “others” was ghostwritten and did NOT have to be defended because of financial favours to the said institution of higher learnen 🙂
If he was complicit in releasing al-Meghri, he can go on the chopping block with his father.
A little off topic.
That picture Kate was showing of the kid with the UNICEF shirt,
I think has now been photo shopped by the media.
The same kid is on TV firing his weapon but has on a solid blue t-shirt..
Might be able to get a copy..
Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa until NATO started bombing it.
Political reform was occuring.
Didn’t Kahdaffy’s kid get caught plagerizing that thesis?
And didn’t Soros step in because the kid was part of his Open Society Boolsheet?