Gadhafi’s son: then and now

As late as last year, Saif al-Islam Alqadhafi was still giving speeches at the London School of Economics

February 23, 2011

Below is audio of a speech by Moammar Gadhafi’s son, Saif al-Islam Alqadhafi, delivered at the London School of Economics on May 25, 2010. (A video of the speech is available here.) Alqadhafi’s speech was titled Libya: Past, Present, and Future, and he was described as "Chairman of the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity and Development based in Tripoli, Libya." The Libyan leader’s son received a Ph.D. from the LSE in 2009 after writing a thesis on The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions: From ‘Soft Power’ to Collective Decision-Making? Here, for the sake of contrast, is the younger Gadhafi’s televised response to the ongoing protests, in which he threatened opponents of his father’s regime with "civil war": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTYR2iK13Y

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Julia Belluz

Julia Belluz is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist covering health care and policy. A Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, she writes the blog/column ‘Science-ish’ for Maclean’s and the Medical Post about the evidence behind the health headlines.