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Ironic words from Moammar Gadhafi’s son

Kai Ryssdal Feb 22, 2011

This final note today. I’m going to read you something — you try to tell me who wrote it, all right?

It’s from a Ph.D thesis at the London School of Economics. Here goes.

“This dissertation analyzes the problem of how to create more just and democratic global governing institutions, exploring the approach of a more formal system of collective decision-making by the three main actors in global society governments, civil society and the business sector.

Written in 2007, by Saif Al-Islam Alqadhafi. Moammar’s son. The guy who went on state television this weekend and said, “we will fight until the last minute.”

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