Wednesday, 2. March 2011
Topic: POLITIK - on March 2, 2011 at 9:17:00 AM CET
London School of Useful Idiots: How a cadre of Blair cronies, ex-MI5 chiefs and top dons at a top university supported Gaddafi for his millions
The trouble with Fred Halliday was that he drank too much. He repeatedly warned colleagues at the London School of Economics, where he was professor of international relations, that taking money from Libya would come back to haunt them.
Fred spoke ten languages including several from the Middle East. He could see that the university where he had taught for 15 years was dealing with the Devil and risking its precious international reputation. He didn’t even want Saif Gaddafi to be a student there.
They didn’t listen to him. Not just because he drank, of course, but because they were greedy for Libyan money, a donation of a whopping £1.5million that Saif, now 38, made to the LSE a year after they had given him a PhD.
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