My Classmate Saif Qaddafi

Doug Flahaut Recounts Going to School With Muammar's Son

Classes with Saif

“Hi. My name is Saif. I’m from Libya.” That’s how he introduced himself to his fellow graduate students during our first seminar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. We were all enrolled in the political philosophy program. Saif was better dressed and a little older-looking than most of us, but he didn’t otherwise stand out. LSE is a cosmopolitan school that attracts all sorts of students–even the sons of erratic North African strongmen.

It was only a few months into the Michaelmas term (or first term) …