Alia Brahimi hosts a Gaddafi apologists' 'love-in' at the LSE PART 1/4

Alia Brahimi, an LSE academic, chairs the shocking and shameful Gaddafi 'love-in' session.

'You're most welcome here, Colonel Gaddafi,' announces Alia Brahimi in the video, before praising his record as 'the world's longest serving national leader'.

Alia Brahimi salutes the autocrat warmly - even greeting him with the following words in Arabic: 'Peace be upon you'.

Alia Brahimi makes positive references to Gaddafi's Green Book, the manual which tries to justify the oppressive manner in which the country has been run since 1969, and to an LSE programme used to train Gaddafi's henchmen.

Alia Brahimi continually refers to Gaddafi as the 'Brother Leader' -- a title which Libya's impoverished population has been forced to use for the past 42 years on pain of death.

'Brother Leader, you have the floor,' says Alia Brahimi in the video, before allowing Gaddafi to launch into a diatribe against numerous past world leaders including Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.

At the end of his lecture, Alia Brahimi, gifts the Colonel a black baseball cap bearing the bright red LSE logo. You're in good company, she assured him. Mandela, Kofi Annan, and Bill Clinton also have them.

What she does not reveal is that her work is being directly funded to the tune of £1.5 million by Gaddafi's controversial son, Saif Al-Islam, who last week announced that 'rivers of blood' will run through Libya as pro-democracy campaigners are murdered.

The donation to the LSE's North Africa Programme, which Alia Brahimi manages, was negotiated by her boss, Professor David Held, a close advisor and personal friend of Ed Miliband.

Alia Brahimi has also been a regular visitor to Tripoli and Greece, where she was hosted by Gaddafi and his family.

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• Anthony Giddens
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[fordeboi]

Although sometimes Gaddaffi in his talks a little disjointed if you have the intelligence to interpret what he is saying it actually makes a lot of sense. i think that once again we was lied to, I have seen the mass protests that took place in favour of Gaddaffi. Revolution always involves death, and when you are constantly under the eye of the Americans and the people plotting to get their hands on your wealth you have to be carefull of collabarators or get rid of them in short.

[AfriSynergy]

Good for her and for Gaddafi. The US funds al Qaeda as well as NGOs that instigates insurrections and terrorism.

[evasassy]

this man was taken out and brutally murdered in his own country by Nato help for wanting to trade oil in gold and flood the markets with oil... just imagine what would British people think if their head of state would be killed in this way in Green Park, saying she was hiding in a hole, and along her another hundred thousand, well proportionally one million British bombed and the whole UK bombed back to stone age?? can people not see the insanity of the whole agression and state terror inflicted

[evasassy]

why is it worse to refer to a head of state as "Brother Leader" than say " Her Majesty"??? OH the hypocrisy hurt some would shout....

[evasassy]

just go on facebook and ask Libyan youth how they despise the rebel thugs!

[evasassy]

Nato created genocide. The rebels were partly British mercenaries, the no fly zone morphed into massive attack on all Libya, this whole thing stinks; and yes Obama and Sarko are being sued. The Libyans call the rebel governors rats, there is so much fishy that the media is silent now, no more cheerleading the violence

[richard20bris]

So, how are all you people feeling today, LoL?

You thought Bush was a "warmonger"? Well, just look at Barack "Send in the drones" Obama! He's absolutely awesome! Arab dictators/terrorist everywhere must be shaking in their boots! :-)

[LinuxNavigator]

Respond to this video... Did you know that French lawyers are suing Sarkozy for Crimes Against Humanity?

Of course this did not happened in the UK. Was it Cameron himself who said British youth have no morals?

[allthings509]

@LinuxNavigator Cameron is a mass murderer and international criminal

[allthings509]

@LinuxNavigator yes NATO wants to destroy all independent nations hence their terrorist assault on Libya