Reply #77: Moussa Ibrahim: How Libya's voice was shaped in Britain

[joshcryer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12918246">Moussa Ibrahim: How Libya's voice was shaped in Britain
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What British audiences watching may not realise is that this Gaddafi advocate, with his neatly-trimmed goatee beard and open-neck shirts, spent 15 years in the UK gaining his education.

Ibrahim, who has a German-born wife and a young son, studied politics at the University of Exeter in the early 2000s and worked on a PhD in media arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, completing his final exam in May 2010 - although he has not formally received his doctorate as supervisors are awaiting a small number of required amendments to his thesis.

Those who knew him in his student days describe a serious, friendly but short-tempered young man who caused a diplomatic incident on a university trip and attracted the attentions of the police in an ice cream-throwing incident.

"I lived in London for 15 years," he told Sky News in a recent interview. "I know every street in London. I know how decent the British people are."