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Gadaffi Prodigy Offers Study in Politics of Middle Eastern Soccer

Gadaffi Prodigy Offers Study in Politics of Middle Eastern Soccer

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James M. Dorsey
Feb 23, 2011
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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadaffi’s controversial soccer-playing son, Saadi, offers a study in the use of soccer by authoritarian Arab regimes to distract attention from economic and political problems and of the embattled Libyan dictator’s divide and rule approach to governance.

Described by a 2009 US diplomatic cable disclosed by Wikileaks as “notorio…

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