Sayf Al-Islam the plagiarizer: now LSE notices

"Analysis of Saif Gaddafi's thesis, which investigated arguments around "soft power," different voting systems and civil society, suggests 16 instances where he had plagiarised academic texts. Entire passages were lifted from International Monetary Fund research and a 2005 publication, Denying Democracy: How the IMF and World Bank Take Power from People, by Tim Jones and Peter Hardstaff.  Gaddafi acknowledged in the thesis that he used research commissioned from a consultancy, Monitor, in his text. An LSE spokesman said: "LSE is aware that there are allegations of plagiarism concerning the PhD thesis of Saif Gaddafi. The school takes all allegations of plagiarism very seriously and is looking into the matter in accordance with standard LSE procedures.""