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December 19, 2006
Libya: Medical Workers Sentenced to Death in HIV Conspiracy Case
This dirty conspiracy, after serving its originals purposes of manufacturing grievances against the United States and Israel, deflecting responsibility for the suffering of those children, and propping up the Ghadaffi regime in the process, is now doubling as an extortion scheme. These are the people we are asked to sacrifice for by our governments: Medical workers sentenced to death in HIV retrial in Libya
PARIS: A Libyan court on Tuesday again sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to be shot by a firing squad for deliberately infecting more than 400 children with HIV, more than 50 of whom have died. The decision complicates Libya's efforts to improve relations with the West.The verdict drew expressions of anger and alarm from Bulgaria and its supporters in the nearly eight-year-old case, which now appears likely to drag on for months, if not years, more.
"We are going to urge the Libyan political leadership to engage in the process," the Bulgarian foreign minister, Ivailo Kalfin, said from Washington, where he met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hours after the verdict was announced.
Kalfin said his country was working through the Libyan Foreign Ministry to ask the nation's leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, and political institutions to intervene on the ground that an inefficient and biased judicial system had failed to deal with the case credibly.[...]
Hat tip, The Religion of Peace.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at December 19, 2006 5:23 PM
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