Foreign diplomats said that unprecedented media campaign in Libya aimed to influence the trial of the five Bulgarian nurses accused of deliberate HIV infection.

The Bulgarians and a Palestinian medic are accused of the intentional HIV infection of 426 children in the Libyan town of Benghazi.

The court of Tripoli is expected to pronounce the final verdicts on December 19 2006. Its sitting will be held under 'unprecedented pressure from Libyan public,' reports said.

Libyan main daily newspapers already called for the confirmation of the previously issued death sentences of the Bulgarians, Darik said. Over the past week media were publishing broad articles dedicated to the infected children's tragedy and the crime of the six.

Jamahiriya newspaper said that the nurses' cruelty was similar to those of Nero, Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. The Bulgarians were even wilder and more bloodthirsty, the report said.

Other Libyan media call the nurses devils who committed the most disgusting crime. Everyone who refused to help Libya was pronounced betrayer, dirtied by the blood of Libyan children, the report said.