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'WAR OF WORDS' TO WORSEN SITUATION OF BULGARIA'S NURSES- REUTERS
09:06 Thu 08 Feb 2007
 

Bulgarian-Libyan 'war of words' can harm the efforts for the release of the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic sentenced to death for deliberate HIV infection in Libya.

Libya sentenced to death the medics on December 19 2006 after a re-trial. Bulgaria refused to accept the verdicts and requested international aid in pressuring Libya, Reuters news agency reported.

Bulgaria said that the trial was unfair and violated human rights. Libyan court refused counting as evidence scientific research establishing the innocence of the nurses, according Bulgarian authorities.

Libya said that the medics were part of a monstrous conspiracy, created by foreign intelligence, Reuters said. Local newspaper  al Shams said that the “crime was more ugly than the crimes of (Adolf) Hitler.”

“The atmosphere of mutual recrimination would hamper commutation of the verdicts or the release of the medics,” Reuters said.

Algerian lawyer Saad Djebbar, expert on Libya, said that recrimination would “complicate and lengthen” the trial.

The medics will appeal the verdicts before Libya's Supreme Court. If court confirms the sentences, Libyan authorities can still overrule them.

Experts said that such move was likely only if Libya and Western countries manage to agree on a certain amount of compensation, collected in a fund to support the infected children.

“Prospects of such a deal ... [might] have been dimmed by recent rhetoric,” Reuters said.

 
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Comments by Mickey Grant - 06:07 08 Feb 2007
I'm amazed that Reuters uses the word authorities when saying "Libyan authorities." There should be no "s". Libya is ruled by a dictator and there is only one of them. Also, to relate to the Libyan courts as if any justice is involved means that one had to be blind if they witnessed or read the transcipts of the court record. There is only one voice in Libya and he requires it's citizens not to even utter his name but refer to him as "the leader." This reminds me of another country where it's leader at least wants to be referred to as "Dear Leader." It needs to be made apparent to the world that they are dealing with one of the greatest terrorist, the man who ordered the blowing up of a Pan Am 747 loaded with passengers. Part of his request to possibly release the Bulgarian nuses is that the EU release the Libyan terrorist who was directly charged and sentenced to prison in Scotland. When will the EU and the US stop treating kaddafi (with a small k meaning an insult) as if he is some type of reformed terrorist? If you carefully study his actions over the years you can easily discover he is now mentally ill. Recently he spoke at an Arab conference demanding that Coke pay his country fees as he has discovered ingrediants from the Arab world are used in the making of Coke. kaddafi is a (I started to say "man") very ill egotistical horrible reflection of humanity. Most Libyans consider him the same as I do but they will suddenly disappear if they voiced such a statement. I tried to point all this out in my film INJECTION which clearly blames him for the outbreak in Libya. At any moment of the day or night anyone throughout the world can go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5182317638126553942&q=injection&hl=en and see detailed proof of who killed the over 400 Libyan children. I['m sure his criminal negligence of the medical care in Libya will eventually result in figures of over 100,000 HIV cases in Libya.
 
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