How is this for ironic? Libya blames the Jews and Zionists for deliberately infecting people with AIDS, only then to convict a PLO Arab doctor among others.
Libya has sentenced six Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doctor to death by firing squad for deliberately infecting 400 children with HIV. Prosecutors demanded the death penalty, saying the accused gave patients HIV in a bid to find an Aids cure.
The medics had been on trial in the city of Benghazi, where they worked at a children’s hospital, for five years.
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The medics were initially accused by the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, of acting on orders from the CIA and the Israeli secret service, Mossad, although Libya later rowed back on this allegation.
Somehow, I doubt the charges are founded.
All along the health workers denied guilt and said they had been tortured by the police, with daily beatings, sexual assault and electric shocks.
They called expert witnesses, including one of the team which discovered the Aids virus, who said this was an epidemic caused by poor hygiene at the hospital, not by any international conspiracy.
Western diplomats say the prosecutions arose because the authorities simply needed someone to blame for a tragedy which caused outrage in Libya – more than 400 children infected in Benghazi.
Daily beatings? Sexual assault? Perhaps Libyan leader Gaddafi should make some statements to placate the inevitable Western rage (and resulting terrorism).
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Exactly. Of course, no one else would care that these health workers, whether guilty or innocent, might have been the recipients of “beatings, sexual assault and electric shocks.” Incredible…
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