AIDS Case Deal May Forgive Libyan Debt

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

AIDS Case Deal May Forgive Libyan Debt

By KHALED EL-DEEB
The Associated Press
Saturday, July 14, 2007; 8:58 PM

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Several eastern European countries would
forgive Libyan debt dating back to the Cold War under a
proposal to compensate families whose children were allegedly
infected with the AIDS virus by five Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor, a victims' advocate said Saturday.

The six foreign medics have been sentenced to death in the
case, and Libyan officials have said a settlement could pave
the way for their release.

Jailed since 1999, the six deny having infected more than 400
children and say their confessions were extracted under torture.
Experts and outside scientific reports have said the children
were contaminated as a result of unhygienic conditions at a
hospital in the northeastern coastal city of Benghazi. Fifty of
the infected children died.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/14/AR2007071400602.html

[aquart]

1. Now that's clever negotiation.

[seriousstan]

2. I think it is called extortion. These people are innocent health providers.

Why would they infect innocent children? These are trumped-up charges fed to an uneducated public for cash.

[aquart]

5. Extortion and negotiation...really thin line.

Nobody reasons with the reasonable, because they can be talked out of anything. Take the hard unreasonable line, then let THEM negotiate till they meet your price.

Everyone but my party leaders knows that.

[Igel]

3. True to those that are his spiritual, if not genetic, ancestors.

Libya was part of the Barbary Coast.

"To the shores of Tripoli."

The 'pirates' also negotiated in clever ways, no doubt, but finally the US got tired of paying protection money, even though Europe didn't.

[SpikeTss]

4. Libya is the litmus test for Bush's 'war on terror'

Remember: Libya is one of the few nations, who without a doubt
committed (and very likely still do) terrorist acts against
the United States:

- Blowing up a discotheque and killing our soldiers

- Destroying an airliner, killing hundreds of citizens

- Funding terrorist organizations in Palestine and elsewhere

And yet, without really admitting these gruesome terrorist acts of his
gruesome regime, Qaddafi can now - all of a sudden - behave, like he
leads a normal country. British and US firms are investing in his
murderous terror state, giving money to his twisted regime and no
one seems to notice. At least not the media.
Especially absurd is the behavior of the secret service, who suddenly
tries with every imaginable trick to let the Libyan perpetrators of the
Lockerbie bombing appear as innocent.

The reason behind this? It's money! Cheney and his and Bush's henchmen
from big corporations, like Halliburton, are trying to make big money
in Libya.

So the blood of those US citizens, who were killed by the ruthless
Libyan state, don't count for Bush and his cronies. Because he and
his friends are trying to make money with a regime, that made money
by murdering people.

Now, isn't this strange? Where is the outrage about this?