Posted by
Dawnsblood on Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:19:26 PM
I am going to break an unspoken rule I have followed in the short time I have posted links here. I am going to link to a story at
Kos.
Instapundit covers it too, but a blogswarm will be all the bigger if the entire blogosphere joins in. Besides (sorry Glenn) believe it or not, Nyceve over at Kos covers it in great detail. In brief, Nyceve lays out the situation:
In a nutshell, and I mean a true nutshell, for those of you not
familiar, the case involves five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian
doctor who have been wrongfully charged for allegedly infecting
children with HIV. They were tortured and forced to sign "confessions"
written in Arabic they did not understand now they are awaiting
execution by firing squad in Libya . In fact, the poor hygiene, dirty
needles and bad practices in the hospital are to blame. Click on the Kos link above and read more, I only include the Insta link in case someone absolutely refuses to give Marcos traffic. This seems a bit too important for partisan politics.
Update: Here is a link to Declan Butler's Blog about it. He is a senior reporter with Nature Magazine. He points us to an editorial in Nature magazine. The editoral is very critical of everyone from the US to the EU:
The principles of law and science have the common aim of discovering
the truth. A previous assessment of the case by two prominent AIDS
researchers, Luc Montagnier and Vittorio Colizzi, concluded that the
charges are false, that the medics are innocent, and that the
infections resulted from poor hygiene in Libya's hospitals. It was not
a plot orchestrated by the CIA and Israel's Mossad, as President
Gaddafi alleged in 2001 — an allegation that has driven a popular
thirst for vengeance in Libya.
I'll be writing a few letters to Washington before I turn in.