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WASHINGTON - The United States welcomed on Tuesday a reported Libyan offer to release five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death for allegedly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with AIDS The proposal to free the six in exchange for compensation to the families of the infected children was made by the son of Libyan

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    jaern1 year, 8 months ago

    Of course the USA would welcome the release. How many Iraqi children have we killed?

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      TOD3961 year, 8 months ago

      Most of the civilians killed in Iraq have died as a result of terrorists actions. U.S. soldiers have killed a very small percentage of the total amount of women and children killed. And further, it is still less than the amount of women and children who were being killed BEFORE the US went to Iraq. But I am sure you already knew this, you just want the US to be wrong, regardless of facts.

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        TimeBuster1 year, 8 months ago

        You know what? Only a fool and an uneducated bullock would say what you just posted. Where to heck has all the intelligence that is supposed be online at? One would think that you would see the humanity in the story. Instead you use it as a launching pad for your anti-american bull-crap.

        Go live in China and let me know how well you like this country after a month.....if your big mouth dont get you killed that is.

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          Blackace1 year, 8 months ago

          Good move on their part... I think Momar is getting really smart in his old age or is he setting us sor the kill?

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          Lalanav1 year, 8 months ago

          Yes, I agree. If they did actually knowingly infect those children with AIDS, then they absolutely deserve to be put to death.

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            evelyna1 year, 8 months ago

            It would be hard to find a group of medical personnel who would deliberately try to infect children.

            Libya is a cheap country and they were probably using rinky-dink supplies designated to them by their poor excuse of leadership in the country.

            How long do people live over their anyway? Not too close to the aspirin factory I hope.

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              AJaye1 year, 8 months ago

              If they did it...They should pay for their crimes...

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                ADAGUY1 year, 8 months ago

                The question remains, was it their intention to infect these children? or was all the blood available tainted in the first place. If this was intentional, why in the hell are we trying to save them? More Bush logic I guess!

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                  vor1 year, 8 months ago

                  I don't think I would particularly want my fate in the hands of that nut Quadafi. Does anyone really believe this doctor and nurses intentionally infected these kids?

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                    fretslinger581 year, 8 months ago

                    I have a difficult time accepting that medical people knowingly kill children. Sounds to me more like they were used as an escape goat for the lack of proper testing and control by the authorities. That's what scared government officials do, point the finger at someone else.

                    And now they see a way out of their mess by appearing humain to the rest of the world. If the Libyans thought these people were guilty in the first place, they probably would have been executed long before they ever spent this many years in prison.

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                      Changingconstant1 year, 8 months ago

                      Unfortunately medical professionals do forgoe their hypocrattic oath occasionally and cause damage to people.

                      There have been US Drs. in the US who have done the same (though not on the same scale).

                      There have been Dentists raping patients under anesthesia, parents abusing children, teachers having sex with their students.

                      The level of violence and creulty of the human race knows no bounds.

                      "Give the human species too much rope and they'll f*!k it up" Roger Waters -Amused to Death album

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                      Watchemoket1 year, 8 months ago

                      OK, come on people. What kind of morons would intentionally infect several hundred CHILDREN with HIV, then stick around long enough to be arrested? More to the point, if these medical workers were volunteers (the article doesn't say one way or the other) what was their motive to do so?

                      The whole situation stinks of another propaganda ploy by the Ghadafi/Kadhafi/Gathafi... regime to posture itself as a victim (of Bulgaria and Palestine?) and extort money from other countries. The article also doesn't say where the expected "substantial compensation for the families of those affected" is to come from.

                      All in all, a very sad affair.

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                        sue20081 year, 8 months ago

                        1st they need to be monitored and diagnosed for any mantel illness and also given polygraph test. Before they think our kids are their lab testing mice and start injecting them with AIDS and wait to see the outcome for their soo called new cure for AIDS. It is kind hard to believe that someone sworn to cure and to give care would deliberate do such an awful thing.

                        There is something fishy about that story!!

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                          pashmi1 year, 8 months ago

                          Sorry. I am not impressed with these Libyans. They are trying so hard to kiss up to Americans and Europeans that is not even funny. These( former) revolutionaries! have handed the West a bottle of " KY Jelly" and pleading "please be gentle!" How can you O.K. the delibrate attempt at killing innocent children? Who the hell is the son of Gaddafi to make that decision for all those dead kids? I don't get this.

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                            GabiO1 year, 8 months ago

                            The case is 8 years old and has received a lot of attention in Europe, but apparently not over here. According to all evidence the nurses are innocent, yet they have been imprisoned, tortured to confess, sentenced to death, and then abused in a Lybian prison for 8 years. The scientific and medical community worldwide has protested this for years, diplomats have tried to influence the case, yet these six poor women are still rotting in prison. Some of them have left children and grandchildren behind.

                            You can read about the case here;

                            http://www.nabble.com/Bulgarian-Nurses-in-Lybia-t2

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                              GabiO1 year, 8 months ago

                              What I don't get is how you people decided without any knowledge on this case that the nurses are guilty of the crime they've been accused for--by Libya... These innocent women have been through hell and the whole world has been behind them, yet you pronounce them killers in an instant, without even bothering to read up on it a little bit.

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                                krayzdrayzor1 year, 8 months ago

                                What seems to elude me is that a "news story" about people not being killed is basis for an arguement.

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