A Libyan court has sentenced five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for knowingly infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.
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Relatives of the infected children began celebrating in court as the verdict was read out, reports said.
We have a number of airfields in Norfolk which we shall be pleased to put at your disposal once more for the carrying out of this commendable project.
Sure sounds to me, as the article said, they are scapegoats. I didn’t catch the motives of their infecting the children?
I did get an idea of Libya’s motive when I read:
– “Libya has asked for 10m euros (£6.7m) compensation to be paid to each of the families of victims, suggesting the medics’ death sentences could be commuted in return.” –
The scientific evidence, however, was excluded from the trial. (Despite the protests of 114 Nobel Laureates to do so.)
Bombing may be redundant. If you’re a foreign medical worker, you’d have to be crazy to go to Libya. Hell, if I were a Libyan medical worker, I’d either change professions or get the hell out of Dodge.
When something goes wrong in an Arab country, it has to be someone else’s fault.
Once you understand that then just about everything else that has happened in the Middle East since 1918 makes much more sense.
In this case the children were probably infected by contaminated needles before the Bulgarians arrived, but to admit that would be to admit responsibility for something going wrong.
The Bulgarians were unlucky enough to be educated enough to get the jobs and poor enough to need to take them.
Lousy reason for ending up on the wrong end of a Libyan (or any other) death penalty.
And once again there are pictures of a bunch of people cheering in the streets holding pictures.
Don’t people in Muslim countries ever work?
Maybe if they spent a little more time oh I dunno WORKING on making their societies better, vice praying 5 times a day and marching through the streets they might be a LITTLE better off? I mean we PFCs (Psycho-Fundamentalist-Christians) here in the South may go to church, but we tend to only do so on Sundays, the rest of the time we’re either working or hunting/fishing. Maybe Muslims should take up fishing on their days off vice marching through the streets shooting guns up in the air. Even when we hunt, we tend to try and not waste ammo, that stuff’s expensive, even at Wal-Mart.
The cynic in me says this is an example of “Let no good deed go unpunished.”
The realist in me says mom was right. “Watch who you hang out with. You could get into all kinds of trouble.”
Thanks, mom.
The sad thing about this is, it’s been proven that the kids were HIV-infected before they entered the hospital.
Yeah, Alice. Well, there’s really nothing about this that’s not sad.
See, this is why it’s better to spend money bombing muslims instead of helping them. It’s cheaper in the long run and they hate you either way.
I have a hard time believing that a group of healthcare professionals dedicated to poorer countries’ health would conspire–as a group–to spread such a disease. It doesn’t make sense at all.