LIBYA. IF COURT RULES DEATH, MEDICS TO BE EXECUTED, QADDAFI

Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi stated that if a Libyan sentenced to death five Bulgarian medics in a retrial they would be executed.
The Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor had been sentenced to death in May 2004 for the alleged intentional infection of more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. On 25 December 2005 Libya's Supreme Court ordered a new trial.
The Libyan leader said it is noticeable that some countries were demanding the release of the Bulgarian nurses. "These countries should be blamed. It means that these countries are behind this operation," he told Aljazeera.