LIBYA. US TO SEEK RELEASE OF BULGARIAN NURSES

the US promised to do all it could to persuade Libya to free five Bulgarian nurses sentenced to death on charges they injected the virus that causes AIDS into 400 children. International observers said the charges were contrived and confessions were extracted by torture. 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Pasi that the Bush administration would "do everything possible, everything within our power, to obtain the release of these prisoners who have been in Libyan prisons for much too long and without justification," department spokesman Adam Ereli said.