Tripoli had proposed exchanging Bulgarian nurses

Tripoli had proposed exchanging Bulgarian nurses on death row in Libya for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV virus for its officer imprisoned in Britain for the Lockerbie plane bombing, Solomon Passy, Bulgaria's former foreign minister said.
"This was proposed by the Libyan side during my term as foreign minister" from 2001 to August 2005, Passy told bTV television.
"They had asked me to start talks with my British counterpart Jack Straw over the possibility of such an arrangement -- to exchange our nurses for their man, Megrahi, who is serving a sentence in a Scottish jail over the Lockerbie case," he said. Former Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was condemned in January 2001 for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am plane over the Scottish village of Lockerbie that killed 270 people. He was serving a life sentence in a Scottish jail.