Libya Slams Bulgaria 'Betrayal' over Pardoned AIDS Medics

What's more insane that accusing nurses of deliberately infecting children with HIV? The answer: allowing the Libyan's to make the international community grovel before them. And Bush, not too long ago, was praising the Libyan's as an example of a success story in the war on terror:

Libya on Saturday denounced a decision by Bulgaria's president to pardon six medics from life jail terms in an AIDS case as a "betrayal" and illegal.

[...]Held in Libya since 1999, the five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor with Bulgarian citizenship were sentenced to death after being convicted of deliberately infecting 438 Libyan children with the AIDS-causing HIV virus.

Fifty-six of the children later died.

Libya allowed them to return on Tuesday to Bulgaria, where they had been due to serve life terms in prison, but instead the six were pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgy Parvanov.

The families of the children have criticised Bulgaria's decision, and their representative Idriss Lagha again on Saturday called on Libya's government to request that Interpol rearrest the medics, and for Tripoli to cut all diplomatic ties with Sofia.

The medics were detained in 1999 and allegedly made to confess to deliberately infecting the children with the HIV virus at a hospital in Libya's second city of Benghazi where they worked.

The six were sentenced to death in 2004 on the basis of confessions by the doctor and two of the nurses who later retracted their statements, saying they had been extracted under torture.

Here is the crazy part:

The death sentences against the six were commuted to life in prison before the medics were extradited to Bulgaria on Tuesday following an agreement with the European Union for their release.

Under the deal, the victims' families are each to receive one million dollars and the EU normalised its relations with Libya while pledging partnerships in the fields of health, education, border control and the upkeep of the country's many archaeological sites.

How do you negotiate with savages like this:

Since their release, the medics have spoken out about their eight-year ordeal.

"All of us were treated like animals... we were tortured for a long time, with electricity, beatings, deprivation of sleep" and drugs, Hajuj said in an interview on Thursday.