Go on Tsarko! Give Libya a Prize for Holding the Nurses for Eight Years on Ridiculous Trumped Up Charges, Why Don’t You? And by Drawing the EU Ever Closer to Libya, You Can Islamize Europe Still Further!

Photo of Sarkozy courtesy of the BBC

BBC: French President Nicolas Sarkozy is travelling to Tripoli to meet Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, a day after the release of six foreign medics.

The meeting is being seen as a sign of the normalisation of ties between Libya and the EU following the release.

The foreign workers were held for eight years for infecting children with HIV.

The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian-born doctor, who served eight years of their life sentences, always maintained they were innocent.

All six were pardoned on their arrival in Sofia by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov.

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Europe and the US had made it clear to Libya that resolving their situation was the key to improving ties.
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Mark Alexander