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October 20, 2005
Bulgarian Mossad Agents!
Five Bulgarian Nurses and a Palestinian doctor working in Libya are on trial for their lives, accused of infecting children with the AIDS virus.
Of the 380 children that are infected, 47 have died.
The nurses and the doctor initially confessed to the charges but later claimed police extracted their confessions with torture including beatings and electric shocks.
Libyan dictator Muhammar Gaddafi has accused the nurses and the physician of being -- I kid you not -- Israeli Mossad agents. The Bulgarian nurses, who probably cannot find Israel on a map, and the Palestinian doctor, who alas, probably can, all face a firing squad.
By all accounts, the AIDS virus is rampant in some parts of the Arab world, but denial is the order of the day and who else to blame but impoverished foreigners and naturally, the eternal enemy: Jews/Israel.
It's eerily reminicent of the outrageous charges hurled at Jews during the Middle Ages when they were accused of poisoning wells and causing the Bubonic Plague.
President Bush has been protesting this sham trial vigorously. Condoleezza Rice has lodged complaint after complaint, threatening to isolate Libya diplomatically and economically.
Perhaps it's time to drop a few bombs on Gaddafi's tent again. It worked quite well when President Reagan did it. I vote for the Daisy Cutter.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at October 20, 2005 09:12 AM
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So now it's not even necessary to actually be Jewish -- one only needs to be associated with Jews to be accused of wrongdoing. Scary.
What's odd is the photo accompanying the article. It states that a boy who became infected with HIV subsequently transmitted it to his mother. That's strange.
Posted by: Tamara at October 21, 2005 10:56 AM
Oh man that is truly outrageous.
Posted by: Teem at October 21, 2005 12:39 PM
terrible story on many different levels, Robert. I have to admit, I had to look up "Daisy cutter"...couldn't imagine that you were actually proposing we send bouquets of flowers to remedy this situation.
Posted by: Randi at October 21, 2005 01:01 PM
Randi:
Good to hear from you, Razel.
The Daisy Cutter bomb is awfully powerful. I have read eye witness accounts that report that when this bomb is dropped on a mountain in Afghanistan, the mountain literally disappears. Which is what we should do to the tyrant Gaddafi. The world has put up with this murderer far too long.
Have a lovely Shabbos.
Posted by: Robert at October 21, 2005 01:15 PM