Sounds like good news:

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Libya's highest judicial body commuted to life in prison on Tuesday the sentences of six foreign medics who have been on death row for infecting children with the AIDS virus, an official said.

"The Judicial Council decided to commute the death sentence to life in prison," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor, who has been granted Bulgarian citizenship, could serve out their sentences in Bulgaria, as the two countries have an extradition treaty

Let's keep our fingers crossed that these people get sent to Bulgaria to *ahem* "finish out their sentences."

As the old saying goes, however, follow the money.

The decision came after the childrens' families dropped their call for the death penalty following a compensation deal worth millions of dollars.

Yeah, if I truly believed someone deliberately injected my kid with the AIDS virus, I'm not going to take cash over the death penalty. Especially if I'm in Libya, not known for its soft stance towards Westerners.

I believe these people were railroaded to cover up shoddy conditions at the hospital, and then Qaddafi figured out a way to wring cash back from the EU after the payout he had to give in the Lockerbie case.

But, that's just me. I also think that once we got hold of his WMD technology, we should have thanked him with another bombing run.

Yanno, cuz we missed the last time.

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