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Take Action:Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:In Libyan revolt, hope for resolving 13-year medical drama
By SHASHANK BENGALI - The Miami Herald - May 1, 2011
For 13 years, a real-life medical drama has vexed this city, tracing the tortuous contours of Moammar Gadhafi's long reign over Libya:
A public health crisis. A politically motivated witch hunt. Faulty science. Conspiracy theories. Prisoner abuse. Geopolitical gamesmanship. And, at its heart, more than 400 children who inexplicably found themselves infected with HIV.
Now, the revolt in eastern Libya has raised the tantalizing possibility that the truth in the case of the Benghazi Six will finally come out.
"There is something missing in this story, and if things change in Tripoli many secrets will open up," said Ali Bin Jalil, a pediatrician who was working at Al Fateh Hospital in Benghazi in 1998, when it was hit with the biggest hospital-borne outbreak of HIV in history.
In the span of a few months, at least 426 patients in the children's wards, some as young as 4 months, tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. Seventeen mothers also became infected, most likely through breast-feeding. Sixty-two of the children have died.
Ignoring the findings of international experts - who determined that the virus was spread by poor hygiene at the hospital - a Libyan court convicted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medical intern who were working in the ward of deliberately injecting the children with HIV. They were sentenced to death by firing squad and spent more than seven years in prison. Human rights groups accused Libyan authorities of beating the six prisoners with wires, administering electric shocks, forcing objects down their throats and unleashing dogs on them as they screamed.
It was difficult not to see Gadhafi's politics at work in the case. At the start, Libyan officials accused the medics of plotting with the CIA and Israel's Mossad spy agency - two of Gadhafi's favorite bogeymen - to infect the children. They later withdrew that, charging instead that the six were freelancers conducting medical experiments.
The case would become an important bargaining chip for Gadhafi, who by the 2000s was trying to patch up relations with the West. At one point, he offered to spare the nurses' lives if Scottish authorities released Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Libyan former intelligence officer imprisoned for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing. In 2007, after lobbying from France and others, he agreed to extradite the six to Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's president immediately commuted their sentences and set them free, deeply angering parents of the AIDS victims.
"It was shameful," said Idriss Laga, 53, whose infant daughter was among those infected at the hospital. "That was all to support Saif's political ambitions," referring to Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, the architect of the regime's one-time rapprochement, who's vowed lately that his father would fight his opponents "until the last bullet."
Scientists have called the charges against the medics "garbage," and so much time has passed that at least a dozen of the children have had children of their own (all are HIV-negative).
But it's a testament to the power of Gadhafi's relentless message machine - a four-decade program of simultaneously assailing the Western world and playing its victim - that nearly every Libyan connected with the case thinks that the Benghazi Six are guilty.
Bin Jalil said, "That's what we've always been told by the investigators." Laga, for his part, said the key to the case lay with "John," a British man whom one of the nurses named in a jailhouse confession that she later retracted, saying it was extracted by torture.
Over the past two months, with a thoroughness that suggests a communal cleansing, Benghazi, the new opposition capital, has scrubbed itself of all reminders of Gadhafi's rule. Osama Ali Eljhawi, the director of a special medical center in Benghazi that Gadhafi established for the AIDS patients, is one of the few who are starting to see the case in a new light.
"The nurses had no motive," Eljhawi, a portly, genial man who was a pediatrician in the hospital when the outbreak occurred, finally acknowledged near the end of an hourlong interview in his office.
But he dismissed the allegations of hospital negligence, adding, "If the nurses didn't inject them, someone else did."
That explanation flies in the face of several high-powered inquiries, including one by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered HIV, Luc Montagnier. In 2003, at the invitation of the Libyan government, he and the prominent Italian virologist Vittorio Colizzi examined blood samples and concluded that the infections in some of the children predated the nurses' arrival at the hospital.
The strain of HIV matched a particularly virulent form prevalent in West and Central Africa, which was probably how it entered Benghazi, they said. Noting severe shortages of drugs and medical supplies at the hospital, as well as a lack of understanding of a virus that had been exceedingly rare in Libya to that point, they argued that the hospital staff had most likely spread HIV by reusing needles and catheters.
"No evidence has been found for a deliberate injection of HIV-contaminated material," the report concluded.
The Gadhafi regime promptly convened a Libyan panel that reached the opposite conclusion, which the court favored.
Colizzi, who traveled to Libya to conduct the inquiry and testified at the nurses' trial, said the Benghazi doctors' unwillingness to believe the research stemmed from simple fear: admitting guilt would run afoul of a regime for which the case had become extremely valuable.
"If they had to say they were responsible, they could be put in jail. They could be killed by the Gadhafi system," Colizzi said in a phone interview. "So there is some kind of alliance between the Gadhafi system and the Benghazi doctors for the same objective: for Gadhafi to play politics, for the doctors to escape responsibility."
Underscoring the case's importance to Gadhafi, doctors said that the regime had lavished the children's families with $1 million each in compensation, established the AIDS center in Benghazi and waived bureaucratic restrictions so that they could purchase - with government money - name-brand anti-retroviral drugs directly from U.S. and European manufacturers.
"He always made special accommodations for them," Eljhawi said. "Other HIV cases in Libya are in a bad state. They have a shortage of drugs, even generic ones. ... But if I wanted anything for the Benghazi cases I would just write a letter saying, 'As you know, this issue is under the direct care of Moammar Gadhafi.' It was the magic word.'"
That special relationship appears to be over: When the anti-Gadhafi uprising began in mid-February, the supply of drugs from Tripoli abruptly stopped. Doctors are scrambling to replenish their stock before it runs out in two months.
It may take longer to establish the truth in this case.
"The full story will hopefully come out in time," said Jamal Ben-Amer, a respected Benghazi physician who's unconnected to the case. "I know it is very hard for outside people to believe what we are saying. But I don't believe it could be an accident. This is always what we have been told."
- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck - Fox News. Glenn Beck is anti-gay rights. Update: Boycott Successful: Update 4/7/2011: Beck has been fired by FOX NEWS! Radio stations dropping Beck as well in several locations.
- Update: DADT has been repealed. President Obama has kept his promise!
- Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida!
- Boycott Arizona the home of "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities. A remedy: Demand Republicans to support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform!
- Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores. Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech! STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 4/8/2011: Target lost it's case to stop the LGBT from canvassing in front of their stores. A huge PR Disaster for TARGET! Perhaps Target should go out of business as they betrayed their investers and customer base. Target contributed massive funds to a politician who would like to exterminate gays. Now, Target can not stop us from Boycotting them, nor picketing, nor talking to customers near their stores; although, Target allows a anti-gay company such as the Salvation Army to stand outside their door and speak with customers and raise money. Isn't this a double standard?
- End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
- Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
- Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
- BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating to anti-gay marriage groups.
- BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
- Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
- Remember David Kato, Gay activist - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay!
- NEW: "Tune Out Trump", Boycott all Trump Hotel, casinos, holdings, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? Boycott NBC, CNBC! Boycott advertisers of The Apprentice and Trump's other business's. Don't shop at any bullding with Donald Trump's name to include Trump Hotels, Casinos, Condo's, Offices, Shops! The Donald has expressed extreme Hatred towards gays and now blacks with his birther remarks and anti-gay rhetoric. Remember how poorly Trump treated Rosie O'Donnel? Now we know why he did that! It was hate against a lesbian as we now know he is bigot. Unforgiveable! Dump NBC because they air Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"! Start Watching CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (who is unfortunately leaving).
- NEW: Boycott "APPLE." For the current owners and the aspiring owners of the I-phone, Apple allows an application, "The Gay App", which is supposed to help gay individuals turn straight. This is a step in the wrong direction.
Apple needs to know that the decision to allow this App on their products is a fallacious idea! Update: March 23, 2011: Apple removed this app from USA stores; but, rumored to have them remain in some foreign stores. This is offensive not just towards the LGBT community in the USA; but, offensive to the entire LGBT community around the world. How does anyone approve such a hateful, despicable app towards the LGBT community? Especially when Gay Teens are killing themselves after being harrassed by their church, parents, as well as by bully's and teachers at school. The idea that this app was used, solicited is disgusting.
And Now, Our War of the Fittest!
This group is called "Peckers Pics." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, you should select the guy that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!Your participation in discussion of health / news articles - appearing in this message is greatly appreciated.
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