BBC news has some details, why the nurses stated that the infections were
done deliberately: They were tortured in indescribable ways by the Libyan
regime. Losing teeth, eyesight, electroshocks and other 'special treatments'
were done to them by their torturers.
Great that this lawless state is now again a member of the world society
and will have soon the means to build atom bombs, thanks to people like
Bush and Sarkozy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6908899.stmSpeaking of his prison experiences, the doctor says he lived for two years in filth
with only salty water to drink, sharing a cell measuring 1.9m (6ft) by 1.7m (5.5ft)
by 3m (9.8ft) with up to eight people at a time.
"I could not lie down to sleep for two years - I could only sit. You cannot imagine it. In the summer it
got so hot, people were passing out."
He says he was beaten up by guards, and had four teeth knocked out when investigators attacked him with clubs.
But that was nothing compared to the electric shocks given to the nurses, he says.
"They tortured and treated them like animals - in fact, you would not treat animals like that."
"The Libyan government kidnapped us because it knew we were a very weak country at that time.
"We feel very bad. We have been humiliated. We are innocent people who have been treated very badly for eight
years. We have been hostages and that is the truth."
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070726-024812-4200r"Every one of us was alone in a cell, we were treated really badly, we can never, ever
forgive this. Only God can forgive, I cannot," he said.
He demonstrated how for a year he was forced to sleep while kneeling, his hands handcuffed behind his back.
"If I bent my head down, a policeman kicked me. I still have scars over my body, they remain and I am asking
any professional to come and examine my scars as evidence that we were tortured," he said.
We were tortured not because we were guilty, but because we were innocent."
Hajuj said that immediately after his arrest in 1999, he was forced to leave his fingerprints on blank sheets
of paper on which admissions of guilt were later printed to be used as signed confessions.
"Because we are innocent. One day the truth will come out as much as they try to hide it. Corruption is all over
the country. The health system, the security, the justice, everywhere," he said.