Associated Press, July 24, 2007 Sofia - Five Bulgarian nurses and a
Palestinian doctor were pardoned by President Georgi Parvanov upon
their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday after spending 81⁄2 years in prison
in Libya. The medics, who were sentenced to life in prison for
allegedly contaminating children with the AIDS virus, arrived on a
plane with French first lady Cecilia Sarkozy and the EU’s commissioner
for foreign affairs, Benita Ferrero-Waldner. The six came down the
steps from the airplane and were welcomed on the tarmac by family
members who hugged them, one lifting the Palestinian doctor off the
ground. ... Bulgarian