Gadafi's Son Blithely Admits Torturing Foreign Medics

Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 8:56:58 am PDT

The son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadafi has admitted they tortured the foreign medics they were holding hostage, and threatened their families: Libya ‘tortured’ Bulgarian medics.

Real torture, not Andrew Sullivan-style torture.

The European Union would be outraged, but they’re too busy making deals with Libya.

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi told Al Jazeera TV that Libyan investigators tortured the medics with electric shocks and threatened to target their families.

But Mr Gaddafi denied his country would face legal action for mistreating them.

The five nurses and a Palestinian-born doctor served eight years in detention before being freed by Libya last month. The release was made possible by a deal struck in Tripoli on improving Libya-EU ties, following years of negotiations.

In an interview with the Arabic news channel on Wednesday, Mr Gaddafi admitted the medics had been tortured into confessing.

“Yes, they were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted,” he said. “But a lot of what the Palestinian doctor has claimed are merely lies.”