As PZ McMyers notes, the Libyan court has condemned to death five nurses and a doctor for infecting children with AIDS deliberately as part of an experiment, despite the clear scientific evidence that the real cause was pre-existing strains of AIDS and the lack of proper funding and material, with hypodermics being reused without even sterilisation.
Obviously playing to the domestic audience, the judges are simply following the religious paranoia and extremism of Khaddafi and his government. Expecting them to act rationally was at best an outside bet.
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Their one hope is that Khaddafi is rational enough to be using them as hostages to extort whatever he wants from the West. Hopefully, there is some hard bargaining going on behind the scenes.