Panel 1 of a 3-part symposium on “The Current State of North Korea and the Future of the U.S.-Korea Alliance”, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton University) and Foreign Policy Magazine, Oct 13, 2006. Moderator: Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University Panelists Discussants: Stephen Kim, North Korea Analyst, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Marcus Noland, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics; Betsy Henderson, Director of Research, Radio Free Asia; Christopher Chyba, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Oct 13, 2006.
THE NURSES ARE NOW FREE. THANK GOODNESS. WHAT IS UNFORTUNATE TODAY IS THAT kaddafi IS GAINING BENEFIT FROM THIS RELEASE. I JUST RETURNED FROM BULGARIA AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER 2007 WITH INTERVIEWS I DID WITH SOME OF THE BENGHAZI 6. ONE OF MY AMAZING DISCOVERIES IS THAT SOME OF THEM WERE ABLE TO VIEW INJECTION IN PRISON IN LIBYA. ALSO, I LEARNED THAT THE AIDS OUTBREAK IN LIBYA IS SO LARGE THAT THEY HAVE BUILT CLASSIFIED TOWNS FOR THE HIV VICTIMS TO LIVE. A NEW VERSION OF THE FILM WILL BE RELEASED FOR BROADCAST IN EARLY 2008. FOR MORE INFO ON THE FILM: U.S.PHONE 214-282-2671 In Libya in 1999, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were arrested and convicted of infecting over four hundred Libyan children with HIV in a Benghazi hospital. Libyan dictator Moammar Khadaffi proclaimed before the trial that the nurses conspired with the American CIA and the Israeli Mossad to maliciously infect the children. Widespread reuse of disposable syringes is responsible for as many as seven million cases of AIDS in Africa. Public health officials are reluctant to discuss this problem, perhaps in fear that Africans will avoid critical medical care, such as inoculations for malaria and other virulent diseases. The thrust of public AIDS prevention campaigns is on safe sex, and healthcare risks are critically overlooked. In this investigative documentary, Mickey Grant travels to Kenya, Bangkok, Sofia, Benghazi, Tripoli, Rome and London in an attempt to discover the truth. He follows the trail of syringes from hospital to garbage dump, and then back into Africa’s health care system. You’ll hear moving testimony from leaders of the World Health Organization, Amnesty International, African government officials, the Khadaffi opposition, journalists, medical scientists, doctors, and health care workers. You’ll also hear from one of the accused, the son of Moammar Kaddafi, a spokesman for the infected children, and other participants. Could these healthcare workers have committed this horrific crime? Or, are they scapegoats to divert attention from institutional shortcomings? Is Moammar Khadaffi responsible for this tragedy? Is re-use of contaminated syringes a common practice in Libya and the rest of Africa? Are safer syringes available, and if so, why aren’t they in common use?
Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard – ordinary Iranians.
It took a year of wrangling to get permission to film inside Iran but the result is an amazing portrayal of an energetic and vibrant country that is completely different to the usual images seen in the media.
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