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Mossad Helped Free Bulgarian Nurses in Libya.

Article from: Israel Faxx Article date: August 1, 2007

By Israel Faxx News Services

The Mossad helped free the medical team sentenced to death in Libya, Bulgaria's intelligence chief said Monday.

Gen. Kirtcho Kirov told the 24-Tchassa daily that Israel's intelligence agency was one of 20 countries' security services that were active in trying to release a Palestinian doctor and five Bulgarian nurses convicted in Libya for infecting children with AIDS. The six were allowed to return to their countries last week.

Kirov said the fate of the medics was nothing more than "a ...

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