U intervjuu za katarsku televiziju Al-Jazeera u augustu 2007, Gaddafijev sin Saif al-Islam priznao je da su bugarske medicinske sestre i doktor Palestinac "mučeni strujom, te da im je prijećeno da će na meti biti članovi njihovih porodica".
In an interview with Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in August 2007, Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam, admitted that the Bulgarian nurses and the Palestinian doctor "were tortured by electricity and they were threatened that their family members would be targeted".