Gaddafi’s HIV Shakedown
By Mike Elkin

Zakia Saltani has been warned not to talk to the press. She doesn’t care. She has waited 13 years to tell her story, and the Libyan government’s threats can’t stop her now. “After what happened to my family, what more can they do?” she asks. “I am beyond fear.” At her friend’s house in Benghazi, with the red-black-and green flag of the anti-Gaddafi rebellion spread proudly across her shoulders, she shows a framed photograph of her son, Ashur. He died of AIDS-related complications in May 2005, when he was 8. He had been one of more than 400 Libyan children who were admitted to the Al Fateh pediatric hospital in Benghazi 13 years ago with routine complaints like colds and earaches. They left with HIV. Like Ashur, roughly 60 have since died. Others are hanging on.
(Newsweek, 21.03.2011. Adaptado)

No primeiro parágrafo do texto, a afirmação de Zakia Saltani – “I am beyond fear” – representa