Another Seven Victims

From the republic of Macedonia comes a fiercely sad story about seven migrant workers murdered in a bid to curry favour with the forces of America's War on Some Terror.

It appears that two years ago then-Interior minister Ljube Boskovski arranged the murder of six Pakistamis and an Indian because he "had fallen out with 'western representatives' ... and may have been trying to regain their trust."

"The ambush happened six months after September 11 when Washington was seeking partners for its new anti-terrorism campaign. The macabre plot was played out in the shadow of an electricity sub-station just east of Skopje. Boskovski claimed that the seven were a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist cell using the area to plot attacks that would reduce the US and British embassies in Skopje to rubble. He said the cell was neutralised in a fierce gun battle during a daring security operation by elite police units.

According to the government investigation, which was recently made public, the seven - who were as young as 22 - were in fact brought to Macedonia with promises of passage to Western Europe and prosperity. They were instead kept prisoner in a flat in Skopje. They were then driven out to the scrublands of Rastanski Lozja, shot dead, and the scene staged to make the men appear terrorists. Next to their bullet-riddled bodies were placed camouflaged uniforms, guns and explosives."

The victims of America's Zero-Some Wars can be found all over the world.