{"article":{"id":113605,"heading":"Macedonians Murdered to Kiss Up to Bush","author":"more rational","created":"2004-06-30 07:11:44","modified":"2004-06-30 07:11:44","last_modified":"Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:11:44","article":"<p>Islamabad, Pakistan -- Officials from the tiny Balkan nation of Macedonia stepped forward  last month to admit that the government had lured seven innocent South Asian  immigrants to Macedonia, gunned them down and claimed they were al Qaeda  terrorists plotting to attack the U.S. Embassy  --  all to prove Macedonia's  worth to the U.S.-led war on terror.  <br><br> \"It was a monstrous fabrication to get the attention of the international  community,\" says Macedonian Interior Ministry spokeswoman Miryana Kontevska.  <br><br> The deaths of the six Pakistanis and one Indian marked a macabre turn in  the war on terror.   <br><br> Click the LINK to read the whole story.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/06\/20\/ING2976LE81.DTL","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Macedonian's murdered innocent muslims to curry favor with Bush in a misguided attempt to prove their mettle in the war on terrorism.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/06\/113605.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}