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事件は2002年3月のこと。警察特殊部隊は国際テロを企てているテロリストを抹消したと発表。しかし実態は、殺害された7人のパキスタン人はテロリストではなく、西側ヨーロッパ移住の餌に釣られてやって来た無実の男たちが殺害されると言ういんちき劇だった。
男たちには住居が与えられていた。そして訪れたのが、ビザでも何でもなく、冷酷な銃弾だった。
計画には元政府高官、警察特殊部隊、元警察トップ、ビジネスマンも参画。アメリカ主導のテロとの戦いに参画する謀略だった。
本件はCNNも報道。
アメリカはこの事件のあと事前情報はなかったとしていた。国務省は調査を要請するとともに、事件の決着を望むとする声明を発表、距離を保っている。
2002年12月にはカラチでマケドニア領事館が自爆テロで爆破されている。壁にはオサマ・ビンラディンについて触れたメッセージが。アルカイダではない男たちが殺されて、アルカイダが報復?
ともあれ、マケドニアで発覚のこの方法、果たして「特別な方法」なのだろうかという疑惑を提起しているとは言えまいか。少なくともアルカイダというものが政治的に非常に利用しがいがある存在で、偽装、捏造が容易であるということを示していることには違いない。
Macedonia staged 'terrorist' killings to win US support
01/05/2004 - 09:39:51
http://212.2.162.45/news/story.asp?j=102684876&p=yxz68558z&n=102685636
Macedonian police gunned down seven innocent Pakistani immigrants, then claimed they were terrorists, in a killing staged to show they were participating in the US-led war on terror, authorities said.
Police spokeswoman Mirjana Konteska told reporters yesterday that six people, including three former police commanders, two special police officers and a businessman, have been charged with murder.
“That was an act of a sick mind,” Ms Konteska said after a two- year investigation. “They … ordered the brutal murder of the seven Pakistani men.”
She described a meticulous plan to promote Macedonia as a player in the fight against global terrorism that involved smuggling the Pakistanis into Macedonia from Bulgaria, housing them, and then coldly gunning them down.
The killings, she added, were part of an attempt to ”present themselves as participants in the war against terrorism and demonstrate Macedonia’s commitment to the war on terror”.
Since breaking away from Yugoslavia in 1991, Macedonia has been eager to win US political and economic support in its search for acceptance into the Western camp of nations.
The so-called “Rastanski Lozja” action was carried out in March 2002 by special Macedonian police who claimed to have eliminated a terrorist group allegedly plotting to attack international embassies and representatives in the country.
Ms Konteska said that the seven Pakistani men were in fact illegal immigrants who were lured into Macedonia by promises that they would be transferred to Western Europe.
She refused to name the suspects but said that police generals Goran Stojkov and Boban Utkovski, and senior police official Aleksandar Cvetkovski, were among those allegedly involved.
She also named former interior minister Ljube Boskovski, who is a parliament deputy, in connection with the shootings.
Shortly after the announcement, a parliamentary committee revoked the immunity from prosecution that Boskovski enjoyed as a legislator. Officials said the committee had met earlier in the day following a request from the judge heading the inquiry.
Boskovski, interior minister under the former nationalist government, headed the police during Macedonia’s 2001 ethnic conflict. He was minister when the Pakistanis were killed.
He denied the allegations, telling reporters that he and his associates received a tip about the alleged Pakistani terrorists from unidentified “American intelligence officers”.
But Ms Konteska claimed that forensic and ballistic showed the action was staged. She said the investigation was not finished and more suspects could be found.
At the time, senior police officials said the seven men were killed after a police patrol was ambushed. Police claimed that assault rifles, hand grenades and ammunition were found near a van used by the Pakistanis.
Ms Konteska said the plan to set up the Pakistanis and kill them was made by top police officials in February 2002, when the seven men were brought into the country from Bulgaria and housed in Skopje, the capital.
On March 3, they were taken by police to Rastanski Lozja, about three miles north east of Skopje, and gunned down by special police, she alleged.
“They lost their lives in a staged murder,” said Ms Konteska.
After the killings, the US Embassy released a statement that said US personnel were “not aware of any indication that there was a specific threat” to the embassy.
A US State Department official said that Washington had pressed for a inquiry and was pleased there would finally be one.
In apparent retaliation for the deaths, Macedonia’s consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, was rocked by a bomb blast on December 5, 2002.
Pakistani investigators found three bodies inside - two men and a woman - each with their hands and feet bound and their throats slit. Messages scrawled on a wall referred to Osama bin Laden’s al- Qaida group and warned against “infidels”.
There was no comment from the US Embassy. Pakistan does not have an embassy in Skopje.
Craig Ratcliff, spokesman for Nato in Macedonia, told the Associated Press yesterday that the “international community at the time did not have a clear picture whether that was an anti- terrorist operation or something else”.
He said Nato was pleased about the government investigation, describing it as “very much a positive step”.
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