Macedonia

[queerbychoice]

What the @#$%^&* hell is this???

"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."

     from "Fabricating terrorism to win U.S. approval: 7 innocents killed in Macedonian plot to show nation's zeal" (Link pointed out to me by Loz)

Comments

[pomobarney.livejournal.com]

I...what...this just so completly baffles me...I knew people were stupid. I just couldn't beleive that we as a species were quite this stupid...

[ankie.livejournal.com]

Didn't the germans at the start of the world war 2 in 1939 dress op soldiers as people from poland, send them to the other side and then shoot back and invade Poland because they were 'provoked'? Bleh.

But stupid as these Macedonian's may be - okay, evil, poor asian people - it's all because of Bush and his 'if you are not with us you are against us'. Some people get desperate and scared.

[blahflowers.livejournal.com]

I also don't think this is a new thing. Unless I'm remembering this case being reported a few months ago in the British media (and I don't think I am), there was a case of another country, possibly in the North-East Africa region, which had a very suspicious terrorist attack which they immediately said was 'Al Qaida' despite the MO being quite different.

Unfortunately I can't remember when or where it was so trying to clarify the above is nigh-on impossible.

[brienf.livejournal.com]

You make it sound like the lives of seven people and the integrity of a government are important.

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This is really sick.

[echoiscariot.livejournal.com]

Whoa...this is...what the hell. Whoa.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Gah. Just gah.

[thirtysilver.livejournal.com]

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[thirtysilver.livejournal.com]

Sorry. atheism.