Macedonian Ex- Minister Involved in Murder Case

World | February 26, 2005, Saturday // 00:00

A Macedonian ex-interior minister was charged over the deaths of seven South Asian immigrants, alleged at the time to have been Islamic militants. A prosecutor said Ljube Boskovski ordered the killings months after the 9/11 attacks to earn US recognition as a partner in the "war on terror". Macedonian officials later said the six Pakistanis and one Indian had been killed in a "staged" encounter. Boskovski says he is not guilty of the charge and has evidence that proves the slain men were al-Qaeda operatives, planning an attack on western targets in Macedonia, in concert with Albanian militants.

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