What an Ally From todays NY Times come the disturbing story of how far a Eastern European Government went in currying favor with the United States in the so-called "War on Terror". Just how far? Try out and out murder. LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) -- Relatives said Sunday they will seek legal damages after Macedonia admitted that its police framed and executed six Pakistani immigrants to boost the Balkan country's profile in the U.S.-led effort against terrorism. The men, aged between 22 and 29, were gunned down in March 2002 outside Skopje, Macedonia's capital. They had been accused of ambushing a police patrol and plotting attacks on foreign embassies in Macedonia. ... Macedonian police said seven Pakistanis were killed, but Burney said one of the victims was Indian. He said the police had killed them in a fake encounter outside the U.S. Embassy in Skopje and made out that they were terrorists, trained in Pakistani camps and planning to strike American and European interests. "They were just economic migrants passing through Macedonia illegally to reach some European country to earn money for their poor families,'' Burney said. Macedonian police have accused the country's former interior minister, Ljube Boskovski, of ordering the executions and also implicated three top associates, as well as a businessman and two police commandos. ... "This crime is even more shocking and heinous because these murders were pre-planned and were committed to spruce up Macedonia's image as an ally in the war against terrorism,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Masood Khan said in a statement. ... He appealed to European countries and the United States ``to see what is happening with innocent people in the name of the war against terrorism.'' Since breaking away from Yugoslavia in 1991, Macedonia has been eager to win American political and economic support. It has supported the U.S.-led campaign against al-Qaida and has sent troops to Iraq.