Honest Greg, I wasn't implying anything about Macedonians. Any country "within the Coalition" would have made the point just as well - it just happened that it was Macedonians this time.

The point being, to use this as an indication that there have been people in important positions in countries within "the Coalition" - a Coalition which has been defined as consisting of those countries with troops in Iraq - who had no qualms about killing innocent citizens of a friendly country, in order to get some imagined political advantage, as members of "the war on terror".

And I also felt that it was appropriate to remind people that sometimes the kinds of intra-government conspiracies, which are often rejected out of hand, can actually take place.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it is that it actually came to light within a couple of years, and that the key element in this happening appears to have been the Macedonian Government. I am certain that, if something like this were to happen in many countries, including the UK, it would successfully be covered up, and any efforts to expose it would be ridiculed as "another conspiracy theory".