The Macedonian government confirmed Friday the death of three Macedonian hostages in Iraq, the MIA news agency reported. The preliminary report of the Macedonian governmental expert team confirmed the death of three Kumanovo (northern Macedonia) citizens, Dalibor Lazarevski, Zoran Naskovski and Dragan Markovic,said the spokesmen of the government and Foreign and Interior Ministries at a press conference in Skopje. The expert team checked the videotape, showing the execution ofMacedonian hostages, at the Al-Jazeera TV station in Qatar and sent a report to the government, they said, adding that a new expert team from Macedonia would be sent to Iraq to find the bodies of the victims.
(Thinking Americans have Fox, Muslim terrorists have Al-Jazeera)
Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and Prime Minister HariKostov reiterated respectively Friday that the murder of three Macedonians would not make Macedonia withdraw its soldiers from Iraq. The three Macedonians, who worked for a US building company, were seized by militants in Iraq on August 21st. The Al-Jazeera broadcasted Monday the segments of the videotapeprovided by the rebel group, Islamic Army of Iraq, showing that the group had killed two of the three, Dalibor Lazarevski and Zoran Naskovski, due to "espionage in favor of US forces". According to MIA's report, the third, Dragan Markovic, was alsokilled. His family in Kumanovo recognized his clothes in the photographs presented to them by state organs Thursday night. A three-member expert team of Macedonian government, led by theDeputy Foreign Minister Fuad Hasanovic, departed Tuesday for Qatarto verify the information.
(Maybe Kerry can throw some insults in this direction--->
Macedonia, a country of the US-led coalition, has 32 troops stationed in north of Baghdad. In addition, there are hundreds of Macedonian citizens, whose accurate number has not been available,working in Iraq for foreign companies. 
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