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...wounded, Reinado was still on the run, and East Timor's streets had become battlegrounds as thousands of the rebel leader's supporters staged angry protests, threw rocks and torched houses. Dili, the capital, was relatively quiet as Time went to press, but unrest triggered by the failed raid could resume with redoubled violence if Reinado is caught. Meanwhile, he continues to taunt the government, and has threatened to derail the April 9 elections-the country's first Presidential poll since independence...
...Black Hawks. Then he heard a loud explosion from the house followed by gunfire from the rebels, who were screaming obscenities in the local Tetum language. The Australians charged up the hill, killing two of the rebels. (A platoon of New Zealand troops also took part in the raid...
...Texas governor since the 1940s (only 17, compared with 70 for his predecessor Ann Richards). He has explained his reluctance by citing his bad experience with the case of a drug dealer he pardoned, who was rearrested a few months later for stealing cocaine from a drug raid...
...Following the police raid, activists armed with stones and Molotov cocktails clashed with police, setting cars on fire and sacking a high school. Some 650 arrests were made, including 140 foreign activists who had raced from neighboring countries to answer the distress calls of the protestors...
Finkelstein has tacitly condoned attacks against Israeli civilians by explicitly equating Palestinian terrorist attacks against civilians with Israeli operations against militants. He spent much of last week’s discussion praising the terrorist group Hezbollah, which triggered this summer’s war with a deadly raid across an internationally recognized border into Israel, and which, prior to Sept. 11th, had killed the most Americans of any terrorist group in the Middle East. And, regarding 9/11, Finkelstein has said, "We deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true...