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Australia last week sent an extra 200 troops to join its existing contingent of 780 men, who, along with 170 New Zealanders, make up the ISF. The men they are pursuing spent the past two years under the leadership of rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, who was killed during what the government labeled an assassination attempt on Ramos-Horta. Under Reinado's leadership, the rebels were regularly hunted by the ISF's highly trained special forces but always managed to stay one step ahead of them...
Asked if the ISF will catch Salsinha and his men, politician Leandro Isaac, who once supported Reinado, smiled. "For over 20 years, they have experience with the Indonesian army chasing them," says Isaac, who spent two months in the jungle with Reinado and Salsinha. "The reason why they cannot catch them is they don't have any cooperation with the local community." Isaac has since fallen out with the rebels over their armed activities, but says the single battalion of Australian troops hunting them are wasting their time. "There are the hills, the mountains, caves, rivers to hide in. Indonesia...
...This government won't fall because of this.' Xanana Gusmao, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, Jos? Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead...
...This government won't fall because of this.' XANANA GUSMAO, Prime Minister of East Timor, about a shoot-out that wounded the country's President, José Ramos-Horta, and left rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dead...
...jolting three-hour drive out of Dili led to a tiny village high in the razor-like ridges behind the city of Ermera. Reinado's man then hid TIME's vehicle under an old farmhouse roof and snaked through a warren of tiny villages. Suddenly a group of black-clad rebels armed with automatic rifles materialized on a small ridge. In the middle of a nearby glade, Reinado, dressed in camouflage fatigues, held court. "The leaders say different things in front of the people and then different things in the back of the people," he began, angrily waving his rifle...