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From: "Chip Dunning" <edunning@s...>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:27:52 -0400
Subject: [OT] Re: InterFET

I have about an 1 1/2 hour drive to work each day (don't ask about the
drive
home) - so I probably listen to more news than most. I heard about the
skirmish - assuming you mean the one that got two Aussie's wounded (one
was
serious in the neck region) and two Indo militia killed. Indo is
claiming
the militia were actually police and on their side of the border - i.e.
West
Timor.
    I haven't heard of any other skirmishes in East Timor - so if there
have
been it didn't make the news cut.

This was on the local NPR station. There were scheduled to have another
round-table talk today about East Timor, but with the coup in Pak it was
tabled for a bit.

To even get this a bit on-topic. This would make for an interesting SG2
scenario. Outfit vet/elite troops with secondary weapons to advance a
claim
against a neighbor. It is not an "act of war", since they are obviously
just
"freedom fighters" against an oppressive government. The "insurgents"
have
the training, morale, and fairly directed goals - but they are missing
their
support equipment and probably don't have top-of-the-line weapons (to
make
them seem more ragtag-like).
    Think Pak actions in Casmere (sp?) recently.

Chip
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy Sadler <jsadler@earthling.net>
To: GZG Mailing List <gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 8:37 AM
Subject: InterFET

> How much news about East Timor are people in the US, UK et al seeing? 
I'm
> curious to see how this is viewed in other parts of the globe.
>
> Did any news about the border skirmish between Aussie and Indonesian
troops
> reach the world press?
>
> ---
> Jeremy Sadler - jsadler@earthling.net
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