Re: [OT] Re: InterFET
From: "Jeremy Sadler" <jsadler@e...>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:16:40 +1000
Subject: Re: [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.
You are actually combining two separate actions there. The first, in
which
the two Australians were wounded, was an ambush by pro-Indonesian
militia on
a convoy. The second was a skirmish on the border were an Indonesian
policeman was killed.
Jeremy