Muslims acting badly again in East Timor

NY Times:

Several hundred Australian commandos landed Thursday in the tiny Indian Ocean nation of East Timor to try to quell escalating fighting in an ethnic dispute involving the country's armed forces and police.

Explosions, apparently from grenades, and widespread small-arms fighting were heard across Dili, the capital. Nine people were killed and 27 others were wounded, including two United Nations police advisers, during an attack on the national police headquarters, the United Nations said.

By midnight, gunshots could still be heard, said an Indonesian diplomat, Budi, who spoke by telephone from his embassy. "There is danger for everyone in Dili," said Mr. Budi, who uses only one name. "We are protecting about 50 people in the embassy. They are afraid."

East Timor's foreign minister, José Ramos-Horta, appealed for the outside help to disarm "renegade troops and police rebelling against the state." Mr. Ramos-Horta, who shared the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, said his government could not counter a breakdown of law and order, with about 800 loyal members of the army fighting a group of about 600 rebellious soldiers.

An additional 1,300 Australian soldiers, as well as forces from Malaysia and Portugal, the country's former colonial power, are expected in the next several days.

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The Times story never mentions the Muslims are the rebeling forces. Their murderous rampages were the reason for earlier interventions by the Aussies and their failure to concuer the island was listed by Osama bin Laden in one of his manifestos against Australia even before 9-11. Political corectness at the Times is conspiring to keep people ignorant of the true cause of the violence in East Timor, and the resultant violence by Islamic bigots like bin Laden.