---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Sydney Morning Herald 21/08/99 EAST TIMOR Asio on trail of Australian Darwin: As East Timor's resistance army Falantil celebrated its anniversary over the horizon from here yesterday, Australian security agents were trying to pin down the identity of the only Australian known to have joined the hardy Timorese guerillas. Timorese residents in Darwin say the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has been interviewing former members of Falantil in Darwin and other centres as recently as this week. The young Australian man, who identified himself only as "Anthony", met an ABC team who were visiting a Falantil base in the Viqueque district in July. He gave his age as 26 and said he had been living with the guerillas for two years. While he had not yet seen combat, the bearded young Australian was expertly stripping down and reassembling an M-16 assault rifle captured from the Indonesian Army and was ready for action. His involvement with the pro-independence force has reinforced the belief among Indonesian security officials and their integrationist allies that Australians in general have taken sides in the East Timor issue. This could add to the suspicions facing the dozens of Australians now in East Timor as police and military advisers, UN officials, election monitors, diplomats and journalists. The "Anthony" case has been taken up by Indonesian authorities with Canberra, and Timorese sources here said ASIO officials made it clear their inquiries were partly in response to this pressure. The Foreign Incursions law, designed to prevent Australians joining mercenary forces overseas, could also apply. Darwin's supporters of East Timor independence, who were due to celebrate the Falantil birthday with a Territory-style barbeque last night, say they know nothing about the true of identity of "Anthony" and are unable to help ASIO. - Hamish McDonald ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 20 Aug 1999 jam 20:16:11 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
