East Timor president shot at home

Source: BBC

The president of East Timor. Jose Ramos-Horta, has been injured by gunfire during an attack on his home, an army spokesman says.

A renegade soldier, Alfredo Reinado, was shot dead by the president's guards. The president was reportedly shot in the stomach.

Last November, Reinado had threatened to use force against the government.
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It is unknown what condition President Ramos-Horta is in.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7238142.stm

Source: VOA News


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Source: Sydney Morning Herald

President shot in stomach
· Operation underway
· Attack on prime minister's home
· Rebel leader shot dead

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is undergoing surgery at an Australian military base in the capital, Dili, after being wounded by gunfire in an attack on his home by rebel soldiers, a presidential adviser said today.

Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was shot and killed in the attack, according to Deputy Prime Minister Jose Luis Guterres and an army spokesman.
The house of Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao was also attacked early today, according to a witness, suggesting this was a half-baked coup attempt.

Ramos-Horta's sister-in-law said the extent of the president's injuries was not yet known.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/ramoshorta-shot/2008/02/11/1202578639815.html

...this is starting to feel like the 60's all over again. :scared:

East Timor is one of the countries that has been helped by Norway - it was first when Ramos-Horta accepted the Rafto prize on behalf of the East Timorese people that the media started awakening here in Europe. He is also a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, together with Bishop Carlos Belo. East Timor deserves peace and prosperity after their long solonization.

Source: Associated Press

East Timor leader in critical condition
By GUIDO GOULART, Associated Press Writer
34 minutes ago

DILI, East Timor - Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.

President Jose Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace laureate, was injured in the stomach. He was flown to a hospital in Australia in an induced coma, breathing through a ventilator, a spokesman for the company that airlifted him out of East Timor said. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped an attack on his motorcade unhurt.

Army spokesman Maj. Domingos da Camara said rebel leader Alfredo Reinado and one of his men were killed in the attack on the home of Ramos-Horta, while one of the president's guards also died.

"I consider this incident a coup attempt against the state by Reinado and it failed," Gusmao said. He called it a well-planned operation intended to "paralyze the government and create instability."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080211/ap_on_re_as/east_timor_president