Austria urged to return Timorese

Jakarta - The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mr Ali Alatas, yesterday said two of six East Timorese hiding out in the Austrian …

Jakarta - The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Mr Ali Alatas, yesterday said two of six East Timorese hiding out in the Austrian embassy in the capital were terrorists and asked the mission to hand them over to local authorities.

Based on evidence, two of the six persons were strongly suspected of being involved in the assembling of bombs in Demak (Central Java), he said. "They made efforts to explode the bombs in East Timor."

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