East Timor · January, 2009
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A Dark Past in East Timor for Obama's National Intelligence Nominee
Democratic PartyJanuary 8, 2009
Citizen journalists from East Timor have been busily tweeting about the nomination of Admiral Denis C. Blair for the post of US director of National Intelligence. The nominee faces serious accusations of backing the Indonesian occupation of East Timor in the 1990's, an invasion which led to the killing of approximately 1,400 Timorese and the displacement of 300,000 people.