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A preview of a longer interview with Robert Wesley Smith, a long term Timor activists who recalls happier days for Alfredo Reinado, the man who was shot down in his attempt to either kidnap, control, or kill, the President of East Timor, Jose Ramos Horta, last Monday February 10 2008. Wes is on the phone from Darwin, after seeing the plane come in, medivac - ing the seriously wounded President from Dili to Darwin.

Photo:Alfredo Reinado, shot down by Horta's security personnel.

Picture by independent East Timorese media organisation "The investigative journalist centre" (http://www.cjitl.blogspot.com/)

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Kiraz Janicke in a phone interview from Caracas has the details of the attempts by the US based multinational corporate giant Exxon, to lock up US$12 billion worth of Venezuela's assets in a specious legal claim for a few hundred million dollars, against Venezuela's State owned oil company. In retaliation, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening to cut off oil supplies to the US  - over ten percent of its intake.