Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao of Timor-Leste

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From BusinessWeek) Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao has every reason to crave revenge against East Timor's former occupying power.

For many East Timorese in Darwin, their old comrade Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao had returned.

Gusmao was appointed head of Fretilin in 1978 after Nicolau Lobato was killed by the Indonesian armed forces.

Today, Xanana Gusmao was meeting Mari Alkatiri to discuss the handover of power.

people, their leader Xanana Gusmao remains in a Jakarta prison.

Gusmao was elected president of Timor Leste in 2002 following the country's first independent general elections.

EAST Timorese independence hero Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao is making a strong charge to become the country's next prime minister, after counting in parliamentary elections put his CNRT neck and neck with the former ruling Fretilin party.

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although that assistance might end in 2004.

Xanana Gusmao is East Timors head of state.