Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says his government will do all it can to safeguard democracy in East Timor after attacks on its president and PM.On his second visit to East Timor in only two months, Mr Rudd said his support was "absolutely rock solid".
President Jose Ramos-Horta was seriously hurt in Monday's shooting, and is being treated in Australia.
Canberra has sent extra peacekeepers to Dili, where Mr Rudd's immediate concern will be to assess the security threat.
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