Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, who escaped from a Dili jail last month, said he would shoot Australian troops if they tried to recapture him. Major Reinado was among 57 prisoners who broke out of Dili's Becora Prison on August 30. He had been blamed for some of the worst violence that took place in East Timor earlier this year, and was jailed on charges of attempted murder and firearms offences. Speaking on a mobile phone from somewhere in East Timor, Maj Reinado told SBS Television last night that he had a right to protect himself and warned Australian troops not to come after him. "I just (want to) let them know that don't (come) after me because I am not a problem of this nation'," he told the Dateline program. "When they still (come) after me, I will stop them. "If they shoot me, I will shoot them back because I have a right to protect myself in my country."