SITUATION REPORT ON MOVEMENTS AND LOCATIONS OF SOMALI NATIONAL ALLIANCE ARMS AND MILITIAS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06834379
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2020
• Case Number: F-2019-00938
• Publication Date: December 16, 1993

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tp#10) SUBJ: SITUATION REPORT ON MOVEMENTS AND LOCATIONS OF SOMALI
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ARMS AND MILITIAS
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16-Dec-1993 14:26:00
16-Dec-1993 14:27:10
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AFRICA, SOMALIA
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Office Name: NCS
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(F) 1 A 60-MAN HABR GEDIR/SA'AD MILITIA UNIT WAS GARRISONED IN TWO BUILDINGS
LOCATED ACROSS THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER IN (6-DMA NH 360263; GRG SHEET 24, 8.1/J.0 AND 8 1/17)
THE GARRISON WAS ON "FULL ALERT." THE GARRISON HOLDS AK-47 ASSA , PKM HEAVY
MACH INEGUNS, TWO 120MM MORTARS, AND TWO 106MM ANTI-TANK RECOILLESS RIFLES. OMMENT: AN
ALTERNATE DESCRIPTION OF THE LOCATION IS ONE AND A HALF BLOCKS EAST OF THE MOSQUE OF SHEIKH
BIMALOW IN THE HAWILWADAAG AREA OF MOGADISHU. THESE MILITIA MAY BE ON ALERT DUE TO TENSIONS
BETWEEN THE SA'AD AND HAWIYA/HAWADLE AND HAWIYA/HABR GEDIR/AYER.) THERE IS ANOTHER HABR �
GEDIR/SA'A1D MILITIA GARRISON LOCATED AT THE SOS COMPOUND (R-DMA NH 408307) OF UNKNOWN SI7EAKID
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F) 2 ARMS MERCHANTS IN THE BAKARA MARKET (6-DMA NH 355265) WHO SUPPORT THE(b)(1)
SOMALI NATIONAL ARMY (SNAME�IR SHIPPING LIGHT ARMS, INCLUDING AK-47, FAL, AND G-3 ASSAULT RIFLES, (b)(3)
HAND GRENADES, AND LAND MINES, TO BE SOLD IN TI4E�AREA OF BAIDOA (03-07N,43-39E), SOMALIA. THE ARMS
MERCHANTS HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH COLONEL MOHAMED NUR ALIYOW ((DARRE)) (RARANWEKI), A
COMMANDER IN THE SNA, WHO COORDINATED THE MOVEMENT OF WEAPONS TO SUPPORT THE
RAHANWEIN/HARIEN AND ELAY SUBGROUPS. HE ARMS MERCHANTf.(b)(1)
HAD BEEN SHIPPING LIGHT ARMS SEWN INTO BAGS OF SORGUM, DRIED FRUIT, AND MILLET IN 040E1R TO FLUDF (b)(3)
INSPECTION BY FORCES UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN SOMALIA (UNOSOM II). lu)l )
THE WEAPONS ARE TO ASSIST THE ELAY AND HARTEWSITI3GROUPS ESTABLISH CONTROL OF (b)(1)
PROITWOHAMED11FARAH HASSAN "AIDEED" FACTIONS OF THF SOMAL I DFMOCRATIC MOVFMFNT (SDM) (b)(3)1)
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...1,,SAPIP) 3 HABR GEDIR/SKAD SUBGROUP MEMBERS IN THE TOWN OF HOBYO (05-21N,48-32E), (b)(1)
LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCE OF MUDUG, WERE WAITING FOR AN ARMS SHIPMENT. THE ARMS WERE TO Bl(b)(3)
DELIVERED VIA SMALL BOAT OFF A COMMERCIAL SHIP. THE WEAPON SHIPMENT'S WERE BELIEVED�BY AN SNA
OFFICIAL INVOLVED IN RECEIVING THE WEAPONS TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN SUDAN AND IRAN.
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