MID-NOVEMBER WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION SHIPMENTS TO AIDEED FACTION IN MOGADISHU, INCLUDING SHIPMENTS FROM ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

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• Publication Date: November 23, 1993

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(S ) SUBJ: MID-NOVEMBER WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION SHIPMENTS TO AIDEED
ACTION IN MOGADISHU, INCLUDING SHIPMENTS FROM ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
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23-Nov-1993 18:38:00
23-Nov-1993 18:39:15
ERI, ETH, SOM
AFRICA, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA
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) 2 DELIVERY OF WEAPONS AND
AMMUNITION TO A HOUSE (6-DMA 401294) IN THE HALILUA'A DISTRICT OF MOGADISHU, THE SHIPMENT, DELIVERED
BY A SINGLE ITALIAN-BUILT TRUCK, INCLUDED SIX CASES OF AK-47 AND FAL ASSAULT RIFLES, FOUR RUSSIAN MADE
ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE LAUNCHERS (RPG) OF UNDETERMINED VARIETY, AND THREE 12.7 MILLIMETER (MM)
DSHK M38/46 "DASHIKA" HEAVY MACHINEGUNS AS WELL AS THREE CASES OF DASHIKA AMMUNITION.
COMMENT: THE ORIGIN OF THIS WEAPONS SHIPMENT IS UNKNOWN.)
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/NF) 3. ONE 2.5 TON (b)(1)
TRUCK DELIVERED AMMUNITION TO SUPPORTERS OF HABR GEDIR LEADER ((MOHAMED)) FARAH HASSAN "AIDEED" (b)(3)
IN THE BLACK SEA AREA OF MOGADISHU. THE TRUCK DELIVERED 46 ROUNDS OF 120 MM MORTAR AMMUNITION,
RPG-7 GRENADES, 70 ROUNDS OF 80 (SIC) MM MORTAR AMMUNITION AND 19 ROUNDS FOR THE 106 MM RECOILLESS
RIFLE. THE VEHICLE ARRIVED IN MOGADISHU ON THE ROAD FROM MAYRERRE. COMMENT: THIS (b)(1)
LOCATION IS POSSIBLY MERERREY, SOMALIA (02-08N, 45-04E).) (b)(3)
(51114F14. THE AMMUNITION CAME FROM ETHIOPIA AND IDENTIFIED A HABR GEDIR ARMS (b)(1)
DEALER NAMED ((ILKACASE)) "WHITE TEETH", WHO TRAVELS BETWEEN MOGADISHU AND ETHIOPIA, AS THE (b)(3)
MIDDLEMAN FOR THE DEAL. TWO OF THE BUSINESSMEN INVOLVED IN THE DEAL WERE ((ABDI)) ALI FARAH AND
((ROBLEH)) ALI ARALEH OF MOGADISHU.
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(OF) 6. SEVEN TRUCKLOADS OF NEW WEAPONS (b)(1)
AND AMMUNITION HAD ARRIVED IN MOGADISHU FROM ASAB, ERITREA, FOR USE BY AIDEED MILITIAMEN. AMONG (b)(3)
THE NEW WEAPONS WERE M16 ASSAULT RIFLES WITH GRENADE LAUNCHER ATTACI1MER1t. THE WEAPONS WERE
TRANSPORTED ON BRITISH-MADE LELAND AND ITALIAN-MADE F-26 TRUCKS. ((HUSSEIN)) ABDULAI "ODWEYN," A
MAJERTAIN, WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THE WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION INTO MOGADISHU. ODWEYN IS AN
AIDEED SUPPORTER AND A MEMBER OF THE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST ORGANIZATION, "AL-ITIHAAD AL-ISLAMI."
OMMENT: ODWEYN FOUGHT IN GAROE AND BOSASSO DURING THE SOMALI CIVIL WAR. HIS BROTHER, (b)(1)
WHO LIVES IN CANADA, WAS A MINISTER OF EDUCATION UNDER FORMER SOMALI DICTATOR ((MOHAMED)) SIAD (b)(3)
BARRE.)
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