TRAVEL OF SOMALI PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT FACTION LEADER AHMED OMAR JESS TO SUDAN TO PURCHASE WEAPONS AT THE BEHEST OF SOMALI FACTION LEADER MOHAMED FARAH HASSAN "AIDEED"

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• Publication Date: November 12, 1993

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(S F) SUBJ: TRAVEL OF SOMALI PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT FACTION LEADER AHMED
MAR JESS TO SUDAN TO PURCHASE WEAPONS AT THE BEHEST OF SOMALI
FACTION LEADER MOHAMED FARAH HASSAN "AIDEED"
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12-Nov-1993 12:44:00
12-Nov-1993 12:46:14
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AFRICA, SOMALIA, SUDAN
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SOMALI PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT (SPM) FACTION LEADER ((AHMED)) OMAR (b)(3)
JESS DEPARTED MOGADISHU CIRCA 5-6 NOVEMBER 1993 FOR KHARTOUM, SUDAN, TO ENTER INTO TALKS WITH
SENIOR MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT OF SUDAN (GOS) RFnAR111Nr; THP 131 IRCHASF ANI1 SHIPMENT OF WEAPONS
AND AMMUNITION FOR AIDEED'S FORCES IN SOMALIA. THERE WAS A DISTINCT (b)(1)
POSSIBILITY THAT JESSVO=ThROCEED TO IRAN AFTER HIS MEETINGS IN KHARTOUM TO DISCUSS SIMILAR (b)(3)
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ISSUES. COMMENT: IT WAS NOT KNOWN WHEN OR IF JESS WOULD RETURN TO MOGADISHU.) (b)(1)
THE SNA WAS EXPECTING THE TRIP TO YIELD POSITIVE RESULTS AND HAD ALREADY (b)(1)
PREPARED ITSELF TO RECEIVE ARMS/AMMUNITION. SPECIFICALLY, THE SNA BELIEVED THAT ARMS/AMMUNITION (b)(3)
WOULD BE BROUGHT IN PRIMARILY ViA DHOW FROM YEMEN AND, THUS, HAD READIED SMALORTS
CONTROLLED BY SNA FORCES TO RECEIVE THESE GOODS.
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3PM FACTION LEADER OMAR JESS LEFT MOGADISHU CIRCA 8 NOVEMBER ON A (b)(31
WFAPONS PROCURFMFNT MISSION TO KHARTOUM, SUDAN, AT THE BEHEST OF SNA FACTION LEADER AIDEED (b)(1)
OMAR JESS WENT TO KHARTOUM VIA NAIROBI AND WAS CURRENTLY iNvd-EvEMN (b)(3)
TALKS REGARDING ARMS PURCHASES WITH SENIOR GOS OFFICIALS. AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF (b)(3)
THE TALKS, EsTimAtto-fib OCCUR CIRCA 15 NOVEMBER, OMAR JESS PLANNED TO EITHER VISIT HIS FAMILY IN
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, FOR A SH R RETURN IMMEDIATELY TO MOGADISHU VIA THE CAPITAL OF A
COUNTRY NEIGHBORING SOMALIA. OMMENT: THIS CAPITAL COULD BE EITHER DJIBOUTI OR NAIROBI, (b)(1)1
EVEN POSSIBLY ADDIS ABABA, IF-JESS DECIDES TO RETURN DIRECTLY TO MOGADISHU.) (b)(3)
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