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...main supply line is by air-aboard Russian-built AN-12 turboprop transports from Algeria and Cairo to Khartoum airport for transshipment to the southern Sudanese town of Juba aboard smaller aircraft. Most of the turboprops bear Algerian markings but are flown by Russian pilots. The large part of the equipment was supplied by Ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, but Russia apparently has promised to replace all weapons they send to the Simbas...
Western intelligence sources say that by last-week 18 planeloads-about 300 tons-of Russian-and Czech-made automatic rifles, machine guns, hand grenades and other military hardware have been fed to the Simbas through Juba. In Juba, the arms are hastily unloaded (often the pilots leave the engines running), transferred to the Simbas' waiting truck convoys, and sped across 150 miles of improved road to the main rebel receiving point at Aba, a small town near Faradje just over the Congo border. There, the rebels' 18th Battalion supervises the distribution of the arms to rebel units throughout...
...outsiders had actually crossed into the Congo to lead Simba troops, intelligence sources several weeks ago identified an Algerian officer in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, where Congolese rebels long maintained their eastern headquarters. Some 40 "Arabs," who may be Algerian officers, are reported to be standing by at Juba in the southern Sudan...
After transfer at Khartoum, the guns were flown on to Juba, capital of Sudan's Equatoria province, then loaded onto captured trucks and Land-Rovers for a jouncing ride over jungle tracks to the Congo border 150 miles away...
...eyed warriors. Sensing a chance to make a few easy points with African leaders. Moscow announced that it would replenish any supplies that had been sent to the rebels. Moreover, Algiers' Boufarik airbase was aswarm with Russian technicians and aviators, many of whom no doubt were flying the Juba run, since Algerian pilots have not yet had time to check out in the Soviet-built...