CHADIAN REBEL GROUP UFDD ESTABLISHES POLITBURO

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SUBJECT: CHADIAN REBEL GROUP UFDD ESTABLISHES POLITBURO

REF: N'DJAMENA 1318

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1. In a communique dated November 12, 2006, the Union of
Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD) named its
politburo. An informal translation follows:

Quote

Republic of Chad
Political Military Opposition

Union of Forces for Democracy and Development (UFDD)

After consultations among the former leaders of the founding
movements in the UFDD (i.e., the CDR, the FUC, the RaFD, the
RND, the RPJ and the UFPD),it has been decided to form an
Executive Bureau of the UFDD as follows:


1. President: General Mahamat Nouri

2. Vice President: Acheikh Ibn Oumar

3. Secretary General: Abdalwahid Aboud Mackaye

4. Assistant Secretary General: Hissene Tahir Sougoumi

5. Commissioner for Foreign Relations: Kabbaro Hissene

6. Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Relations: Issa
Moussa Tamboulet

7. Commissioner for Defense: Saleh Mahmoud Said

8. Assistant Commissioner for Defense: Dakou Abdarahim

9. Commissioner for Finance: Ali Kedellaye

10. Assistant Commissioner for Finance: Allamine Hidjazi
Fazari

11. Commissioner for Mobilizing the Masses: Colonel Adoum
Hassaballah
Djadalrab

12. First Assistant Commissioner for Mobilizing the Masses:
Moussa Hamadi

13. Second Assistant Commissioner for Mobilizing the Masses:
Abdallah
Ramadane Sossal

14. Commissioner for Information: Ali Moussa Izzo

15. Assistant Commissioner for Information: Ali Ahmad
Aghbach

16. Commissioner for Security: Jean-Luis Vertu

17. Assistant Commissioner for Security: Abdalaziz Kizeme

18. Commissioner for Social Affairs and the Families of
Martyrs: Ahmat
Mahamat Yacoub

19. Assistant Commissioner for Social Affairs and the
Families of Martyrs: Said
Youssouf Mahamat

20. Commissioner for National Education: Hassan Mahamat
Dahab

21. Assistant Commissioner for National Education: Mahamat
Tahir Ahamad

22. Commissioner for Public Health: Dr. Mahamat Ibrahim
Hassan

23. Assistant Commissioner for Public Health: Dr. Khidir
Hissene

24. Commissioner for Promotion of Human Rights: (TBD)

25. Assistant Commissioner for Human Rights: Ousmane
Hassaballah

Done 12 November 2006
Vice President and Spokesman for the UFDD
Acheikh Ibn Oumar

End quote


2. Post records contain the following biographical
information:

--Mahamat Nouri: born in 1947 near Faya Largeau in northern
Chad. A member of the Anakaza clan of the Gorane tribe, he
held the rank of Major General in the National Chadian Army
(ANT) and served as Minister of Health in 1993, Livestock in
2000, and Defense in 2003. He became President Deby's
ambassador to Saudi Arabia in late 2004 and held the post
until his defection to the rebel cause in April 2006.
Embassy sources confirm that he has diabetes. He is
characterized as thoughtful, cautious, and crafty. His
defection in late Spring 2006 was considered to be a
significant blow to the regime as he is believed to hold
considerable sway among the Gorane.

--Acheikh Ibn Oumar: born on July 13, 1951 in N'Djamena. An
ethnic Arab, he served in the Habre government as Minister of
Education, Defense, and Foreign Affairs. With Deby's
assumption of power in 1990, he became Special Counselor to
the President and served as Ambassador to the United States
from 1992 to 1994. According to press reports in 2004, he
characterized Deby's desire for a third presidential term as

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an attempt to become "President for Life". He is a long-time
opponent of Deby and has spent many years in self-imposed
exile, but he has never led a robust military force.

--Abdalwahid Aboud Mackaye: an ethnic Ouaddaien from the
Abeche region, he was Secretary general of the FUC before
leading a faction into the UFDD. In a January 2006 interview
with Radio France International, he stated that the FUC had
friendly relations with the Sudanese government and had met
on Sudanese soil. Although he denied that the group received
logistical support from the GOS, he was arrested by Sudanese
authorities and held for several days. In September 2006, a
FUC spokesman indicated that Abdelwahid tried to unilaterally
depose the FUC's president, in violation of the
organization's bylaws. (Nour's exact status vis-a-vis the
FUC is unclear at this time.) In October 2006, Abdalwahid's
faction joined the UFDD.

--Issa Moussa Tamboulet: a member of the former rebel
Movement for Democracy and Development, he was a member of
Deby's circle by March 1999 and the Counselor in Charge of
Mission in the Cabinet. In July 1999, he was named Assistant
Prefect f Mayo Kebbi. In May of 2000, he was assigned as
Prefect in Mbaibokoum in Mont de Lam region. By Fbruary
2004, he was Prefect in Kobe where he deat with the inital
influx of Darfur refugees int his region. In September
2005, he became Prefet of Assoungha in the Ouaddai region.

--Ali Kedelaye (AKA: Ali Kedelaye Goukouni): an ethnic
Keda (subdivision of the Gorane). He was a Counselor on the
Provisional Counsel of the Republic (CPR) after Deby took
power in 1990. In August 1992, he was listed as Prefect for
Kanem. In February 2003, he was assigned as Prefect in the
Department of Chari; and in September 2004, he was assigned
as Secretary General of the Kanem Region.


3. Comment. Despite the listing of FUC among the founding
members of the UFDD, only a faction of the FUC led by its
former Secretary General Abdalwahid Aboud Mackaye actually
transferred allegiance. In regard to Erdimi's RaFD, the
absence of Erdimi from the UFDD Executive Bureau list is
telling; and it is unlikely that this group is an active
member of the Union of Forces. End Comment.


4. Minimize Considered.
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