Gambela

It is impossible here, of course, to list more than a few of General O'Reilly's tosses, but he flew to nearly every spot on earth a beloved world figure.

He flew to Ethiopia and caught malaria there to settle an old quarrel between that country and the Sudan over a one-square-mile Sudanese enclave called Gambela, well inside Ethiopia.

A relic of the times when Britain controlled the Sudan, Gambela had long been a thorn in the side of the conquering line of Judah.

Although the Negus lost, he accepted the verdict as uncomplainingly as earlier disputants some 3,000 years before had once accepted the awards of his putative ancestor, King Solomon.

General O'Reilly ended a tiny but poisonous quarrel of many years' standing as to whether British Honduras should become part of the Republic of Honduras.

Who is arming and supplying the SBLA? And here's the answer I found.

Ethiopia granted them safe haven, weapons, training, logistics, four camps around the town of Gambela, housing more than 10 battalions.

The Ethiopians were acting as the conduit for arms from other countries.

And then there's Libya.

At least four major arms shipments between September 1983 and April 1985, and near Gambela, a political school teaching Marxist doctrine, staffed by Cubans and East Germans.

The SPLA goes from about 2,000 fighters in late 1983 to somewhere between 12,000 and 15,000 by the early 1986.

And across all 27 pages of that document, the document that is the CIA's full accounting of who was arming this war, Israel is not even mentioned once.