US weapons falling into the hands of al Shabaab

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had authorized $10 million in aid to the Somali government in order to purchase 40 tonnes of weapons and munitions from Uganda which in turn was supplied by the US. Turns out that some of the weapons and munitions are falling into the hands of al Qaida linked al Shabaab. Globe & Mail

As the Somalia conflict spirals into a new proxy war between al-Qaeda and the United States, there is mounting evidence that U.S. weapons and Somali soldiers are ending up under the control of Islamic terrorists, Somali politicians say.[...]

The United States has pumped at least 40 tonnes of weapons into Somalia in recent months to help the government fight the Islamic warriors who are linked to al-Qaeda. But the Somali army is so weak and ill-trained that its soldiers have begun defecting to the Islamists and their U.S.-supplied weapons are being traded to the insurgents, known as al-Shabab, the politicians say.