How U.S. Weapons End Up In The Hands Of Terror Groups Like Al-Shabab In Somalia

U.S. Weapons Now in Somali Terrorists’ Hands -- The Danger Room

Bad news in the five-year-old U.S. proxy war against al-Qaida–allied Somali insurgents. Half of the U.S.-supplied weaponry that enables cash-strapped Ugandan and Burundian troops to fight Somalia’s al-Shabab terror group is winding up in al-Shabab’s hands.

The kicker: It’s the cash-strapped Ugandans who are selling the weapons to the insurgents.

This revelation, buried in U.N. reports and highlighted by controversial war correspondent Robert Young Pelton at his new Somalia Report website, raises some unsettling questions about Washington’s plans to out-source more wars in the future.

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Update: Somali militia bleeds guns across Kenya border -- AP

My Comment: Out sourcing wars and conflicts rarely work. It is like hiring mercenaries .... their loyalty is to money and/or to their clan.