Almost half a million pounds of British taxpayer-funded aid and equipment has fallen into the hands of Al-Qaeda, the Department for International Development has admitted
The terror group’s Somali franchise, al-Shabaab, “confiscated” the equipment from DfID contractors in multiple incidents over at least three months before any action was taken.
The admission is contained in the small print of the department’s latest accounts, which say that £480,000 worth of “humanitarian materials and supplies” was written off following repeated “confiscations” by al-Shabaab .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk
