CAN AMERICAN ARMS SAVE SOMALIA?!
THE new American administration had officially announced that it would provide Somalia arms and financial assistance to fight the Al-Shabaab group, which presently controls most of Southern Somalia, including most of the Somali capital districts of Mogadishu. The Al-Shabaab group had manifested its control in the capital after it had executed the cutting of arms of four Somali youngsters who had stolen pistols and mobile phones. Many Somalis are anxious that the arms America supplied to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) may land in the hands of the Al-Shabaab group. They are basing their fears on the previous experience that happened to the Abdulahi Yusuf´s TFG. Yusuf´s regime had trained more than 5,000 police and military soldiers in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and inside Somalia. These forces subsequently defected to the militia of the United Islamic Courts and surrendered their arms to the United Islamic Courts. This happened because the government failed to provide the basic n
