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August 12, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/10235384/Britains-foreign-aid-has-fallen-into-hands-of-al-Qaeda-DfiD-admits.html

Britain's Foreign Aid Confiscated by Al-Qaeda

(Telegraph-UK) Andrew Gilligan - Almost half a million pounds of British aid and equipment has been "confiscated" by al-Qaeda's Somali franchise, al-Shabaab, the UK's Department for International Development has admitted. "At best, DfID was asleep to the loss of its property and, at worst, that its local partners were colluding with the terrorists," one aid expert said.

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