Report accuses US of circumventing Somalia arms embargo

07/25/12: Secrecy News reports the United States is providing clandestine military support to Somali security services without notifying United Nations monitors, in apparent violation of an arms embargo on Somalia the US helped to impose twenty years ago.  That is among the findings of the UN Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group, which “illustrates how President Barack Obama’s often-secret war against al-Qaeda can sometimes conflict with his administration’s commitment to work cooperatively with the UN,” according to reports.  “Non-compliance [with the arms embargo] by Member States and International Organizations has become a growing problem in Somalia over the past year,” the UN report said, citing 144 undocumented flights “of a military nature” carried out by twelve member states, including the US.