The Somali Government forces may supply arms to Alqaida and AlShabab.

A series of arms seizures in the north Mogadishu months ago a logistical support for the Shabab may be coming from former (ICU) a Islamic courts of Union friends In Sharif Government and in the so-called Darawiish.

In mid-February, it was reported by Somali media that a Somali police checkpoint stopped a truck in North Mogadishu. It was loaded with new US donated arms including rocket propelled grenade Kalashnikov rifles that police said were destined for the AlShabab insurgency.. Two men were arrested on suspicion of buying the arms for the insurgents in the Capital Mogadishu.

The Government led by Sheikh Sharif still has millions worth of weapons which they have received from United States to combat the al-Shabaab insurgency.

Over the past few months, anti-government groups in Somalia have stepped up their attacks on Somali government forces and police as well as African Union military forces. Most officials and commentators, including President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, have said the source of the violence is Alshabab And hisbul Islam. However, a series of arms seizures in the north Mogadishu frontline that logistical support for the Shabab and Hisbul Islam may be coming from an unlikely source: their former friends at

ICU in the so-called Darwiish forces "Our information indicates that whenever insurgency Attacks increase in the Mogadishu, the price of arms goes up in the Bakara Market " said Somali General who spoke condition of anonymity, commenting on the latest seizures.

Somalis Bakara Market is a stronghold of Shabab and Hsibul Islam Malitia, An official with the Somali Police confirmed that a large shipment of weapons, including 55 machine guns and ammunition, was recently seized in Shibis District. Two people were arrested but the driver o the car escaped. The official, who asked to remain anonymous, said the intelligence services are continuing their efforts to interdict shipments, since they have information indicating that arms transfers from Government and to Shabab and Hisbul Islam are increasing.

Amnesty International recently issued a report, "Somalia: International Military and Policing Should be Reviewed," setting out its concerns regarding arms supplies to the TFG, including those supplied by Washington, which are transferred "without adequate safeguards to ensure that they will not be used in committing human rights abuses."

Amnesty notes that since Sharif´s appointment as president in January 2009, "pledged and actual international support for Somalia´s army, police forces and other security sector institutions has grown" as his puppet regime struggles to hold onto the small area of Mogadishu it still controls.

Political analyst Abdinasir Ali warns that the flow of weapons will continue unless the government is willing to take on the commanders - something the Sharif administration has been reluctant to do so far. In fact, the former ICU members who are the president inner circles and high-level government officials are involved in the weapons transfers many of whom oppose the idea of a strong central authority in Mogadishu, and have little incentive to cooperate with it. They may actually prefer to see the Somali government and AMISOM forces preoccupied with curbing the violence in the small area controlled by the government. If the government cannot or will not deal with the officials within the government, there is no way to prevent arms transfers from government to insurgency, selling arms to the Shabab is a way of using their weapons. It indicates to the government and to AMISOM that although they are not able to fire the weapons themselves, they can continue the fight through the Shabab and Hsibul Islam.

Without the involvement of the police and government officials, it would be impossible to shift arms from the government to insurgency. Police deny any official involvement, and insist they are doing all they can to stop the trade. Interior ministry spokesman told

Our sources that his ministry had not received any intelligence about Government to Shabab arms smuggling, and was therefore not taking special measures to interdict shipments "We have no information that this is a regular occurrence," he said. "And we can easily deal with occasional smuggling efforts." But police say the smugglers are able to conceal the weapons so skillfully that they have little chance of catching them. A police official who did not want to be named told our sources that in addition to using the main roads, the smugglers are also sending weapons through the small roads, where the risk of detection and interdiction is low.