Kavkaz Center

7 October 2006

A Nairobi correspondent of a provincial Australian newspaper, The West Australian, Anthoni Mitchell, reported: "Resting a hand on one of two pistols stuffed into his waistband, Aden Hashi Ayro, military commander of the Islamic movement that is advancing across Somalia, fits the part of a radical revolutionary perfectly.

..."There is an ostrich-like sense of denial here," US-based counterterrorism expert Peter Pham said, adding that the moderates could not compete because the hardliners controlled the guns. "What we have here is a dangerously radical movement."

...Mr Ayro potentially was the most dangerous of them, Mr Pham said. He claimed Mr Ayro was the courts' go-between with al-Qaida and said the terrorist group was looking to take advantage of Somalia's strategic location in Africa, bordering the Middle East.

...Mr Ayro's 3000 radical cadres, known as The Youth, appear to be spoiling for a fight. UN reports indicate that 200 anti-aircraft missiles were shipped into Somalia in March for the Islamic group despite an arms embargo.

Foreign Muslim fighters - reportedly from Chechnya, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Eritrea - have joined the fray. In Kismayo, Mr Ayro was the first official in the movement to acknowledge the long-rumoured presence of foreign fighters". End of the quotation.

Well, Kavkaz Center noticed  (with some sarcasm) that starting this year,  in every country country where the West suffers defeats(and it suffers now defeats everywhere) the US and satellites' propaganda explains them by the inventing stories about the purported presence of Chechen Armed Forces in the country.

Americans et al, nobody knows why, assume that local Mujahideen are not strong enough to fight for the defense of Islam without Chechen help.

The ways of Western propaganda are really inscrutable.