The original article "Imaginary Chechens Attack!", has been relocated to the Ghosts of Alexander blog.
Joshua Frost has also covered the topic at Registan.net:
Framing the Threat, 5/30/09
Army Major Disputes Story of Chechen Fighters in Afghanistan, 7/3/09 (see the comments as well)
From another thread:
Everyone here knows someone who has personally killed “Chechens”. It is not a question of if they were fighting foreign fighters or not, but rather if they were fighting actual Chechens. Not Uzbek, Azeri, Turkish, Nogai, Ingush, etc; but Chechen.
How did he know he was Chechen?
It is not easy to prove, and the evidence for significant groups of Chechens in Afghanistan is minimal. I have also yet to read the name of a single Chechen fighter killed in Iraq or Afghanistan in a public source, and I literally have hundreds of articles on Chechnya and Chechens.
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