By Pietro Del Re (La Republicca)
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Powerful, cruel and never subject to the major organizations of jihadist terrorism such as al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, the Somali Chebab won, with the kidnapping of Silvia Romano, the battle of propaganda in addition to that of silver. First of all because it is with them that the Turkish intelligence had to deal with to liberate the Italian aid worker, conferring on the Islamist murderers, despite their status as kidnappers, legitimacy in the territory from which they did not previously benefit. Then, because a ransom was paid, the amount of which, as often, has not been revealed, but which should be in the range of several million dollars. As much money that will come to replenish the coffers of the group, already so full that in the Somali district of Nairobi, dozens of banks have opened to invest the proceeds of their kidnappings, robberies and extortions in Somalia, Kenya and Uganda.
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But for Chebab, success
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