Meles menjelaskan, harian bisnis tersebut mengatakan, ceceran kertas berdarah telah ditemukan bersama Aden Hashi Ayro, seorang milisi yang dicurigai oleh Amerika Serikat  telah melindungi para pemimpin Al-Qaeda di negara Afrika timur itu, yang membom kedutaan AS di Kenya dan Tanzania pada 1998, dilaporkan menurut perkiraannya  masih hidup
Meles told the business daily that though bloodied papers had been found belonging to Aden Hashi Ayro, a militant suspected by the United States of protecting leaders of an east African Al-Qaeda cell that bombed US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, reported sightings of him suggest he is alive.