First, Chechens aren't even Chechen (they are Nohchi, or sons of Noah); they speak a unique language- Nohchi Mott; they are Muslim; they are more entrepreneurial than Donald Trump and tougher than a hung over
hockey team. More importantly they have kept their national identity intact. Chechen loyalties are to one of the more than
100 teips, or clans, that constitute Chechen
society, not to the fat-bottomed thieves in the Kremlin. Think of teips as similar to the city states of Athens. Warring in peacetime, peaceful in war. Left to their own devices and sitting on the nexus of the east and
west, the Chechens thought and acted just
like the lone wolf that has become their national symbol.