[nicmarlo]

Prayer bump for hostages and families......this is sounding very very bad.

[nicmarlo]

prayer ping.....get out your list, please.

[laconic]

Like the Bosnian Muslim brigade and King Hussein of Jordan's grandfather the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, much of the Chechen population aided the Nazis against the Russians in World War 2 during their occupation of the Caucusus. In 1945, Stalin had the entire Chechen population removed from Grozny by train and they were dumped in the grasslands of Siberia. They were not allowed to return until the 1970s as I recall.