Posted on 10/17/2004 10:46:39 AM PDT by Jane_N
All terrorists from the Beslan school siege were drug addictives, as forensics expertise of their bodies has shown after the end of the three-day drama, Russian Deputy Chief Prosecutor Nikolay Shapel announced.
They were all used to taking drugs, and especially injecting the "hard" heroin and morphine, the prosecutor office's press release read. Some blood concentrations of drugs found during autopsy of terrorists' bodies far exceeded the usual deadly dose.
Investigative officials believed that at some time the terrorists finished their drugs and plunged into abstinence characterized by aggression and empty-minded behaviour.
Some 40 terrorists took hostage nearly 1,200 teachers, children and their parents on the first school day opening in Beslan's School Number 1, North Ossetia. In the tragic outcome on the third day of siege, plagued by hunger, thirst and fear, some hostages managed to escape the exploding bombs and mines inside the school and the gunfire, but nearly 350, half of them children, died.
I think you'd have to be high on drugs to do what they did......
Yes, other news services have this, although they say some rather than all.
The drug was Islam.
What worries me is that someone is going to say that "it was their drug addiction that made them kill the children.."
Coalition troops have seized $30 million worth of heroin intended for sale on Iraqi streets by rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, the former commander of the 9,000-strong Polish force in south-central Iraq says.
Lt. Gen. Mieczyslav Bieniek said the militia was using the drug profits "to pay for action" against coalition forces and that some members of the Mahdi's Army were "under the influence [while] fighting us."
The Polish commander was in Washington last week and said that the heroin trade was so pervasive that militia members were known as the "pink army" — named after the red plastic bags they use to peddle the drugs.
Military reports from southern Iraq, as well as State Department and Iraqi sources, have said militants also were using and selling amphetamines in Najaf and Baghdad.
Their customers are mainly Iraqi civilians, but officials do not rule out that some of the drugs have reached coalition troops. Marijuana and hashish also are readily available across Iraq.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/10/003520print.html
Grain of salt caveats are indicated here.
Note the lack of mention of the recovery of any drug
paraphernalia, such as syringes.
This could be just the Russians trying to explain to
themselves why anyone would do this.
Recall that during the Soviet era, communism was "rational",
and thus anyone who opposed it was crazy, so dissidents
often found themselves committed to mental institutions,
where various "therapies" would be forcibly applied to
attempt to "cure" their diseased thinking.
The leadership must think that the modern Russian just
can't accept that such monstrous acts would arise from
mere ideas, ergo, there has to be another explanation.
Reminds me that often German soldiers who were commanded to slaughter innocents had to drink a lot of vodka to be able to do it. Of course, the jihadi terrorists are totally committed to evil, unlike a lot of the German soldiers. But heavy intoxication will cover a person's conscience so they can do evil they would not otherwise be able to do.
A good book that had details of such slaughter and drinking is "Baba Yar" by - hmmm, can't remember the Russian name. Excellent book. Even though the author was a commie. He was a kid during the invasion and occupation of Kiev, and the entire book is his expierences and other first hand accounts. Riveting.
Someone just did.
I've seen articles on FR stating that a lot of the Falluja terrorists are drug addicts, our guys found drugs and drug paraphenalia.
The fact that some or a lot of these a*holes may be on drugs doesn't excuse them in the least. It's just another black mark against them. Drugs or not, they are 100% responsible for the evil they do.
I could shoot heroin or take other drugs and I still wouldn't kill innocent people, and neither would you.
I didn't see anyone say that...?
If you meant my comments, that certainly was not my meaning. Ever heard the phrase "Dutch courage"? I have seen plenty of people on drugs and/or excessive alcohol, and sometimes such intoxication enables people to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. But taking drugs certainly won't turn a normal person into a terrorist. The only thing it might do is make a crazed evil terrorist a crazed evil terrorist on drugs.
The author's name is Anatoly Kuznetsov if it is the same one I am thinking of.
Now that someone has said it, we can safely go on about our business and ignore that terrorists cannot distinguish good from evil and cannot judge even something so simple as whether to shoot heroin.
Another book about the Einsatzgruppen worth reading is "Masters of Death" by Richard Rhodes.
Lame theory. I'll bet it is much more complicated than that. The war on terror meets the war on drugs -- it's international.
I wouldn't say that the drugs made them kill the children, but they probably did desensitize them enough to enable them to kill the children, or at least to ignore their suffering. Junkies do tend to lose some of their humanity.
....IMHO, it is not so much that the drugs,(yes alcohol is a drug)covers the person's conscience but that it allows suppressed evils to manifest.
They are employing another lesson from Vietnam --- destroy enemy soldiers' (coalition) discipline with drugs, and manipulate your own soldiers (Islamic terrorists) to fight with fearless aggression with drugs.
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