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.
That's the one. Now I remember.
Allah says they cannot drink so they do drugs. Not prohibited my Islam as far as I know. I doubt that hash/marijuana are either.
Certainly not prohibited to cultivate, process and sell drugs to the non-Muslim
I think they can distinguish good from evil; they just like evil and hate good.
Pardon my ignorance but what is the Einsatzgruppen?
Many tin-foil types
believe that debased attacks
like this one are done
by people who've been
"mind-controlled" to perform acts
normal people can't.
If there's truth to this,
the drugs weren't the cause, just
part of the process
that broke the person's
sense of self and paved the way
to implant madness.
Total agreement. As I mentioned up the thread, taking hard drugs or alcohol will NOT turn you or me into a murderer. I might do something stupid but certainly not evil.
Intoxication can indeed break down one's resistence to the evil that's already inside. But one decides to take the drug/alcohol. And obviously the terrorists in Beslan were commited to evil, drugs or no drugs.
Literally "Special Action Groups" they would follow the armies into conquered territory and were used for killing political opponents, communists, and Jews. They killed possibly 2 million of the 6 million Jews in the Holocaust by shooting in mass burial pits in Eastern Europe, and were frequently aided by locals. Even for ideological fanatics like these, the psychological toll was extreme of 24/7 killing. Himmler promoted the construction of death camps to humanely "spare" his men, and also increase effectiveness.
Looks like Baba Yar type stuff - is the Einsatzgruppen a particluar incident, or a general term?
theFIRMboss's answer is better.
Here's the deal: they justify evil because they have good intentions. Totally unethical and anarchistic. The ends justify the means. Do we buy that?
Got it, thanks.
Horrible picture.
When I read "Baba Yar" and a few other books at the same time such as "Anus Mundi" and "Treblinka", my very first thought was - it'll happen again. People aren't any better now, in fact, things have gone downhill in many ways.
I believe the literal meaning is special group, but I don't speak German so I might be wrong on that. The Einsatzgruppen were part of the SS that were responsible for exterminating people, mostly in the areas that were newly conquered. As the death camps became established and the tide of battle turned they were phazed out.
Clicked the link, read some info, bookmarked it.
Really really horrible. I wonder they teach this history in colleges and universities currently?
Apologies to all for my incorrect spelling - it's Babi Yar.
They were high on drugs...
Does that mean thy are democrats?
A great many of democrats are high on drugs, perhaps thats why they can do the unconscionable thing, like vote for john kerry, traitor.
CC
Beslan Terrorists "Were High on Drugs"
...and now they're low in hell.
No chance the heroin came from occupied Afganastan........
Re: my # 36 post. The meaning of the word assassin... ancient muslim hit men stewed to the gills on hashish. so there is at least some historical precedent for it.
CC
We know why they killed, tortured and terrorized...drugs had nothing to do with it...
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