Posted on 10/17/2004 6:07:53 PM PDT by Walkin Man
Beslan militants were drug-dependent, forensic study shows
By C.J. Chivers
Monday, October 18, 2004 MOSCOW Forensic analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized the public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies Sunday.
Nikolai Shepel, the deputy prosecutor general of Russia's southern federal district, also said that blood tests had found very high levels of heroin and morphine among a majority of the attackers who died at the siege, "which indicates that they were long-term drug addicts and had been using drugs permanently while preparing for the terrorist attack," according to the Interfax wire service.
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I don't quite get what you mean?
That's right. Herion addicts ALWAYS take entire schools of children hostage and shoot them in the back as they try to run away.
We hear about it all the time.
They are not on the nod at all points of the intoxication. Evidence for this is the performance of jazz musicians and the prolific writings of such as Burroughs and Burgess both of whom were heroin addicts.
However, if these killers were truly addicts they would have been having withdrawal pains after a day of not shooting up. Or taking opium in some form.
I thought they were using it because it sounds awful, and it diminishes the success in Afghanistan.
Oh, brother. Here we go. Druggies defending mass murderers.
(sigh)
Where are the "druggies" defending mass murderers?
What are you talking about?
No other reason to mention them.
I believe this.
I was just wondering what Texas Eagle was talking about as far as druggies supposedly defending terrorists on these boards.
I must have missed that!
i was wondering if any of the witnesses reported any drug use. if no witnesses saw them shoot up during the whole time, i would think the russian report is a complete fake. real addicts would have stashed some drugs somewhere to use during the take-over of the school.
come to think about it, i do remember hearing reports of the japanese military giving drugs to kamikaze pilots during WWII so they would crash into the ships.
but i am still wondering why we haven't heard any reports by witnesses at beslan about the terrorists using drugs, and why US authorities haven't mentioned this in reference to other islamic terrorists.
Ping
Not surprised. I'm sure most of them are. Including in Israel.
Disclaimer: I'm NOT excusing them.
Yeah, they are. Really! Ask the liberals, they'll tell ya. Terrorists hate the US because we're so immoral. /sarc
Yeah, I noticed that all those cancer patients on morphine start drawing up plans to shoot up schools with that very first drip into their veins. And I remember how those ultra-thin models, with their heroin chic look, were organizing terror cells and flew planes into the fashion runways.
By the way, that was sarcasm as scorching as it gets.
Right. Because we know that drugs cause Islamist terrorism, now, since these terrorists were on drugs.
The way you people think, since everyone breathes and everyone dies, you'd better hold your breath. One causes the other, donchaknow...
If they sent them in without drugs, after just a few days they would not be very sane (not that they were before) and you could tell them to do what you wanted ann then they would get the drugs upon their successful return.
This is one of many similar reports. Not that I expect it could change your mind.
Some people don't want to let the facts get in the way of their opinions.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1248586/posts
I have heard nothing of that but given the prospect of a long siege it would not be surprising to find meth use to stay awake.
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