Posted on 05/01/2014 1:48:39 PM PDT by mgist
The authorities in the Seychelles said Tuesday that they had determined that a combination of heroin and alcohol was responsible for the deaths of two former members of the Navy SEALs working as guards on board a container ship in February. The two, Jeffrey Reynolds and Mark Kennedy, in their 40s, were found dead in a cabin aboard the Maersk Alabama, the cargo ship that became famous in 2009 after Somali pirates attacked it and took the captain hostage. After autopsies determined the men had died of respiratory failure and possible heart attacks, officials in the Seychelles, a small Indian Ocean nation, requested further analysis of stomach contents and blood samples in Mauritius. Those tests “revealed no trace of any poison, thus ruling out foul play,” the police in the Seychelles said Tuesday. A local pathologist then concluded that Mr. Reynolds’s and Mr. Kennedy’s heart failures “had been as a result of a combination of heroin and alcohol consumption,” ......Investigators found pills, syringes and a brown powder that later proved to be heroin in the cabin. The Seychelles, an archipelago about 1,000 miles east of Kenya, has one of the world’s highest rates of injectable drug use, according to the United Nations. The earlier attack on the Maersk Alabama, which became the basis of the Oscar-nominated film “Captain Phillips,” was one of several high-profile episodes that led shipping companies to place armed security guards like Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Kennedy on their vessels. The two former SEAL members worked for the Trident Group, a maritime security company in Virginia Beach. The company president said that contractors were required to submit to extensive drug screening every two years and that both men had passed their tests within the last 18 months.
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What a ridiculous exchange.
What other negatives do you want me to prove?
If there is a connection that you can document, produce it.
Any clown can speculate, especially about things that he knows very close to nothing about.
Speculate on Freerepublic? Lol. That never happens.
I see a lot of coincidental connections. But that is all. What is in the cargo of the Maersk Alabama?
It's a containership, not a tanker or a drybulker.
That means manufactured goods, typically luxury vehicles and machinery if it's going from Europe to Asia.
The return journey would typically be economy vehicles and electronics.
Sorry bub it’s the absolute truth:
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/high-school-youth-trends
Heroin use has remained steady for a long time. But the media always needs a crisis, so they cycle through various drugs. It’s heroin’s turn in the spotlight, even though every time they say there’s an epidemic they are lying to you.
It’s true that media is generally worthless. But sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes 2 dead Navy SEALs with junk in their veins are just 2 Navy SEALs who developed a drug habit, wasted their lives, and died.
Huh? Who thinks the administration deliberately assassinated them?
So the "fishy" conspiracy that so many on this thread were discussing is, you now concede, unfounded?
“If there was only one syringe, and one of the marines was slumped over, why would the second marine continue to inject himself?”
Slumping over is a pretty typical reaction to taking a shot of heroin, whether you overdose or not. It’s called “nodding out”, and unless you check someone’s pulse and breathing, you might not know they were actually OD’ing.
thanks Boogieman and Hot Tabasco. As you’ve probably guessed, I don’t have clue one about how or what happens when heroin is used other than what I’ve seen on the TV. Thanks for explaining it so I better understand.
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