[flamefront]

And it has to do with their being on drugs.

Ollie North reported that the fedayeen are all ID'd as foreigners BTW.

Look to see if their eyes are red.

[Illbay]

IIRC, Kamikaze pilots were given sake laced with some drug or other, before taking off.

So there is precedent.

[xJones]

Interesting link in your #25.

British soldiers who stormed Basra found dead and injured Fedayeen with recent needle marks in their arms.

[SuziQ]

"We don't know what other drugs were used but it is now believed these people were pumped full of something beforehand to give them strength against a vastly superior force. How else would someone be able to leap on to the back of a tank that size?

This all started centuries ago with the "Assassins", so named because they were high on Hashish when they went out to kill their targets.

These guys sound like the more 'chemically-enhanced' versions.