[seeker41]

In the hall of the theater, the body of the terrorists' commander Movsar Barayev was found. He had a bottle of cognac in his hand, Rossiya television reported. Near the pillars of the hall where children had been kept, corpses of four female terrorists were recovered. There was 800 gram to 1.5 kilogram of explosives strapped to the bodies of each of them. On the floor near the bodies, syringes were found.

This is puzzling to me. Why did the women have syringes?

[BrooklynGOP]

Drugs maybe? I read in the russian media before, that a lot of chechen rebels use drugs, specially when they have to conduct suicide missions... Didn't know if that was true or propoganda.. I guess we'll find out from hostages' accounts.

[Route66]

I'm Interested in the syringes, too.

[MarMema]

I was wondering about that too. Syringes...hope they were not using drugs on the hostages.

[EternalVigilance]

I don't understand the syringes either...there are only three possibilities I can think of:

1. The terrorists are druggies.

2. They were using drugs to pacify hostages.

3. The authorities put them there as a propaganda tool against the Islamofascists...to discredit them in the eyes of their allies.

But I don't know.