[Widespread] Drug Addiction Among Beslan Terrorists (New Militant Islamist Modus Operandi?)

Pravda ^ | 10/19/04

[gopwinsin04]

The results of forensic analysis showed that the 31 Islamist militants who siezed a school in Beslan last month and killed at least 330 people were drug addicts, a law enforcement official told Russian news agencies.

Bood tests showed high levels of heroin and morphine in most of the militants, who were killed when federal forces and angry parents stormed the school at the end of a three day hostage drama.

The tests, 'Indicated that they were long term drug addicts and had been using drugs permanently while preparing for the terrorist attack,' Nikolai Shepel, was quoted as saying by Interfax News Agency.

Their extreme brutality could also have been spurred on by the fact that some of them had run out of drugs.

Shepel said: 'Some of the criminals were already suffering withdrawal symptoms which are usually accompanied by aggressiveness and uncontrollable behaviour.'

'These conclusions allow us to look at the situation from a new angle.'

[gopwinsin04]

And now we know the rest of the story..

[cripplecreek]

It makes perfect sense to me. Rational people don't blow themselves up.

[Heff]

Yeah, well I would have to be on Morphine and Heroine to intentionally get with in 1000 yards of other people that intend to BLOW THEMSELVES UP just a prove a point!

[2banana]

Drugs and islam always seem to go together...

[gopwinsin04]

And rational people dont shoot children in the back either..but these are Islamokazis were are dealing with!

[expatpat]

That's where the word assassins comes from. Muslim terrorists carrying out suicidal attacks drugged out on hashish.

[expatpat]

That's where the word assassins comes from. Muslim terrorists carrying out suicidal attacks drugged out on hashish.

[lilylangtree]

The bottom line: the islamic terrorists are nothing but murdering drug dealers, regardless of all the high-falutin' religious speeches. Appears that islamic terrorists are fast becoming addicted to their own product.

Coalition troops seize $30 million in heroin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | Oct 10 | By Sharon Behn

Coalition troops seize $30 million in heroin


By Sharon Behn
THE WASHINGTON TIMES


Coalition troops have seized $30 million worth of heroin intended for sale on Iraqi streets by rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia, the former commander of the 9,000-strong Polish force in south-central Iraq says.
Lt. Gen. Mieczyslav Bieniek said the militia was using the drug profits "to pay for action" against coalition forces and that some members of the Mahdi's Army were "under the influence [while] fighting us."
The Polish commander was in Washington last week and said that the heroin trade was so pervasive that militia members were known as the "pink army" — named after the red plastic bags they use to peddle the drugs. Military reports from southern Iraq, as well as State Department and Iraqi sources, have said militants also were using and selling amphetamines in Najaf and Baghdad.
Their customers are mainly Iraqi civilians, but officials do not rule out that some of the drugs have reached coalition troops. Marijuana and hashish also are readily available across Iraq.
A U.S. defense official says he is not aware of drug use by U.S. forces in Iraq. "The bitter realism is that there are 130,000 young people over there, and there have been incidents of indiscipline. I haven't heard of any involving drugs, but you can't rule out that possibility."
Gen. Bieniek, whose area of responsibility spanned south-central Iraq from Saudi Arabia on the west to Iran on the east, said most of the heroin was coming across the porous borders from both neighbors.
A route through Iran has become a major route for transporting Afghan heroin to Europe. Afghanistan produces about three-quarters of the world's supply.
"We've got some Afghan mujahideen coming in," Gen. Bieniek said. Forces under his command seized at least 60 vehicles illegally crossing from Iran into Iraq.
Under former dictator Saddam Hussein, the border with Iran was protected by six battalions of armed and trained police. Today, two battalions are guarding the boundary, Gen. Bieniek said.
In a slide presentation at the American Enterprise Institute, the commander showed a photograph of the confiscated heroin carefully laid out in bags. The drug cache has been burned.
Gen. Bieniek commanded the Polish-led multinational troop contingent from January through July of this year. Despite a mandate to establish security and stability, his forces never managed to do that.
"We are still in the combat zone," he said, facing daily threats and attacks from multiple fronts, including foreign fighters, al Qaeda-linked terrorists, militant Muslims, criminals and former Ba'athists.
"Every day and every night, we faced such kinds of threats," he said, illustrating the peril with photographs of soda-can bombs, suicide-bomb vests, roadside explosive devices, confiscated weapons and ammunition.
Controlling the 30,000-square-mile territory that included the troubled cities of Najaf, Kut, Kufa, Karbala and Hilla with a hodgepodge of international troops — each with their own rules-of-engagement language — was a "very complicated operation."
Gen. Bieniek, who studied in California and at Sandhurst, the British military academy, previously served in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Western Sahara and the Golan Heights. He said he was restrained in Iraq by the limits on his mandate and by other nations' forces under his command. His forces could participate in offensive operations with U.S. troops, but he was not authorized to use his own forces to begin offensive combat operations.
Fighting an enemy that used civilians as cover also proved difficult, he said. "They did not respect any rule of law. They would attack from behind a crowd. It was brutal, unconventional war ... but we did everything we can to avoid civilian losses."
Iraqis "would sometimes want to use us as a shield, or be angry at us. [The question always was] to shoot them or allow them to kill my soldiers. You must have a choice. There is no choice in that situation."
With Iraqi elections just three months away, Gen. Bieniek said, the development of an effective Iraqi army and police force was crucial. "We must accelerate that process," he said.
To date, the Iraqi national security forces "in terms of numbers are OK, but in terms of quality, there is still a long way to go."
In Washington, Gen. Bieniek met with Pentagon officials, including Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Makes sense. Look up the history of the word "assassin".

[Phsstpok]

This is not a new tactic for Jihadists.  In fact it's almost a thousand years old:

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.  2001.

Assassin

(ss´n) (KEY)  [Arab.,=user of hashish], European name for the member of a secret order of the Ismaili sect of Islam. They are known as Nizaris after Nizar ibn al-Mustansir, whom they supported as caliph. The members of the order were distinguished by their blind obedience to their spiritual leader (known in the West as the Old Man of the Mountain) and by their use of murder to eliminate foes.	1
The order was founded by Hasan ibn al-Sabbah when he gained control (c.1090) of the mountain fortress of Alamut, located S of the Caspian Sea. The order spread over Persia and Syria, gaining control of many strongholds, and it soon inspired terror throughout the Muslim world. Members were organized into strict classes, according to degree of initiation into the secrets of the order. The most important of the classes were the devotees, who sought martyrdom and were the instruments of assassination.	2
Hasan and the grand masters who ruled the order after him wielded great political power until the coming of the Mongols. Hulagu Khan attacked and destroyed (1256) their fortresses and massacred most of the Persian branch of the sect. The Syrian branch, with which the Crusaders came in contact, suffered a similar fate at the hands of Baybars, the Mamluk sultan of Egypt. Only scattered groups of the order survived; they are said to persist today, particularly in N Syria. Tales of the Crusaders and the writings of Marco Polo brought the Assassins and the Old Man of the Mountain into European folklore. The term assassin came into English and is used today to mean murderer, particularly one who kills for political motives.	3
See B. Lewis, The Assassins (1967); E. Franzius, History of the Order of Assassins (1969).

The assassins, or hashishm, would use drugs to "get a glimpse of paradise before going off on the mission of martyrdom.

We are fighting an old enemy.  They've never stopped hating us.  They've never stopped plotting against us.  They wish us dead or enslaved.

non nobis Domine non nobis sed nomini tuo da gloriam (Psalms)

We don't fight for ourselves, this time, but for all humanity.

Those who oppose us, not just the jihadis, but our enemies here and throughout the rest of the world, are not opposing us.  Instead they are supporting evil and death, for all mankind.

[adam_az]

"That's where the word assassins comes from. Muslim terrorists carrying out suicidal attacks drugged out on hashish."

That's nothing. You ever see a gang of college students mob a convenience store at midnight while drugged on hashish?

[MarMema]

Fascinating when you recall that the terrorists in Nord Ost were also taking drugs (IV) and drinking, and the islamic radicals in Bosnia are heavily into heroin trade.

[andyk]

Islamist militants

I was going to throw Pravda some kudos for referring to the terrorists as Islamists, but then it occured to me that they were referring to them as militants. Sigh.

[monday]

From the same article; "But a source in the North Ossetian police's forensic service said Monday there were no signs of the militants taking drugs. "There were no syringes, ampoules, and their wrists were without scars," he said.

"The forensic tests were carried out in Stavropol, but here we just laughed at the [idea]. There may have been some drug addicts among them, but to say they were all drug addicts is too much.", according to the Moscow Times."

hmmmm... who to believe?

[Mamzelle]

I have spent a good while on google today trying to find those first dreadful pictures of the Beslan massacre. They cannot be retrieved by google--at least I can't seem to make it happen.

Then I went back to the original images thread of over a month ago--all the pix are red exxes.

Would someone else give it a try? It's like they've disappeared from the face of the earth. Is there a web source for these photos?

[nw_arizona_granny]

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