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NARCOTIC FERVOR: Fallujah insurgents were addicted to more than mayhem
The Union Leader ^ | 1/13/05 | TONY PERRY

Posted on 01/12/2005 9:52:27 PM PST by TexKat

Edited on 01/13/2005 12:34:21 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Although the ferocity of insurgents is generally attributed to religious fervor and a hatred of America, Marines who participated in the November assault on Fallujah say many of their foes also had something else to bolster their tenacity: drugs.

The Marines say they found numerous stockpiles of needles and drugs such as adrenaline and amphetamines while battling insurgents in the fiercest urban combat waged by U.S. forces since the Vietnam War.

In some homes used by insurgents, crack pipes were found, the Marines say.

Senior U.S. military officials in Iraq say some of the drug caches discovered during the Fallujah offensive had an estimated street value of several thousand dollars.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fallujah; iraq; waronterror; wodlist
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1 posted on 01/12/2005 9:52:28 PM PST by TexKat
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To: TexKat

I'd be on drugs too if I had to face the United States Marines or Army......for sure


2 posted on 01/12/2005 9:55:39 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: TexKat

Interesting, probably a case of take the shot or else.


3 posted on 01/12/2005 9:57:31 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: TexKat

Great. Al Quida on crack.


4 posted on 01/12/2005 10:01:14 PM PST by WarPaint (%^$# mecca. Be done with it. (Is this OK Admin?))
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To: TexKat

If I had to take on the U.S. Marines you can damn well bet I dope myself up with whatever I could find.


5 posted on 01/12/2005 10:03:27 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: WarPaint

Meth Ice.


6 posted on 01/12/2005 10:04:00 PM PST by txhurl
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To: WarPaint
Great. Al Quida on crack.

LMAO. As if those crazy mofos needed anything else for their already demented brains.

7 posted on 01/12/2005 10:04:19 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat

I don't doubt it for a minute. See if I remember history, correct me if I'm wrong. The English word assassin comes fom the Arabic word Hashishim. A millenium ago, the poor young men with no prospects and no wives were hopped up on drugs and sent off to murder at the behest of the local warlord with promises of great rewards in the afterlife. Is there anything new under the sun?


8 posted on 01/12/2005 10:04:23 PM PST by ArmyTeach (Pray daily for our troops.)
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To: WarPaint

They couldn't have been using crack to help them fight. People doing crack just sit in a stupor or at most engage in sex.


9 posted on 01/12/2005 10:05:30 PM PST by bayourod (The states and cities with large immigrant labor pools are the prosperous ones.)
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To: TexKat

Wasn't that also true of the Moros in the Phillippines?


10 posted on 01/12/2005 10:06:01 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: TexKat

Funny that in Islam they are not allowed to drink wine, but see no problem with shooting up for Allah. The hypocracy of Islam knows no bounds. And if they have thousands of dollars worth of stash, poverty is not their problem either.

So what is Islams problem, does it hate just "because"?


11 posted on 01/12/2005 10:07:25 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: TexKat
"When you see a house land on somebody and they're still kicking, you know something is wrong," he said.

God forgive me.

This is not funny but I can't help but laugh at this statement.

12 posted on 01/12/2005 10:09:55 PM PST by It's me
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To: ArmyTeach
Your memory serves you correct and I was thinking about the same thing when I saw this. Some things never change.
13 posted on 01/12/2005 10:11:54 PM PST by Boiler Plate
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To: TexKat
well thats something else they have in common with their liberal comrades here in America
14 posted on 01/12/2005 10:17:38 PM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr

ROTFLMAO!

I knew there must be something in common.

Oh, right. There both crackheads...


15 posted on 01/12/2005 10:23:39 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
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To: TexKat

That "Night of the Living Dead" image is creepy. What a nightmare world our soldiers are in! Maybe they should just blow the insurgents into pieces. It's a lot harder for body parts to keep fighting.


16 posted on 01/12/2005 10:28:04 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: NorCalRepub
I'd be on drugs too if I had to face the United States Marines or Army......for sure

ROFLMAO...

Indeed! Good point. Besides, I'm sure Allah condones it somewhere in there....

17 posted on 01/12/2005 10:29:37 PM PST by Fruitbat
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Liberals need to use drugs to maintain courage in order to defend an agenda that in most cases even they don't even understand. Something else they and the insurgents have in common.
18 posted on 01/12/2005 10:31:44 PM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: TexKat

So where's that puke breathed embedded reporter that was so outraged at a young Marine's close range kill shot???

Yep, NOWHERE!

Semper Fi


19 posted on 01/12/2005 10:32:04 PM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: American in Israel
So what is Islams problem, does it hate just "because"?

I think you've got it.

20 posted on 01/12/2005 10:34:07 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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