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Prosecutor says Russian school attackers were drug addicts

Prosecutor says school attackers were drug addicts
The Associated Press
October 17, 2004

MOSCOW Russia's deputy prosecutor general says terrorists who took more than a thousand hostages in a school in Beslan were long-time drug addicts.

A statement carried by Russian news agencies reports the senior prosecutor (Nikolai Shepel) says forensic tests of terrorists' bodies shows the amount of drugs in some of their bloodstreams went beyond lethal levels. He says some had run out of drugs when the siege ended in explosions and gunfire.

He says this put some "in a state of withdrawal," which could've led to "aggressiveness and inadequate behaviour."

Nearly 340 hostages died in the September standoff.

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I remember reading in DITM an article about how when someone dies all the fluids in their organs comes out so any substances i.e. drugs comes out and makes it look like they've taken more then they have when an ortorpsy is done, maybe this happened! :\

If they had of taken drugs I think they'd have been on stimulants, cause they were in there over a day or 2 (I can't remember how long) and if you've got aload of hostages around you and aload of pissed off armed Russians outside you don't really wanna be drifting off to sleep, do you? :\
 
I was just about to say the same thing, Gaz.

There's absolutely no way to tell how long they were using or how much they had used prior to death based on contents of drugs in their bodies tested post-mortem.
 
Beslan Terrorists Were Drug Addicts: Russian official

Beslan Terrorists Were Drug Addicts: Russian official

October 18, 2004

The terrorists who took hostages at a Beslan secondary school on September 1, were addicted to narcotics, according to a statement by Russia's Deputy Prosecutor General, Nikolay Shepel.

According to Russian news agencies, Nikolay Shepel said forensic tests on the terrorists showed most of the hostage takers were on hard drugs such as heroin and morphine, while others were using softer drugs.

Shepel indicated a comprehensive forensic medical examination of 32 terrorists showed 22 were long term addicts, who had regularly injected heroin and morphine during and before the hostage taking.

“The concentration of drugs in bodies of some militants exceeded the lethal dose, which showed that they were drug addicts for long and kept using drugs during preparations for the terrorist act,” said Shepel, in a statement published by Itar-Tass news agency.

Nikolay Shepel believes the fact that the terrorists were under the influence of narcotics throughout the siege contributed to the massacre.

The terrorist act claimed the lives of 344 people, more than half were children, hundreds of others were wounded.

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Drug addict claims after Beslan siege

Drug addict claims after Beslan siege
Moscow
October 19, 2004

Laboratory analysis of the remains of 31 militants who seized a public school in Beslan last month has determined that all of them were dependent on drugs, a senior law enforcement official said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies.

The official, Nikolai Shepel, the deputy prosecutor-general of Russia's southern federal district, also said that blood tests had found high levels of heroin and morphine among a majority of the attackers who died as the siege ended.

He said this "indicates that they were long-term drug addicts and had been using drugs permanently while preparing for the terrorist attack", according to the Interfax news agency.

"These conclusions help us look at the Beslan tragedy from a new angle," he said.

As terror attacks have emanated in recent years from the war in Chechnya, many Russian law enforcement officials and politicians have said that those who plan the attacks use hard drugs to coerce suicide bombers or to induce in the bombers a semi-alert state that assists them in fulfilling their grim assignments.
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Pro-separatist websites have dismissed the claims as Russian propaganda.

- New York Times

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951627759.html
 
This does not look plausible at all, it looks like the Russian fed is opportunisticly trying to fry quite a few different fish on the same BBQ.
 
I dont beleive it. They could have taken lot of em very recently prior to seizing the school cuz they knew these days may be their last so they're probably just celebrating with these cocktails.
 
I read that the Russians had used etorphine gas the last time there was a Chechnyan hostage situation; most of the hostage takers an hostages died.

This makes me think 1 of two things: A) the Russians did this again, causing all the hostage takers to inhale massive amounts of opiates or B) the hostage takers tried to prepare for this eventuality by building up a tolerance..

Either way, its pretty weird.
 
They probably were drug addicts. I've lived in Russia half my life and most of the heroin comes from Chechnya, flows into Russia and then west towards europe. There are thousands of heroin addicts in Chechnya and Russia.
 
I believe it that lot of Russians turned into heroin addicts. I've heard and read plenty of times that 80-90% of world's heroin is supplied from Afghanistan now after Bush's pawns invaded Afghanistan.
 
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