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| New Insurgent Weapon: Taking Methamphetamine | |
| 2005-12-02 | |
| A DRUG which makes users feel superhuman is being taken by rebel fanatics before they launch attacks against UK troops in Iraq. The pill - filled with addictive stimulant methamphetamine - is given to insurgents so they have no fear of taking on heavily-armed Coalition forces. Now senior British officers fear the courage drug, which is known as a "pinky", is flooding Basra where it could help fuel a second armed uprising.
"American officers think that suicide bombers may also be given pinkies to psyche them up before carrying out an attack." Methamphetamine - one of the chemicals in the courage drug - is related to amphetamine but the effects on the central nervous system are greater. Users feel a huge surge of energy and confidence 10 to 15 minutes after they have taken a dose. The precise contents of the pills is classified information. Oh no! We now will have to contend with them standing in the middle of the street, firing their AK at our tanks. | |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #19 This is nothing new. The Russians encountered the same thing in Afghanistan ages ago. |
| Posted by: Rafael 2005-12-02 15:14 |
| #18 "Lack of p***y make you brave, man!" - Eddie Murphy |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-02 14:05 |
| #17 #12 Matt - ROFL! Too true. #16 Anon - Darwin in action. :-D |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-12-02 12:55 |
| #16 I remember when some creative individual in Washington, DC, decided to mix together PCP and crack cocaine. It was called "superman", because when you smoked it, you felt that you were a god. Unfortunately, the #1 side-effect was that you were so hyper-addicted to this feeling that you would invariably smoke it until you o.d.'ed. It only lasted a week, but in that week they had 60 or 70 o.d. fatalities. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-02 12:36 |
| #15 Lets just give them all the Meth mixed with some LSD love drugs that their little brains could handle. We will just go from crack house to crack house cleaning up the insurgency with drugs. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-12-02 12:24 |
| #14 A DRUG which makes users feel superhuman CAUTION: Cape does not enable wearer to fly. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-12-02 12:21 |
| #13 Hi, 2b! Forgive me for my pre-Thanksgiving rant? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-12-02 12:11 |
| #12 Soon they will begin to become randomly paranoid, hallucinate, and be dangerously insane How will we tell the difference? |
| Posted by: Matt 2005-12-02 12:11 |
| #11 Follow the acetone. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-12-02 12:07 |
| #10 how horrible it is for us to insult people before we shoot them. lol! |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-12-02 11:54 |
| #9 Nah, just spike it with polio vaccine, the one that makes muslim peepees fall off. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-02 11:41 |
| #8 Gee - what would happen if we interdicted the pinkie pipeline and introduced, say, pink cyanide pills? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2005-12-02 11:32 |
| #7 So they are not sleeping to well and gradually becoming perm. paranoids? So its only one little step to crystal and crank. If that cycle is sped up then you can spot the jihadists by the white power under the nose and frequent nose bleeds from a diviating septum. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-12-02 11:23 |
| #6 This should go nicely with psyops personnel with loudspeakers questioning their manhood. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel. Until the LA Times hears about it, and starts a frenzy of stories about how horrible it is for us to insult people before we shoot them. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-12-02 10:40 |
| #5 This should go nicely with psyops personnel with loudspeakers questioning their manhood. It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-12-02 10:29 |
| #4 A DRUG which makes users feel superhuman is being taken by rebel fanatics before they launch attacks against UK troops in Iraq. Just because they feel superhuman doesn't mean they are. Tactics and ROE need not change. "Members of Muqtadr el-Sadr's fanatical Mehdi Army who've taken it have been known to stand in front of US armoured vehicles and open fire almost oblivious to the tank's guns." Excellent! Makes the job of killing them a LOT easier. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-02 10:24 |
| #3 The trouble with pharma is that we, the good guyz, know a heck of a lot more about it than do they, the bad guyz. (Rod Serling voice) "Picture if you will an insurgent army whose drugs have been contaminated, without their knowledge, by their enemy. Soon they will begin to become randomly paranoid, hallucinate, and be dangerously insane to everyone around them. And entire army that has entered into THE TWILIGHT ZONE." (cue music) |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-12-02 10:17 |
| #2 It's been reported for over a year that Sadr's group were selling drugs to finance their militia. Troops fighting in Najaf were finding quite a lot of drug paraphenalia Sadr's gunnies were using to calm their fear during the battle of Najaf. This was doubly so when when troops overran Fallujah. The major who wrote The GreenSide reported thet found huge amounts of spent needles, heroin and a synthetic heroin-amphetimine that made the terrorists extremely aggressive (and stupid) and life hell for Fallujans. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-12-02 09:47 |
| #1 Been used by Allied soldiers in every war since wwii. Still given to special forces for emergencies. A Yawn sensationalist tabloid story |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2005-12-02 09:35 |