| Like, wow, man! Who'da thunkit? |
Some suicide bombers who battled U.S. troops in Fallujah were doped up on heroin and speed, the Pentagon's top general said yesterday. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his aides said the suicidal jihadists used the drugs for courage or to motivate them into martyrdom.
"Here, Mahmoud! Try some of this Drano!"
"That's gonna fud me up, man!"
"What the hell? An hour from now you're gonna be flying meat!
"Uhhh... Yeah. That's right. Okay. An' lemme try some o' that other stuff, too!"
"Ahmed! Bring some muriatic acid for our friend's trip!" |
Myers said some of the suiciders in Fallujah "are foreign fighters, but not exclusively."
"Like, where you from, man?"
"I'm not sure no more, man! Got any more o' that Drano? That is wicked stuff!" |
But when asked to account for the fanaticism of some of the fighters, Myers said, "The other thing you need to understand is...the number of drugs found there as well." A top Pentagon source told the Daily News there were "numerous reports" out of the battle of U.S. soldiers stumbling onto small amounts of drugs and paraphernalia in insurgent safehouses around Fallujah.
| "Kevin! Watch out! Don't step on that... Oh, hell. One o' you guys climb up and get him down." |
"They found heroin and speed," said the senior military official. "They're using it to bolster their courage and get up the nerve and make them braver in the face of what they're getting ready to do."
"Yershhh! [Hic!] More Drano!"
"Don't give him no more, Mustafa! His hair's starting to dissolve!" |
Asked if young Iraqis were convinced to blow themselves to bits after getting stoned or wired by insurgents, the official replied, "That is the reporting we're seeing."
| "'Course, usually the bits of 'em we see are traveling by too fast to ask..." |
Myers derided those who "spur on these young people to commit jihad, who were some of the first ones out of Fallujah" and "cheering from a very safe haven." Drugs and alcohol are forbidden by Islam.
The Pentagon also acknowledged yesterday that the price of taking Fallujah was higher than previously reported, as the death toll for Americans in the city was raised from 51 to 71. Fighting continues in the ruined city, as insurgents who stayed behind or have slipped back into Fallujah are attacking U.S. troops trying to rebuild the city. |