Beslan terrorists were addicted to heroin, morphine and other ...
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The terrorists who took over a school in Beslan last month were drug addicts, says Nikolay Shepel, Deputy Prosecutor General, Russia.
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Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who seized more than 1,000 hostages in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- These have been fat years for Afghanistan's drug lords. Since the Taliban collapsed in November 2001, traffickers, some militia commanders, and provincial officials have reaped rich rewards from the opium and heroin industry, according to government and Western officials.
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Prescription drug abuse is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers
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Bulgarian police seized 132 pounds of heroin and arrested four people, one a former customs official, a prosecutor said. via UPI
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Three years ago today, the terrorists who struck at the United States changed America forever. Now, a similarly profound change is taking place in another country: Russia.
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down on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people, to avenge the killing of Muslims in Russia&#39;s rebel Chechnya province. But it said on Friday it had identified &quot;a number of people with possible links to the terrorist act&quot;.
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More than two decades ago, Frank Enwonwu got caught smuggling five ounces of heroin into the United States from his homeland in Nigeria. He admitted his mistake and readily agreed to work as an informant, believing the U.S. had promised to keep him safe.
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VOLGOGRAD, October 28 (Itar-Tass) - Work in Beslan is nearing completion to sum up material damage, inflicted by terrorists on September 1-3, Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel said in an interview with Tass on Thursday.
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BRUSSELS, Mar 1 (IPS) - A growing number of people are getting addicted to   tranquillisers and other prescription drugs, and this abuse is  set to  exceed illicit drug abuse, the International Narcotics  Control Board  (INCB) warns in a report published Thursday.
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THE death of a 13-year-old English boy from an overdose of heroin is a grim reminder of the social cost of what United States President George W. Bush lauded last June as &#39;the first victory in the war on terror&#39;.
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MOSCOW -- In an Internet posting, a Chechen warlord with a $10 million bounty on his head has apparently claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege and promised more attacks on Russian civilians if Chechnya is not granted independence.
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The terrorists who took over 1,000 people hostage at a school in southern Russia last month used more than just heroin, the head of a parliamentary committee investigating the Beslan siege told journalists.
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MOSCOW, Sep 4 (IPS) - The killings at the Beslan school in Russia are  only the gravest  in a long campaign of attacks and hostage  taking by Chechen separatists.
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People living in former coalfields areas are nearly twice as likely to take heroin, research shows.
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Alexander Torshin, the head of a parliamentary commission investigating last month&#39;s Beslan school hostage crisis, on Tuesday questioned officials&#39; contentions that the raiders were using narcotics, saying he believes they were deranged by an unknown drug
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Medics fear public safety could be compromised by the growing interest of world governments in using drugs for law enforcement.