- 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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- As MosNews reported on Monday, the results of forensic
tests, released by local prosecutor Nikolai Shepel, showed what would
normally
have been deadly doses of heroin and morphine in most of the 32
terrorists.
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- But Senator Alexander Torshin, who heads the Beslan
investigation
committee, told Ekho Moskvy radio Tuesday that heroin was not enough to
produce that kind of behavior in the hostage-takers, and that they must
have used new kinds of drugs.
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- In particular, Torshin cited the militants' ability to
continue fighting despite being badly wounded and presumably in great
pain.
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- "We got a response from the general prosecutor's
office, which said the substance used was heroin," Torshin told the
radio station. "But I'm not satisfied with the response, because we
know pretty much about the effects of heroin, and about the effects of
other narcotics."
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- "I think something absolutely new was used
there,"
he added, speaking of the terrorists who reportedly ingested unknown
substances
during the siege.
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- The parliamentary committee set out once again on Monday
for Beslan, a town in southern Russia's North Ossetia where over 330 people
died in the three-day hostage drama, to gather new information.
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- Earlier, following last weekís trip to the
grieving
town, Torshin announced that some of the information they learned was
"too
scary to reveal".
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- During this weekís trip he plans to speak with
the leader of Georgia's separatist province of South Ossetia, Eduard
Kokoity,
who was in Beslan and could testify, Ekho Moskvy reported.
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