Drugged.

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From a comment to the blog:

"There was just a show on TV . . . about the gun fight between the LAPD and bank robbers a few years ago. These guys had body armor and automatic weapons and ended up in some really ferocious close range shooting with the cops who were similarly armed . . . Looking at the footage, the cops and robbers were shooting at each other from yards apart with automatic weapons, and for the most part, nobody got hit."

This was the North Hollywood 44 minute shoot-out. The two miscreants WERE killed, but only after being hit over and over by rounds from police handguns that could NOT penetrate the body armor they were wearing. These bad eggs were bank robbers and were armed with all sorts of weaponry.

The amount of ammunition fired during this battle was prodigious. Both sides fired over and over at one another. The robbers had 2600 rounds of ammo in their possession??!! Even when firing at close range, rounds were flying all over the place and not hitting! That seems to be typical in these circumstances. A firefight of that nature is NOT like going to the range and plinking at paper targets!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

The wiki cited is good. But omits one thing. THE PERPS HAD SEDATED THEMSELVES. THEY HAD TAKEN DRUGS, TRANQUILIZERS BEFORE THE BANK ROBBERY SO AS TO REMAIN COOL, CALM, AND COLLECTED. WHICH THEY WERE FOR THE ENTIRE ORDEAL [an ordeal for the cops, the bystanders, etc.].

"Whatever Phillips was thinking, he seemed calm and collected."

As I have blogged about many times, "warriors", "fighters", the world over, have for-ever used some sort of "substance" to enhance their ability in battle. Such as:

* Dagga. South African marijuana given to Zulu warriors prior to combat. Given from the pharmaceutical kit bag of a witch doctor who accompanies the "troops".

[John Keegan mentions that U.S. troops smoking "dope" in Vietnam were only following the normal practice for the region. "Fighters" in that part of the world have traditionally "doped" themselves prior to battle. The pirates of the South China Sea being just one example!]

* BZ ["buzz"]. Being used right now as we speak. Used by the jihadi fighting in Iraq. Taken prior to engaging American troops. In a proper dosage has an enhancement effect?

"It has been rumored that BZ was administered to American troops [Vietnam] in order to increase their fighting power and improve their performance, but this rumor is very disputed."

* "Go pills". Given to American Air Force pilots ferrying aircraft across the Atlantic. A super-dose of caffeine?

The above are just a minor sampling of what exists out there.

With regard to BZ, it seems that the British had evidence that BZ, in a gaseous form, was in the possession of the Iraqi? Was developed originally as a non-lethal incapacitating agent. Perhaps the jihadi in Iraq has an endless supply of the stuff obtained from stolen Saddam stocks?

"In February 1998, the British Ministry of Defense released an intelligence report that accused Iraq of having stockpiled large amounts of a glycolate anticholinergic incapacitating agent known as Agent 15. Agent 15 is an alleged Iraqi incapacitating agent that is likely to be chemically either identical to BZ or closely related to it. Agent 15 was reportedly stockpiled in large quantities prior to and during the Persian Gulf War."

"One pill makes you happy, one pill makes you small, and the one mother gives you, doesn't do anything at all" - - "White Rabbit" - - Jefferson Airplane.

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