ISIS fighters on stimulant often says CNN. Apparently they feel euphoric and more powerful

[applegrove]

than anyone else when on it. This is ****ed up.

[gratuitous]

2. It wouldn't be cricket to use this against them, though

I mean, wouldn't our good friends in Daesh be held up to universal ridicule if we depicted them as hopped-up fanatics rather than the invincible supermen of our paranoid nightmares? Probably best not to mention this too much.

[HuckleB]

3. How does CNN "know this?" And what "stimulant," in particular?

[CJCRANE]

4. Captagon apparently. IIRC it's an amphetamine. I saw a news story a few weeks ago about a massive

haul of the stuff found by the Lebanese authorities, en route to the warzone.

[HuckleB]

6. Thanks. That stuff is before my time. Dang. And not good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenethylline

Check out the Saudi Arabia data. Wow!

[hobbit709]

7. On a SAUDI prince's private plane 2 Tons of the shit.

[HuckleB]

8. Yeah, crazy. That was in the wiki link.

Apparently, it's a big thing in Saudi Arabia. Why?

[KamaAina]

13. A SAUDI prince's private plane?

Are you casting asparagus about one of our wealthiest closest allies?

[applegrove]

10. I think the original story was on BBC. I looked and could not find a link. Don't remember the name

of the stimulant.

[HuckleB]

11. I did a search, and the story is spreading.

The first response to my question appears to have it correct: It's Captagon. Generic name Fenethylline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenethylline

[loyalsister]

5. I was instantly reminded of the movie TAPS

I know your statement didn't imply that the "stimulant" was killing, but I could not help but think of one of the final scenes. Tom Cruise's character is shooting out the window with absolute joy. It has to be one of the creepiest scenes I can remember from a film. Just saying, if that is the direction CNN was headed with that, ISIS didn't invent it. There's probably some sickness behind it that makes it a near universal possibility.

[Scuba]

9. Warriors using drugs, a phenomenon as old as war itself.

[bobalew]

12. As I've said for many years, the world is not going to succumb to a "Zombie Apocalypse"

but a "Meth Head Apocalypse"....

[rollin74]

14. a lot of stimulant drugs were found in Kobani

on dead daesh fighters after the city was liberated by the Kurds

nothing new for them

[kydo]

15. Well yeah, the USA military has used and still uses stimulants.

So did the Nazi's ... And Allied Forces. Pretty much every army throughout human history has used them. From Alexander the Great using opium to the USA using bennies.

Methamphetamine seem to work wonders on the battle field. The soldier can stay awake for days, while not feeling the effects of stuff like pain, and they tend to take unneeded risks, and often think they are supermen and invincible.