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Czech Lab Study Showing New Club-Drug Cocktail May Pacify Battlefield Aggression Reported In November DTI PR Newswire Mix of sedatives and 'party' drug successfully tested: Will it be weaponized? November 05, 2007: 01:15 PM EST NEW YORK, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A Czechoslovakian lab has reported success testing new mixes of sedatives and ketamine, an illicit "dance party" drug, to pacify hostile rhesus monkeys, and proposed the cocktail could be used as a behavioral weapon in combat. The findings spotlight an emerging new intersection of high-tech pharmacology and non-lethal weapons development, and rekindle ethical and political questions about what is acceptable on the battlefield, according to a report by Michael Dumiak in the November issue of Defense Technology International (DTI) magazine. DTI, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies' AVIATION WEEK, is an integrated media business dedicated to covering the interplay of defense technology, funding, operations, programs and policies. It launched in September 2005 with DTI magazine as a bi-monthly supplement to Aviation Week & Space Technology. DTI quickly established itself with a worldwide circulation of 38,000 military, government and defense industry decision-makers, defense infrastructure opinion leaders and influencers, and this year began publishing as a monthly stand-alone magazine. In addition to the magazine, the DTI portfolio includes events and web-based products and services. The idea to use drugs against aggression in combat is not new, but the Czech study is notable for its findings and its public disclosure, Dumiak reported. "While Russian, Chinese and American scientists may have similar lines of study, the Czechs are brazen enough to go on scientific record," he wrote, adding, "more than one American researcher connected with the military thinks [the] presentation is compelling." The Czech researchers, who compare the global spread of aggression today to epidemics of infectious disease in the Middle Ages, were most impressed with the effect of a naphtylmedetomidine-ketamine mix to induce calming, non-violent behavior in their subjects. "We achieved complete manipulability of the animal, with low motoric sedation," said Jitka Schreiberova, one of the study leaders. In addition to the pharmacological results, their report also addressed weapon delivery system options such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) laced paintball-like projectiles. Additional reporting and commentary on the new wave of war drugs and other defense technology topics may be found on the ARES defense blog: www.aviationweek.com/ares For more DTI news, back issues and future events, go to www.aviationweek.com/dti -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
