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lennart
28-01-04, 02:01
"A lot of times the fighter pilots say: 'speed is life, speed is life'; in this case, speed became death."

Lt. Col. Tom Heemstra: F-16 Squadron Commander

The Need for Speed: Going to War on Drugs follows the case of the two U.S. pilots, Major Harry Schmidt and Major Bill Umbach, who are under investigation for the deaths by friendly fire of four Canadian soldiers from Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry - in Afghanistan on April 18, 2002. Their defence is that they were flying under the influence of amphetamines supplied by the Air Force.

Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran's investigation exposes how the Air Force, Navy and Special Forces have been issuing mind-altering drugs to their soldiers and airmen, almost certainly resulting in the deaths of allied forces and innocent civilians. Amphetamines, and the sedatives that often accompany them, are banned by civilian authorities in the ordinary workplace, yet forced upon pilots flying multi-million dollar jets into combat and Special Forces soldiers operating behind enemy lines.

American military personnel speak for the first time, to explain how they were used as guinea pigs in wars ranging from Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan and right up until the recent conflict in Iraq.
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