The New Agent Orange?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...malaria_drug_2

Another thread reminded me about the Canadian torture in Somalia, and it
has got me thinking. Could the behavior of some soldiers in the middle
east be due to their malaria drugs? Lariam (mefloquine) was given to
troops because it was thought that some malaria might be resistant to
chloroquine. Unfortunately, Lariam might cause violent or suicidal acts (it
is not yet proven either way). So, what if this becomes a defense of
soldiers accused of torture?

http://www.aaconsult.com/lariam/lariam_news_16.html
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The Canadian Somalia Commission of Inquiry also looked at Lariam when it investigated the 1993 beating death of a Somali teenager at the hands of Canadian troops. Many soldiers were given mefloquine while on duty in Somalia.

The commission, which was shut down prematurely by the federal government, was unable to sort out the difficult and complex science of mefloquine and the brain's chemistry. Ultimately, it decided that it could not say if mefloquine played in the events that led to the death of Shidane Arone.
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http://www.lariaminfo.org/informatio..._website.shtml
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But Matchee, a 26-year-old, 6-foot-4-inch, 230-pound Canadian Native-American, is antsy. He's been downing Tusker Ale flown in from Kenya. And there's that Lariam. Matchee's eyes are wild, and people aren't sure if he's drunk or just plain crazy.

After allegedly being prodded by a superior, Matchee beats Arone silly for three hours. The boy's genitals are burned. Someone allegedly sodomizes the prisoner with a lead pipe. Officers visit the bunker to get in their licks. Matchee even takes trophy pictures, talking gibberish and laughing all the while. When the boy dies, his body is rushed off the base. Two days later when the trophy pictures are handed over to military brass, Matchee is thrown into a bunker brig. Before being questioned, he tries to hang himself with bootlaces. He doesn't succeed, but he loses oxygen to his brain and falls into a coma. Currently functioning with a mind of a three-year-old, Matchee is now in a Saskatchewan mental institution. No one will ever know exactly what went on- in his head.

"That wasn't my husband," says Matchee's wife Marj."He had an attitude, but he wasn't a murderer. It was that crazy drug." A government inquiry disagrees, but a member of Canada's Parliament and the surgeon in Somalia who resuscitated Matchee both suspect Lariam was involved.
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