Friday, September 07, 2018

Guantanamo Mixtape: Soundtrack to Hell



Along with sleep deprivation and waterboarding, abusive sound was a method used by US interrogators at Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Mosul, and elsewhere. The 2006 edition of the US Army’s field manual for interrogation advocated the use of songs played again and again at maximum volume to break the will of enemy combatants at US detention centers around the world. These songs and others like them became the soundtrack of Hell for those subjected to them:




From The Penguin Book of Hell, by Scott G. Bruce, Penguin Classics. Copyright 2018
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