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Music Torture

Sam Stein

Music Stars Demand Records On Bush Administration's Use Of Music For Torture

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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A group of prominent musicians are joining a campaign to close Guantanamo Bay and demanding the release of records about what music was used during th...

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Music Torture

Charles Warner | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

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Charles Warner

Music torture is not as bad as waterboarding, but listening to blaring Neil Diamond singing day and night is close. What music would it take to make you confess?

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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A History of Music Torture in the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruhal Ahmed, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor, Cia, Donald Vance, Britney Spears, Music Torture, Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Rage Against the Machine, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Tom Morello, David Gray, David Addington, Drowning Pool, Binyam Mohamed, Metallica, Pamela Anderson, Abu Ghraib, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Guantanamo Music Torture, Dark Prison, Bob Singleton, William J. Haynes II, Iraq, Sere, Deicide, Politics News
Andy Worthington

U.S. military personnel were ordered to keep prisoners awake by blasting ear-splittingly loud music at them -- for days, weeks or even months on end -- at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

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Guantanamo Detainees Forced To Listen To AC/DC, Barney

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

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U.S. military interrogators have often blasted music at detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. According to the British law group Reprieve...

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