Tortures
Back in 2005, prison logs from Guantanamo Bay revealed that Christina Aguilera songs were used to torture detainees involved in the 9/11 attacks. This week, a New Yorker article called "The Sound of Hate" resurfaced those reports and delved more deeply into the practice of using music as torture. The logs revealed that Mohammed al-Qahtani, who tried to enter the U.S. to participate in the 9/11 hijackings, was kept awake using Christina music and told he could sleep "when he tells the truth." "Aguilera seems to have been chosen because female singers were thought to offend Islamist detainees," writes the New Yorker's Alex Ross. "Interrogation playlists also leaned on heavy-metal and rap numbers, which ... delivered messages of intimidation and destruction."
Back in 2005, prison logs from Guantanamo Bay revealed that Christina Aguilera songs were used to torture detainees involved in the 9/11 attacks. This week, a New Yorker article called "The Sound of Hate" resurfaced those reports and delved more deeply into the practice of using music as torture. The logs revealed that Mohammed al-Qahtani, who tried to enter the U.S. to participate in the 9/11 hijackings, was kept awake using Christina music and told he could sleep "when he tells the truth." "Aguilera seems to have been chosen because female singers were thought to offend Islamist detainees," writes the New Yorker's Alex Ross. "Interrogation playlists also leaned on heavy-metal and rap numbers, which ... delivered messages of intimidation and destruction."
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