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Bands Blast Blaring 'Music Torture' at Gitmo

Campaign against use of rock to break war prisoners

By Ambreen Ali, Newser User

Posted Dec 10, 2008 2:21 AM CST

(Newser) – Rock musicians are banding together to protest use of their music—played loudly and incessantly—to torture war prisoners. US interrogators have bragged about breaking detainees by endlessly playing the same pulsating music for months. "Plenty lost their minds"—not just to Eminem,... Read full story »

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