NP - Prisoners broken by heavy metal and Sesame Street

[David Morris]

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196533992.html

May 20 2003





US interrogators in Baghdad are using a mix of heavy metal songs and the Sesame
Street theme tune to break Iraqi captives. 

American officials said subjecting prisoners to long sessions of the
"culturally offensive" music encouraged them to talk. 

"These people haven't heard heavy metal before," Sergeant Mark Hadsell told
Newsweek magazine. 

"They can't take it."

The interrogators' favourite tracks include Metallica's Enter Sandman and the
Drowning Pool song Bodies, from the Vin Diesel action film XXX. 

They also use children's music, such as the famous Can You Tell Me How To Get
To Sesame Street theme, and a selection of songs from Barney, the jolly purple
dinosaur. 

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