NP? lame soundtrack for this War

[pynchonoid]

[...] Fallujah, Iraq — In Fallujah's darkened, empty
streets, U.S. troops blast AC/DC's Hell's Bells and
other rock music full volume from a huge speaker,
hoping to grate on the nerves of this Sunni Muslim
city's gunmen and give a laugh to marines along the
front line. Unable to advance farther into the city,
an Army psychological operations team hopes a mix of
heavy metal and insults shouted in Arabic — including,
“You shoot like a goat herder” — will draw gunmen to
step forward and attack.

The loud music recalls the Army's use of rap and rock
to help flush out Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega
after the December 1989 invasion on his country, and
the FBI's blaring progressively more irritating tunes
in an attempt to end a standoff with armed members of
the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas in 1993.
[...]At night, the psychological operations unit
attached to the Marine battalion here sends out
messages from a loudspeaker mounted on an armored
Humvee. On Thursday night, the crew and its
Arabic-language interpreter taunted fighters, saying,
“May all the ambulances in Fallujah have enough fuel
to pick up the bodies of the mujahadeen.”

The message was specially timed for an attack moments
later by an AC-130 gunship that pounded targets in the
city.

Later, the team blasted Jimi Hendrix and other rock
music, and afterward some sound effects like babies
crying, men screaming, a symphony of cats and barking
dogs and piercing screeches. They were unable to draw
any gunmen to fight, and seemed disappointed. [...] 


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