NP? lame soundtrack for this War

[Joel Katz]

they should just play 'long and winding road' over and over.  man, that song 
sucks.  but t-that paris hilton?  i'd hit that shit again and again....


>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: NP?  lame soundtrack for this War
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
>[...] 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. [...]
>
>
>... read it all:
><http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040416.wpsyop0416/BNStory/International/>
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