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Oct 16th, 2003 12:07 PM
Ninjavenom I was gonna say that. AN are a million times more offensive than Metallica, methinks. The problem is getting them to somehow read/hear the lyrics at some sort of comprehensible pace. o .o
Oct 16th, 2003 08:26 AM
Helm Dr made me lol too

But yeah, if they played umm... Agoraphobic Nosebleed 24 hours a day it would work better than wimpy metallica songs.
Oct 15th, 2003 10:25 PM
Cap'n Crunch If they listened to what Ninjavenom listens to, they would kill themselves.
Oct 15th, 2003 09:32 PM
Rez
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Originally Posted by The One and Only...
WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY PLAY TECHNO!!!
there's too much groove for it to be painful. anti-funsters say different.
Oct 15th, 2003 08:19 PM
KellyGayos no
Oct 15th, 2003 04:56 PM
kellychaos
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Originally Posted by Perndog
It won't work for long. The Arabs will start conditioning themselves not to mind this sort of stuff. Even if it's offensive for religious reasons, apologists find ways to get around it.
I just got a visual of some isolated, terrorist training camp in the Himalayas with a mosh pit.
Oct 15th, 2003 04:49 PM
The One and Only... WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY PLAY TECHNO!!!
Oct 15th, 2003 02:04 PM
Rez cut the crap and put on the merzbow.
Oct 15th, 2003 01:05 PM
Protoclown Me too
Oct 15th, 2003 12:41 PM
sspadowsky Dr. Boogie made me LOL.
Oct 15th, 2003 12:08 PM
El Blanco "Why are we attacking them? It is obvious Allah is already punishing them with St Anger."
Oct 15th, 2003 11:02 AM
Anonymous I'll bet that the Iraqis already think that Metallica has sold out.
Oct 15th, 2003 03:56 AM
kahljorn Next thing you know they'll hire male prosititues to show our iraqi prisoners a "Good Time", you know they'll talk then.
Oct 14th, 2003 10:40 PM
Perndog It won't work for long. The Arabs will start conditioning themselves not to mind this sort of stuff. Even if it's offensive for religious reasons, apologists find ways to get around it.
Oct 14th, 2003 10:26 PM
Zhukov I would have thought shitty doof-doof music would've worked better.
Oct 14th, 2003 10:10 PM
Jeanette X "Still won't talk, eh? Perhaps 4 hours of the Dead Kennedies will loosen your tongue..."
Oct 14th, 2003 10:07 PM
ranxer hilarious yet frightening

i wonder who's studying this

even culture shock could be a form of torture when used a certain way, i don't have a clue where 'human rights violation' applies but it is a form of torture, no?
Oct 14th, 2003 09:47 PM
El Blanco
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a fearsome mix of Metallica and Barney the Dinosaur.
Oh, thats just wrong. Seriously, where is amnesty international?
Oct 14th, 2003 09:40 PM
Jeanette X
Metallica and Drowning Pool songs used to torture Iraqis

Source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_782986.html?menu=

Metallica song used to interrogate Iraqis

US interrogators in Baghdad are using heavy metal songs to break Iraqi captives.

Officials say subjecting prisoners to long sessions of the "culturally offensive" music encourages them to talk.

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

The Metallica song repeatedly makes the warning: "Sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight."

Sergeant Mark Hadsell told Newsweek magazine: "These people haven't heard heavy metal before. They can't take it."

US officials say they also use children's music, such as the Sesame Street theme, and a selection of songs from Barney, the jolly purple dinosaur.

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...959538,00.html

Story filed: 14:35 Monday 19th May 2003

Metallica is latest interrogation tactic

Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday May 20, 2003
The Guardian

US military interrogators are using unorthodox musical techniques to extract information about weapons of mass destruction of fugitive Ba'athist leaders from their detainees - a fearsome mix of Metallica and Barney the Dinosaur.
The Americans have long been aware of the impact of heavy metal music on foreign miscreants. They blared Van Halen (among other artists) at the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega when he took refuge in the Vatican embassy in Panama City, and blasted similarly high-decibel music at Afghan caves where al-Qaida fighters were thought to be hiding.

Now it is reported that the combination of high-voltage rock and happy-smiley children's songs can break the will of the hardest terrorist or rogue element.

"Trust me, it works," a US "operative" told Newsweek magazine.

"In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney I Love You song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again."

US interrogators routinely employ "stress-and-duress" techniques, including sleep deprivation: treatment which human rights activists describe as a form of torture.

"Prolonged sensory deprivation and prolonged sensory over-stimulation can cause intense suffering. You can torture someone with psychological pressure," said Dinah PoKempner of Human Rights Watch.

Ralph Peters, a former colonel in army intelligence, called heavy metal "the American equivalent of sending bagpipes into battle".

"Anything you can do to disconcert someone is going to help," he said. "But it's a myth that torture is effective. The best way to win someone over is to treat them kindly."

Newsweek quotes a Sergeant Mark Hadsell explaining the qualities of heavy metal that bends the will of US enemies.

"These people haven't heard heavy metal before. They can't take it. If you play it for 24 hours, your brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows down and your will is broken.

"That's when we come in and talk to them."



Audio interview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3042907.stm

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