Comments on: silent sounds?

silent sounds?

Espoo2 — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:59:53 -0800

Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib , and Matchbox Twenty

By: matteo

matteo — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 13:05:26 -0800

Prostitutes were flown in from the US - he doesn't know whether they were there to smear their menstrual blood on the faces of the more devout detainees. Or perhaps they were brought in to have sex with the soldiers, and some psychological operations (PsyOps) boffin - a resident cultural analyst - devised this other job for them as an afterthought, exploiting the resources at the army's disposal. "One or two of the British guys," Jamal told me, "said to the guards, 'Can we have the women?' But the guards said, 'No, no, no. The prostitutes are for the detainees who don't actually want them.' They explained it to us: 'If you want it, it's not going to work on you.' " "So what were the prostitutes doing to the detainees?" I asked. "Just messing about with their genitals," said Jamal. "Stripping off in front of them. Rubbing their breasts in their faces. Not all the guys would speak. They'd come back from the Brown Block [the interrogation block] and be quiet for days and cry to themselves, so you know something went on, but you don't know what. But for the guys who did speak, that's what we heard." these Pentagon guys must have watched too many Girls-Gone-Wild videos on the other hand, the Bashir anecdote is priceless

By: psmealey

psmealey — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:14:53 -0800

Uh, name three things that suck?

By: keswick

keswick — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 14:27:02 -0800

By: sunexplodes

sunexplodes — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:24:04 -0800

read part one of the series of articles here part two here

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 16:14:26 -0800

he describes the discordant sounds and apparently random music played to him Sounds like my house.

By: tsarfan

tsarfan — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:57:37 -0800

id crack after ten minutes of matchbox twenty. i dont know what the big mystery is.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 20:22:31 -0800

Here's a link to the First Earth Battalion Manual that he references.

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:09:30 -0800

Jon Ronson is my hero.

By: bingo

bingo — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 08:29:36 -0800

I don't think you have to be a 'conspiracy nut' to think it's reasonable that techniques involving subaural sounds might be used on prisoners. But it sounds to me like the soldier who played those CDs had realized that the prisoner didn't belong there, and was just trying to be nice.

By: skallas

skallas — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:18:22 -0800

New-agey religious morons run the country and its military. Movie at 11. Oh look, Wisonsin city to teach creationism in Biology class. If they are so hot to trot about religion, why not a comparative religion course in HS? Oh right, that would expose kids to other religions and scary atheist ideas.