'Torture Playlist': Songs to Interrogate By

by Jarrett Martineau | February 26, 2008 at 08:57 am

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"We don't need no water let the muthaf&%$ burn..."

Sound familiar? Remember the scene in Fahrenheit 9/11 when the US soldiers are suiting up for battle and blasting that song from boomboxes as their tanks roll through Baghdad?

Well, now you can hear the sound and the fury of US military interrogations: a "torture playlist" if you will.

"Exit light / enter night", indeed. Do you dare listen?

Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, "prolong capture shock," disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.