Comments on: A History of Music Torture in the “War on Terror”

By: handbagswatchesonlinecom

handbagswatchesonlinecom — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:24:29 +0000

Sensory deprivation techniques, including the use of music / sound, and practiced by researchers in the 1950s and 1960s, financed by U.S. intelligence refined. Dr. Ewen Cameron in Montreal is one of those figures. Legal action by several of his (will) the volunteers were settled by the CIA in the 80s. No admission of wrongdoing were received, and the results of medical experiments, which should be considered similar to the procedure with Nazi or Fascist era became associated Standard Operating Procedures for the U.S. military.

By: Musicians (Finally) Say No To Music Torture by Andy Worthington + The Divine Comedy: Guantanamo « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:35:01 +0000

[...] music torture favorite) complained, but last December, when I wrote a detailed article about it, “A History of Music Torture in the ‘War on Terror,’” I surveyed a generally indifferent industry, in which some of those whose music had been [...]

By: UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:51:41 +0000

[...] that never even existed. After his ordeal in Morocco, he spent four months in the CIA’s “Dark Prison” in Kabul, and was then flown to Guantánamo in September [...]

By: UK Judges Order Release Of Details About The Torture Of Binyam Mohamed By US Agents by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:52:53 +0000

[...] 2002, where he had spent 18 months being tortured, had then been rendered to Afghanistan, to the “Dark Prison” outside Kabul, a secret prison run by the CIA, where he had spent another four months, and had [...]

By: US Torture Under Scrutiny In British Courts by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:46:24 +0000

[...] prisoner who was subjected to “extraordinary rendition” and tortured in Morocco and in the “Dark Prison,” a CIA prison in Afghanistan, secured what may be a significant victory in their campaign to [...]

By: CIA Torture Began In Afghanistan Eight Months before Justice Department Approval by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:02:47 +0000

[...] ago, who spent four or five months there after being tortured for 18 months in Morocco. I have previously described, the “Dark Prison” as “a medieval torture dungeon with the addition of ear-splittingly loud [...]

By: Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah? by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:41:40 +0000

[...] in itself is unacceptable, as the use of music is not simply a matter of being forced to listen to the same song over and over again at [...]

By: the Shackle Report » Blog Archive » tortured policy

the Shackle Report » Blog Archive » tortured policy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:33:19 +0000

[...] to Egypt for torture, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni is released from Guantánamo (September 2008), A History of Music Torture in the “War on Terror” (December 2008), Seven Years of Torture: Binyam Mohamed Tells His Story (March 2009), and also see [...]

By: Binyam Mohamed’s Coming Home From Guantánamo, As Torture Allegations Mount « project-sheffield

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:21:23 +0000

[...] and torture (for 18 months in Morocco, from July 2002 to January 2004, and then at the CIA’s “Dark Prison” in Afghanistan) has been in the public domain for three and a half years — and it has long [...]

By: Inspector Clueso Tackles Torture… « Back Towards The Locus

Inspector Clueso Tackles Torture… « Back Towards The Locus — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:07:58 +0000

[...] about eighteen months he was transferred to one of the CIA’s infamous Dark Prisons in Kabul, where… “It was pitch black, and no lights on in the rooms for most of the time … They hung me up [...]