‘Sesame Street’ songs allegedly used in Guantanamo Bay interrogations

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‘Sesame Street’ songs allegedly used in Guantanamo Bay interrogations | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News


A new documentary alleges that detainees at Guantanamo Bay were "tortured" by being forced to listen to songs from Sesame Street for days on end.

The Al Jazeera film, "Songs of War," features Christopher Cerf, who has worked as a composer on Sesame Street for more than four decades.

"My first reaction was this just can't possibly be true," the Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer told Al Jazeera.

"Of course, I didn't really like the idea that I was helping break down prisoners, but it was much worse when I heard later that they were actually using the music in Guantanamo to actually do deep, long-term interrogations and obviously to inflict enough pain on prisoners so they would talk."


The documentary's claims are backed up by a 2008 Associated Press report, which found that several songs, including the Sesame Street theme song, were used as part of the detainee interrogation process at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo in 2003. Military officials at Guantanamo did not directly confirm or deny the report, only saying that they were not "currently" in use. Heavy metal or rap artists such as Metallica and Eminem composed most of the songs reportedly used in the interrogations. Though some other selections included Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." and "I Love You," from the "Barney and Friends" children's show.

As CBS Miami's Antonio Mora notes in the above video, "Five minutes of listening to 'Elmo's Song' would break my will."

[reptoid]

Well, I guess it's better than having your fingernails pulled out.

[salbahis]

ako i cant stand katy perry song... its like torture to me... last life dance ako lang giagwanta for DJ nina....

[machinecult]

They'd been using these methods for a while now. The Invasion of Panama 1989 and during the Siege of Waco. In Waco they also used sounds of animals being killed. Poor Branch Davidians.

[elvandesantos]

nah mao gyud nah.. i cant even stand barney the gay dino songs... mag regor gyud akong utok

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

hahahaha, kalooy sa madakpan, mabuang mn giuro buh

[raissah]

Hahahaha tabangi.. d nako ma imagine mag cgeg paminaw sa uska kanta balik2 for pila ka days. mabuang man cguro ko oi.

[endlessknight]

Don't they use death metal songs as well?

Personally, I can't stand any of the Jovit Baldivino songs. I just hate it.

[erwin_rommel]

wala sila ni gamit og songs ni justin bieber kay basig mu utong unya ang prisoner... wala na hinuoy info nga ma kuha

[takas bahay]

wala sila ni gamit og songs ni justin bieber kay basig mu utong unya ang prisoner... wala na hinuoy info nga ma kuha

OT:
ahaha kang justin beiber songs kay dili na ma-categorize ug magamit sa subtle torture....na belong na sa hardcore overkill (lol)...mga bayot ray mu survive ana nga kanta ang mga terrorista kay maghikog na gyud noun ug dali2x bahalg dili sila malangit (lol)

Ont: naa man gud individuals nga lig-on kaayo ug PHYSICAL - nuerological pain threshold,,,mamatay nlang di gyud mu piyait........pero kun PSYCHOLOGICAL - EMOTIONAL - SOCIAL torture na gani nag ang i-tweak kay mu surrender gyud.......ambot lang sab kaha asa na na belong nang sesame street songs