Detainee describes CIA torture: Shackles, darkness, and non-stop Eminem Raps

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March 9, 2009

In an interview with the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday, Binyam Mohamed, who was recently released from the United States detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, discussed his treatment while in American custody and renewed his claim that he was tortured.

According to Mr. Mohamed, the worst part of his seven years in captivity was not being slashed with a scalpel in Morocco, but the time he spent at “a secret C.I.A. prison in Afghanistan” in 2004, where, he said, he was kept in total darkness 24 hours a day, while being forced to listen to a single rap album played over and over again at high volume:

"There were loudspeakers in the cell, pumping out what felt like about 160 watts, a deafening volume, non-stop, 24 hours a day. They played the same CD for a month, “The Eminem Show.” It’s got about 20 songs on it, and when it was finished, it went back to the beginning and started again.

While that was happening, a lot of the time, for hour after hour, they had me shackled. Sometimes it was in a standing position, with my wrists chained to the top of the door frame. Sometimes they were chained in the middle, at waist level, and sometimes they were chained at the bottom, on the floor.

The longest was when they chained me for eight days on end, in a position that meant I couldn’t stand straight nor sit. I couldn’t sleep. I had no idea whether it was day or night."




article: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/claim-us-used-eminem-raps-on-detainees/?hp

interview: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1160238/How-MI5-colluded-torture-Binyam-Mohamed-claims-British-agents-fed-Moroccan-torturers-questions--WORLD-EXCLUSIVE.html

[Turbineguy]

1. Eminem

I'd have to agree. That is torture. Of course in the event people like Eminem, we'd have to run Mozart.

[EFerrari]

2. I am amazed that Binyam is doing press after all he's been through. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Shackles and darkness I might handle. But, Eminem? Where do I sign the confession?