US Troops 'Tortured' Man With Rap Music

Gulf News/AL-Reuter ^ | 12/21/03 | Gulf News

[Dallas59]

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Lebanese Mohammed Jaber said he went to Iraq on a pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites, he ended up being "tortured" with loud rap music by US troops suspicious he might be a foreign fighter against Americans.

Jaber said an Iraqi taxi driver handed him and three friends over to US troops for $100 each in April apiece as fighters for ousted president Saddam Hussain.

"They asked us why we were there and if we came to fight them. But we said we came only to visit the holy sites in Karbala," he said. "They didn't torture us physically but they did psychologically by raising the volume of rap music all day until it became unbearable and by withholding food," he said.

But Jaber said he kept one secret from his captors, fearing the treatment could get worse. "I mean I like rap, just imagine them playing jazz."

US-led forces in Iraq freed Jaber and sent him and seven other Arab detainees home on Saturday.

The International Co-mmittee of the Red Cross said three of them were seriously injured while in US custody. Jaber said they had stepped on land mines while clearing up rubbish in a field for US soldiers.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International has said it has heard complaints of torture and degrading treatment including prolonged sle-ep deprivation from detainees held by the American troops.

Jaber said he and his friends were first held for six days handcuffed and hooded. They were not given food or allowed to sleep.

[alnick]

US Troops 'Tortured' Man With Rap Music

I once had neighbors who did that to me, too.

[driftless]

My own theory is that the people who play music the loudest are the most likely to be playing rap or equally obnoxious heavy metal rock and roll. I never hear Bach or Mozart being played to the highest decibel from the car next to me at the stoplight. It's a combination of low I.Q. and arrested development.

[AmericaUnited]

If I had to listen to RAP for 5 minutes, I'd be singing like a canary and confessing to everything. What garbage!

[LRS]

6) Being next in the line for crapper, after Michael Moore...

[LRS]

oops! that was suppose to be #7 (the very thought was more than I could handle...)

[glock rocks]

"I mean I like rap, just imagine them playing jazz."

that's it... Dave Brubeck, Take Five... over and over and over and over!!

[LearnsFromMistakes]

Rap is a 4-letter word. The 'c' at the beginning is usually silent...

[Gil4]

None that are (twitch) noticeable.

[Squantos]

I was thinking the "hooked" on classics crap from years back.......muzak on speed per se. That with a current picture of Amy Carter would have me talking and telling somebody something.

Stay Safe !

[glock rocks]

I thank you for not posting that picture.

In fact, just upon the threat, I'll tell you anything you want to know.

[Squantos]

How do I solve the rubiks cube.....skip the pull it apart or move the stickers jokes please !..........:o)

Stay Safe !

[glock rocks]

send it to me... I'll take care of it for you.

just don't post that picture :-|

[Squantos]

LMAO.......CHEATER !!

[Poohbah]

Johnny Cochran taking the case.

"If the lyrics did rhyme, he must do no time!"