A selection of heavy metal music and the single “My Love” by Westlife were used to torture prisoners of war in Afghanistan, according to information from the American Civil Liberties Union.
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The song was played interspersed with other music to Suleiman Abdullah a newly Wednesday fisherman who was captured by a Somali warlord in 2003.
The ACLU report reads, “the music pounded constantly as part of a scheme to assault prisoners’ senses”. Suleiman had married his wife Magida only two weeks before the Central Intelligence Agency and Kenyan agents abducted him in Somalia, where he had settled while fishing and trading around the Swahili Coast. “He would never see Magida again”, the ACLU alleges.
Speaking on Eoghan McDermott’s show on RTÉ’s 2fm, Egan joked that he was “delighted” that he was “not being tortured by hearing “My Love” over and over again”.
Five years later, Suleiman was released after he was deemed not a threat to the USA, but he has suffered from frequent flashbacks to his time in captivity.
Suleiman’s torture went on for over a month, enduring “an incessant barrage of torture techniques created to psychologically destroy him” and he was later handed over to American authorities.
He is one of three former prisoners suing two psychologists who implemented the CIA’s torture plan.
They claim that Mitchell and Jessen used experiments conducted on dogs in the 1960s as the basis for their “experimental” interrogation tactics. “If you share your vote on Twitter, using #MTBuzzys, then you will be automatically entered in our contest to win a $25 Amazon gift card”. I mean, it is what it is.
“It probably only took two hours to crack the guy with that one, but that’s a lot of spins”.
As a listener criticised him for slating his own song, the 35-year-old added: “I am only trying to shed a bit of light on the subject and have a bit of fun about it all”.
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He said, “If it wasn’t so serious it would be amusing, but it is serious”.
