US Troops 'Tortured' Man With Rap Music

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

[Dallas59]

Beirut |AL-Reuters | 21-12-2003 Print friendly format | Email to Friend

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.

[Dallas59]

IMO..Rap Music is an International Crime...

[Gil4]

Way back when I used to live in the dorms they tortured me with rap music too.

[Dallas59]

Any long term effects?

[fella]

I have been and still am tortured by rap music at stop lights and other traffic situations.

[chicagolady]

I feel like I am being tortured when I hear Rap Music myself.

[Dallas59]

I live 100 yards from 75 Central..Saturday night...BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM...Yea Baby...BOOM BOOM BOOM...

[Prime Choice]

I have been and still am tortured by rap music at stop lights and other traffic situations.

I used to be tortured by such things, but then I began exacting my revenge by rapping out TV theme songs to the beat of the rappers next to me.

You can imagine their surprise when suddenly the words of the theme song to "The Beverly Hillbillys" starts come across.

"When out from the GROUND came a bubblin' CRUDE!" "OOOOIIIIIIL, that *is*."

[Squantos]

Man just shoot me .........RAP ?!?!?!?......Gheeeese , that's just inhuman.....sick....too far .....damn....just damn !!!!

Stay Safe !

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

There is a precedent for this. Remember when we had Noriega penned up in the Papal Nunciate in Panama City and played "Welcome to the jungle" by Guns'N Roses on loudspeakers over and over till he surrendered?

[AAABEST]

"They didn't torture us physically but they did psychologically by raising the volume of rap music all day until it became unbearable

I'm all for torture, but this is where I draw the line. Jaber has my sympathies here. If it's not "un-Geneva" it should be for sure.

[Lancey Howard]

Man, I could hardly think of worse psychological torture than having to listen to rap music. I would confess to sinking the freakin' Titanic just to get the rap music to stop.

[Lancey Howard]

"Greeeeen Acres is the place to be,
Faaaarm living is the life for me,
Land... stretching out so far and wide,
Keep Manhatten just give me that countryside."

"Newwww York is where I'd rather stay,
I... get allergic smelling hay,
I... just adore a penthouse view,
Darling I love you but give me Park Avenue."

[piasa]

I have to admit that driving them loco with rap is going way overboard, comparable only to making a person sit through a speech by Al Gore. On the other hand, the guy said he liked rap music - which makes me wonder if they should have let him loose, after all.

[ambrose]

"They didn't torture us physically but they did psychologically by raising the volume of rap music all day until it became unbearable

I used to experience this form of "torture" at my old apartment, which had paper thin walls.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Other Forms of Torture More Agonizing and Vicious Than Being Subjected To Rap "Music":

1.) Having to double-date with Scott Ritter.

2.) Being forced to wear "Old Crusty" on your naked skin, for five minutes.

3.) Having to lift Eric Alterman's ego over your head, barehanded.

4.) Hanging out at the Apollo... with Robert Byrd.

5.) Listening to one of John F***ing Kerry's interminable war stories. ("We were three kliks out when I suddenly realized: "Hey... I'm in the freakin' 'Nam, here! How cool is that...?!?")

6.) Sex with Al Franken.

[Fledermaus]

Play them some Slim Whitman...it worked against the Martians!

[SAJ]

...a THREE ow-er TOUR...

:^)

[SAJ]

Dunno. It'd be kinda hard to xlate ''Una Paloma Blanca'' to a rap patter w/o losing the lyric (g!).

Merry Christmas, Batsy!

[Fledermaus]

Isn't that "one white horse"? Just tell them it's a drug reference, they'll think of something!

Merry Christmas to you my friend. Don't make too much money in 2004...oh wait, please do since the top marginal rate on income is only 35%, capital gains and dividends less.

May you rake it in.

Funny, right before I came back in here and got this, I was replying to Nema on e-mail. I got some pics from her in Hawaii recently. One with her and Aloha Blue, the socialist commie that lives comfortably in Hawaii running a small resort and is a hyporcrite! lol

Here's to you and yours.