Red Hot Chili Peppers are reportedly “upset” that their music was used as part of the CIA’s torture techniques to ‘break’ suspected terrorists in Guantanamo Bay.
An anonymous US official told Al Jazeera that the band’s music was played on an “endless loop” to one prisoner to prevent him from sleeping and make him more malleable to questioning, in what the Bush administration would have described as an “enhanced interrogation technique”.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report referred to by the official also described how the US ran a series of “black site prisons” around the globe where high value prisoners were detained an interrogated before being brought to Guantanamo.
One site mentioned in the report is that of Diego Garcia, an Indian Ocean island controlled by the United Kingdom and leased to the United States, where the site was reportedly operated with the full knowledge and cooperation of the British government.
The UK continues to deny any knowledge or involvement in these black sites.
