CIA used Red Hot Chili Peppers songs to 'TORTURE' terrorism suspects

Methods allegedly used at CIA 'black sites' - secret detention centres

One site believed to be in Poland and another in Indian Ocean



Music as part of interrogation process which included sleep deprivation



The contents of a leaked classified report which lists interrogation methods used by the CIA has revealed that Red Hot Chili Peppers' songs were played to terrorism suspects in a bid to extract information.

Two officials from the Senate Intelligence Committee have leaked the details of the classified report which allegedly shows that terrorism targets were secretly held and interrogated at Guantanamo Bay's Camp Echo.

The suspects at Camp Echo before being flown to Morocco and then back to Guantanamo.

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Songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers were used by the CIA to glean information from one of the terrorism suspects. Pictured here Anthony Kiedis and Michael 'Flea' Balzary from the band

Suspects were also held at other 'black sites' including on U.S. military base Diego Garcia island in the Indian Ocean as well as an alleged site in Poland.



The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Al Jazeera that the methods, known as survival evasion resistance escape techniques (SERE), were an imitation of communist regime torture methods.

Techniques used included: sleep, food, water and medical deprivation as well as a 'use of threats'.

The process aims to weaken the person's ability to resist interrogation.

The SERE programme states that by isolating the captive, the person develops a 'dependency' on the interrogator. Violence was allegedly also used.

But according to the sources, one man was subjected to all 10 interrogation techniques identified in an August 2002 Justice Department memo.

A cell at Camp Echo where detainees are held after they have been formally charged. The camp is located in Guantanamo Bay. The report reveals that 10 targets were secretly held and questioned at the site

Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean, was leased by the British as a U.S. military site in 1966. The island was also allegedly used as a 'black site'

Zain Abidin Mohammed Husain Abu Zubaydah, the officials allede, was su bjected to methods which went further than the prescribed guidelines.

Examples include keeping Abu Zubaydah awake for longer than the recommended 11 days and pouring cold water on his naked body to prevent him from sleeping.

It is alleged that the suspect was then put into a cage used to detain animals at airports, before being subjected to loud music.



This is not the first time music has been used as a tactic to interrogate suspects. In 2003, Iraqi prisoners of war who would not cooperate were subjected to music by Metallica as well as music from Sesame Street and Barney.



Hit songs by the band include Can't Stop and By the Way, both released in 2002 - the same year as the alleged methods

A former interrogator told the Qatari broadcaster that the music used in the case of Abu Zubayadah was by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Hits by the band include Californication and Can't Stop.

Songs By the Way and Can't Stop were both released in 2002 - the year Abu Zubayadah alleges he was held.



One interrogator told Al Jazeera: 'Interrogators were being pressured - You have to get info from these people.'

