Photographs of Guantanamo Bay at The Big Picture:
"So the detainees know which way to face if the call to prayer sounds while they are outside. Every cell and recreation yard has similar arrows". (Photo: U.S. Army Sgt. Sara Wood)
Comments range from:
After 60 years of the Universial Declaration of Human Rights, there are still people who think it's OK to incarcerate or even shoot people without due process. How so very sad.
to:
Rights? These people would cut your throat and the heads off your children if they had the chance. The only right they deserve is a bullet to the back of the head.
One day 10 years from now we will wish we had killed them all when we had the chance.
Far more comments of the former than the latter sentiment, though.
And here are the top ten songs used to prepare inmates for interrogation - designed to traumatise and destabilise prisoners psychologically:
1. Enter Sandman – Metallica
2. Bodies – Drowning Pool
3. Shoot to Thrill – AC/DC
4. Hell's Bells – AC/DC
5. I Love You, from the Barney And Friends children's TV show
6. Born In The USA– Bruce Springsteen
7. We Are The Champions – Queen
8. Babylon – David Gray
9. White America – Eminem
10. Sesame Street – theme from the children's TV show
A Stop The Music Torture campaign is being launched by a group called Reprieve, featuring some of the artists whose music is being (mis)used.
Mick Hartley 
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