found this:
http://www.newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2005-07-07/music/outtakes.html
<quote>
Operation: XXXtina=20
From TIME magazine, June 12, 2005:=20
New York -- TIME has obtained the first documented look inside the=20
classified realm of military interrogations. The document is a secret=20
84-page log that details the interrogation of "Detainee 063" at=20
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It's a remarkable look into the range of=20
techniques and methods used for the interrogation of Mohammed al=20
Qahtani, widely believed to be... a compatriot of Osama bin Laden and a=20
man who tried to enter the U.S. in August 2001 to take part in the
Sept.=20
11 attacks.=20
More Muscular Strategies: Al-Qahtani's resilience under pressure in the=20
fall of 2002 led top officials at Gitmo to petition Washington for more=20
muscular "counter resistance strategies." On Dec. 2, Secretary of=20
Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved... coercive methods. [...] The
quizzing=20
now starts at midnight, and when Detainee 063 dozes off, interrogators=20
rouse him by dripping water on his head or playing Christina Aguilera=20
music. [Emphasis added.]=20
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July 7, 2005=20
Broward County -- Outtakes has obtained the first documented look at
the=20
Christina Aguilera playlist used to torture Detainee 063. The document=20
is half a page long and contains selections culled from Aguilera's=20
eponymously titled debut album and her most recent studio work,=20
Stripped. It seems that after tracks such as "Come on Over (All I Want=20
Is You)," "What a Girl Wants," and "Dirrty" failed to elicit
information=20
from an obviously pained al Qahtani, officials petitioned Rumsfeld for=20
more muscular "Aguilera exasperation strategies." Rumsfeld approved
four=20
of seven stronger coercive tunes but said that forcing the prisoner to=20
view photos of Aguilera's Maxim magazine photo shoot -- in which she=20
poses in a pool with only an inner tube to cover her ferret-like figure=20
-- would fall outside Geneva Convention standards on treatment of=20
prisoners of war.=20
Though her duet with Ricky Martin, "Nobody Wants to Be Lonely," caused=20
063 to beg for a swift bludgeoning, and "Ven Conmigo (Solamente T=FA)" --=
=20
the Spanish version of "Come on Over" -- caused him to renounce Islam,=20
it wasn't until "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open=20
Fire)" that the prisoner finally cracked. He proceeded to reveal the=20
true reason he conspired to attack America: He feared that a solo album=20
by Xtina -- Aguilera's "goth" alter ego -- was in the works. -- Ben=20
Westhoff=20
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