If you’ve never had a soft spot for Bollywood music, you may develop one now.
The flamboyant Indian genre has been weaponized by the British special forces to wage psychological warfare against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Libya.
The idea came from a Pakistani-born army intelligence officer with the British Army, according to Mirror.
The officer explained Bollywood music would be considered “apostasy,” or un-Islamic, by ISIS and would therefore be particularly disconcerting to its troops.
On one occasion, the Joint Special Operations Command intercepted the insurgent’s communications “and blasted them with Bollywood chart music,” Mirror reported.
On another occasion, two cars were left near checkpoints on the edge of the ISIS-controlled city of Sirte. At dawn, two huge, remotely-controlled speakers in the cars blasted Bollywood music.
