Many of the religious beliefs in that area require cleansing of the corpse, rapid burial, and the whole corpse, not miscellaneous parts that could be gathered up. Burning the corpses certainly interferes with this third desire/requirement. British forces in India during the revolution routinely "blew living men from cannons," by tyeing them across the muzzle of the cannon and firing the cannon. Rudyard Kipling, in his barracks room ballads noted the fierce cruelty of the Afghani women, in his advice to the young newly arrived soldiers.

    When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
    And the women come out to cut up what remains,
    Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
    An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

Again, some of the people involved here, are Psy-Ops people, trying to make a point in the "hearts and minds" struggle. Playing unusual, to the recipient, music loudly has been one tool at hand for the last 20+ years, while broadcasting material designed to break the opponent's spirit has been in use for almost a century, on both sides of each struggle.

If the Al Quaeda forces are so fundamentalist and unstable that playing loud and unpleasant music "forces" them to rush out to do immediate battle, to avenge the "insult," then we should keep on using it. Especially as it seems to be a viable means of bringing about a pitched battle rather than constant sniping from behind a distant rock. The British had little better defense against the constant sniping against columns four abreast, back in the days of the Raj, so if this works for us then let's go for it. British soldiers these days have much more unpleasant but effective means of goading their oponents into battle; and use them with favorable results - for them at least.

Dave