Originally Posted by Tully Mars

Do you think it's torture to only provide food that the prisoners religion does not approve of?

I used to work with a guy who was in the first Gulf War. Not sure exactly what he did but my hit was intelligence work. We often talked about our military experiences. One day after helping another co-worker move we we're having a cook out, pork ribs. We were sitting off by ourself and he looked down at his plate, held up a rib and said "This is how we knew we had them." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Pork, Muslims can't eat pork, so we'd take all the MRE's that contained pork, remove everything but the main dish and give them to the prisoners we wanted to talk. Breakfast, lunch and dinner- pork. These guys would starve themselves for days, sometimes weeks. When they started eating they'd start talking, once they ate the pork it meant they gave up on their religion, it was nothing now to give up on their political allegiances."