The Dunk or Flunk Poll

**Heinz Guderian** · April 22, 2009, 08:58 PM

You're name is Jamal. You are an officer of the Sierra Leone Liberation Front. American forces have entered your country to try to stabilise a spiralling civil war. Limited skirmishes have broken out between your forces and US Marines. On a routine patrol, you come across an American dressed in civillian clothes carrying a backpack. The backpack contains a Lonely Planet map, a compass, as well as basic foodstuffs and clothes. His Passport says he is 19 years old.

You ask him what he is doing here. He says he is a tourist. You take him back to base camp and your intelligence officer suspects him of being a CIA agent. He says it is imperative you get fresh information about US intelligence moves before it goes stale. He stresses it must be gleaned from his immediately to be of any use.

The American repeats he is a tourist and is simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. He begs for you to let him go. No amount of shouting from your interrogators or intimdation is making him change his story.

I thought i would put it here since the waterboarding issue is so current. Just want to see some views on this. Sorry if this is not cool. Please delete if appropriate

What do you do?

**~~The Devil's Sergeant~~** · April 22, 2009, 09:15 PM

Your first two option are the same.

**Hilarion** · April 22, 2009, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by The Devil's Sergeant

Your first two option are the same.

Yeah, that's true; waterboarding is mental not physical.

**CtrlAltDe1337** · April 22, 2009, 09:56 PM

Interrogate with regular means; if he is suspicious, maybe step it up a notch.

**Kamos** · April 22, 2009, 09:56 PM

I will request his release and refuse to do anything besides verbal interrogation, although physical/mental torture are more effective I consider myself above that. Besides if he is CIA he probably won't crack anyways.

**Otsman** · April 22, 2009, 10:04 PM

no American tourist is in Sierra Leone during a civil war.

plan on him being CIA but hope he's a tourist

**~~The Devil's Sergeant~~** · April 22, 2009, 10:13 PM

Originally Posted by Otsman

no American tourist is in Sierra Leone during a civil war.

plan on him being CIA but hope he's a tourist

No kidding.

I love these people that say they were just students or just happened to be travelling the mountains of Afghanistan on business.

How

ing stupid do they think we are. And in the off hand chance that they really are students or businessmen, just how

ing stupid are they to be doing that!?

**Phier** · April 22, 2009, 10:11 PM

Let me get into character......

Sierra Leone Liberation Front........

Someone would explain waterboarding to me, and I'd laugh my ass off. Then I'd beat the crap out of the kid, and perhaps put electrodes on his genitals and cut his balls off.

We are talking about the RUF right? Only one I could find.

The RUF was notorious for severing the genital areas of those victims it did not murder, particularly children.[9] In response to the immediate execution of rebels by government forces, the RUF instead instituted a policy of cutting off the hands of captured soldiers with the intent of sending the message, "You don't hold your weapon against your brother." [19] Brandishing machetes, RUF rebels amputated the hands, arms, and legs of tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans.

**Aetius** · April 22, 2009, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Phier

We are talking about the RUF right? Only one I could find.

The RUF was notorious for severing the genital areas of those victims it did not murder, particularly children.[9] In response to the immediate execution of rebels by government forces, the RUF instead instituted a policy of cutting off the hands of captured soldiers with the intent of sending the message, "You don't hold your weapon against your brother." [19] Brandishing machetes, RUF rebels amputated the hands, arms, and legs of tens of thousands of Sierra Leoneans.

You are correct sir.

This just shows the naivete of the ever-sarcastic comedian Heinz.

Waterboarding is probably the best interrogation tool ever devised. It is not physically harmful and it gets results in a humane way.

Third world militaries are far less "academic" in their interrogation efforts.

Both yield results, and results are required.

**Wolfcp11** · April 22, 2009, 10:30 PM

Let him ago and run back to America with him as your vouch?

**motiv-8** · April 22, 2009, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfcp11

Let him ago and run back to America with him as your vouch?

Alas, most of the sensible and able Sierra Leoneans have done such a thing... They have quite a nice community in Washington, D.C.

**Romano-Dacis** · April 22, 2009, 11:01 PM

Shoot him, to teach him a lesson about lying. Then smoothly tell my commanding officer "I don't need the info, just give me a weapon and stay out of my way." After the point that I get on a motorbike and start shooting at Blackhawk helicopters my ADHD kicks in and I start thinking about the Simpsons, so I guess I can't really continue the story... *sigh*

**Pallantides** · April 22, 2009, 11:05 PM

If I was Jamal, I'd shoot him and feed him to my Hyena.

**fieldmarshal** · April 22, 2009, 11:15 PM

Capture him...and demand one million dollars from the US govt.

**MadBurgerMaker** · April 23, 2009, 12:58 AM

Sierra Leone Liberation Front? Is that like the Revolutionary United Front? If so, I would probably cut his head off and wash in his blood while experiencing awesome hallucinations caused by whichever drug I was blasted on at the time, then go wipe out/cripple/mutilate the inhabitants of a small village with my platoon made up of 8 year olds for

and giggles.

Or I could just let him go. Either one.

**Kiljan Arslan** · April 23, 2009, 04:39 AM

this is what they created the jonas brothers for, to be played unceasingly.

**Barry Goldwater** · April 23, 2009, 05:22 AM

Hold him for ransom

**Pontifex Maximus** · April 23, 2009, 05:28 AM

Something else:

Surrender to him and beg mercy when the SEALs or any other wide array of American spec ops forces come to take him back. Shouldn't this be the obvious choice?