[The Great Satan]

Surviving prisoners have told investigators they licked and chewed each other's skin to stay alive

I guess I'm not clear how that would help them stay alive. Salt? I've heard that some of these taliban chappies have peculiar personal habits, like cleaning their bottoms with toothpaste, but this really takes the biscuit.

[Brad C.]

Probably the moisture content of the sweat, they were trying anything to stay alive. But then as the eye witness reported, there were no survivors to report what they did to stay alive.

[bonfire]

toothpaste? The Idiots probably figure it's to clean "cavities".