It's the photo that shocked the world. A hooded prisoner stands on a box with electrodes attached to his hands. If he falls off, he's told he'll be electrocuted. When the Abu Ghraib scandal first broke, America tried to damped criticism by claiming the electrodes were not real. But now, in this
extensive and shocking interview, the man who claims to be the victim in the pictures speaks out. He alleges he was repeatedly electrocuted and tortured by American soldiers.

Haj Ali was a former mayor of an Abu Ghraib suburb. Then he was arrested. 'After 15 days in Abu Ghraib, they led me to a solitary cell, and my martyrdom began' he states. 'They told me to undress and they beat me. Then I felt a pistol on my head and they screamed at me in English and in Arabic'

'Later I had to step on to a heavy wooden box. They said "If you will not tell the truth now, we will chase electric-shocks through your body. And if you fall from the box, we will chase even more electric-shocks through you!" Five times they repeated it, five times I kept falling from the box, five
times they put me up again. It was so painful, I bit into my tongue. I was bleeding from my tongue and I was in terrible pain.'