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This is the man on the torture box, behind the hood and electric wires

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This is the man on the torture box, behind the hood and electric wires When American soldiers spreading democracy in iraq : This is Ali - a hooded prisoner standing on a box with wires attached to his hands and if he falls off the box he will be electrocuted  mber of conspiracy and maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners, poses in front of a line of naked men, cigarette in her mouth.  "That's Jalil, Khalil and Abu Khattab," he said. "They're all brothers, and from my neighborhood." Then there is the picture of Qaissi himself, standing atop a cardboard box, taken 15 days into his detention. He said he had only recently been given a blanket after remaining naked for days, and had fashioned the blanket into a kind of poncho.  The guards took him to a heavy box filled with military meal packs, he said, and hooded him.  He was told to stand atop the box as electric wires were attached to either hand. Then, he claims, they shocked him five times, enough for him to bite hi