http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/15/iraq.shoe.thrower/ BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Iraqi man who threw his shoes at then-President George W. Bush last year said Tuesday that he was beaten and tortured while he was detained.Muntadhar al-Zaidi told reporters after he was released that he was beaten with cables and pipes and tortured with electricity immediately after guards removed him from a news conference for hurling both shoes at Bush.He said he was taken into another room and beaten even as the press conference continued."At the time that (Iraqi) Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on television that he could not sleep without being reassured on my fate ... I was being tortured in the worst ways, beaten with electric cables and iron bars," he was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying.However he remained defiant about the incident that landed him in prison."I got my chance and I didn't miss it," he told reporters."I am not a hero and I admit that," he added. "I am a person with a stance. I saw my country burning."
