prisoner came to the door, the shower was on, he was naked and he said you the guy married to sarah shourd? i said i am engaged to sarah and proposed to her in prison. he saw this on tv apparently. he said is she out? i said yes, she is out. he said -- i sent wyatt? is your duty he said i am al qaeda very matter-of-factly. and he said what is your religion? i said christian. which isn't really true. he asked what is his religion and josh said i am jewish. he said a okay. all people of the book, that is good. and he said but islam is the best. and he said if you become muslim you will sleep better at night. which was a pretty soft attempt at conversion. and he said everybody knows you are innocent and that you shouldn't be here. and i hope you get free. and this was kind of -- in prison we kind of all we're just prisoners and there was a sense of connection between everyone because we were prisoners and guards. identities were stripped away in that context. he told me god willing i hope that you will be free soon and i said you too. >> one of the things that -- lot of my energy in prison wa

sarah shourd.y fall together, and for 20 minutes forget the interrogation, and the screaming and blindfolds, we have defied them. i will carry this love like a shield. when shane went back to see shield, he had no idea his ordeal was just beginning. they would spend 20 months, while sarah spent over a year in the particular hell that is solitary confinement. the three americans have a new book, the sliver of light. and this is their story. great to meet all of you. >> thank you. >> this is a psycho-drama, a love story and political thriller all in one. and it is an honor to meet all of you. but i have to start with the most annoying question i am sure you get. you were captured of course hiking on the iraq/iran border. what is wrong with yosemite? you're familiar with california, the redwoods are nice. what were you doing there, josh? >> well, i was visiting my friends. they were living in syria at the time. and we went to visit northern iraq. and the hotel manager, when we said where do we go to h

raj has the interview with josh fattal, shane bauer and sarah shourd. >> reporter: the reunion joyousth hugs, smiles and relief. but the aftermath has been challenging. >> sometimes just couldn't handle normal day life. i would fly into rages, i would get really depressed. >> when i got out of prison, people -- i was really angry at a lot of things and one of the things i was very angry at was the iranian government. you know, taking two years -- more than two years of my life. >> reporter: josh fattal, sarah shourd and shane bauer, forever linked from berkeley to tehran, the young hikers made international headlines in 2009. imprisoned in iran, accused of spying. >> you are very educated and well versed in that part of the world and asked this many times, but why even risk being so close to the iranian border some. >> well, it was a gamble i didn't intend to take. none of us intended to take, you know. so, you know, the -- the hike that we took was really based on recommendations of people nearby saying go, go to the waterfalls. so going past that hiking up farther up the mountain, w