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Article: Judge asked to throw out confession
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 24, 2001
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Judge asked to throw out confession
Associated Press
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
New York -- A Saudi on trial in the deadly 1998 bombings of two
U.S. embassies in Africa asked a judge in a closed hearing Tuesday to
throw out his confession, saying American interrogators threatened to
hang him "like a dog" if he did not cooperate.
Federal prosecutors say Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owhali admitted
hurling a stun grenade at a guard outside the embassy in Nairobi,
Kenya, just before a deadly bomb exploded.
Al-'Owhali, 24, said his confession ...