Article: Judge asked to throw out confession

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 ...

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