Confession sounds oddly like an episode of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"

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Calif. Terror Trial Paints Murky Picture

By DON THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The government painted an ominous portrait of Hamid Hayat and his father after arresting them nearly 10 months ago and charging them with lying about whether Hamid attended a terrorists' training camp in Pakistan. snip

While prosecutors have played portions of videotaped interrogations showing them confessing to FBI agents, their lawyers played the same tapes, arguing that the confessions in broken English were little more than parroted responses to leading questions. snip


Part of his father's purported confession sounds oddly like an episode of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

In one video played to jurors last week, Umer Hayat admitted visiting several terrorist training camps, including the one allegedly attended by his son. But his account sometimes bordered on the fantastic, with tales of a thousand terrorists wearing masks "like Ninja Turtle" as they practiced twirling curved swords, firing automatic weapons and pole-vaulting rivers in an immense underground compound - a description that roughly tracks the Ninja Turtles television show.

[atommom]

1. Reminds me a bit of the fantastical confessions made

during the Salem Witch Trials. It definitely does sound coerced.

[EFerrari]

2. That arrest stank from the outset.

A thousand terrorists, my bald headed granny.

[acmavm]

3. I would be willing to be that if you really got to talk to all our

'terrorist prisoners' in Gitmo and the secret prison, you'd be hearing a lot of strange and fantastic confessions.

[EFerrari]

5. Do you remember the drama around them?

They were hooded and shackled and Rumsfeld said they were very dangerous.s

:puke:

[alphafemale]

4. But didn't those villians cackle and have plans to "Rule the World!"

hmmm. Sounds like someone else we know.

[NNN0LHI]

6. This just seams like it is something from the Onion when I read it n/t