31.   Parry and McLauchlan initially confessed to the murder after their arrests, but later recanted, saying their confessions were obtained through physical and sexual abuse by their interrogators.

32.   Prosecutors decided not to wait for an analysis of how much Lee damaged national security and proceeded with the plea bargain just weeks after obtaining his confession.

33.   Sleep deprivation is said to be a tactic favored by Japanese police when they are trying to obtain a confession.

34.   The defendants have pleaded innocent, saying their confessions were obtained under duress.

35.   The defense team also has tried to undermine police procedures, a strategy that has included allegations confessions were obtained through torture.

36.   The defense team argued that the confessions were obtained under duress and should not be read out in court.

37.   The five defendants had pleaded innocent, saying that their confessions were obtained under duress.

38.   The judges heard Sunday from the police who arrested and interrogated Okev and obtained his confession.

39.   The report said the authorities had obtained confessions from several suspects implicating Iran as the instigator of the attack, and suggesting that Syria had advance knowledge.

40.   The Saudis obtained confessions from four Saudi Muslim fundamentalists and beheaded the men last May before FBI agents could question them.