Nephew: Man mistakenly jailed for pressure cooker

[cosmicone]

15. Maybe but ....

The complaint says Al Kwawahir originally said he brought the pressure cooker with him because pressure cookers aren't sold in America, then later said his nephew had bought one but it "was cheap" and broke after one use.

Agents said they also noticed a page was missing from Al Kwawahir's passport from Saudi Arabia. He told them he didn't how it had been removed, and said the document had been locked in a box that only he, his wife, and three children have access to in his home, according to the complaint.

Why did he lie and which destination he had visited that he wanted to hide? Pakistan? Afghanistan?

A normal person would have said, "lamb cannot be adequately cooked in a US made pressure cooker" (which is not true by the way because I cook lamb even without a pressure cooker to make vindaloo.