A Greenfield, IN, truck driver who has been accused of being an Iraqi agent offered a rather interesting explanation to a federal judge in Indianapolis this week.
According to The Associated Press, Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, who has apparently been watching a lot of soap operas in his jail cell, claimed that he is really a U.S. secret agent and that prosecutors have him confused with his now-dead twin brother.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, prosecutors said that Shaaban is in fact a seasoned intelligence officer trained by the Soviet KGB and has at least 13 aliases.
Shaaban allegedly traveled to Iraq in 2002 and tried to sell the names of U.S. intelligence operatives in Iraq for millions of dollars.
Though he is a naturalized U.S. citizen, authorities believe he obtained that status illegally by lying about his identity during the naturalization process.
With 13 aliases, he was bound to get them mixed up sooner or later.