Stranger things have happened, I suppose … but this little scoop is definitely one to induce a lot of head-scratching:

Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, claims he converted from Islam to Christianity, Scott Pelley reports in a story that brings viewers inside the secretive Supermax prison where he is being held.

Pelley also reports that some 900 forced feedings were performed on other al Qaeda terrorists who went on repeated hunger strikes to protest conditions at the Colorado top-security federal prison.

Pelley’s report will be broadcast Sunday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. PT.

The prison in Florence, Colo., which the government calls ADX-Florence for Administrative Maximum, houses the nation’s toughest and most infamous criminals, such as Olympic bomber Eric Rudolph, would-be 9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols and shoe bomber Richard Reid. “60 Minutes” obtained exclusive footage of prisoners inside the facility, where special-case prisoners are allowed only a phone call a month, spend 23 hours a day in their 12-by-7 cells and can get mail only from people approved by the prison.

Robert Hood, its warden from 2002 to 2005, says Yousef was a special case. He never left his cell because he did not want to face the indignity of a strip search required for recreation. “He has that Charlie Manson look,” Hood says of Yousef. “He has some charisma about him. He’s in [prison] uniform, but you know that there’s a powerful person you’re looking at,” Hood says. Told that Yousef has begun leaving his cell and now claims to be a Christian, Hood tells Pelley, “He’s playing a game with someone. If he’s doing that, he’s doing it for the reaction … He is the real deal.” As a Muslim, Yousef prayed almost every hour, Hood says.

Personally, I’d be skeptical of someone like Yousef making so radical a conversion.

But you never know how God will work on the human heart.