Tourist killer targeted Jews
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Your support makes all the difference.A former insane asylum inmate went on trial yesterday for killing nine German tourists last month, saying he meant to attack Jews and was ready to "kill even a hundred, or even two hundred" of them. Saber Abu el-Ulla said he carried out the attack to avenge a cartoon drawn by an Israeli Jewish woman earlier this year that depicted Islam's Prophet Mohammed as a pig.
"I wish I could have gotten to her," Abu el-Ulla said, speaking from behind a steel cage inside the courtroom. He and his brother, Mahmoud, are charged with premeditated murder in the shooting and firebombing of a tourist bus on 18 September in a brazen attack outside the Egyptian Museum.
The government has denied that the attack was linked to Islamic extremist groups. - AP
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