Second Incident: Khan El-Khalili Stabbing
On 28 February 2009, an American teacher walking through Khan el-Khalili was stabbed by an Egyptian man. The victim, who taught science at the American School of Alexandria in Alexandria, Egypt, received superficial stab wounds to the face.
Police quickly arrested a 46 year-old Egyptian laborer, Abdel Rahman Saleh Taher Mohammed (Arabic: عبد الرحمن صالح طاهر محمّد), whose motive was quoted by the Egyptian state-owned news agency MENA as being a "hatred for foreigners because of the Israeli offensive in Gaza". It was subsequently revealed that the suspect had been detained in a mental hospital in 2000 for assaults on tourists and police officers.
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