An American has been slightly hurt after being knifed in the legendary Cairo bazaar of Khan Al-Khalili, just days after a French teen was killed there by a bomb, a security official said on Saturday. The victim, a teacher at the American School in Egypt's Mediterranean port of Alexandria who was visiting the capital with his wife, suffered slight cuts to the face in the Friday incident. Police identified the alleged attacker as 46-year-old Egyptian laborer Abdel Rahman Mohammed and were interrogating him, MENA news agency reported. The suspect was said to have acted out of “hatred for foreigners because of the Israeli offensive in Gaza” that ended on Jan. 18 after 22 days, leaving more than 1,300 Palestinians dead. MENA reported that the suspect was mentally ill and had been previously detained in 2000 after attacking tourists and policemen. He was later released after doctors decided he had no control over his actions, it said.
