CAIRO (AP) -- Egyptian media report that police have arrested an Egyptian who attacked an American teacher in the same Cairo tourist site where a bomb killed a French teenager a week earlier.
The state-owned daily Al-Gomhuria reported Saturday that the attacker, Abdel-Rahman Taher, 46, used a pocket knife to leave a one inch cut on the teacher's face.
He told police that he hated foreigners because of Israel's attacks on Gaza.
Opposition newspapers said the attacker had been recently released from a mental hospital.
The teacher worked at the American school in Alexandria and was in the famous Khan el-Khalil bazaar Friday when he was attacked.
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On Feb. 22, a bomb in the same place killed a French teenager and wounded 24 others.
