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Sudanese Man Tried to Kill Israeli on Ethiopian Airlines Flight
(Ynet News-Ha'aretz) Itai Blumenthal - Ethiopian authorities arrested a Sudanese traveler, Ahmed Mohamed, after he tried to murder an Israeli passenger on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Chad to Ethiopia last Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday. Arik Zenouda, 54, told Ynet: "About 20 minutes before the plane started its descent the passenger sitting behind me identified me as Israeli and Jewish. He came up behind my seat and started to choke me with a lot of force....He hit me over the head with a metal tray and shouted 'Allah akbar' and 'I will slaughter the Jew.'" A Lebanese passenger was one of the few who came to Zenouda's rescue. "After we landed the Lebanese guy told me that I'd been saved twice, because after they'd overpowered my attacker he said to everyone: 'Let's finish him off.'"