DAR AL HARB - GERMANY: A BOMB ON A TRAIN WAS NOT TO KILL, BUT TO WARN PEOPLE AGAINST INSULTING OLD MO'

International Briefs: Bomb was not a threat, suspect reportedly says

Lebanese man confessed Monday to putting a bomb on a train in Germany and said it was intended to warn against insulting the Prophet Muhammad rather than to kill, a judicial source said.

The Lebanese, Jihad Hamad, said during a pretrial hearing that he had placed the bomb, which did not explode, because several European publications were reprinting cartoons first published in a Danish newspaper in 2005.

Hamad is charged with attempted mass murder. His trial is to start April 11.




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