Train bomber jailed in Lebanon offers apology to Germany
Jihad Hamad, who was sentenced in Lebanon in 2007 for attempting to blow up trains in Germany in 2006, offered Tuesday his "sincere apologies to the German government and its people.
""I would like to offer my sincere apologies to the German government and its people for attempting to blow up the trains in 2006," Hamad told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
His apology came a few hours after Youssef al-Hajj Dib, 24, also from Lebanon, was sentenced in Germany to life in jail over the failed plot to bomb the passenger trains.
Al-Hajj Dib was convicted of attempted murder by the court in Dusseldorf, western Germany.
"I just want to tell the German people that Youssef al-Hajj Dib was the mastermind of such an operation and he managed to get me involved in such a painful act which I will regret all my life," Hamad told.