NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A man suspected of planning a foiled terrorist attack against Israeli tourists on Cyprus is a Lebanese-Palestinian with a Swedish passport and has been ordered to stand trial in September, officials said Friday.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the suspect is a Hezbollah operative who used the same “modus operandi” as a suicide bomber killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver in an attack last week in Burgas, Bulgaria. Netanyahu did not offer evidence for those allegations.
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