 FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has been stabbed near his Sydney home. Mr Habib was walking home with his wife Maha at Guildford in the early hours of yesterday morning when he was bashed on the head from behind and stabbed in the stomach, Channel 7 reported tonight. Mr Habib, who was not seriously injured, believed he had been targeted. Lifting his top to show a 6cm cut over his stomach, Mr Habib said he thought a man had come at him from the front with a knife.
| "An' then this guy, he comes at me with a knife!" |
"He tried to stab me so many times and he keep going ... he got me in my left side," he told Seven.
| "Wanna see my bloody shirt?" |
Mrs Habib believed her husband had been attacked by three men dressed in black with hoods covering their heads.
| Ahah! Mysterious hooded attackers, falling upon their prey in a dark alley... Legume! My saxophone! |
"They said something like `Ah, that should keep you quiet'," she said. "What's meant by that?"
"Muggsy, Mamdouh knows too much! Get some o' da boyz to conk him on da nut in a dark alley an' bloody his shirt!"
"Uhhhh... Hokay, boss. But why not just shoot him?"
"That's be too easy!" |
Mr Habib told Seven the men could have murdered him but he believed they wanted only to menace him.
"And Muggsy?"
"Yeah, boss?"
"Make sure you... menace him!" |
"They hit me in my head from the back. If you want to kill me you can hit me from the back with knife, hit me in my kidney with knife and that's it, finish," he said.
| "Yeah! These guys wuz amateurs! I coulda cut myself worse... ummm... than that..." |
Without naming Mr Habib, police released a statement today saying they were seeking public help following the stabbing. Police said a 50-year-old man and his wife were walking in a park beside Guildford Road when they were confronted by two or three men wearing hats and hooded jackets. "The man was allegedly stabbed and hit on the back of the head by the men," the statement said. "The alleged attackers were last seen by the man and his wife running west into Eve Street. "The victim's wife contacted police who conducted a lengthy search for the alleged offenders. "A police dog was also utilised without success." |