The man who authorities say really is a German immigrant named Christian Gerhartsreiter tells The Boston Globe he decided to take his daughter only the day before.
Authorities maintain he spent months planning the action. He was arrested in Baltimore with his daughter.
Although he deflects questions about what he did before 1993, Gerhartsreiter tells the Boston newspaper in a jail interview that he speaks seven languages and is working on a historical novel about the roots of Israeli statehood.
