Salman Rushdie's alleged attacker charged with attempted murder but denies it.
New York state police have named the suspected knifeman as Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey.
Ali Tehfe, mayor of Yaroun in the south of Lebanon, said that the suspect was the son of a man from the town. Investigators will seek to determine if the alleged attacker had ties or sympathies with Shi’ite extremist groups like Hezbollah. The British writer was born in India and is widely considered one of the best author’s of his generation ‘Salman will likely lose one eye; the nerves in his arm were severed; and his liver was stabbed and damaged.’
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