Federal prosecutors are investigating whether the Islamic fanatic accused of repeatedly knifing Salman Rushdie onstage last year had ties to any foreign governments or terrorist groups, according t…
last year had ties to any foreign governments or terrorist groups, according to a report.
Rushdie, 75, who was the target of an infamous Islamic death edict in 1989 over his book “The Satanic Verses,” wasSchmidt said his office is wrapping up its preparations for Matar’s trial, which could start as early as next year. “There are some areas that we have to sort of confine ourselves to the four corners of the charges that we’ve asserted, which is essentially an attempted murder in the second-degree charge. That’s our top count,” Schmidt told the outlet. “That gets us away from some of the underlying motivations that went into the intent. Some of that have been sort of removed from us in our jurisdiction, and that’s something that the US Attorney’s Office has been looking at and they are dealing with.
The famous victim — and Indian-born Booker Prize winner — spent years in hiding with police protection after Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, in 1989 calling for his death over the alleged blasphemy of the novel “The Satanic Verses.”
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