Literary agent Andrew Wylie told the Spanish language newspaper El Pais in an article published Saturday that Rushdie suffered three serious wounds to his neck and 15 more wounds to his chest and torso in the attack that took away sight in an eye and left a hand incapacitated.
Rushdie, 75, spent years in hiding after Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a 1989 edict, a fatwa, calling for his death after publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses," which some Moslems consider blasphemous. Over the past two decades, Rushdie has traveled freely.
Hadi Matar,
| ...Lebanese-American reared un-Islamicly in New Jersey by a single mother, he went to Hezbollahstan a few years ago to visit his dad and came back primed for Shiite jihad... |
After the attack, Rushdie was treated at a Pennsylvania hospital, where he was briefly put on a ventilator to recover from what Wylie told El Pais was a "brutal attack" that cut nerves to one arm.
Wylie told the newspaper he could not say whether Rushdie remained in a hospital or discuss his whereabouts.
"He’s going to live ... That’s the important thing," Wylie said.
The attack was along the lines of what Rushie and his agent have thought was the "principal danger ... a random person coming out of nowhere and attacking," Wylie told El Pais.
"So you can’t protect against it because it’s totally unexpected and illogical," he said.
Wylie told the newspaper it was like Beatles member John Lennon’s murder. Lennon was shot to death by Mark David Chapman outside his Manhattan apartment building Dec. 8, 1980, hours after the singer had signed an autograph for Chapman.
In a jailhouse interview with The New York Post, Matar said he disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini. Iran
...The nation is noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence...
has denied involvement in the attack.
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