Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after he was stabbed and seriously wounded as he prepared to give a lecture in western New York.
“This was a targeted, unprovoked, preplanned attack on Mr. Rushdie,” Schmidt said.
President Joe Biden said Saturday in a statement that he and first lady Jill Biden were “shocked and saddened” by the attack. Investigators were working to determine whether the suspect, born a decade after “The Satanic Verses” was published, acted alone.“Even if this court were to set a million dollars bail, we stand a risk that bail could be met,” Schmidt said.“His resources don’t matter to me.
Matar was born in the United States to parents who emigrated from Yaroun in southern Lebanon, the mayor of the village, Ali Tehfe, told The Associated Press.
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