New York, July 24 (IANS) Author Salman Rushdie has given a chilling account of the attack that felled him on a stage at a literary meeting and cost him his right eye. “It was an enormous and expansive lake of blood,” he said while testifying on Thursday at the federal terrorism trial of the assailant Hadi Matar.Rushdie narrated the chilling account of the blind fury he faced as stabbings rained on him. Knocked to the floor, he said, “I was on the stage, lying down, with an enormous pool of…
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New York, July 23 (IANS) The man who attacked author Salman Rushdie, blinding his right eye, went on trial on transnational terrorism charges in a federal court on Wednesday. Hadi Matar attacked to “fulfil the fatwa”, the Iranian religious edict demanding Rushdie’s killing because his novel Satanic Verses was considered blasphemous by Islamic clerics, assistant federal prosecutor Timothy Lynch told the court in Buffalo.Matar was convicted last year in New York State court of attempting to …