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NJ Man Convicted in Rushdie Attack Plot | Salt Lake City News
A New Jersey man, Hadi Matar, 28, was found guilty of attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah after spending over a year researching the group’s ideology and preparing to carry out a fatwa-driven assassination of author Salman Rushdie — a plan that nearly succeeded in August 2022, when Rushdie was attacked during a public appearance. Though raised in the U.S., Matar actively embraced extremist views, admired terrorist martyrs, and was motivated by Iran’s 1988 fatwa against Rushdie over his controversial novel “The Satanic Verses.” Rushdie’s survival was credited to quick…
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